Busy Busy Busy

James now has every Friday off for the summer, due to no seminary. HipHip Horray not that it was a hard calling for him, he loved it. So this past friday I had him dig me a new garden along the fence, we're getting the garden spot ready for a swimming pool which we should get next year. Anyway after he went to the dump with all the garbage and inbetween Greg getting shuffled between two friends going out for lunch and supper and a movie( I wish I had his life) I decided that James should start building a new play structure for the kids in the back yard. Our yard is really shallow but it is really wide, so lots of room to put everything I want out there. Well we are making tuesday with the structure still not finished we still have the cargo net and sand box left to put in. But the kids can play on the rest of it today!! Yahoo We did have some hiccups along the way saturday we took the kids up to the hospital to visit grandma and sunday was fathers day and church which took us back to monday and full days of work. So my dear brother came over and helped last night for family night. Tonight is soccer for Greg so we'll see if James can get it done after the kids go to bed. It shocks me how busy our lives get when our kids start to have lives. I wonder what will be instore for us as they get older. At church I got to teach all the youth over 14 and I loved it. We talked about the ten virgins and talents that the saviour gave. I love the discusion we had and reminders of what I need to be doing to prepare myself and family for the second coming. I have talents and need to share them, we talked about hidden talents tha twe can have of listening hearing bearing our testimonies, being kind to everyone. The list goes on and on but I was shocked that the youth didn't know that those were talents. It's intersting to me when you ask them what their talents are they have a hard time coming up with one. I found that the youth with less of a self esteem had the hard time coming up with a talent, and my youth who come from strong families and a good strong self esteem had a much easier time coming up with things to add. It helps me to see the type of family I want, the type of home I want for my kids to have so they can be who they want to be and explore their talents and develop them. I tell the youth how much I love them but I am not their family and I wish they could have strong homes..... alll of them.