January 20th

Today was a pretty low key day, thus the fact there are no pictures. We hung around the house and got some things done and snuggled on the couch together. Brian was gone and it's always an adjustment the first day of each trip, especially for Easton who is SUCH a Daddy's boy! He often thinks the heater coming on is the garage door coming up because it's Daddy or lately he has been knocking on our bedroom door and calling for Daddy because he thinks he's just in our room doing something else. It's sad and flattering for Daddy at the same time I think. We all miss him when he's gone.

The big excitement of the day was Grandma & Grandpa Leavitt coming out to babysit while I went off to Young Women's tonight. Usually it's on Tuesday nights but this week was special in the fact that we got to put on mutual for a special needs group. The group consists of kids/adults with special needs from 23 stakes in the area. They have roughly 100 that come each time with each of them having a counselor. They also have a lot of leaders that come to help put it on. They invite wards 9 times a year so it's pretty rare to be invited and we had a really great time! They are coming to put on our sacrament meeting on Sunday in return and I'm really excited for that! We did three different stations and of course the MiaMaids/Teachers got stuck with a messy one! We talked about how Nephi went and hunted to provide food for his family and his bow broke. Instead of giving them all bows and arrows, we gave them marshmellow shooters and mini marshmellows! We had a lot of fun but afterwards all the YM/YW from our ward and all us leaders were on our hands and knees cleaning them up off the gym floor! It was OH so fun! But we all came together and got it done pretty fast and it didn't ruin the evening we had with them!

The boys had a good time with Grandma & Grandpa Leavitt. The had tacos for dinner and root beer floats for dessert. They were having so much fun that they were still awake playing when I got home at 9:30pm! A BIG thanks to my parents for watching them so I could go!