This weekend was an incredibly hard one, as most of you that read here know… however, Sunday evening as Josh, Becca, Chris, and I were playing Rook I looked out the window and saw the most beautiful, bright, stunning rainbow I had ever seen. Becca ran to get the kids and I ran for my camera to capture this amazing sight. At it’s peak we could see both ends and another rainbow in the distance. It was remarkable. I was able to capture a picture of most of the kids standing underneath the rainbow but Cameron was late and Elena was sleeping.
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So, sweet Audrey at the age of 5 has pulled out her first tooth today 44 and it was quite exciting! This weekend, whilst at Becca’s house, I asked her to put in some highlights, but I really wanted highlights AND lowlights so I had this brilliant idea that I would buy one highlighting kit and one dark hair coloring kit and reuse the highlighting cap. This worked fine, but then when Becca tried to put the hair through the second time it was all tangled so most of the hair came through the cap and thus my hair looks VERY highlighted 47! So, this weekend, I may make her use a lowlights kit because, holy COW, I look ridiculous!!!
Kate
I’ll be back on Monday to fill you in with all the exciting details!
Kate
And Michael was lucky enough to be asked to sing in the children’s choir that performed for the Prophet. The only other time I’ve seen the Prophet in person was when I traveled to Chicago at the United Center (that seats like 20,000 or something) and I couldn’t really see him, tonight I was only feet away from him and it was an amazing feeling. I feel so blessed to have been able to see and hear the living Prophet, it is an evening I will never forget!
OK, maybe not all of them, but the one that Kate and I finished last week, Quest for Human Destiny, certainly did. Three weeks, three hours a day, five days a week. Lots of reading (Genesis 1-9, Jonah, Ecclesiastes from the Bible; The Old Man and the Sea; The Catcher in the Rye; Childhood’s End; The Epic of Gilgamesh; Enuma Elish) plus watching two movies (Tombstone and Blade Runner), all in three weeks. Two multiple choice exams, and an in-class essay about the movie Tombstone.
So on the final exam, I got a 49/50, and Kate and I exactly tied with 108 points for the class. We each got an A-. Three college credits in three weeks!!! Awesome!!!
So we watched the movie Big with the kids, you know, the one where the kid puts the quarter in the “Zoltar Speaks” machine. After the movie was over, I asked Michael and Audrey if they learned any lessons from the movie. Neither of them seemed to understand what I was asking, so I explained to them that we need to be careful what we wish for, because what we think we want, or what we think is best for us, isn’t always so. In the movie, Josh wanted to be big, but after being an adult for a while he realized that he wasn’t happy. He missed his family and friend, and missed being a kid.
After explaining all of this, Michael then shared with us the lesson he learned from the movie: Don’t stand too close to a machine that grants wishes.
The three week class is over!!! Thank goodness, it was a fun class and all, but whew… Two and a half hours a day for three weeks, is just a loooooooooong time to sit! I’ll take a day off and be back to update!
Kate
