From the Mouths of Babes

This is not an actual picture of me. I have not changed my appearance this drastically, nor do my kids sit that attentively and listen to my lessons.

I get the privilege of teaching the 5 year old Sunday School class at church, which is awesome. I love when people ask me how I'm liking my calling, they have this face and voice that expects me to say something terrible or mention how hard it is. Yet I love it. These kids are hilarious. Plus, where else am I going to be able to color or play Button, Button, Who's Got the Button.

Of course, I get tons of hilarious comments from my kids each week. On our drive home from church, Danny and I talk about the funny things both of our Sunday School classes said that day. Some of which include the following:

"That's not the whole story." - which was yelled at the lovely teacher of the combined portion of Sunday School. He had apparently read the same story in the Friend and knew that there was more than the teacher was letting on.

"Look we are both wearing our high heels." The girl was wearing maybe 1/4" wedges. Then later as we are walking to our class "Tate slow down! I can't run in my heels."

On a particular day where the kids were being so attentive and providing me with all the correct answers (note the dripping sarcasm), "I love all the people in the world, including Satan." I just ignored this statement because technically we should love Satan too.

I believe this next quote was in response to the previous comment. I was reaffirming that we needed to make good decisions and follow Jesus' example, "Tate said he follows both Satan and Jesus." I did clear this up because I know for a fact we shouldn't be following Satan.

One of the kids was stealing my chair and says "I know everything." To which the other boy who is quite intelligent said, "What is 10 minus 18?" I'm not sure exactly what was said next but I think the first boy gave an incorrect answer and stated he didn't know what minus means, and the smarty pants boy said, "It's 8." To which I replied, "Actually it's negative 8. 18 minus 10 would be just normal 8." That's right I corrected a 5 year old. It made me feel so smart.

I know there are several other awesome gems of wisdom said by my class, but I'll wait to share those another day.

Wildflowers

I'm a slacker and I know it, but who really reads my blog anyway.

Here are some pictures from our most recent fishing trip and a trip to the countryside to see the beautiful wildflowers. Luckily we had a lot more rain this winter so the wildflowers are much more abundant than last year.

I know, I know, I should be a model. I'll have to look into it to give us some extra income.

Yosemite

Over the break we took a little trip to Yosemite. It was whirlwind and jam-packed but definitely a good trip. Although they usually have snow at this time of year, California lacked snow in all of it's mountains (boo for snowboarding), so we got to hike more than most winter visitors and take a lovely bike ride around the valley floor.

Petition

You know you want to sign it, mostly because you love me and this is important to me and my chosen profession.

http://wh.gov/DWX

Lost Wallet

About two weeks ago I lost my wallet. After going to Walmart, I came home and couldn't find it anywhere. I checked my car twice, went through the house a couple of times. Then Danny came home and did his own search. All I could figure is I left it in the shopping cart at Walmart, so I called and stopped by a couple of times to see if some kind soul had turned it in, but to no avail.

Luckily whoever had found my wallet decided not to use any of my credit or debit cards which only made me more confused. Who keeps a wallet but doesn't use the credit/debit cards, it's not like I'm Lindsay Lohan and carry around $10,000 cash.

Well I gave it over a week and decided it was time to start trying to replace all the cards and such in my wallet, which included my social security card (yes I know you aren't suppose to carry it in your wallet).

Last night I went to look for a bag of mine in my car and not even looking very hard what did I find underneath the passenger seat...the missing wallet. I checked there twice and Danny checked there as well. I felt like such an idiot, a grateful idiot, but an idiot nonetheless. No wonder no one was using the debit/credit cards.

Why I needed to lose my wallet for 2 weeks, I don't know. Maybe it was to prepare me for the future and get me to not carry my social security card with me anymore. Whatever the reason I'm glad I found it. I didn't want to by a new wallet or ask for one for Christmas.

Sequins

If only I had $218.00 to spend on a skirt...