Church

Notice the dress.  This picture was not taken on a Sunday.  And really, this picture could have been taken any day for the past two weeks.  Confused?  Let me explain.  Lily loves church.  Like, when she's sick and can't go, I actually have to convince her it's not Sunday so she doesn't collapse on the floor in tears all day.  Yeah, that kind of like.

So 2 weeks ago I started letting Lily pick out her own outfits.  I'm not gonna lie.  The child has got plenty of clothes.  Each time I said, "time to get dressed," I'd stand next to her dresser and point to it, gesturing for her to pick out something.  But no.  She always goes to the closet, slides open the door, and starts tugging on a dress.  "Church today?"  "No, Lil.  It's Wednesday."  "Oh...." *now super gloomy*  But she still puts on a dress.  And when it's not Sunday, she puts on church for us.  As in she acts out Sacrament Meeting.  This is usually how it goes:

Opening Song (which Lily conducts while she holds one of those mini hymnals.  Sometimes it's a recognizable song like Popcorn Popping or Twinkle Twinkle but most of the time it's something she's made up)
Opening Prayer (which she always gives and waits until both Skyler and I are folding our arms)
2nd Opening Song
2nd Opening Prayer
3rd Opening Song
3rd Opening Prayer
Talks (All of course given by Lily.  The topic is always different.  Somehow Jesus has something to do with dolls, hair bows, and castles).

It's nice to know how much Lily loves church.  Now if only I could get my kids to be GOOD in church.  That would be nice.  Each FHE now we pretend that we're in church and we practice sitting reverently.  I'll let you know if it actually works once our whole family can actually go to church.  I hate having sick kids.

The List of Randoms

• Bless the person who invented the shopping carts with the race car in front.  I owe you my sanity.  And we will dedicate Ben's next wood project to you.  That's right.  Every Saturday I take the kids grocery shopping with me so that Ben can have his wood time (plus power tool noises freak out the kids).  And this is his biggest project yet.  As in, it has cost us a little over $100. Umm.... to me that's mucho dinero.  My guess is that we'll be revealing this project on the blog in 2ish weeks. The drywall is almost done.  Then it needs to be mudded.  And then I get to paint it. Get excited.  Or jealous.  Whatever.
• My old roomie Deanna taught me how to make some of the best cookies ever.  So simple.  Make peanut butter cookie dough, press it down into a pan (like bar cookies) and bake.  Then when they're cool melt a ton of chocolate chips and pour it over.  I am obsessing with them right now.  Try it.  Your taste buds will thank you.  
• I am loving this warm weather.  I hope it never goes away.  That is, until I start craving snow in October-ish.
• Ben and I have started to plant our garden (!!!!!!!!) in little egg cartons.  And they're sprouting.  I'm just a little excited that I actually OWN land and can plant whatever the heck I want.  Let me just say this: we will be eating GOOD (I know, horrible English) this summer.  Mmmmmmm.....