5 More Days!

Kinda hard to see, but this is my seminary lesson schedule. In red pencil I put a countdown of how many days until the last day of seminary. Yeah, it's 5.

I've just about earned my seminary pin which requires 200 days of reading and completing all required Old Testament chapters.

My chart is not entirely accurate, but I forget to read on Friday's and Saturday's a lot.


Out of 25 Old Testament scripture mastery scriptures, I've got one more to memorize and it's a monster hard one. "Malachi 3:8-10 Will a man rob God..." that's pretty much all I know on that one.


I just barely passed off Isaiah 29:something after practicing it on paper yesterday. I attempted to pass it off to the class this morning and I had about 39 errors, but I think Heavenly Father knows that I know it and that I understand what it means.


Tomorrow is the Stake Scripture Mastery Competition.
Check out our class shirts, designed by the students (actually we had a design contest and Audrey's Yoda design got the most votes. Well done, Audrey):

I am proud of them and so happy to be their teacher.

Our Town:

"The Not-Hottest Northwestern Vacation Spot"

The Buck's welcomed Grandma & Grandpa Russ on Sunday. We visited for a short while, took pictures and then they were off. It means a lot to us that they took the time to see us.

Our town is not exactly the hottest vacation spot in the Northwest. It is in fact one of the not hottest spots, ranking high on the top ten not-hot list. Must see attractions while visiting us: the river, the trees, I don't know what else, Safeway? We go there a lot.

Hey-wait! Weatherly speaking, last week WAS actually hot. Temperature hot. And sunny. So like a zillion pale locals got sunburned this weekend. That's awesome.

Super Star!Preston earned his Star Badge or Star Award or Star Patch!

I am not sure what it's called exactly or what it means.
I am proud of him for achieving his goals all the same.

He coordinated and conducted last nights Court of Honor.

He participated in a skit:It was as funny as a scout skit could possibly be.

Preston and I were invited up,then he was presented with the Star Award.

Question:

Does Boy Scout PDA Etiquitte allow "mom loves" in front of the troop?

Answer:

Cub Scouts Etiquitte = brief hugs & non-juicy cheek smooches.

Boy Scouts PDA = ??? I don't really know.

In the picture below, Preston's head is saying, "please get away immediately", but his arms are saying "he loves me".

That is a mystery that will never be solved the point is, there is some hugging going on and someone is loving it, and someone wants to get back to his seat.

I got scout bling. That's the best part.
Nick, (I think this is a picture of Nick) was in another room passing off something for scouts.

He loves scouts as much as this picture implies.

On the way home, Josh stuck his head out the window like a dog, and someone took these pictures.

I am not sure who was messing with my camera.

White Sox vs. Yankees
What Was the Score?
Who Won?
I Don't Know.
I Never Know.

I am just a mom who wants everyone to hit, everyone to win, everyone to sachet from base to base grinning and when the shortstop drops the ball the kid from the other team leaves the safety of second base to pick it up and toss it back. (That really happened, by the way.)

We must fuel up at Pickle Time before the game.

Nick pitches and hits only one kid in the helmet but then when he is up to bat he gets hit in the shoulder. It's all good.

Embarrassing moment: A tiny sized girly girl approached Josh and I as we were watching Nick's game. With a quizzical look and pointing to Josh she asked me, "is he a girl?". I think the confusion was because of the pink coat he was wearing, which was mine. Josh did not like that question. The coat came off immediately.

Then Josh got a black blanket, which was way more masculine, and then sat on my lap and fell fast asleep. One mom walked by me and said, "Oh...cute, is that baby asleep?". And I said, "Yes, except this baby is seven."

In kid-pitch baseball, the games are very long because for each batter the pitches go full count. If you don't know what full count is, it just means that the games are very long. Josh kept me warm. Nick was a happy ball player. It was a good game.

When You Buy a Mac Computer...

you get a very tiny camera built into you monitor

that lets you take pictures of yourself at the computer,

and you get a program called photo booth

that gives you many special effects capabilities

and distortion features like bulge, squeeze and fish eye.

We use photo booth more than anything else on this computer.

Little embarrassing how messy the room is in the background.

...1, 2, 3 Strikes You're Out!

Preston pitched at his last game.

He says that he did, "okay, but, errr... I did good."

Visit From an Apostle

Our stake center was overflowing with people this weekend. They opened up the performing arts building at the high school next door with a live feed of stake conference. That building was overflowing. Why was this meeting so special?
Our stake was visited by Elder Holland this weekend. He spoke to the adults at a Saturday evening meeting and then again at stake conference yesterday. This weekend was amazing.

Nick, Josh & Preston greeted him afterwards and shook his hand. I asked Nick if Elder Holland said anything to him and Nick said, "Yes. He said hi."

We love Elder Holland and thank him for his testimony, kind words and messages of love.