1. Homefront: We've narrowed down the area where we'd like to focus looking for a home. Morgan Hill. It's about a 45 minute drive south of San Jose. We like it because there's a little more room and it's a little quieter. The next part will be to pick a house, but that will have to wait until the house on Shadybrook sells.
2. Pioneer Day: This last Wednesday was Pioneer Day. Our ward didn't have anything planned, so I decided to organize some activities to celebrate. During the day, we made homemade butter in jars and did some weaving with yarn and popsicle sticks. Anna and her friend, Evan, only lasted a couple of minutes. It was up to Desiree and me to finish up. For dinner we had homemade cornbread with our butter and a drink from a pioneer cookbook. The cornbread was yummy, but the only one that liked the drink was Anna because it was so sweet.
3. Missionaries: We had the missionaries over for dinner on Thursday and had tacos, Mexican rice, and Black beans. It's the third time we've had them over. We're trying to decide if having them over is worth the guilt we feel about missionary work when they leave.4. Matthew: Matthew's big achievement the last couple of weeks is that he's sitting up on his own! He does very well until he tips too far one way and then down he goes. He's also doing great at rolling from his tummy to his back. On the down-side, his nighttime sleeping has gone south again. He keeps waking up about 4 hours after bedtime. He used to go 8 hours. When I don't feed him, he is VERY angry.
5. Anna: Anna had so much fun at Mom's Morning Out in the park on Tuesday. She loved running around with all the kids. Grandma asked her to say the prayer on the food and she did so well! She spoke clearly and loudly. Later that week, I noticed that she is getting shy around strangers. Anna also loves Nursery. She has told us several times that she doesn't like having to wait through Sacrament meeting before going. When I picked her up from Nursery today, she started wailing about how she didn't want to go home. Oy!
6. Steve: Steve is loving work. He's been spending about 20% of his time working on a new product called Chromecast. It plugs into your TV and allows you to 'cast' whatever's on your Chrome browser to the TV screen. You can also throw videos from Netflix and YouTube. It was released this past Wednesday to the public. To celebrate the release, Google sent the GoogleTV group to Great America on Friday. They provided free tickets and parking vouchers. They also served us lunch. We had a blast.
7. Melissa: I've been reading a lot, lately. I've joined a book club with Steve's friend, Charles, and his family. Right now we're reading Rebound Rules by Rick Pitino. He's a college basketball coach. It's a motivational, success book. There are some good ideas, nothing too inovative, but he talks SO much about basketball and other sports as if I know what he's talking about. I guess if you were into sports it would be more interesting. I've also been reading through the kindergarten and first grade curriculum for homeschooling Waldorf-method. It's been very interesting. Anna won't start kindergarten for another year and first grade for another 3 years, but it has a lot of things that I could be learning beforehand and ideas of things to do during the 'preschool' years.
Well, there you go. I hope it wasn't too boring for you to read through. Until next week!
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