Have you ever had one of those weeks?

It all started last Saturday. Nicole was planning her 16th birthday party. I had a fun and memorable 16th and wanted the same for my daughter. Well Nicole's will be one she will never forget but not because it was so fun. Saturday morning we got a call that the night before Lindsay Sandstrom a 16 year old girl from our ward had been killed in a car accident and her Older sister was still in the hospital but expected to recover. Nicole and I immediately knew that we could not celebrate her birthday with this sad news in our ward so we changed the party plans invited all the young women over and started a scrapbook for the Sandstrom family. At 830 that night the High school had a memorial service so we took all our girls over to it. It was amazing and beautiful. I was surprised that they could put it together less than 24 hours after her death. I was able to see the family and Hug Connor Lindsay's brother that is one of my scouts.

Sunday the bishop presented Nicole as the newest member of the Laurel class and told the ward that Nicole was putting together a scrapbook for the family. All the Young women wore pink Lindsay's favorite color. Church was full of tears and they had a combined YM/YW third hour that ended with a huge hugging line.

Monday all the Young Women wore their Incredi Girl sweatshirts for Lindsey. It was the theme for camp this year. They told the girls the were incredible and needed to find the power within. This has become a symbol of Lindsay. The girls are all singing at the funeral and thought that they wanted to wear their sweatshirts. Courtney and I didn't think this was appropriate so we made pins for all the girls with the symbol. We made 65 pins with shrinky dink plastic. It was fun but by the end we were ready to finish.

Wednesday we were told to cancel all church activities but for some reason we decided to still have scouts we couldn't have it in the church so we decided the weather was so nice we had it at the pavilion. I was the first leader there and only 3 boys (17boys 3 leaders in all). Dallen before it started decided to jump some tables and missed and hit his mouth on a table and started bleeding very heavy. Another mother showed up and I left her in charge of the boys and took Dallen to instacare. he chipped 2 teeth has one permanent loose and scraped all the gums off the front top and has a gash in the inside of his lip. He was in shock and had blood all over. He can not bite anything for over a week and doesn't want to move his mouth. It didn't stop him from going to school today but his smile is gone because it hurts.

Wednesday night was Lindsay viewing. it started at 7pm so we showed up at 7:15. It was beautiful videos playing the hall lined up with scrapbooks to sign and pictures. I have never been in a line so long. It took over 2 hours to get the the family. The line went in the front doors across the overflow back through the gym and up the hall to the reliefsociety room.

The funeral is right now. I dropped the girls of early and the parking lot was full, cars were parked down the street. This was 45 minutes early. I decided not to go. I was going to be with my girls but they are singing and sitting on the stand so i would be taking the seat of someone who knew Lindsay. I am going to pick them up after and take them to lunch.

Six weeks already

It has been six weeks sense Marissa broke her leg. She has had a long hard time. She is a funny child and has made the best of the broken leg. I think her teacher will be glad when this is all over she has been very kind. I also think Marissa is at her most daring at school and her teacher has been very nervous that she would get hurt again at school. She updates me on Marissa's condition. The teacher is always asking Marissa should you be doing that? Like putting wood chips down her cast, walking without crutches, playing tag. She said yesterday they didn't have time for recess so she had the children run to a tree and back instead. The teacher told Marissa she didn't have to but Marissa did it on her crutches and beat several kids.

Yesterday we went to the doctors office and got Marissa's 3rd and most colorful cast off. The Dr. office know her by name and all the staff are very kind. Even if the nurses are not working with our Dr. they come in and say hi. Yesterday the plan was to get the cast off. The problem was we took off the last cast only 2 weeks ago because it was to tight and it was a struggle to get it off and Marissa was no a very good patient. I think it scared the Dr. This time he sent in a medical assistant to take it off. Her name was Jenni and Marissa likes her she has been at all the appointments taking X-rays and helping out. Marissa was so scarred from the last cast being taken off that she started crying right way. When Marissa gets scared she gets bossier. She was telling everyone what to do what to cut how to cut when to crack the cast. It took four of us to hold her down and she was still kicking and screaming. She then started to tell Poor Jenni that She was a terrible cutter and that Dr. Slack was much better at cracking the cast. About this time Dr. Slack got tired of all the screaming(or he worked up the nerve to face this 5 year old) Marissa was happy to see him for a second until he started cutting. The nice think about Dr. Slack is he just moved as fast as he could and got it off. The yelling and bossing around ended as the cast came off.

They took another Xray and poor Jenni had to do it. She looked like she was about to cry so I tried to make her feel better by telling her the mean things Marissa said about Dr. Slack after she left while he was cutting off the cast. The staff still loves her you can tell by the treats each one gives her when we visit. I think they want me to take her somewhere else if she breaks a bone again.

Beautiful Garden

David loves to work in the garden. It is fall and soon all his hard work from this summer will be covered in snow. Last weekend he went out and took some pictures of his Garden. He has beautiful flowers and vegtablels.

I love the purples and reds together. I didn't think I would because outside the garden I do not like those two colors together.



It took longet than normal to get our tomatoes but they are ripe now and good.



I was not sure if we would get corn. We have been eating it every other night for the past week.

Fabric covered travel babywipe containers

I have been asked to teach a class at Super Saturday. I made the mistake of standing next to our R.S. President as she picked up something at a boutique and I said " I could figure out how to make that" Guess what? Now she wants me to live up to my word. I thought might make a tutorial to help me teach the steps at the class. I have seen these on websites selling for as much as $32. Even if you go out and buy the wipe container and fabric you can still make it for about $5.

We are making covered travel baby wipe containers.
Materials needed.
travel baby wipe container
12x12 piece of fabric
1/2 yard of 3/4 to 1 inch ribbon
1 1/4 yard of 1/4 inch trim
scrap of batting for top.
hot glue gun and glue
1.Basically... fabric & trim is just hot glued onto the diaper wipe case. Cut your fabric larger than the case about 12x 12 inches
2. trace the lid and cut a piece of fiberfill to size. Place on top of wipe container and place fabric right side up on top of container.

3. starting in center top front hot glue a small strip. Fold the fabric under and glue to wipe case. I like to run the glue above the ridge on the case. Continue gluing the fabric on each side until you get to the corner.

4. flip the case over pull the fabric tight and repeat gluing the bottom of the case. We do not use batting on the bottom.

5. Now you repeat and do it to each of the sides.
6.When you get to the corners, you fold the fabric like you would as if you were wrapping a present. Trim away extra fabric & make sure that your case can still close properly.

7. Cut the ribbon for across the top and make bow. Glue to top of the case.
8.Now apply your ric-rac or any ribbons trim you like. Start & end at the back so that your case has a nice clean look I like to open the case to get a better angle . * The trim also covers any wobbly glued fabric . There...you're done.

I am sitting here waiting for Dallen to do his homework and I found this fun activity. I am actually thinking of legally changing my name to one of these which one do you think I should change it to?

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car),Daisy Expedition
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie),Mint chip milano
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name),J-Shum
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal),Pink turtle
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born),Burt Livermore
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first),Shu-Ji
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink),The Red hot chocolate
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers),Dillard Burton
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy),Happy Chocolate
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ),Jean Dillard
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter),Forbes Frankfort
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower).Spring Daisy
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”)Mango Jeanie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree),toast Flowering cherry
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”),The Scrapbooking lightning Tour
Fun, huh?
Cheers,
Jill