This Week.

I have a few minutes for a super quick update.

But only a few.

One of these days I will spend hours figuring out how to put the Ward History I have spent countless hours on this past week into a slide presentation viewable via a link. I'm so not tech savvy, but I believe in myself. Plus, I feel it has value, considering the considerable hours of my life dedicated to its completion. Plus, it's a history. And that is why I blog.

But I don't have the time for that today.

So here is what's happened in and around the Ward History compilation:

Mar finally got her Kindle Fire,

and was inducted into NJHS.

 (She looks thrilled in this pic because she really wanted to go get some cake before we had to head to the church for youth night following the induction... unfortunately, we were a piece or two too late. I think they had enough cake for about a fourth of the people in attendance. I, of course, didn't mind missing out, but Mar was sorely disappointed.)

 Immediately following the ceremony, we rushed home to grab the stuff I needed for the Laurel activity that evening. We made these fun cookie jars (a Laurel-age-appropriate incorporation of this idea), and talked about how everyone in our class adds their own ingredient or flavor - put them all together, and we make something really amazing. We have such limited time on youth nights (we share with another ward, which makes things very, very tricky) that we ran a little long, but I think the girls benefitted from our sharing and good discussion.

That evening when we all arrived back home around 9:30, Shi found out some great news.

 She had been accepted to BYU. 
Since I knew that Taylor had applied also, I told her give him a call and have him check to see if he had been accepted. We all had our fingers crossed...

He was in too :-)
It was one of those feel-good kind of nights.

The following day I put together cookie jars for the girls that didn't make it to the activity, and the YW Pres. and I delivered them.

My friend Marci brought me these beautiful tulips a few days before my birthday.
She is a sweetheart.

Yesterday we Fast-Sunday-celebrated my birthday.
Which pretty much means that we attended our usual meetings, the girls and I made and ate dinner around 5 (after snapping some fun pics in the waning light of day), and Bill made it home a little past 6.

I continued to work on the Ward History (sick of hearing about it? me too!) and chatted with family until it was time for cake:

 Yeah, we don't skimp on candles.

Yum.

That's it. A quick update.