Lately:

1) I was supposed to attend jury duty last week and miraculously got out of going. My badge number was excused. I was pretty relieved. Wahoo.
2) Taylor Trent's youngest sibling is getting hitched. He is marrying the wonderful Meagan  and we are all delighted.
3) Our chickens are all set up in their new home, but our new hens are like two old lazy women. They don't lay eggs and just want to sit around all day. Needless to say, we are getting four baby chicks in a few days who I know will be great layers someday. lol
4) Sat. I turned 29.....tis true. The age change wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I went to Mesquite and we ate at a great Italian place. My new favorite. The girls actually ate. We went bowling and I got a call from my brother Isaac to wish me a happy bday. It was really loud in the bowling area. After we discussed my bday he asked if I had heard about Christy? And I could barely hear him. I could not think of a Christy really that he knew too. He said hold on and never got back on the phone with me. So I hung up....But I kept wondering Christy....Christy something bad had to have happened to someone named that.
After we ran to Walmart with the girls I called Kendra and wished her a happy bday. She then told me about Christy Clark who lost her little girl on our bday. She got Meningitis suddenly and her parents had no idea. What???? How could that be possible? (Christy was Kendra's roomate in college and then was close with my brother Isaac's family while they lived in Cedar. She is super nice and I knew her pretty well too).
It put a differnt mood into our birthday....it was all I thought about for the rest of the night. What they are going through. Losing one of my girls. All of it playing out in my head for hours. I think it really hit me because this is a girl my age with 3 kids and she just lost one suddenly. That can really happen to me. Life is so short and we need to spend every day like it is our last. We never know when Heavenly Father will allow a member of my family or even me to join him in the ranks of Heaven. We just don't know. It has been a very heartfelt few days.
People are truly amazing they set up a fundraiser for baby Jane's family and since Sat. have raised over more than $10,700 for them. How remarkable!
5) I am getting released from my first counselor primary position next Sunday. This makes me smile only because I have been in there for 2 1/2 years and am ready for a change. Plus Lyla is coming in this next Jan. They have been bringing in the nursery kids to get them ready for the Sunbeams. And Lyla wants me to be by her every second. It is a blessing I am being removed from her sight...lol. No new calling yet.
6) Trent and I are so excited for the weekend we are heading out to Vegas to go see Michael Buble and spending the night, we haven't done that in such a long time. It is really needed. My mom is going to come stay with my girls. I love her and don't know what I would do without her. Plus it is really easy when she comes to our house and is willing to sleep here.
7) Trent and I have been looking at house plans and I love to dream about our dream house. We have a plan we have fallen in love with but we don't love the outside but think we can change it to our liking. We hope to get going on our house building process by the new year. Seeing what steps we need to take and what not. It may still be a year or so away until it even begins. We shall see.
8) I miss the temple and hope to go soon with my honey. It is calling my name.