Wow, I think this is the longest I have gone between posts and I'm not sure I will ever catch up. Maybe I should give up? Good thing is, I haven't taken many pictures so I'm not falling too far behind there. I'm not sure if anyone ever checks this blog anymore since I'm so inconsistent and because it is private. It is more inconvenient to check private blogs. Anywho...
Quick update, a real current update. Koby is still doing contract work for several companies. He is still running his business, Zava Tech, and providing live stream stock market data for the company he has been with for almost 10 years. That is going alright. Not much growth but it hasn't kicked the can yet either. I think there is a lot of hope that it will take off. Hopefully sooner than later. He is also working with his two partners and doing contract work for Best Vinyl fencing, another company whose name I can't remember (Koby's partners are more involved in that company) and they recently took on another company called Flex Pak. I think that is pretty cool because they package the GU that I love for long distance running. We even got a few free ones and Koby says we could have all we wanted. Too bad I'm not training for a big race. Recently, a few of the companies want to do some big projects so Koby says he could work a ton of hours the next few months if he wants. We'll see what happens. If it pays, I say do it!
Koby and I just refinished our dining table. Koby sanded it all down and stained it (a HUGE job) and I put polyurethane on it. I am thinking we should have just bought a nice, perfect table from the start. It wasn't too bad doing the table but we have to do the chairs now and that is going to be a pain. Koby has also worked on his truck, he has jeeping fever and canyoneering fever. I think the canyoneering is going to take first priority and he is trying to plan a trip down south with his brother and my brother. Hopefully Kira and I can join as well.
He also was released after over 3 years as ward mission leader and he is now ward choir director and cub scout leader. He was ok with the cub scout leader (and now really likes the calling) but he told the bishop he would need to pray about the choir director. I think it is quite a hilarious predicament. This is one of the first things I have ever seen him feel unqualified and squeamish about. It is quite delightful to see him squirm a bit. :) Is that bad? A lot of things come so naturally to him that it is good to see him have to work at something a bit. Koby can't keep a beat (or so he says. I still don't really believe him) and he can't sing and lead at the same time. But he is learning! And doing well at his calling. It stresses him out but he is doing well. He is very good at picking beautiful songs and of course he has a great voice.
I also experienced a big change in my calling as well. I was put in as Mia Maid advisor in December and I was really liking my calling when I was recently released and called as Relief Society secretary. I wasn't quite as sad about leaving young womens as I thought I'd be. I do miss the young womens calling, but I am very busy with my new calling and there are so many new learning experiences, I am really enjoying this calling. Our new Relief Society president is Ruth Mooney who I served with in Young Womens. She was secretary there. I love her to pieces. She is so down to earth and funny. Very loving and charitable. I love her family too. She felt very inspired to call her counselors and it is amazing to see how the spirit was involved in this change. Linda Cole is her first counselor and I'm excited to get to know her better. She is very inspired herself. Ruth's second counselor is Pam McDonald who I was visiting teaching companions with when we first moved here. I also love her. She is an amazing, faithful woman who dealt with years and years of infertility (she now has a 4 year old boy that is Kallie's age) and an inactive husband for most her married life (who has been attending these last few months!). She is a fun person. I look forward to seeing how Relief Society runs. Our first presidency meeting was 4 hrs long and we have had many other meetings since being called just a few weeks ago. We visit sisters in the ward once a week, we have monthly presidency meetings, visiting teaching mtgs, activity meetings and monthly presidency temple days. I'm assuming it will all calm down though. I am finding out a lot of things about sisters in the ward that I had no idea about. Many trials and struggles. I teach next fast Sunday and I'm getting a little nervous about it, especially hearing about several women not liking the teaching style of one of the teachers. I teach just like this teacher (but I guess that could be great because I love her teaching but I guess not everyone else does).
I am trying to exercise still, I go to my ladies basketball group on Fridays (and love it!), I'm trying to run more so I can be ready for 2 5ks I have in the next month, and I faithfully go to my yoga every week. I love it. I'm thinking/ hoping I will be able to go to Florida in October for Yoga Nidra training at the Amrit Yoga Institute. It will probably cost at least $2000 though so we will see how that pans out. We don't have the $$ for it but I'm setting an intention to go and maybe the money will happen to be there. :) My yoga instructor is also going and it would be nice to have someone I know there. He has helped me so much in my life. I can't believe I was lucky enough to find Amrit Yoga and this instructor at my first yoga class almost 3 years ago!
Also, I just joined the PTA board last week. Maybe I should just go hang myself right now. I have many mixed feelings about my decision. I already turned down someone who wanted me to take over Reflections. No thank you! But then one of my friends from basketball group asked if I could help with family weeks and cultural week and possibly a poetry contest next year, I didn't say no right away. When she mentioned that we will probably be throwing a TV off the school building for family week, I immediately said yes. :) Besides, I will be with 3 other ladies so she promised it wouldn't be too overwhelming. Whew! I found an invitation to a PTA brunch at the country club and some candies on my doorstep the next day from the PTA president. They move fast and they know how to schmooze. I can't decide if I just joined the Stepford Wives club or not. I'm not too into that thing and I don't really want anyone to know who I am. They might start expecting me to do things and be involved. My one time a week volunteering in the home reader room goes unnoticed, thankfully.
Brigg is almost done with 1st grade. He really loves his teacher. We debated for quite awhile whether to move him to another school and put him in Spanish Immersion. I think he would do well in it but I decided I want life to be a little less chaotic and not have to go through a whole new school, etc. (This was before I got my new calling and had a bad mental moment and said yes to PTA). Brigg also loves Rocky Mountain (which is #1 in Utah Valley right now- don't know how they managed that!) so we are staying. He just finished soccer and he wants to do it again next year. Swim lessons start tomorrow (I totally just realized that- Ack!) and he is signed up for a basketball camp this summer. He needs to try something else besides soccer. He likes soccer because his friends are all on his team but he just goofs around. I'm not sure soccer is his thing.
Kallie is growing like a weed. She is the only one of our kids considered tall. (Brigg is dead on average height and Maren is teeny tiny- bottom of the charts). She is very independent and has been a little difficult the last few months. But then again, she has always been a little difficult. It is her fiery temper and personality. But she is also very sweet and tells me she loves me often. She is still taking dance at Aunt Marlo's studio and she really likes it. I'm sure we will be doing it next year as well. She and Maren are taking Music and Movement with Ms. Debbie. She LOVES it. She sings and dances a lot now. I'm glad to hear her use her deep, raspy voice musically. :) I signed her up with the widely acclaimed neighborhood preschool. I finally gave in and will be shelling out the $ for it. But I have heard so much good about it and Kallie needs a good preschool since she didn't get anything from me this year other than a few half hearted attempts at teaching the alphabet and sounds. She wasn't thrilled about the idea but she is now excited since her friends Connor and Michael will be in her class. I can't believe there is only one year until she is in kindergarten!
Even crazier to me is that there is only 2 years until I am enrolling Maren in kindergarten! We shall see what I think in 2 years but I believe I will be putting her in school at the time she is supposed to go with her August birthday. She is such a talker and recently I have seen her imagination shoot through the roof. She tells me such funny things and she does a lot of imaginative play. We just weaned her off her binky this last week (she does great at bedtime but naps are not so great but I believe we are finally at the end) and she was begging for her binky one night. I told her for the 20th time that I didn't have her binky. She said, "ok, I have this wand (whosh whosh she says)- oh, there is my binky!" as she takes a pretend binky and starts sucking it. What a funny girl! When we first started the weaning, I told her the binky fairy was sending her a surprise in the mail. She got a Baby Alive in the mail and she loves her. We mailed her binky to the binky fairy in return. I felt really ridiculous lying to my child but it worked- until she wanted her binky back from the mail lady. I feel really bad lying about santa too but at least that is more commonly accepted. Our next step is potty training Maren. I wanted to wait until the binky situation was completely closed so maybe I will be potty training next week. Both these milestones have been stressing me out for awhile but i feel strong enough now to take them on. I'm frustrated enough with it that i just want it done with.
This is a long, long post but at least I journaled a bit of our lives. There is a lot more I could go on about but I probably better go do something else, like study for my lesson next month (squee!). It is on faith and hope and all I can think to share is my life the last 3 years... but then I would just cry the entire time. That isn't helpful. So studying is the next best option and I don't even know where to start. Oh, and to add to this new calling, I feel very impressed that I need to be here because I have a lot of learning to do. It will stretch me in ways I really need to be stretched. I just feel bad for those who will be witnessing my stretching and mistakes and learning process. :)
And last thing, I'm SO excited for our planned trip to Disneyland/ Sea World/ California this August! I cannot wait!! Nevermind that it is the hottest time of year. Nevermind that it is the busiest time of year. Nevermind that it is going to cost a bunch of $$ (hence why Koby should work extra this month). I have never taken my kids to California and I am so excited to show them the ocean. Can. Not. Wait.
Perhaps I will go read my book instead of study for my lesson. :)
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