Weekend Sick "O"'s

Hi there. well, since dadi is watching the 49er game and moma is taking her nap, it gives me some time to tell you what we did this weekend. Friday night dadi went to a concert with some of the men from church. It was a famous guitar player named Eric Johnson. Well, this was also the night of our monthly "girls night out" with the women from our ward. So i scrambled to find a sitter at the last minute. It worked out great because our newest sitter and her sister (moma calls them bocka and kaykay)were watching a friends kids and so moma was just added to the bunch. she had a great time with every one and my friends little 3 year old just loves her to death! they must have hugged each other a zillion times during the couple of hours they were there together. We went to a Chinese restaurant and there were 8 of us total. we had a nice dinner chit chatting and talking about our husbands. Afterwards, my friend and I went to golden spoon and got some ice cream. it was yummy. 3 of the girls in our ward work there but none of them were working that night so i was a little bummed we didn't get to see them i was hoping for some extra toppings or something. maybe next time!
Saturday morning super early (6:00 a.m.) moma woke up crying from a bad dream. I can always tell when she's had a bad dream because of the sound of her cry. it happens about once a month. So i got up really quickly and went and got her. because it was already getting light outside, i knew it would be impossible to lay her back down even though she usually sleeps until 7:30. so we went downstairs and let dadi sleep. he got home late from the concert so i know he was pooped. Once everyone was up and around, we went to the block. it was still rainy outside, but not too bad. it just sprinkled on us a bit. the block is an out door mall in Orange. we just walked around and went in to hilo hatties to check out all of the Hawaiian stuff to get us in the mood for our trip next month. CAN'T WAIT!! Then, i went to the grocery store and picked up some stuff for dinner since we were having the missionaries over in the evening. i made lasagna, salad, garlic bread and cookies. i wasn't in the mood to make anything so it was so easy to just take the lasagna out of the box and stick it in the oven. though i did make the cookies. the sisters came over and we had a nice dinner. they were cute and fun and it's so much different than feeding the boys. the girls are just full of chit chat where some times it's harder to get the boys to talk as much.
This morning, we all weren't feeling too good. dadi has been sick for almost a week now with a cold he just can't shake and i feel tired and achy like I'm coming down with something myself. i did go to church for the last hour so that i could teach my lesson. it went well. It was on the sacred power of procreation so the bishop came in and gave a talk for about half of the lesson and i finished the lesson myself. we had quiet a lot of girls there today and some visitors too. i talked about how when i was little my mom used to let me and my sister eat our birthday cake for dinner. i always looked forward to that and it was special to be able to eat cake for dinner and not have to eat a regular meal. i explained that if my mom had let us eat cake every day or every month or whatever, it wouldn't have been very special to us and would have just become normal. then, i talked about sex and kissing and making out and said how so many people just do these things all the time and don't wait for marriage and so it takes away from the specialness of it. then i drew a cake on the chalk board and i drew lines in it to represent pieces of the cake. i said that if we were to give a piece of our cake to every boy we meet, when we get married, we'd be left with an old stale piece of cake to give our husband. i said that it wouldn't be very nice to give our husband, the one person we love the most, the same thing we gave to all those other boys that didn't even matter to us. so i told them that it was important to save them the whole cake and that they give you the whole cake as well. anyway, i talked about some other stuff, but the funny part was that we were celebrating some birthdays after class and we were eating cake. so all the girls were like.." don't eat my cake" and laughing about it. it was cute.
i think the lesson went well and i had a few teary eyes during the more important parts of the lesson. in fact, i'm the one that started the whole water works episode. oh well. it was a fun lesson for me to teach. i think it was easy because i am such a blunt person so i just told them like it is and didn't really hold back or get embarrassed about the "good" stuff. oh, i also gave them each a bag filled with hershey's kisses and i wrote a poem to go along with it. here it is......
I hope you've enjoyed this little lesson
And that you'll avoid a make out session
Forgo the hormones and think with your head
and give him one of THESE kisses instead.

it was funny and the girls laughed.
on the way out, one of the girls was aked by her little cousins if they could have some chocolate and she said "no, these are for me to give to boys when they want a kiss"

So that's it. today we're just hanging out being lazy.