It is about that time for a photo dump blog post!
Here are some of the things that have been happening lately:
My friend Jenny & I had way too much fun throwing our lovely Lindsey Turnbough a surprise baby shower one night for YW's. She's never been legit-ly surprised before so we felt prettty good about it!
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| One of the highlights was a contest to see who could chug apple juice from a bottle the fastest. |
I love, love serving the youth but one of the major pluses is getting to know these fine ladies and growing together as a presidency as we serve. They are too much fun.
Shaun and I drove to Captiva the other week for a sunset while scarfing our faces with Orange Crunch cake from The Bubble Room. If you haven't been, GO! If you have been, GO AGAIN! So delicious and just perfect to share.
Now back to my hilariously fun calling. I am 2 parts first counselor--1 part personal progress leader. So that means I get the pleasure of getting mad at my favorite little girls when they don't do their personal progress, and get humiliated when they do! Last October I challenged the girls to do a certain number of personal progress and if they made their goal, they got to throw a pie in my face, the YW president's face, and our lovely bishopric's face {my bishopric ROCK!} So many girls were so close! But three girls succeeded my expectations and got to throughly enjoy throwing those pies.
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| YOU SEE THAT WHIP CREAM IN THE HAIR?! The hair was not the agreement. Revenge was taken later... |
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| Performed a lip-sync at the ward talent show. Nailed it. |
One of mine and Shaun's favorite things is being friends with our friends' kids. Sometimes we pick them up just to hang out with them instead of their parents. Which results in getting invited to their cute little birthday parties.
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| I think I have taken a picture exactly like this with each one of my friend's littles. I always say "Quick, raise your hands up in the air!" and I usually get either of these 3 responses: 1) Why? 2) We're not on a ride 3) Weeeeee! (Caro I think their's was #3 if I remember right haha) |
SJ has FINALLY found an improv group that is clean enough/not super goofy punny. It was so good to see him up on stage again. Believe it or not, it's where he is the most comfortable (which I will never understand). He even teaches a youth class at the theatre they perform at which has been fun for him. I made him teach the youth of our ward a few weeks back and it was HILARIOUS. I wish I would have taken video.
Speaking of SJ, he is one of my biggest cheerleaders in my life! It seems like ever since our initial move to Georgia, I haven't been super on top of my game when it comes to self confidence. Mostly in my abilities to take big projects on whether it be performing musically, starting a small photog biz etc. I have seen it most recently with photography. Most people are lucky and can practice all day everyday on their cute kids. But me? I get a cute husband to practice on. If the roles were reversed I would be tired of it by week 2...heck maybe even day 2! But not Shaun! This was when I asked him to lay down on a pillow by some natural light in preparation for a newborn shoot. Only SJ would lay down, wave his arms around and whimper like a baby ;)
And to close, one last SJ thing. Last year we became super close with one of the sister missionaries that was serving in our ward. She has since completed her mission and is back to real life (yay!). While being in our home so often, she got to see a lot of Shaun's comedian side including his different characters that he would do. Her favorite, and I think everybody's favorite, is LaShaundra. She's based off a crazy lady that he met years ago at a run down hotel in Las Vegas. Well, it was that sister missionaries birthday the other day so LaShaundra came and celebrated with us...
