No Title: Just Catching Up

I've been m.i.a. from blogging for the last few days which isn't like me.  Especially because one of my goals is to start printing my blog into a book each year for our journal of sorts.  But I've been busy and not busy and haven't even checked my email until Meredith texted me around 5pm to check my email because she had sent me something.  Since I'm finally in the office loft at a computer here is a brief update.

Catching up:

• Saturday morning Christine, Darla, and I flew to Utah.  Duff is up to his eyeballs in work right now so he couldn't come.  We took the first flight out, and Shaun was right there to meet us at the curb.
• Chris and I went grocery shopping.  Then she went to her friend, Lindsay's, 17th birthday party.  The group went to Provo for dinner and bowling and then back to her house to watch a movie and have a bonfire.  She had a great time, and I had a hard time staying awake to go and pick her up!
• I kept myself busy crocheting another receiving blanket.  It is a really cute surfing one for a little boy.  It has Woody's and surfboards on it.  Very 'beachy'.
• We went to all our church meetings on Sunday.  Good talks and good lessons. It is nice to connect with the ward members there.  We even know some from their California days!  Mike H. and his new wife live in the ward.  At first it was awkward because he used to be married to our friend in another ward, but now it isn't and I've been invited to their house for dinner on Thursday.  I am looking forward to getting to know his wife better.  I have talked to her in RS and she seems very nice.
• We saw a living mouse run across the carpet.  (Well duh, C, if it was dead it wouldn't be running across the carpet...) C'mon Cindy.  You are in the mountains.  As long as they are dead I'm okay; alive not okay.  It was a wet spring and the rodent population is larger than normal, and then we just had a 30' buffer of scrub oak cleared away from the cabin perimeter and so those little guys are displaced.
• Monday morning we were up and out and down to Provo for EFY check-in.  Had to stop at Target for toothpaste and a hairbrush and a 'bag' that she's had her eye on to carry her EFY things in from workshop to workshop.
• Shaun and I headed to Lowe's for a few items.  I found the tree spikes/fertilizer thingys that Jennifer told me about.  They are pretty cool!  I've never seen them in Cali.  And then I got the 4 month Round-Up for weed control.
• Today, I've been tree watering and whispering.  Trimming dead little branches, spraying weeds.  I really like the dark bark we put in.  It looks nice.
• Laundry time.
• And we caught two of those gross little mice during the night.  Unfortunately they were not all the way dead.  Shaun held the trash bag open while I used tongs to pick up the darn traps and drop them in.  I can't believe I did it, but it had to be done.  I wouldn't look at their eyes.  Someone once told me that apples work.  They were right!
• I even got some sewing in this evening after Shaun took off for classes.
• Then the wind came up and the storm blew in and the power went out twice and the thunder and lightening sent Darla straight to my lap.  The moisture smells so good.  The power went out twice.  On the main floor it's not too bad because the back-up generator turns on and runs the lights, stove, microwave, and refrigerator.  But if you are anywhere else it is as pitch black as tar.  There is no light pollution up here!  I need to buy some more flashlights.
• And I miss my hubby.  It's not the same when he's not here.