Go check out our adoption profile at www.itsaboutlove.org and search for our first names: Allan and Kami!
Well, I forgot about the blog again last week, so I have a couple of weeks to write about. I am sure you are all sooo excited. :) For FHE last week Allan and I pulled out the model I bought him when we got married. Allan really enjoys building models and we planned on building this model together, but since we were married we haven't had any time to do so. We were thrilled to finally get to start on it.
Models come in different levels of difficulty. When I bought this I didn't know that, nor did I know what level Allan was on. He has never built a model this difficult before, and I have simply never built one, so it will be a fun challenge for both of us.
We had Allan's boss, Z, over for dinner on last Wednesday. I have heard a lot about him and was very excited to finally put a face to the man. We had a really nice evening. Z loves to look at his genealogy so we showed him new.familysearch.org and PAF.
Last Saturday we went to the mountain in search of snow. We thought we found some at one point and prepared to have a snowball fight, make snow angels, and all of the other fun snow things to do. But when we got to the snow we found it had melted enough that it was mostly ice. We were able to get a couple of really hard snowballs to throw at each other and then decided to hike in search of more snow, but didn't find any. We drove back down the mountain and stopped at another trail head that looked like it had some snow. After hiking for a while we found it! Woohoo! Most of it had turned to ice as well but there was a small area close to the trees that was just right. So, we proceeded to nail each other with snow balls as fast as we could. I'm pretty sure Allan won, but I did nail him right in the bottom a few times! (HeeHee)
On Saturday night there was a huge wind storm here. We listened to the wind howl all night long. When we went to church the next morning there were tumble weeds covering the entire fence line! It was so funny looking! It looked as if the tumble weeds had tried to attack the football field and then all got stuck on the fence instead. It took the clean up crew half of the day on Monday to get them all off. Here is a view from our house.
I started babysitting for a family in our ward. I had their little girl in Sunbeams and now I am watching her and her younger brother on Mondays. I had a blast on Monday with them. The little boy, L, usually takes a 2-3 hour nap around the time that I babysit but he was way too excited on Monday to sleep. He only got about 45 min. and by the time I left his eyes were all red and glassy he was so tired. Hopefully he took a late nap. I always feel successful when the kids are sad that their parents came back so soon! I am looking forward to tomorrow - it should be a fun day.
We watched some of Allan's families home videos for FHE. It was so much fun to see Allan as a little boy. Thanks to our awesome brother and sister-in-law for getting the home videos to everyone!
On Friday we went to dinner and bowling with some friends. It was a ton of fun. I had my very first steak. It's definitely not my favorite, but it wasn't too bad. Allan and I haven't been bowling for a long time. We usually bowl like we mini golf - in as many different ways as we can. However, we tried to play correctly this time. The friends we were with are really good. The first game they both went up there and bowled a strike. Allan followed suit and got a strike as well. Then, I went up and promptly sent my ball into the gutter. Naturally, I had to take a bow. Allan did pretty well the first game and I basically never got out of the gutter. But, the second game we switched places and Allan spent some time in the gutter. That's how we do things. Whether it's illness, awards, or bowling we just have to share everything.
Saturday we went shopping to celebrate our adoption certification. I always love to go and get new clothes. I got a new coat (I've needed one for a while, the buttons fell off of the old one and they aren't the kind you can sew back on), a skirt, and a shirt, and we got Allan some work gloves that he needed. We're hoping to get him a small BBQ as well. That will be a lot of fun.
This last week I made a bunch of paper bag animal puppets for primary (got the idea from www.thecrazychorister.blogspot.com). Each puppet had a way to sing a song or a "favorite" song to sing and would also lead the music. The kids LOVED it. I was so glad because I was a little worried that they would think paper bag puppets were lame.
They sang their little hearts out and really enjoyed playing pretend. I asked the kids when I was done if my "friends" could come back again and one little boy in the 7 year old class said very adamantly ... "No." Naturally he was the one that was the most involved during the class time. Next week ... my favorite superhero "Captain Right" - but I usually call him Mr. Right. :) (This idea is also from the crazy chorister.)
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