Spread LOVE not GERMS!

I haven’t posted FOREVER! We have been super busy! About a month ago Ray got called to be the 2nd councilor in our ward’s bishopric. I think it will be good for our family and we will receive lots of blessings. The first blessing was I got released from being the 1st councilor in the R.S. – it was bound to happen. As a presidency we had been in for 3 years, and I guess they will be in for sometime longer, but I think it would just be to hard for me to continue. I didn’t ask to be released but, it was what needed to happen. I am SUPER excited about my new calling, I am the V.T. coordinator. It won’t be to time consuming and I like to have things organized and right, so it will be good. Sundays are a little tough, mostly sacrament meeting. My boys just don’t seem to know how to be quiet, whisper is not part of their vocabulary. Kara is pretty good, even though she sure is loud and knows what she wants and when she doesn’t get it she sure lets me know. I have only been "alone" for two weeks during sacrament because one week the boys were sick so I stayed home with all the kids. We have been doing great about getting to church early. It really helps that we have the 11 o’clock time and the fact that Kara takes a nap around 8 or 9 so I can get myself and the kids ready while Ray is at his morning meetings.
I can’t believe it is February already! February is a hard month for us. It is the month where Ray is the busiest with work and add bishopric stuff to that and basketball -- so we don’t see him much. I also am swamped with work; trying to get year-end stuff done – I hope to get it all done this week – YEA!

The kids are just getting older. Kara is learning and growing everyday. She doesn’t know how to say much but she does say mama, and dada and mimics thank you. I think she is really starting to understand things better. I said out loud that I needed to take some pictures, and then she wanted down from her highchair and walked over to the computer and pointed to the camera. I asked her if she wanted me to take her picture and she shook her head yes, then she stood still and I took a couple, then she wanted to see them in the viewfinder. She gets real excited when she sees herself. She also remembers things, I asked her if she wanted to take a bath and she shook her head yes, then I got distracted and had to do something, then a few minutes later she got mad at me and started crying, I said what do you want and she took off to the bathroom – she wanted her bath!

Kara’s hair is getting longer on top. I usually pull it up into a little ponytail. This day she pulled out the elastic and her hair was just sticking up so I had to take some pictures. It is funny when she walks because it bounces as she walks. Ray likes to call her Cindy Lou Who (from the Grinch who stole Christmas) – sometimes I call her Kara Lou Who. She is a funny little girl. She is finally getting her bottom two teeth. When she smiles you can just see the one on top, it makes me laugh, it is a funny tooth.
The boys will be glad when it warms up around here. We have gotten so much snow this winter, it is crazy. It seems like it snows almost everyday! They got scooters for Christmas and hadn’t even taken them outside until Saturday. I was at the church doing the V.T. report, and Ray went outside with them, they both wrecked on the walk way, great! I was surprised that they wrecked because they ride them around the kitchen table all day – I don’t know if it is bad for my hardwood floors or not, but hey it keeps them entertained and I do need to get the floors resurfaced sometime, so I figure it won’t hurt the floor.

As for me I seem to have issues with keeping my house clean. There is just always toys everywhere, laundry to do and put away, dishes in the sink and a big clutter mess. I have got to do something – maybe I will try flylady again, I read some of the stuff a while back and "shined my sink", but never established good flylady habits, I have got to do something! Goals would probably help.

We went visiting teaching today, I am so proud that we got some visits in the first part of the month. We didn’t do good getting out last month, so it was good. I took my ladies some hand sanitizer with a note that said – "This Valentines’ season spread LOVE not germs", I thought it was funny and yet useful because there really are a lot of germs floating around this time of year!