Busy Bees

We have been so busy lately, which is why I haven't updated our blog as often lately. I'll try to be better about it, though, because I really want to have a good record of our family happenings.

What's keeping me so busy? WELL.....

• I'm making ALL our Christmas gifts this year, so that's already consumed a LOT of time. I know, it seems way too early to be thinking about Christmas but making gifts takes a long time! I actually started working on them in July and it's been a lot of fun for me so far. And as much as I would LOVE to share my projects here, that's just going to have to wait, since they are for the family!
• Book club! We are reading The Secret Life of Bees, and I'm only about 65 pages in but I'm enjoying it.
• Friendship Quilt. I got together with some friends and we're making friendship quilts. All of us bought our own fabrics for a quilt, then we found 2 quilt squares that we wanted to make. Then, we gave pieces of our fabrics to each other, and we made the quilt squares we chose. It's been a lot of fun so far and I'm excited to see the final products.
• My food storage blog. This blog takes an incredible amount of time, but it's well worth it. Food storage is something I should be working on anyway, so Abbie and I figured we might as well help other people out while we were at it. It's made it much more enjoyable for us, and I really love doing the blog. We get about 250-300 hits a day, which is ok. We also have tons of new ideas all the time, which makes it exciting and interesting.
• Abby! Abby is learning her ABC's, and it's so cute to hear her sing them. I'll try to get a video posted. She also recognizes many letters (A, B, E, J, M, O, T, U, Y) and it's fun when she points them out on everything (books, signs, etc)
• Garrett and I repainted our bedroom yesterday. It's a gray/blue color and we love it - so soothing. I'll take pictures when our room is completely done, though... I have a few more projects in mind for the room.
• ASL. I signed for all of sacrament meeting yesterday, which was very intimidating but good experience for me. Still learning, though.
• I'm the Personal Progress Coordinator in our ward. Basically, I'm in charge of keeping track of the girls' personal progress, and I also plan one activity a month for all the girls, and we work on one of the values. This month we are focusing on Divine Nature, so we worked on DN experience #2 - I had a panel of mothers come in and talk about motherhood, and I also gave a short lesson and we reviewed Proverbs 30, and gave out some conference talks for them to review. In 2 weeks I'll follow up with them and see if they completed the requirements, and we'll sign them off!!

That's all I can think of for now! It's looking like a busy week ahead, but we're going to Savannah this weekend so we have something to look forward to!