Conference Weekend

Busy Busy Busy. . .This weekend we planned tons of things to do! we planted our grass while Tad took Ben to an institute breakfast. I told him that he could pick up a bunch of girls that way, and when he came to drop Ben off, a girl was following him in a truck. . . it was his girlfriend.

After planting the lawn Todd got home and we went and bought a truck we have been looking at while listening to conference on the way. Yes that is right we bought a truck. I am so excited cause now I can have the car back. I no longer have to wait until 10:00 at night to do my grocery shopping!

During the last hour of conference we drove up to Heber City to help his parents finish the house. When we arrived conference had ended. and we got to work. We painted the second coat of paint in the kitchen, pantry, washroom and master bedroom. meanwhile the boys were busy taping the seams of the sheetrock and texturing the walls in the loft and great room. Todd and his dad were outside working on the garage getting the cement ready for the floor. We got a ton done!

The guys left for priesthood session while us girls cleaned up and headed to SLC where we hooked up with Grandma Loertcher and Teddy and went to dinner at Applebee's. We all shared appetizers and then got dessert. Eventfully there was a gigantic peice of wax paper in our dessert that they forgot to remove before cooking it. . . Teddy ate a nice chunk of it. We were all laughing our heads off while getting our server to come to our table. When she came a look of horror was expressed. We were all ok with it, and she got us another dessert, but you could tell she was really sorry it happened to us. (she was also probably worried about loosing her tip too) But we all got a good laugh and no harm was done.

Sunday we spent time with Todd's family listening to conference and feasting on fried chicken and potatoes.

Looking back I didn't get to truely listen to conference. I guess that is satan's way of keeping us from getting closer to God, so on monday I loaded it up on my computer and listened to all of the sessions again, taking notes and truely listening to the words from our prophet and apostles. it was wonderful to hear the words of the Lord and answer to my prayers. Thank goodness for technology and the ability we now have to hear these talks over and over again throughout the year.

haircut

so after a posted the last blog my mom called and offered to help cut my hair. she came over and we did something daring. . . for me anyway. Lets just say in the course of one day i cut about 7 inches off my hair. here it is!

Somethings new

Ben was not much of a happy camper yesterday, but I figured he was just tired, and laid him down for a few extra naps. Today while playing with him, he bit my finger, and ta-da, there was a tooth! He is doing great today, so maybe it wasn't to tramatic for him!

I did a little experiment today. I have wanted to cut my hair for a while now. . . but haven't been able to hold onto the money long enough to go and get it done. . .So. . . I did it myself! Scary, definately not professional, but I think it looks good. I only cut off about 2-3 inches, so you can't really tell, so I think I am going to try again later today and cut it just a little shorter! (good luck to me!)

Sprinklers

my flower garden! gone for now

As many of you know, our house has been a real fixer-upper, This summer we have been focusing on the front yard. We started by tilling up all the weeds and leveling the dirt. In this process we also procured alot of rocks which we are using in our park-strip. After we leveled it. . . we tilled it again to get some of the areas that needed it again. Then we leveled it again. This week I have been working on digging the trenches for sprinklers. We are conserving money by just running the lines to the hose. Maybe next year we will put in a whole timer system and everything. If we can get the sprinklers in this week, then next week we can plant grass. YAY!

Labor day fun

Labor Day weekend was a fun filled weekend with tons of new experiences for Ben. Todd had work off on monday, and we got to see his family. We went to sunday dinner at Grandma Loertcher's house, and played games with the family. The funnest part was during catch phrase Tad, Todd's brother who recently returned from his mission, tried to describe a training bra. enough said :)
That night all of Todd's brothers and sisters, except Teddy, slept over at our house. The boys love coming to our house cause they get to play xbox. When I woke up at 2:00 am there they were, playing away! On monday we enjoyed breakfast in SLC, then drove up to Heber City to help Todd's parents work on the house they are building. Then at 5:00 we all drove down to Deer Creek Resivour and went BOATING. Ben was asleep when we put him into his lifejacket. It was hilarious to see his face when he realized he couldn't really turn his head much and his hands couldn't reach his mouth. He made do and sucked on the lifejacket while we went tubing, water skiing and wakeboarding. He had a blast watching everyone behind the boat going back and forth, and eventually crashing.

Joys of women and friendship

On Thursday I got the opportunity to go to my Stake Women's Conference, my mom watched Ben while I went with a few ladies in the ward. Sister Okisaki, the first counselor in the General relief society spoke on unity. It was a wonderful talk that helped me find ways to come closer to my Savior without walking out of there feeling like scum

Afterwards we all went out to dinner. About 9 of us went to Costa Vida. It was WONDERFUL to laugh and chat with women without hearing a single negative word spoken. I have never hung out with a group of more than 3-4 women that have done that and it felt great!

Sit, Stay, Roll over!

On Wednesday I was changing the sheets on our bed to do laundry, and I was playing peek-a-boo with Ben while I put the new ones on. Ben got ahold of the sheets and started sucking on them, and with the death grip that babies have, he wouldn’t let go, yanked on them and pulled himself onto his side and landed on his stomach. Although he didn’t roll over all by himself, it is definitely a start! A few minutes later he did it again without the sheets to help him. Now it is just a matter of time before he is doing it all the time, next step. . . crawling!