Busy, Busy

I'm happy to report that I did 'catch a break' with my broken tooth (pun intended) of a few days ago! My awesome dentist Tyler Bauer recommended that although substantial, if it were him, he'd have the tooth filled rather than use a crown. So that's what he did. Only a few hundred dollars rather than a few thousand!

I've been keeping myself busy getting ready for the baby shower that I'm hosting for Lindsey on March 29th. I'm having a lot of fun with it, especially since she's having a girl! Won't be posting any pictures until after the 28th when she and Thomas arrive because in the mean time it's super secret squirrel stuff!! The diaper cake is done, party favors are about half done. Briana helped me get started on everything before she moved, so I've had a head start. I'm trying to work on it a little at a time so I don't feel stressed and rushed when we get close to the actual date. I'm pretty sure I'm making way too many party favors, but people aren't very good about RSVPing these days, so I'd rather be safe than sorry.

This weekend I've had fun making some St. Patrick's Day cupcakes for my Seminary class. St. Patrick's day was yesterday and normally I would have taken the treat on Friday, but one of my students signed up to bring treats Friday, so I didn't see anything wrong with a treat on Monday too! In fact, this will be 6 days in a row of Seminary treats! Last week on Tuesday through Thursday was standardized testing at school. The freshmen and sophomores attended school at the regular time and juniors and seniors got to sleep in AND we changed to daylight savings time last weekend, it was dark again and we were tired. So I told the kids we'd have a week of treats to compensate and we did! It wasn't anything too fabulous, but the kids seemed to appreciate it and I had the opportunity to incorporate the treat as an object lesson on one day!

It looks like we're going to be adopting soon. A puppy that is. My friend Denise Gum and her husband Gordon adopted a black lab about a month ago. They didn't realize that she was pregnant. The puppies will be two weeks old tomorrow. We are planning on adopting a boy as I've researched online it seems like that will cause the least amount of problems for Abby to adjust. It's been very quiet around here since the Pascual's moved to Texas, so we're hopeful that a puppy will help fill the void for all of us including Abby! She's acted pretty lonely and dejected since her little boys have been gone. I'm a little anxious about what exactly we're getting ourselves into. The last puppy we adopted was Abby about 10 years ago and I think it's like child-birth, God makes it so that, in time, you forget so you'll be willing to go through it again! lol