out of the frying pan...into the fire!

So two weeks ago I was really stressed with life and my calling. We had a super busy weekend with Melissa's baby shower and the next day I had 3 meetings for young women's and trek. I just felt like I was running around like a crazy person barely getting by. The next day I get a phone call saying that the stake president wants to meet with me and Cory the following Wednesday. Those phone calls are scary! Cory tried to convince me it was for me, but I thought it was him.

We go on Wednesday (Feb 23rd) and meet with the entire stake presidency. And he extends a call to Cory to be the first counselor in the bishopric of a new ward. At first I'm thinking a singles ward or something, but then he tells us they are rearranging the boundaries of 5 wards and creating a new ward. It was an incredible experience and I'm grateful for these men and their words of counsel and their strong testimonies.

They didn't even tell us who the bishop was we had to walk into the high council room to find out. It is Jared Jones and we love him and his sweet wife so we cried and hugged (okay I cried:). Then we went in a room and talked and got to see the new ward boundaries and it was very shocking for our ward. And the worst part was we had to keep it a secret for almost 2 weeks. That was very difficult.

It was very hard to carry on at young women's and mutual night knowing that I would no longer be the 1st counselor in y.w. and that I would no longer be in the same ward as almost all the girls and leaders. There has been lots of crying on my part. However, I am very excited for this opportunity for Cory to serve and to have new people in our ward to meet. There are still lots of people in our ward that we know so it will all be okay.

So 2 weeks ago I was the busy one in my calling and now Cory is the busy one times a thousand! They have to fill all the callings for a ward in a short amount of time. But at least they can meet at the church and not a secret location like they had to last week....lol!

So that means no girls camp and no trek. My summer just suddenly opened up. Okay, I guess there is a chance Cory and I will still go on trek, but right now thinking about that is not a priority.

There are bigger fish to fry and they seem to cook better in an open fire:)

new stuff.

It's late and I'm patiently waiting on my chocolate raspberry cheesecake to cool so I can top it with the chocolate ganache....and put it in the fridge.

In the meantime.....I've posted a few things so keep scrolling down:)

baby bumps and cupcakes.

Emilee, Mom, Me, and Melissa.

We threw a baby shower for Melissa at her house a couple of weeks ago. She had baby Tyson just a few days ago and everything went great! She was shopping at Costco just over 12 hours before he was born....you go girl!

Melissa and Angela. This is Mel's sis-in-law. Melissa is 5'10" tall and she loves to be around Angela so she can feel like the "short one"!

Black bean salsa, vegetables, ham wrapped asparagus, chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, strawberries and cream cupcakes, and homemade carmels.....yep it's a baby shower!

(Heather we missed you tons....love you!)

Mataya @ the Dentist.

Mataya had her first trip to the dentist. She wouldn't lay there for the hygienist, but she did for the dentist. He is checking out her teeth and she's got the death grip on her toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss. She did great and she loves it when I floss her teeth!

Parker's 7th Birthday

Parker turned 7 a few weeks ago. We had a little friend party and we were lucky enough to have great weather in the middle of February which made it possible to be outside for most of the party.

Lining up for a game.

Little sis having some pizza.

The party crowd looking into the sun:)

Megan....Parker and her love each other! They are in the same class at school and their afternoon teacher got married this week and on Monday they had a little party for her. There was lots of talk of marriage and love and Parker came home and told me he asked 8 girls to marry him and they all said yes. I asked him if he asked Megan and he said he asked her and she also said yes! Her last name is Jones so it would just make sense:)

There was a treasure hunt outside.The treasure was locked in the shed in the backyard.

Parker has some cute little friends and it was a fun party. Parker is an awesome kid and always has been. He is so responsible and hard working. As a mom it is so nice to be able to count on him. He is also very honest and he always tells it like it is. He LOVES school and works hard at reading and math. He is obsessed with maps! It's very cute he has a map of the world on the wall next to his bed and lots of books about the world and educates all of us. He loves to play on my iPhone and I usually think he is playing games, but half the time he's on the Google earth looking at the world!

since when is 29 old?

Cory lovingly pointed out to me that I haven't blogged in a while. Life has been full of birthday parties, a baby shower, Valentine craziness, church callings/meetings, and I got an iPhone....oh baby! It was Cory's idea to get me that phone so I partially blame the fact that I haven't blogged in a couple weeks on the new phone. (and Cory....lol!) Who wants to blog when you can play Angry Birds for hours on end?
I will put something worthwhile on here soon. I'll leave you with a conversation I had with my now 7 year old Parker:)

Parker: "Mom did you play games on this one website when you were a kid?" (he told me the website, but I forgot)
Me: "No bud, there was no such thing as the Internet when I was a kid."
Parker: *stands there in utter disgust and disbelief*
Me: "The Internet started when I was in high school."
Parker: "Whoa! Well, you are really old Mom."

When your kids tell you you are old....end of conversation!

spencer's prayer.

Spencer's prayer for lunch today:

"Dear Heavenly Father, thankful for this day. We're thankful for Parker even though he's silly during the prayer. And we're thankful that Parker goes to school. We are thankful for Dad for going to work. And we're thankful for mom because she plays 'Go Fish' with me. We're thankful for Mataya that she is sleeping. We're thankful for Jesus and all that he does. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

This is pretty good considering he sometimes throws in a Spiderman or Curious George reference:)