Training, dinner, and cousin

I actually had stuff to do this weekend, which is rather unusual. Of course we always do the cleaning/shopping etc on Saturday, but this weekend I had some obligations and some fun too.

I'll start with the obligations...I was recently called as the assistant cub master in our ward. So far, all that they've told me they want me to help with are things like making phone calls, helping with refreshments, and helping with whatever else they need. So, I'm thinking no big deal I know how to do all of these things. Well...apparently if you work in cub scouts you have to go to this training meeting and it's 3 hours long on a Friday night....now I don't know about you, but I can think of many things I'd rather do on a Friday night than sit through 3 hours of "training". First of all, I don't think there are many things in this world that are important enough and complicated enough to need 3 hours of training and I'm certain that cub scouts isn't one of them. I know that I'm biased when it comes to training and you can all thank my dear husband for that, but I've been converted to a better way. Honestly, there was good information at the training--although none of it was really geared too much to me specifically. But I can tell you that they could have given us the same information in MUCH less time. In fact, most of what they told us could have been written down and we could read through it and then they could have a short question and answer for anything that was confusing for us and it would have saved all of us a lot of time. So, that's how I spent my Friday night.


Thankfully Saturday night was a MUCH more enjoyable time. We were invited to go over to have dinner with Dallas and Diana--some friends that we made when Jason was working at MSTAR and then BYU. We all got to go to Orlando together when Jason and Dallas when to a conference there. I think Diana got a kick out of my enthusiasm when we went to Disney world since I had never been to anything Disney before. :) We had a great time. We ate some delicious soup--played a fun game, watched some Planet Earth and that was the adults! The kids had fun playing together--I'm not even really sure what they played. I know the boys played the Wii for a little bit and the girls had some kind of game going too. All the girls wanted to hold the baby, so they all sat on the couch and just passed him down. Then he was hungry and Jasmine and Abby were just so interested in him that they sat and watched him eat. It was really cute. Thanks for the great time guys!





Sunday, just the kids and I went to the in-laws house since Jason had meetings. Later on Mike and Alisha came with Brooklyn and it was fun to sit her by Liam and see them start to notice each other. This first picture is when we had just set them by each other to see how big they were...they are nearly the same size even though Brooklyn is 2 months older. The next picture is when Liam started trying to grab her and "get to know her". ;) It'll be so fun to see these guys grow together!