Our fun-filled week began with me taking a Health final. I probably should have studied more but it just wasn’t a huge priority. We spent last weekend working in the garden and enjoying being at HOME in between General Conference sessions. I really enjoyed conference, especially from home on our laptop! We love an excuse to do church without getting dressed. But I sure miss the tradition of getting together at Linda Osborne’s for sausage, cinnamon rolls and other great food. It was so nice to feel a confirmation that President Monson is our new prophet.

I have spent most of the week glued to the computer. I have been putting together the details for Chad’s work trip and then our extended stay to Innsbruck, Austria and Germany. The last thing I wanted to do when we got back from our last trip was to leave home again, but I am very excited for the great things we will be seeing this upcoming week. Since we will only be in town for our church callings the next two Sundays and then we will be gone for FIVE I have been working on lesson plans. In one day (a very very long day) I got 7 good lesson plans completed. Wow. Not to mention I had to do translations in English and German for substitutes as well as write out a complete script. I need to start keeping a record of the lessons I do so I can refer to them later for ideas. It is great to know that is done.

Chad and I went to some American friends’ on Friday for a Potluck/Grill/The Office watching party. It was a lot of fun, and food is so much better when other people cook it. One of our friends, Janel, brought Sarah’s peanut-butter cookies. She asked if that was okay with us. We had no complaints we got to eat them and not do the work–plus US peanut-butter is a precious item around here. 🙂

We went out to the temple yesterday and as a special treat to ourselves we even went to lunch at a Mexican restaurant. Yum! Mexican’s still my favorite, even when it’s made from European ingredients. Elisa is nice to humor me. At the temple I was getting some new clothes from the distribution center. The lady helping us asked if I wanted the Maternity garments. I was so pleasantly embarrassed. Elisa turned red and smiley really fast.

Church went great today, my lesson went without a hitch and I will not have to lead the choir next weekend in sacrament meeting because half the people will be gone. Phew! But Elisa has been preparing for it for months, and that’s just one more reason why it is hard to be a choir director. The highlight today though, was feeling our little girl moving all over the place for the first time. It was SO cool. It just gets more and more real every day. And more and more exciting too. I am really looking forward to being a mom.

By the way, it was our anniversary. We didn’t celebrate with much, but we tried to be nice to each other. 🙂