Wonderful Weekend!

It's always sad when a great weekend comes to an end! I don't know exactly what made this weekend so great, many things I guess! Friday night was a fun family night. Ty has just begun to understand and really enjoy playing games. So we were able to play Go Fish, Old Maid, and Don't Eat Pete! If you've never played these games with a four year old you are missing out! It's quite a fun experience. You may not be familiar with Don't Eat Pete, Mara was not a fan of this game and I'll tell you why: For this game you have a laminated file folder board with nine little candy men on it. You place one piece of candy on each little man (we used M&Ms) then one person leaves the room and you pick one of the candy men to be 'Pete'. Then the person comes back into the room and starts taking off one M&M at a time trying to guess which character is Pete. If that person chooses the candy with Pete the others yell: "Don't Eat Pete"!! Ty thought this was so fun, and every time we yelled 'Don't Eat Pete' he jumped and started to laugh. Mara on the other hand wanted to eat all the candy off the board and when we yelled 'Don't Eat Pete' she started to cry!! Poor Mar, we decided after that she just got to eat the candy and not play the game!

Saturday was a special day for Mama--I was able to go to the Portland Temple with my young women on our youth temple trip. It was a neat experience to be in the temple and I always have such a wonderful feeling when I'm there. Although the temple is only an hour and half away we just haven't had the opportunity to go very often. It's definitely a lot harder to attend the temple when you have children. It was nice to watch my young women be baptized and although I wasn't able to do baptisms I was still grateful to partake of the spirit and be with them.

Sunday was a big day for Ty--today was his first primary program! It is important that I accentuate the positive so let me begin by just saying how proud I am of Ty for:

• sitting up on the stand without mom or dad the entire sacrament meeting
• getting up to the pulpit and looking at the congregation
• standing up when the music leader directed and sitting down when asked
• having the cutest little face to look at and smiling when he looked and saw his mama!

Had video cameras been allowed at church today, this would have been a perfect Kodak moment to just tape Ty in action! He was pretty hilarious to watch, and the teacher behind him said 'If he were her son she would have been praising his name at what a good job he did!" When it was time to sing a song Ty stood up close to two girls next to him and with his body tried pushing them over. Ty's class sat to the side of the pulpit right up against the wood railing-wall. So all the girls held on tight and tried to stand their ground! Then when it was time for Ty to stand to say his part he ducked down underneath the pulpit and hid. When it was his turn to say his line: "I am a child of God. I was sent to a family and received a body" his teacher had to drag him out from under the pulpit! We had practiced and practiced this line, and all week I heard: "Mama- I'm not sayin a word!" Well sure enough no words came out of his mouth! Oh well! At least he got up there, he didn't pick his nose, his hands stayed out of his pants, and maybe next year he will say something!