Yes, Another Embarrasing Moment!

There are a few people in my ward that scrapbook and make cards. We decided that on Friday's we would get together and do it together. Well, this Friday was my first time going. We went to Kameka's house (which I hadn't ever been to). We made sandwiches and were going to eat them downstairs. I took my first step down the stairs (while holding my food with both hands) and fell down her stairs. I didn't just fall, I fell and kept falling. I slid down the entire stairway and just watched as my potato chips when flying through the air everywhere and my sandwich landed face down on her tile landing. I was so embarrased and in a lot of pain. I landed on my tail bone (however you spell that) and it hurt so bad. I quickly picked up my mess and was too embarrased to ask to make a new sandwich so I picked up my meat and bread and put it back together and just ate it (yes, the queen of germafobia ate off the floor!).

Embarrasing moment...(s)

I am the activity day leader for the 8-12 year old girls in my ward. Well, I have only been having about 3 of them each time so I decided to try really hard to get some of the others to come to our jewelery making activity. (The girls below are the "regulars" and this was "talent night")I arranged to pick up Bailey and finally got accurate phone numbers for Emily and Riley and got them to commit to coming. I hadn't met Emily and Riley because they don't come to church. Well, I was running late because I had to travel 40 minutes to pick up Bailey. She is a darling energetic girl and entertained me the entire trip to the church. I got to the church at about 7:10 (ten minutes late) and the regular girls were already there. We meet in the nursery room which I hate because the girls just want to play house instead of do the activity sometimes.

I frantically tried to calm the girls down and get the activity started. I asked if Emily and Riley were there. They weren't. I called their home to see if they were coming and to my dismay they said they had already been dropped off at the church. Where were they? I didn't even know what they looked like. While still on the phone with their family I ran around the church trying to find them. I saw two girls I didn't recognize in with the Young Women (who were having New Beginnings) and motioned for them to come out in the hall. Everyone in the room thought I was pointing to them so I went to whisper "are you Emily and Riley" when I stopped mid sentence and realized that there was a group of Young Women in the front singing a solo. My face went bright red and I grasped my head in shame and went back into the hall saying to myself "oh my goodness". I had just totally interrupted their special moment and ruined New Beginnings. I was mortified and to say the least embarrassed.

Well, that's not all. So we get to the nursery room with all the girls there (all 7 of them) and start our activity. I just finish telling the girls how careful they need to be with the beads because we are in the nursery and don't want to leave any behind that the kids could choke on when I knock a can of beads all over myself, the table, and the floor.

Well, believe it or not that's not all. A few minutes later one of the Young Women counselors comes in and tells me that Riley and Emily were supposed to be at New Beginnings because Riley was going to turn 12 that year. The girls didn't really know what was going on because they don't come to church so they didn't really know where they were supposed to be. They let the girls stay with me because they knew they'd have more fun and a better experience with us. Anyway, I know this doesn't make a lot of sense and is poorly written but I was just reflecting on it and am glad it's over!

$91.00

I have been looking for someone to do my hair out here. I don't trust many people to do my hair, especially coloring my hair. I've had one lady do it forever and of course she is in Utah and couldn't fit me in last time I went. She is wonderful though and only charges me like $40 for a cut and color. Well, I like some of the girls hair at work but knew the lady they went to was expensive. After 6 months without a color I decided I'd go to her anyway. Well, $91 dollars later (plus tip) I have a very cute cut, one of my favorites, and a duddy color. She didn't do hardly anything and didn't even match my old color to my new color. Grrrr

Sewing part II

So feeling confident in my abilities to sew I tried to make some pajama shorts out of my extra fabric. Well, the pattern was several sizes too big (I didn't realize this when I bought it). I was able to make it work well when I made my skirt so I figured no problem I can do it. WRONG. They are rediculous. I am going to cut them up and make a bag out of the fabric.

Look Ma

I got a sewing machine for Christmas so I attempted to make a skirt. My favorite store, Hobby Lobby, was having a sale on their Simplicity patterns. Each pattern was $0.99 so I snagged a few and pretended like I knew what I was doing. Don't look too close or you'll notice all the imperfections. I love the fabric, but think I might trim the ribbon a little and add some ribbon to the bottom. Here's to trying.

Basketball Injury

Cole has been playing basketball at the church. He took an investigator with him last week. They were about to finish playing when...they decided to play one more game. Cole wanted to leave but needed to stay to take the investigator home... so Cole played. Their team was three points away from winning. Cole went up for the re-bound when...boom he rolled his ankle. When he came home he was limping but okay. It wasn't swollen. The next morning I could hear him limpling A LOT. I got up and asked him how he was and he was swollen and worse. We took him to the Doctor and it turns out he sprained his ankle. He stayed home from work and elevated it. We got him some crutches to get around. The next day he went to work on crutches. I drove him so he wouldn't have to walk as far (mind you his building is 1/4 a mile long and he walks it multiple times a day). Amazingly enough when I went to pick him up he was walking without crutches and looked like a new man. Now he is pretty much back to normal. I am so glad it wasn't any worse than it was.

Christmas Video

We made a video of our Christmas adventures. We had a lot of fun. I got strep throat and spent Christmas eve at an urgent care facility, but once I got started on an antibiotic I got better quickly. We really enjoyed getting to see our nephews and niece. They are sooo funny. We really appreciate our parents patience in having all 10+ of us in their home. They are great hostesses. While we were there we went to a castle with neat tiles. I really enjoyed the ride there because we saw the neatest houses. We also went to Hershey to see Eden's house. It is so nice. I was really impressed with how tidy it is because she has twins. She is amazing. We went to Hershey park, but it was a little too cold for us so we didn't stay too long. We also went to NYC. I loved it. We ate in little Italy, saw the Statue of Liberty, and went to a famous cup cake shop. Basically, we had a great time and loved seeing everyone. We wish we could see everyone more often. We are blessed to have such a great family (both sides)!