Five for Friday!

Wow, what a week and a half! Here's what you've been missing out on since I last blogged!

1. Last Wednesday/thursday, Jeremy and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary (a month late but we still celebrated!). Emmy stayed at her cousins house for her first overnight slumber party and had a wonderful time. I love that she is so happy wherever she goes and has no issues when Mommy and Daddy go out. As for me, I was a little teary leaving her for the first time overnight but reminded myself all night that she was having a blast and probably wasn't missing me! (I was right by the way - when we came to pick her up she was too busy to even come hug us! She loves her cousins!).

Jeremy took me to the Melting Pot for the first time. Fabulous food - I think I'm still full. The dessert was by far the best - how can you go wrong with dipping cheesecake, brownies, strawberries, pound cake and mallows into melted chocolate. You just can't. So Yumm!

That night we stayed at the Anniversary Inn. Nothing says "I love you" like sleeping surrounded by alligators, elephants and monkeys. Wow. Kinda Special. It's always good to laugh a lot!

Seriously though it was a really great getaway and much needed with the Hubs. We went shopping, ate lunch at Chipotle and then did sealings at the Draper Temple (hence why the Hubs is looking so fine sitting near his alligator.)

(the Hubs and I posing with our pet Elephant)

2. The night we got back from our little getaway, I had a message from the Bishop's secretary saying that the Bishop wanted to meet with me. That pretty much meant a new calling. A huge surprise considering I've only been teaching Gospel Doctrine for a year now ( a calling which I LOVE!). Well....I am now the YW 1st counselor!!!!!! I am so excited! I love the youth so much and I have wanted to serve in YW for awhile. I love the women that I am serving with and am so excited for all the new adventures that lie ahead.

3. Pioneer Day. We took Emmy swimming to the new community pool. Emmy is quite the fishy and she's learning how to swim pretty well. I think I'll be putting her in swim lessons this fall at our indoor pool. We had a blast swimming all morning - all of us could probably live at the swimming pool during the summer. Especially when your local pool involves water slides, lazy rivers, splash pads, flowriders, and hot tubs. Not too shabby. Later that night, Emmy and Daddy did poppers - Emmy learned they make much louder noises when you stomp on them.

4. The biggest excitement of the week started on Sunday with my little party animal kidney stones moving around. Monday morning the pain increased quite a bit and I ended up in the ER by Monday afternoon. IV drugs can be a fabulous thing. Since then it's been a week of blocked bladders, persistent stones, much throwing up, and lots of pain. Good times. However, I was finally able to eat yesterday and I'm doing better today. My body feels like it's had major surgery but Jeremy was able to go back to work today and I'm beginning to feel like a contributing member of this family once again. We're praying I pass the stone this weekend so I don't have to have surgery next week to remove the stone. Much power of positive thinking will be happening this weekend!

5. What this weekend holds - The National FSA (Families Supporting Adoption Conference) is today and tomorrow. Unfortunately because Jeremy took this entire week off to nurse his wife back to health, we weren't able to take today off to attend. But we'll be there tomorrow and I'm so excited! I love FSA and this conference. I have many friends presenting so I"m looking forward to being spiritually uplifted and taught.
Other things to look forward to - teaching my last sunday school lesson on sunday, our family fast for our birthmom, cleaning our house, and giving Emmy lots of attention and much needed kisses from her mommy!

Have a good weekend everyone!