Birthday excitement!

You know that extreme excitement when someone asks you what you want and that's exactly what you get . . .  Yay! This has happened to me twice now. When we lived at the old house and now. Howard asked me last week what I wanted for my birthday. I told him I wanted the shrubs yanked out of the front yard because I really don't like shrubs. Spiders  create webs in them, they have to be trimmed, and I like flowers.

I had just gotten the flowerbed how I wanted it when we found this house so that was kind of frustrating. When I saw that there were shrubs I told Howard they were going to have to go and he was fine with that. I came home from bowling yesterday with my Ladies' Friendship League, and also Kristina, to find NO. MORE. SHRUBS.  Yay!!! I was so excited. No I can work a little bit at a time to  get the area ready for a nice flower bed. It will be sooo great! And beautiful too.

Wow! Friday -13 March 2015

It's so hard to believe that March is about half over. Today is Friday the 13th-our family's good day- I know that is probably an odd thing. There was an activity at church and as part of that activity there was also a bake sale and a baked goods auction for the Young Women they raised enough money for girls' camp this year. That was very cool!  I had such a great time this morning baking items for the Young Women - several of them are in the early morning seminary class that I team teach. what a great bunch of girls. I had nice little visit with Kristina while I gave her a ride to and from the activity with me.

It's also been hard to believe that our weather in Tennessee has been worse (icy and snowy), than both Star Valley, WY, where Erika is currently assigned to on her mission and Salt Lake City where Kristofer is serving.

Howard and I have been doing a lot of walking these past few weeks because we are doing a walking challenge. Part of our walking is to work the dogs. Daisy (Howard's Chocolate Lab) and Jazz (my Black Lab). Jazz's training is coming along quite well. I'm thinking about possibly taking her to her first hunt test next month.