I'd like to introduce myself...

I can hear your applause and your crazy hollering right now... I have finally joined the world of blogging... Oh but wait! Where are the pictures? Yeah that's right no freakin pictures. I have spent hours trying to upload them and blogger doesn't think my family is cute enough to upload. After consulting the queen of blogging (Jessica Romney) she sent Ryan over to grace me with his genius blogger skills and even he couldn't figure out what the deal is. So keep reading and someday I'll get some pictures up.


Okay, so I had first heard about blogging about seven or eight months ago when my clone, Jessica, told me about her blog. I started reading hers and thought I could really get into that but do I really need one more thing to become obsessed about? So I just became a closet blog fan. First I would just read Jessica's regularly. Then I realized that I can read other peoples blogs that Jessica reads, so I started reading those. Then I found out people could leave comments and well I started reading those. I was almost converted when I read all the comments about the "Office Party" we hosted. (they totally fed my ego) Then, here's the kicker...I got released from my calling as Primary President, a calling I had for almost three years. So as part of my "post primary president therapy" I have decided to start blogging...with all my new found free time Why Not?!


So it's only been 2 weeks since I was released. I could barely get through Sunday School last week. Not just because I could hear the kids singing (so sweet, so sad) but also because it seemed so dang long! Our teacher was good, I just didn't realize how long an hour really is. Now that I'm not running around in circles, dealing with unrully children and classes with teachers who didn't show up, church seems kind of long. Thankfully I was called into Young Women's, working as the "Beehive Advisor". So third hour went by a little bit faster. Plus it didn't hurt that my awesome friend Meghann (who is the other advisor, we have 10 girls so there's two of us) made yummy peanut butter/chocolate bars and incorperated them into her lesson. It was different, not a bad different, just different. I'm really excited to get to know Ilene better, she is the 2nd Counselor in YW so I'll be working closely with her too. She is also a big time blogger. (I totally checked out her blog when I found out I was going to be working with her.)


So basically my new calling is teaching a lesson to the girls on the occasional Sunday and hanging out with them on Tuesday nights. I also get to work with some amazing women, ladies I'm actally already friends with so I've got it pretty good. But...


I will so miss the children in Primary, I was way nicer to them than I was to my own kids. I will miss my presidency, I couldn't have asked for more wonderful, talented, supportive women. Jessica, Cammy and Amy have seen me at my worst and my best, and still managed to love me and support me. I am so grateful that our friendship is eternal and that it doesn't matter where we serve now, but that our love and respect for each other was developed through our service to God and I can't be sad about that. I feel a little bit empty but alot of relief. So that's all I have to say about that.


Okay so, how did I do for my first post? I thought about going off about how Aric was gone all week and how much I hate taking out the garbage but instead I thought I'd keep it simple. So here it is...all done. I'm looking forward to your comments! Maya has her first piano recital tonight, so I will posting that soon, we'll see if Aric makes it, he's trying to catch an earlier flight...we'll see...