Life Lately Mixed With Some Drama

The last week or so has been kind of crazy. I got called to be the Young Women's 2nd Counselor. Crazy. I was happy because that meant I would only have to teach once every other month instead of twice a month (which is what I had been doing for the last year and a half). I had a lot of things going on last week, like mutual, a presidency meeting, visiting teaching, babysitting my niece, cleaning, etc. Then on Thursday afternoon, I got a text from the YW's president asking if I was willing to give a talk on Sunday, along with the rest of the YW's presidency. That freaked me out. I hadn't given a talk in church since I was in YW's myself!!! And I HATE talking in front of people. The first couple of months teaching in YW's, my body and voice was shaking. Anyways, so I was SUPER stressed out about that. I tried not to think about it Thursday. But then I remembered that I had to clean before Jon's family came in sometime Saturday, go visiting teaching, watch my niece (which is hard to do much of anything else with her around), AND now write a talk. I was freaking out about my talk so badly that I couldn't sleep very well Friday or Saturday night. I had a couple of breakdowns over it too. I kept praying that I would calm down about it, and I finally did! At least until Sunday morning... Anyways, I got my talk over with first, which I was happy about so that I wouldn't start having a breakdown and crying before I even got up there! I'm just grateful that my prayers were answered, and I was able to be a lot more calm about it than I thought I was going to be. I was seriously humbled this weekend with small blessings I received and the wonderful lessons that I got to hear Sunday, and I am really trying to be the best YW's 2nd Counselor that I can be.

Moving on...

As I said, Jon's family came to town Saturday. They were only staying with us that night and then heading to Derek's (Jon's brother) apartment for the rest of the week in Sandy. They were coming out to visit Derek before he is deployed to Iraq at the end of the month for about a year, and I guess to meet Derek's fiancee. So Derek and his fiancee, TJ, planned a family BBQ Sunday evening. We were thinking it was just going to be the immediate members of the family, but aunts and uncles and cousins, etc. were invited from TJ's family. It was definitely overwhelming and WAYYYY too much for me to handle (I was only going off of MAYBE 4 hours of sleep). Anyways, it was crazy and way too long of a day. I did not want to be there that long. Oh well. The next day, Jon's family and I, along with TJ and her daughter, went to Temple Square because his parents have never visited it. The day started later than expected, and we got there much later than we wanted to. We only got to visit the temple visitor's center with the Christus, see the Joseph Smith video, and eat at the Lion House. Well, Jon, his parents, and I went to the JS video, while everyone else went to the mall......... Yeah. Anyways, we were trying to head back to Provo so that Jon, Derek, their Dad, and friend could all go shooting in the Spanish Fork canyon. I took Jon's sister and Mom to Old Navy to do some shopping, while the boys were out shooting. It was definitely an interesting day, and without going into too many details, mixed with some drama.

Here's a few pictures from yesterday:



Hopefully, today will be a much better day....

Things that I've done lately OTHER than this last week:

1. Painted this magnet board (I'll post a picture another time of the finished project) and made magnets to go with it:

2. Made some throw pillows for the couches because I found cute throw pillow covers at Target on clearance:


3. Made the outside of a pillow for my sister/niece. My sister stuffed it with a pillow and sewed up the unfinished hem. Then she hot glued a matching silver cord around the outside edges. She put it on my niece's dresser in her bedroom and put her princess shoes on top of it.

4. Tried to finish the shirt I wanted to do forever ago, but it just doesn't work right... So I'm probably going to take it off and do something different (it pulls down the shirt where it's attached):
5. I made a water bottle sling for when I go hiking. There's a few things I messed up on, but it works fine, so I'm okay with that! I'll post more about it another time:6. Jon and I went to the Herriman rodeo with my sister's family. More on this and why this pictures is the only picture I got, and it ended up being blurry (UGH. So annoyed.):