Saturday:
My best friends right now...

http://www.canadadry.com/  (Thank you Carol!)

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/nature-plus-prenatal-multi-30-fl-oz/nt-7185#.Uv-8UU2YbIU

http://www.orbitgum.com/

I woke up to a beautiful flower bouquet on Valentine's Day and Mike woke up to a decorated car inside and out.  The kids enjoyed giving and receiving their Valentine's cards.

I coached another volleyball game today... Gingerale being the only reason I was able to be there.  The girls are really coming along, but I've realized a team is only as good as the weakest player on the team.  The girls are progressing and won the last of the 3 games today.  We've been playing some tough teams that have been together for several years.  I'm hoping we'll have a good chance against the next two teams since they are newer teams like us.

Cameron also had his first tennis match today.  Cameron played way better than last year, but because he's his school's #1 player, he's playing against all of the other schools' #1 players who are all awesome.  So, he played great, but still lost every match today.  I hope they'll ease up his playing rotation a little so he has a chance to win once in a while.

I have Stake Conference this weekend and the rodeo on Monday, so I've stocked up on my Gingerale.  Hopefully I can sit behind the organ at Stake Conference and hide the fact that I have to drink it every few minutes.

Other than that, the kids have been busy with school.  Cameron had to memorize the entire poem, "The Raven" for school... ugh... 18 stanzas!  Errolyn did an Ecosytem powerpoint project and Logan did a 100th day of school project and built a giant card tower out of Uno cards and glued them together.  Emma turned 4 and had a good family party.  She got a new bike (Errolyn's old bike) and is enjoying riding it.  I also filed our taxes.  We're still getting a lot back but are having some deductions not count as we get paid more... such is life.
 
I also never wrote about my pregnancy scare.  I started hemorrhaging really badly and thought I was miscarrying.  I ended up not, but I have a huge subchrionic hemorrhage pocket near my uterus and I'm not aloud to lift, push, or pull, anything heavy.  I'm a lot better, but still spotting on a daily basis.

My kids have been super helpful and Emma is full of smiles and fun sayings to cheer me up every day.  I'm grateful for my supportive family.  :)

Tuesday:
Ok, I wrote this a few days ago and it didn't publish... glad it saved my draft.  The only other update is the Rodeo and Stake Conference.  Stake Choir went well, but I had a difficult time conducting on Saturday... I should have delegated but I thought it was early enough I could handle it.  Hindsight is 20/20.  The youth choir sang "Plant a Seed," a piece Janet, Mom, and I used to sing around the piano... fond memories.  The Stake Choir did great on their two pieces as well, especially "The Spirit of God."

The Rodeo with Carol, David's family, and Kathy was great, but we were rushed at the Carnival and Stockshow and didn't get to see as much.  It was also crowded.  The kids didn't really enjoy the Rascal Flatts concert although I loved it... as much as I was able to.  Emma enjoyed seeing the "pony races" and she didn't like the "big angry cows," the bulls, lol.  Carter was dancing to all of the songs and was way cute to watch.  It was a late night, one we probably won't repeat with the kids for a while.

One story the Stake President told I especially enjoyed.  He told how his son had watched an epic battle take place on the side of the house between and scorpion and a house spider.  Every time the scorpion would lunge at the spider, the spider would run between it's legs and then over it's back.  This happened many times, until his son could see that the spider wasn't just running between the legs, but had carefully been leaving a thin silky line everywhere it ran.  After numerous times, the web had become so strong that the scorpion couldn't lunge anymore and the spider bit it's neck and killed it.  He read the scripture in 2 Nephi 26:22 where the devil "he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever."  He looked up flax and it is soft.  He compared it to the spider, how the devil is so cunning and subtle that sometimes we don't even see the trap he is laying for us at first.  If the cord was thick and rough and sharp, of course we'd see the trap and get out.  But, because he slowly works at us with soft cords, sometimes we don't see the danger until we're already trapped and we are stuck.  And then he of course talked about what we could do to ensure we weren't being trapped by the devil.  It was a great analogy I thought.