Lots of Things

Brother L. invited me, Marty, and Emi to come hear him speak in our old ward. I've been able to get to know Brother L. well through family history. I still meet with him monthly to work on my family tree, and I really look forward to it. He is incredible at family history and has helped me find so many missing ancestors (he's said before my tree is one of the most full he's ever seen. That's saying something!). He's also helped me understand why people actually like this sort of thing...because it's 10x more rewarding when you're not just indexing or printing family cards but actually discovering stuff! 

Anyway, he spoke about family history and gave me a couple shoutouts much to my surprise. haha. It was so good to be back in our old ward again. Marty mentioned how that was the first ward in our marriage where we really felt apart of something. The demographic was significantly older, but we learned that doesn't matter. We found friends in people much older and wiser than us. And they loved on our daughter and made us feel loved and welcomed.

Going back today was really sweet for us. Our friends swarmed us after the meeting and made us feel loved once again. Marty was in YMs in our old ward, and the boys let him know they'd missed him. 

Being remembered like that is one of the best feelings.

In the afternoon I finished up making Valentine's gift bags for Emi's teachers at My Gym and the employees of the daycare at Chuze. As a teacher, I really appreciated when my students' parents made holidays special for me, so I'm trying to be better at making holidays special for the people who help my girl.

Shoutout to Marty for making the labels on the bags. Our printer was printing everything off center, but he got the labels to look good somehow.

Sister H from the ward also came over and helped assemble gift bags for the YW in our class for Valentine's. I think they turned out really cute!

The rest of the day was spent going for a walk and then watching the Super Bowl. What a game!

Also, Emi learned how to use the chairs to climb up on our table. It was funny at first, and then it wasn't. Because it's scary when you have a toddler who doesn't understand drop offs and gravity!

Emi climbing.

Look at this cute sledding hill Marty made Emi. He's such a good Dad.