2nd Coucilor in the Relief Society

Thursday the Bishop came by and extended a calling to me to be the 2nd councilor in the RS. I excepted with excitement. I'm very excited. I've never served in RS before. The whole presidency was re-organized and the new president and 1st councilor are awesome ladies. We had our first pres. meeting today with the old presidency. We are meeting again this thursday after we the councilor and I read up on our jobs. Did I mention I'm excited. Since I will be over Enrichments I will need lots of Ideas. I'm expecting you all to help me out. I was set apart yesterday and had an amazing blessing. I'm now ready to get to work.

Weddings Galore

Well, after 5 months my brothers wedding was only 4 days away when My sister called and said she was getting married the Saturday after Bobby. Since we had family coming in for Bobby and Leanna's wedding and we didn't want to be driving back and forth for 3 days 45 min. each way we were able to stay at a little house in Winchester. The house belongs to some friends of my parents and we stayed on air mattresses but it was quite funtional. My cousin and her 2 kids stayed there with us for 2 of the days. We enjoyed seeing family. Bobby and Leanna's wedding was wonderful at the Nashville Temple. MY dad was there!! That was an awesome hightlight. I took some family pictures of us and the girls outside the temple. I wanted the girls to have a picture of themselves at the temple to put in their rooms so that their goal will always be to marry in the temple. Of coarse that is our goal for Noah as well but I didn't manage to get a picture of him. He must have been wandering around. Anyway, I will post those pictures from the other computer. The reception that evening was beautiful. I sang my song that I had written and recorded for their 1st dance, and I have to say it actually turned out really well. I haven't sung live in a long time. The kids were pretty good for the long day they had. Sunday we went to church at mom and dad's ward. We saw some old and familiar faces and enjoyed visiting. We decided since we didn't have anywhere to be the next morning that we would stay that night as well and visit more with family. On Monday (the Holiday) we stayed out at the Arog's till about 2.

Then we headed to the Jean's house for a cook out that got rained out. We cooked inside. Spent the night at home then headed back to the Argo's on Tuesday to start planning and helping with Tiffany's wedding. It was a civil ceremony at the Bass Club in Winchester. He is a non member, but we are hopeful that he will join the church. Eve was her flower girl, which she was very excited about. She did a great job.

After clean up was done we went back to mom and dads and I down loaded all the pictures I had taken. I did a pretty good job with my camera. Needless to say, we are pooped. I told my mom we were parking it here till the 4th of July shindig. I don't plan on going anywhere till then. (These Pictures are at Tiffany's wedding.)

Bathroom Project

Several months ago, we started some remodeling projects. One being the laundry room which you all have seen. It turned out really well. The other was the bathroom in our bedroom. It is small, but needed to be updated really bad. It had an old medicine cabinet that stuck to far out on the wall. The only lights in the bathroom where in that said medicine cabinet. There was a big porcelin sink with no cabinet. It just hung on the wall with all the pipes and drains exposed. No other shelving or storage. No towel rack or toilet paper holder. the paint was off white flat paint. I hate flat paint. When we got our tax returns back we started picking up things to re-do the bathroom and when Chris was done with school we would get it fixed up in there. Well I picked up some paint a while back and had done some painting. On monday we started in on this project. I did some more painting while he took out all the old stuff. It took us most of the day. But It was worth it. I LOVE it. It looks like a real bathroom now and will help the value of the house. A nice Master baths are a must these days and since it is so small it needed all the help it could get. I have some before pictures but the are on the other computer. So I just have the afters.

Eves's Birthday Party

Well it is over a week past Eve's birthday and I'm finally on here to journal. The night before Chris and I put up all the decorations so that when She got up in the morning she would have her "Princess" stuff up. We had streamers and balloons, a princess table cloth, streamers and ballons over her doorway and We put her princess tea set out out on the table too. It all came together. We ended up having 3 other families over for the big party. Families with kids her age and just some others that the kids just adore. I spent 2 hours making the silly castle to put on her cake. I made it out of toiletpapper rolls and the left over cake box. Then Holly tells me that you can make a castle out of icecream cones. I wish I had know that earlier. Eve thought it was neat so I guess that is all that counts. I'm definately not a cake decorater. But it sure was tasty. She got some princess (poly pocket) type dolls with dress up clothes. But the presents she like the most were the play make up. She LOVED that stuff as did Amelia who would not leave Eve's Presents alone. Eve has painted my toe and finger nails now several times with her nail polish that she got in the make up stuff. She had a grand time. She is now 4 years old. I can't believe it. Time sure is flying by. She is a big girl, and a big help to me. She is already looking forward to turning 5 so she can go to school. We'll see about that when the time comes. I hope you enjoy the slide show.

Hallaluja!!!!

Well, it is official now. Chris has passed his first year of Nursing. YEAH!!!!!!!!! There aren't enough words to say how proud I am of him. He has worked super hard and gone without sleep for months. Thank you for all your prayers for him. He said that is the only reason he made it. He ended up with a B in his nursing class (barely) and an A in his Microbiology class. We are all looking forward to the summer, though he will not get off as easy as he had hoped. He will have to still go to the school lab to brush up on his skills AND start his reading assignments this summer. I think he said the second day of class they have a test. One more year to go!! Again thank you for all your support and prayers for our family. We couldn't do it with out you.

Martina Concert

O.k. Those of you who know anything about country music know that Martina McBride is the best female vocal. Sunday April 20, I with my 4 sisters and good good friend Dani got to go to Huntsville, AL and see her in concert. It was FANTASTIC. She has a huge voice and range and she gave a great show. (the first song in my play list here on my blog is Martina)

Opening for her were Jack Ingram and another of my favorite bands "Little Big Town" A group of 2 guys 2 girls and there harmony is awesom. I've seen them I think 3 times now and they are always great.

Other than a grouchy couple behind us who didn't want us standing up,(a hello...it's a concert...if you want to sit and listen to music go home and put the cd in. The guy never cracked a smile or clapped his hands. I think is wife drug him there. He even made a very rude comment to Kimberly) The whole night was a ball.


Cant wait to scrap book and journal the whole event. It was fun to be out with my sisters.

The weekend

Saturday we were up bright and early and left the house at 7:30 am. We picked up my friend Dianna and her son Jamie who is a cub scout and her daughter Samantha. Then we met up with the other parents heading over to the Pinewood Derby. Apprently our Stake either doesn't have a track or nobody gets it for our ward to use. As far as I know our scouts have always gone over to the district Derby with out having one in our own ward first. This definetly is not what I grew up doing with my brothers. We got there got registered then proceeded to wait for another hour before anything got started. Very frustrating. The girls were really good and could run around and play, but Ethan didn't feel good and he was a little more difficult. Oh I also forgot to mention that we met Chris at the interstate and he followed us over the rest of the way to Pulaski. Anyway, Noah's car was only weighing in at 3.6 ounces. You have up to 5 ounces. So we borrowed some glue from some other people and glued on another quarter and dime. But that only put him up to 3.9. The boys had made their cars at scouts one night and so we had no help in getting him ready for this. Needless to say he was out after the first round of racing. He lost twice and came in 2nd once. Can you tell which picture that is. The girls had fun watching the cars run down the track. I had to keep pulling them back. We got home about 1 o'clock. It was Noah's first year and after he got over his dissappointment he had fun running around playing with everyone else and cheering for Jamie. He has a tendency to be a sore looser, so he actually did really well with his as he called it "flunked out after the first round". Sunday was the usual and here we are at the start of a new week. Ethan is pretty congested still. He got a blessing on Sunday and is doing a little better. Still blowing snot bubbles out his nose. He has cut his first tooth this weekend. Can't believe he is 8 months already. I guess that is the update for this week.