MY FABULOUS WEEK. . .

Okay so Monday was a stinker, but Tuesday through Friday was fabulous!! My birthday was Tuesday and my (birth) Mom came down for a couple days to celebrate and hang out with me, Nick & her beautiful granddaughter Lucy. Oh, I have to tell you what Nick got me for my birthday – I love it!! He gave me a gift card to the spa “downtown”…I am so excited to go use it!! I think I decided on a facial and a massage. I’ve only had one facial ever from my good friend Candy when she owned her spa in CDA. If I ever get to SLC she said I could get one at the school she opened – (she’s amazing!) I also got shopping money from my Mom & Sister…Yeah!!

Tuesday morning Lucy had her very first swim lesson without Nick or I in the water with her. She’s had two sessions of swimming before, but we’ve always been in the water with her. We have been trying to prep her for this for at least two weeks. She knew that we would NOT be getting in the water with her, but I don’t think she really, really got it until we walking out of the dressing room and she was the only one in her swimsuit. I had told her teacher that if she had a hard time (I was anticipating it) that we would leave the room so she could learn that she can do this without us. I babysit for the director of the Aquatic Center and we have semi-private lessons with just Lucy and her 2 friends that I tend to. We also got the best of the best when it comes to swim instructors so I felt very good about doing this. So I plopped her in the water to her instructor and rushed out to the foyer. I could still see her and hear her screams of terror. She actually started to relax as the lesson went on which was nice to see. By “relax” I mean she stopped screaming, but still held onto the side bar for life. The instructor would do laps with one child at a time and each time it was Lucy’s turn to do a lap she’s freak out for a second and then get over it. She did very well kicking, floating, and going under water did not even phase her. Later in the day I asked her:

“Did you have fun in swim class this morning?”
“yeah!”
“What did you do?”
“I held onto the bar and I cry”

We started laughing SO hard!! Poor girl! Since then we’ve talked about it a lot more prepping her for next Tuesday. I know each week will get easier.

Tuesday evening we had our Visiting Teaching Dinner. We all went so Nick could watch kids in the nursery, and my Mom came with me to dinner. It went so well! My visiting teaching coordinator and enrichment committee did a fab-u-lous job!! We just had bread bowls that we bought with budget and then we had sisters sign up to bring soup and desserts. We had 16 types of soups there! I made this recipe I altered it just a little bit by adding celery & a can of corn…Yummm! And it was almost too easy to make! Love that!!

Wednesday was just great! We woke up and got dressed and headed up to Spokane (1-1/2 hours away) We went to Target, what a treat!! Went to the mall, and then REI. I got some new jeans at the mall with my birthday money. I found a pair of DNKY or DKNY (whatever!) that fit me great and were a size smaller then I anticipated so that was a very nice birthday surprise!!

Thursday morning was Lucy’s first Dance Class. This went much better then the swim class! It only took her a couple minutes to warm up to the teacher and fall in love with her. She is going to Sears Dance Academy down on Grand and we found out that her dance teacher is LDS too. It is a lot more affordable then I had thought it would be, which is also fabulous. The swim teacher and the dance teacher are brother & sister – love that small town living!!

After dance class we planted all of the bulbs I had bought for the backyard. I had 70 tulip and daffodil bulbs. They are going to be so pretty! I’m so excited for spring! We have a retaining wall that we built flower bed into. I hope we’re still living here so we can see them all come up! Nick finished planting all of the grass in the backyard so all we have to do now is just keep it watered. Our backyard was a disaster when we moved here two years ago and now it is finally a 2 tier thing of beauty! I love it! Once the grass comes in I’ll have to add before and after pictures!

Friday morning is when my Mom was going to head back up to B.C. so we went to breakfast first. Yummm! We went to the European place just down the street. It was so yummy! After that it was time for goodbyes!

THEN…Friday night our friends the Yancey’s called to see if we wanted to go to the fair. It was funny how once again the small town thing amazes me…we’d see someone we know and finish a conversation, turn around and there was someone else we knew! It was so crazy, but so fun! It was fun watching Lucy & Claire have fun. Bekie & I bought the girls tickets for the rides and they rode all of the rides that they could (because of size) which I think was only 4 or 5. So, so cute! I’m so glad we FINALLY took our camera somewhere!This last week has been just fabulous - here is to many more :)