Friday night was the Daddy Daughter Date and Dance at Addison and Harpers School. I love this photo of the three of them. Ricky was kneeling down, although Addison is sure she may grow taller than him one day. Brooklyn got to have a Mom and Me night together. Girls, you look just beautiful and Ricky, so handsome. They've had a good week and have been taking care of Nana and Papas dogs while they are out of town. They love that and often work in some hot tub time when they go feed the dogs and let them in and out. Love it!
I LOVED this picture Tatia sent of Penny reading to Baby Charlie. It was on the 11th of February and the first picture was taken the day Charlie came home from the hospital, just six month apart. Baby Charlie still loves to listen to Penny read and she loves reading to him. Next is the quilt I promised to share with you last week. I LOVE how it turned out. What a LOT of LOVE goes into making a quilt. I loved that Tatia's Relief Society made this for that sweet sister who is so sick. I know she will be able to feel the love and faith and prayers for her. The next picture is miss Penny performing with her school class. It was the spring program and they sang several fun songs My Country Tis of Thee, a jazzy number, an African american spiritual, and a spanish song about manos, pies, and codos. She loves school and did a gave a great performance. Tatia had an extra busy week as a sweet sister in her ward passed away. Tatia was in charge of the luncheon held after the funeral and it turned out just lovely. What a blessing to serve others in their times of need.
I got a phone call while at the Family History Center on Thursday from Charlie. It was awesome as he had a family history question. A family that he home teaches, is preparing to go to the temple to be sealed together. He said they needed to take a Family Group Record to the temple with them. I showed Char where to find them on Family Search. I loved that their was one question I could help someone with and I was glad it was my Charlie. What a lucky family to have you home teach them Charlie! I'll be thinking of you all on March 16th when you get to be in the temple. YIPEE!!
Pierce and Adelaide had a Daddy Daughter Date night too, just like Ricky and his little girls. What lucky sons I have who know how to treat their little girls. And what lucky little granddaughters I have who have been blessed with such great daddy's who love their daughters all the way to the moon and back. I can't wait to hear the details of this fun evening. Looks like a white stretch limo waiting to pick them up?
Miss Elie is a climber. She is very interested in so many things and likes to try new adventures. I had the step stool out to get the kids missionary flags down from their shelves to put in my Olympic Centerpiece and Miss Elie headed right toward it. She was so proud of herself that she could climb right up and stand there. Believe you me, I was close at hand, but she was very confident. She is great at climbing up my stairs, but what I did not know was that she knows how to come right back down again. Most babies I know how to fall a few times to figure that out, not Elie, she just backed right up and came on down. Again, I promise I was right beside her. Thursday night Dick and I were invited to the Friends of Scouting Dinner. It was held at the Sheraton Down Town and we were a little ahead of schedule. We had 35 minutes to spend with Sky and Elinor. We loved it when Kara got home from school just as we had to go. We got to give her a hug too. Fun times!
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It's Sunday morning and I can hear some birds singing outside my window. It's stopped raining and for that I am grateful. We've had a very gloomy and wet week. We started out the week way below our needed rainfall and ended the week way ahead of our needed rainfall. It was such a delight when I saw the sun shine on Saturday afternoon. I think I had forgotten what it looked like. It was marvelous. Speaking of delight, I had my Primary Activity Day girls over on Wednesday night. We had an evening about the Sabbath and about how Isaiah taught us it was to be a Delight! Everyone brought a soup can, emptied and clean and we made 30 suggestions of good things that we can do on the Sabbath to make it more of a delight. I loved having those little girls at my house and speaking with them about how I love the Sabbath and how we can learn to make it a Holy Day.
Dick attended Little Philmont this weekend, it was Friday night and Saturday morning and they were sure grateful it didn't include a camp out as it would have been a wet one for sure. It was well attended and many great principals were taught. Dick learned much and was glad he went.
I got a new steam mop this weekend. When I was at Tatia's she has one and I've been thinking that maybe I would love to mop more if I had one. (he he he) So off to Sams club we went and I did a bit of a Tom Sawyer trick in asking Dick if he's like to try it out, as it had some real POWER. Oh my, he did a great job and my floors look beautiful. Thank you Dick!
My sweet Dad is going to have another procedure done on Monday morning. The doctors think that this time it will work. Is there something about 4th time being a charm? We are so hoping. Dad is hopeful and trying to keep a smile close by. What a great sport he has been through all of this. Thank you for your prayers and concern. I know he appreciates them as do I.
Have a good week, stay dry and warm. SLY Robynn
