Melanie is getting good at tossing her rifle around.
On Monday I got a text at work from Amy Mitchell telling me that Jake Colledge died early in the morning. He was 31 years old and had two small children. They will do an autopsy to determine the cause of death for sure. He had recently had surgery on his back and a few hours before he died was throwing up. Corey is really taking it hard. There will be a viewing tonight and a graveside service tomorrow. Jake was one of Dad's very first scouts. No one knows how long their turn on earth is....
The middle of my week was spent working getting everything ready for the head start conference on Friday. Everything came together and the conference was considered a big success.
The end of the week we found out that Brother Kirkham died. He is Karen Ekins dad who lived in the little white house on main street. We did our Christmas program there a few times. Sweet old man. Both Graigry and Tyler did the sacrament there for years.
Friday night, Tyler and Maria had their Sadie Hawkins dance and said they had a really good time. Tyler went with Skylar and Maria went with Jake. They stayed until the VERY end of the dance and got asked to help clean up but they had to decline as Maria's date lives in Eagle mountain and so they had quite a drive ahead of them. Maria wore Kara's bridesmaid dress from Kayla's wedding.
Yesterday afternoon Maria and Tyler did a double date to trafalga to rock climb and play indoor mini golf. Maria went with Alec from the swim team and Tyler's date was Emily Mitchell. Emily asked Tyler to her Sadies dance but he couldn't go because the swim team would be in St. George. This was their make up date. After he worked, Tyler went to Skylar's sixteenth birthday party. He has the social part of high school down. He had three dates this week. Thursday night their Sadies group went bowling.
I worked most the day on Saturday at doTERRA because I took Friday off work. That always makes the weekend go by very fast.
A spiritual thought from Relief Society today:
Sister Clark told a story I had forgotten about Graigry's first day of middle school. I was a little worried about sending Graig to middle school. I told her that every time I thought of him that day I said a little prayer for him. She said that really stuck with her and she now takes a worry thought about someone as a reminder to say a little prayer for them. She told about how her son just planted trees at his school for an eagle project. He has been worried about his trees because the weather has turned cold and windy. She told him to pray for his little trees whenever he thought about them. Some people may not think that God cares about trees but I know that he cares about what ever we care about.
