Showing posts with label matt's calling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matt's calling. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2008

A Great Weekend






Matt and I had a great weekend. It started off with my friend Desiree' being in town Friday night with her new husband and both of their parents. They were here to see Wicked, but we met them downtown to say hello and to give her a wedding present. She's so happy being married and I couldn't be happier for her.


Saturday I worked more on my Stationery while Matt worked. Then we spent time running errands for Mon/Dad Green and waiting for Andy and Naomi to arrive. We got to spend a few hours of fun together and take some fun pictures!


Sunday went well as Matt lead the music in sacrament meeting and I got to teach sharing time. Then Matt got set apart after church and had his first presidency meeting while I worked in the primary room. Being in the presence of, and hearing the stake president give a blessing was very special. I was reminded of just how amazing Matt is and his talents are huge and innumerable. It was a very nice church day as the spirit was so strong and we both learned a lot from our day. We came home so refreshed and ready to conquer the new week and the challenges life has for us.


Matt's dad has his hip replacement this week, Wednesday. We thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers, I really feel like that is what's keeping us going!

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Matt's Calling


Matt finally got called to a calling now. He will be serving as the 2nd councilor in the Elder's Quorum. I am very excited for him to serve in this way. How fun that we both get some great leadership experience to help us progress.


We spent a week with my family for Christmas. We had a blast playing games, eating fantastic food, being with family, etc. Some of the highlights of our trip were:

Family get together at the Anderson's

Visiting with GG, Sunny, Wendy, Alfredo

Christmas Eve dinner with GG, hanks and the "live" nativity

Christmas day prayer with dad

Movie Enchanted with mom, cami, katie, and I

day at the Anderson's Matt helping with construction

Game nights at the Hanks "Bang!!!"

Ikea trip with Katie, mom/dad, Jim, Van, Hanks

Temple with Mom

Eating at El Pollo Loco

Huge white elephant gift exchange with Buttle side of family

Fun sharing presents and the joy that brings


Over all when I look at that list I'm suprised that all happened in one week. We loved it.


But the Christmas season wasn't over, we got to come home and have even more fun with the Green's! We had another Christmas where we were showered with gifts, food, movies, games and fun! Matt drove back to town very quickly, record time. We got to see Andy, Naomi, and Julianna very quickly before they left town. Matt got to play fun old Nintendo games with Alan. I got to watch fun old movies with Mom and Dad. I also got to decorate the leftover gluten free Christmas cookies, and eat tons of them of course!!


We had a quiet but fun New Years Eve as Matt went to sleep -he had to work in the morning- then I stayed up with the Green's watching tv, the ball drop, drinking sparkling apple cider, and then went to sleep. It was actually a nice way to celebrate the new year. Sometimes the parties and stuff are over-rated.