My dishwasher is fixed!!!!!

I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am! Having my dishwasher fixed is releaving so much stress. It is one less thing that I have to worry about right now. This weekend we are painting the basement. Yes, that means that we are finally done mudding also! #2 stressful thing crossed off the list. School has gone great this week (see my other blog for more info) and all seems to be well.
Travis and I are going to go on a date tonight. Well actually we are going to look at carpet, but we will be without children so it is defiantly a date. Maybe we will even stop and get some ice cream or something!

A little overwhelmed

Ok, I just need to take a little breather. Things are a little crazy around here lately. Of course school has started this week. That has made things a little stressful. We have had fun and everything is going well, but it has taken a little getting use to for all of us (see my homeschooling blog to read more). Travis got a new calling in the YM presidency this week so between my Primary Secretary calling and now his we are busy with meetings and things that need to be done. I am of course going to school, which hasn't taken time away from home really, just time to study and do my "homework". It really hasn't been bad, just one more thing. Travis is going to go back to school in the spring and is trying to get things ready to do that. Of course there is the never ending basement project. I swear we are never going to get done mudding! The worst however has got to be that my dishwasher, my brand new dishwasher is broken, and has been for over a week now. The button that locks the electrical panel is stuck on and so I cannot start the dishwasher. All the lights just blink at me when I try. We called the repair center to have them come fix it and they finally came out on Tuesday after we had talked to several people on the phone. They came in, said "oh, it is the lock button that is broken" acted all surprised even though we had told them that a MILLION times. Then said that they couldn't test it if the lock button was broken so they would have to order parts and come back to fix it. They will not be back until the 28th!!!! So, on top of having tons on my plate already, I will not have a dishwasher for over another week. It really will be all ok! I just need to get it off my chest for a minute. I bought a whole bunch of paper products last night so that I will have less to worry about as far as dishes go. I am sure that school and the new calling will feel less stressful as as we settle into them and they are not so new any more. I just need to take a deep breath and relax.

Random Sampler

Well, since I have not been great at blogging the last few weeks I thought that I would

do an update of sorts. Here are a few random pictures from the last little while.

Of all the places to fall asleep! It is funny though how common of an occurrence this!

Simon and his friend decided to roll around in a mud puddle. I have a picture of them being sprayed off that I was going to post, but it is giving me a headache trying to get it posted.

This is the beginning of my knubon! All zonologists have big calluses on their knuckles. I am starting to get one after only zoning three people (myself included). I am very proud of it! I'm not sure if you can really see it from these pictures, but I thought I would try anyway.

Ed week part two

I just wanted to write about my favorite class at Ed week. It was taught by Merrilee Boyack. You may have heard of her, or read one of her books. She is fabulous! I went to several of her classes and loved every one! This one imparticular that I wanted to write about was about goals. She says that you need to set goals until you are 100 years old. She says that too many people set goals and then when they achieve them, (or give up on them) then they never set more. Now I have never been a goal setter. That is not true, I set them, but I never do them. I try and make them achievable, but it never seems to happen. But something about what she said made so much more sense to me that anything else about goals ever has. She made it seem really doable!
Anyway, she told us to dream really big! Then to write down all of our dreams. She told us to set marriage dreams, family dreams, faith dreams, financial dreams, home dreams (not just where you want to live or how you want your home to look, but how you want your home to feel), fitness and appearance dreams, friendship dreams, personal dreams, professional dreams, fun dreams, and an outrageous dream. She gave us assignments like writing our eulogy and a personal essay to help us figure out our dreams. This actually helped a ton! These are our life long goals that we want to accomplish.
Then she told us to set yearly goals that support our life long dreams. This made so much sense to me! I could hardly believe that I had never thought of doing it before. She also challenged us to do what she calls a perfect year. It is one goal that you set for yourself that you do perfectly for one year. If you miss a day, then you start your year over until you have done it for a year straight. I have been so excited about this. I have set my goals and so far I have done great!

Zonology

So last night I took my first classes to get certified to be a Zoneologist! It was so much fun. I learned so much and it is just the beginning. I have classes tonight and Friday and all day Saturday. By the end of Saturday I will know how to do the zone completely so that I can start to practice on people. My training won't be complete until the first of the year however.
For those of you that don't know what zoning is, which I assume is most of you, I will give you a definition now that I know better how to explain it.
Basically there is a map, or signal system on the bottom of your feet that is connected to every cell and organ in your body. Zoning helps to correct, balance and renew the bodies cell system through this map. We can also asses the bodies current state of health through this signal system. It is so exciting. I have seen the difference that it has made for several people in my family and I am so excited to be able to help others to feel better and have a more balanced body! I am going to need people to practice on, so if you are willing to be my guinea pig let me know! By the way, it feels great!

Ed Week

Last Wednesday I headed up to Idaho to go to BYUI's education week. It was so fun! The classes were from Thursday to Saturday. I learned so much! I just thought I would share some of what I learned. I think it will be in a few installments because I learned so much.
The first class in the morning was about Armageddon and the Second Coming. It was fascinating to me. I had no idea what Armageddon really was. I learned that Christ will come twice before his actual millennial reign. Once at Adam-ondi-amen and once after Armageddon. It was so interesting.
I also took a class called Uniting and organizing your family team. It was awesome. The most important thing that I learned was that in order for family members to want to always come home they need three things, a friend, a responsibility and to be nurtured by the word of God.
We have tried to teach our children to have responsibilities. We have given them chores and they just don't seem to work. Now our kids still have chores, but they are not really structured. I am not a structured person and I really cannot expect my kids to be if I am not. So they still help around the house, but not by a chore chart per say. I want them to feel like they are in charge of something however and have a responsibility for something in our family so what she taught me was so great. She said that our families should have committees like in the wards of the church and each person should be the chairman of that committee. She gave us a whole bunch of examples of the committees that they have in their family.
So, each of the boys have their own committee that they are now in charge of. Jonah is over the family activities committee. He is in charge of planning and organizing our family activities. He got this assignment on Monday night and we have already had two family activities. Yes, that is one a day. Monday night we watched a movie together and had ice cream. Tuesday night we went for a bike ride and got snow cones at the little shack by our house. He is very excited about his job and we can tell that already he is feeling a sense of being needed more then ever before.
Simon is over the Family Sunshine Committee. That means that it is his job to make everyone happy if they are sad. He has such a talent for making people happy by just laughing or smiling at them. He is perfect for the job. We also thought that he would be great for the job because he is three and he is actually the one that needs the most cheering up these days. We hope that it will help him to just be happier himself more often. He is also doing great and is very proud. If we remind him that he is supposed to make people happy he tries so hard to do so and usually succeeds (unless it is Luke, who is cutting molars and no amount of anything will make him happy these days). Luke is too young to be in charge of anything obviously. Travis and I are in charge of a few other Committees as well like the Family Service Committee, and the Family Preparedness Committee as well as a few others. We will report on our assignments at our family council meeting each week to make sure that everything is going well. We are excited to make this change in our family and see how it goes.
This is all I will post about ed week for now, but stay posted for more exciting stuff. I haven't even gotten to my favorite speaker yet!