Teamwork

I was able to get together with my sis-in-law Ambeelou this week for lunch. We haven't gotten together in such a long time and it was so good to sit down and catch up with my sis. We planned to meet at the Mandarin in Bountiful cause I had heard such amazing things about their food. But when I arrived, sad day, they don't open till 5!?! But I did know of another good chinese restaurant so we met at Joy Luck in Woods Cross instead. I had the Walnut Shrimp... MMMMMMMMmmmmmm! I'm drooling just thinking about it again. It was so good! Ambee and I had good laughs too, just like old times!

This weekend Twinkie and I turned the library into the new baby's room. We cleaned the room out. Moved my new glider/recliner into the room and put together the crib. It was so exciting to see the room transform into our baby Rock's room. And with only 6 weeks till he's here, our anticipation is skyrocketing.

While we were doing that Bug asked if he could take a picture of me and the Skunk...

Then of course Skunk had to have a turn behind the camera. Bug thought he was so funny pointing to my butt. He was cracking up!

And our lil Dude supervising the whole thing.

Here is Twinkie, I found him hiding in Baby Rocks room before church this mornin, just having some peace and quiet.

Another one of my goals for the new year is to hold family home evenings. I'm not holding myself to unrealistic expectations. I know I won't be doing it "every" week. Especially with a c-section around the corner. But I do want to do more than I did last year. So if I hold more that 3 I'll have succeeded. LOL! I really would like to do at least one a month. We held our first one for the year tonight. I believe typically LDS families hold their FHE on Mondays, but the way my work schedule is we decided Sunday nights work best for us. And I figure as long as we are doing it, well then it doesn't matter what day we do it on. Tonight we talked about our family unity and teamwork. We made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies together. While the cookies baked we talked about how each ingredient is not more important than the other and they all have their own special job. Also, we talked about how the cookies wouldn't be as good if we left out one of the ingredients. Then we likened it to our family. No one in our family is more important than the other and we each bring something special to our family. We each took turns telling each of our family members what our favorite thing is about the other and what we feel they bring to our family. It was good to hear what each of us had to say about each other and feel the love. We also touched on how baby Rock will be joining our family soon and will bring something new to our family. Something that will make our family better. It will be neat to see what it is. We ended with a discussion on how we can better support each other and how we can make teamwork bring unity to our family. Then we enjoyed some delicious warm cookies! We had some time to kill before bed and since Bug has been learning about american folklore characters in cub scouts we got in our pj's and put on Tall Tale.