The Local Genealogical Society

Took a walk over to the nearby genealogy place. On the way there, I stopped at the archery place and had a nice chat with owner and fellow stake member Megan M. She and her husband Joe are in charge of Trek this year and we've had fun getting to know them as Hubby has served as a committee member.

Then on to the society. I found some nice people and some books and stuff.

I grabbed a schedule of their upcoming events and was excited to see that a webinar was planned for this evening, but was utterly disgusted later to find this sign on the door. All that walking for NOTHING.

Dude. Not cool.

That Personality Test Thing

I took THE personality test again today, and found out I haven't changed much since last time. But I found this new-to-me graphic, which I really like - especially the one on the right that outlines the things I absolutely cannot handle. It's spookily accurate.

This one was just for fun. "Hey, look - a butterfly!"

General Conference and Play Date with Reagan

My favorite Conference message

Later, Roz's friend Reagan came over. The weather was so nice, we decided to walk to the playground. Good stuff.

CHEEEESE

Naughty Boys!

Wrestling during General Conference! I never saw the like.

What would President Eyring say???

Easy Going

Today was Spirit Day at Carter's school. Here we see him and Tyson dressed as a referee and soccer player, respectively.

Later that evening, Little Miss spent some down time in Mama's red chair.

Combined YW and YM

We had a lesson in unity and friendship today. Here are the kids lined up, playing the "friendship speed dating" game.

Note my naughty boys hiding their faces in front.
DO NOT TAUNT THE MAMA

Just Your Typical Saturday

Goofy selfies in the car while we wait to go home from a baptism

Couch Parkour

It's all fun and games til we figure out Mom is taking pictures

At the Trampoline Place

Pretty tired

With the friendies

L to R: Emma, Roz, Nicole (in back hiding), Grace, Reagan

DNA Test!

But first: Hey, is there an essential oil for not giving a fat flip if your kids go to school today?

I was given the opportunity to take an Ancestry DNA test. It's something I've always wanted to do, for curiosity's sake (a couple of goofy family rumors about being multiracial), but hadn't planned on doing anytime soon. The test arrived and I went for it. I was worried that somehow I would mess it up, but it was very simple.

What it looks like

Open it and see what's inside...

Instructions for registering the test online

Instructions for the sample 

Instructions for sending

Underneath the instructions...

The tube's package

Mailing box

The tube

Collection bag

1/4 teaspoon of saliva. I was pretty impressed,
considering that thirty minutes before the test,
there's no eating, drinking, or chewing gum.
(Or smoking but I don't smoke anyway.)

Spit + Blue Stuff: it's ready!

Safe in the collection bag

Hello in there...

Bag goes in the box...

Ready for mailing :)

WE HAVE FOUND THE HOUSE

*enormous sigh of relief*

It's not in our ward, or stake, but we found a house within our school district and it will fit all of us and the landlady is nice and says we can keep the cats and she just wants a deposit and the first month's rent. So doable. Today I met the landlady at the local Barnes and Floble and we signed the lease. It's ours. We won't be moving in till July 1, so quite a bit of time to get ready.

Hubby emailed our current landlady and she agreed to extend our time here until June 30, so we won't be homeless for the month of June. Thank goodness.

In the meantime we've been packing our little brains out. The house is looking more boxy every day.

I am very happy.

Major props to Hubby for handling the whole thing. Back when Landlady emailed us about having to move out on May 31, I was too upset to handle anything, so I handed all house-related problems over to him and he has done a wonderful job. Whew! Is he great to have around. :)

Science Fair Project

I'm a wonderful mother but when faced with something like this, I tend to think things like:
I DON'T WANNA DO YOUR LAST MINUTE SCIENCE PROJECT, YOU LITTLE INGRATE

She did pretty well considering she remembered on Friday that it was due Monday.

A Visit from St. Grannie

We had a great weekend with Grannie. She had the idea of going to see McFarland USA and we were so happy that she did! What a great movie! Mom also went with us to see a house we're thinking of renting, and she liked it too, so we're all in agreement that we should move into it.

Lots of shopping, eating out, and goofing off fun was had by all. Thanks Grannie, what a great time! Love you!

Thanks Costco Googly Eye Gangster!

So this was fun: 

We took a trip to Costco today and found several objects

affixed with stick-on googly eyes.

This coat rack was Object #5.

Whoever did this is pure genius. 

I see you

We later found out that our friend Missy S's friend went to Costco 

and put googly eyes on things as a joke. FUNNY. The safe was my favorite. 

Good Times

Miss Goose has a friend at school, Joseph, who is kind of sweet on her. It's pretty adorable. He went to a Blazer game and brought these balloons to school for her:

Later that evening, Carter and I took a selfie. Heck if I know where we were, but it looks fun.