Multiply and Replenish the Earth......

Darrin and I were recently called to be Sunbeam teachers in our ward. Now, normally I would really like to teach a different age group that I do during the week for preschool, but we substituted for the class during the 'meet your teacher' activity.

And, I fell in love with the class.

Then we taught them the next day at church and the Sunday after that and they thought we were actually their teachers. I was really feeling sad to leave them. So we were excited to hear that we could actually BE their teachers.

Now, we have a unique situation out here in Cedar Valley. Most people are in their 20's and 30's and we have a high population of active LDS church members. Sooooo....we have a couple of extra primary kids in our ward.

Our class has 9-10 regularly attending kids. We teach the Sunbeam A class. There is also a Sunbeam B and Sunbeam C class with about the same numbers. There are three CTR 4 classes, three CTR 5 Classes, two CTR 6 classes, two CTR 7 classes, two CTR 8 classes, two CTR 9/10 classes and one CTR 11 class.

Now I don't know the numbers, but if there are about 8 kids in each class, that is 144 active children in our primary. Wow.

It was so loud and crowded in the primary room that we moved primary into the chapel. CRAZY! It worked out so much better though. No moving chairs, a louder microphone and not as noisy.

It is a large ward with it's own unique challenges, but it is also so awesome to have a ward so large with so many active members that we are bursting at the seams!!

Truly amazing.

Holidays

We had a very nice, laid-back Christmas, and a fun New Years Eve and New Years Day. Darrin went into "labor" with his kidney stones and gave us a little scare that we would be in the hospital again for Christmas. But, it was just a couple of days of pain and that is it. We still aren't sure if he ever got rid of them or if they are still waiting for another in-convenient time to appear. I guess we will see....

Anyway, we started out our Christmas with a special present for my mutter-in-law. I made Spinach Dip with crusty french bread, topped with garlic infused browned butter. (That's a really fancy way of saying..garlic toast)

I think she really liked it.


Then we had Christmas Eve dinner with My mom, Parents Bradshaw, Becky, Jeff, Cody and Tanner and our family. We had lasagna, garlic bread, and salad. Yum!

All too soon, Christmas Morning was here and the boys were chomping at the bit to get downstairs to see what Santa left them.


All Remy and Tate wanted in their stockings was "deodorant, like dad's".

Santa came through. He also got Remy an ipod (not really, he just thinks it is...it is a fm radio, and he loves it!) and a razor scooter. Tate got a pretend black and decker welder with glasses and gloves and a chainsaw. They had a really great Christmas. We were all very blessed.