This week I was able have a PPI with my Bishop.  I am so amazed at what our Bishop's accomplish & all the hard work they do.  We have an awesome Bishop!!!  What a blessing to serve with him!!!


Saturday, I was able to attend my first baptism as the Primary President.  It was so neat.  The entire stake gets together to have all the baptisms for the month.  There was lovely music, nice talks, then in groups of three wards, we went to see "our" kids baptized.  The confirmations were done by individual wards.  I was prepared to do what I thought was the "standard" congratulations/welcome to activity days, etc.  Little did I know that they didn't do things like we did back in Ohio & everyone liked it.  I just thought everyone did the same thing.  I have started a new tradition.  I'm a trend setter.  Who knew?


Remember my fascination with sprinklers here in Idaho.  Well, there's more.  The past month I've seen little signs everywhere advertising "Sprinkler Blowouts" for $25.  Having no clue, I asked my Relief Society President.  She explained it while a couple of other sisters were chuckling at my question.  At the end of summer you have to pay someone to come & blow all the water out of the sprinkler system/pipes so that they don't freeze & bust the pipes.  I had no idea.


My first Sunday not conducting, I took the opportunity to check out our GIGANTIC nursery.  Wow!  I am so grateful to have wonderful nursery leaders & a saintly counselor who's "only" responsibility is to take care of the GIGANTIC nursery & my wonderful leaders.  And, I have to call two more leaders & "borrow" another room to have them in.  Whew!!!


And, my wonderful Relief Society sisters insisted that they could teach me to make pie shells.  I came just to chit chat & get more acquainted (not really wanting to make a pie crust).  Well they quickly put me to work measuring, fluffling, kneading, whatever.  It was fun, but I'm not going to make pie crusts at home. The pre-made frozen kind are perfectly fine for me!!!  (But thanks anyways, ladies!)

Just 5 Thoughts.

Halloween in Idaho totally stinks!  We so got more candy in Ohio!



Had a nice R.S. meeting learning about making pie crusts.

Love having internet on my phone!





I got lost in Boise this afternoon.


Saw the capital building.  My phone got me home.

Reading a cute book called, "Lawn Boy.

Star Factoid:

  

   Here is our fair city and it's limits.  Can you find the street we live on?

This is our library.  It is in a strip mall.

To the right of the library you will find our only other fast food chain restaurant.  It is Pizza Hut!

We found out the hard way, that they close at 10 p.m. on the weekends.  Welcome to small town life!

Book Stores

Today I got about 45 minutes of heaven.  I got to go to a book store.  Yeah!!!

It wasn't quite the one pictured above, but it was a book store nonetheless!!!  Sage and I wandered around looking at everything.  Ok, so I was looking at everything.  Sage was only happy because I said she could pick out a book.

My quest today, was to find something that I can use for work.  I need to come up with my own activities for my clients to do to accomplish their treatment goals.  I have a couple of books that I've gotten at the library, but I just had to find one that I could buy.  I think I found a winner.  It was on the clearance table & could be used in primary, young women's, relief society, and work.

Of course, while on my hunt, I found some cute activity books that I can use with my kids to keep them reverent in church.  (Or to keep me reverent in church.)  I was happy to find a Hello Kitty sticker activity book, also on clearance.

Although I am grateful for the Idaho bookstores that I have found, I am extremely saddened by the fact that my favorite of all favorite bookstores is not located here.  That would be......

I even sent the company an email requesting that they put a store in the greater Boise area.  I even volunteered to be am employee!  (I haven't heard anything from them, yet.)  I love this store because I could always find something that was both wanted and affordable.  And I could sell them the ones I didn't want/like.  Which, of course, led to more buying.

My absolute favorite was a little place in German Village (Columbus).  I have gotten lost there several times.  There are a multitude of rooms to browse.  Enough to occupy a bibliophile for hours or days.  I was able to wander it's wonderful, little rooms and climb/descend it's labyrinth of little stairways one last time before moving with my mother.  Sigh.  I guess it is better to have loved & lost, than never to have loved at all.

I think I need to open a bookstore!!!

FALLing

This weekend fall has come.  We woke up Saturday morning to overcast skies, cooler temps, and rain.  But that's ok.  Friday evening I was able to kick off the fall season by attending a craft night with my friend Amy (fellow Ohioian).  I made a cute wooden wood thingy that says to give thanks.

Saturday, Amy came with me to my ward's Souper Saturday.  There, I made a "welcome to our home" sign and learned had to use fabric & decopage to turn plain ol' wooden bracelets into works of art.  Had a delicious lunch and became better acquainted with some of my ward sisters.  (This is where I became aware of the great Sunday Trick or Treating debate.)  

Saturday night, after the grocery shopping was done, Ivan sat down to watch a movie.  I had my first hot cocoa of the season.  I found a bunch of flavored hot chocolate packets at the Winco (raspberry, carmel, hazel nut, mint, and chocolate supreme) & just had to have one.  Yum!!!  

Life In Idaho

There are two strange new things here in Idaho.  (New to me.)

Burn Days:
There are designated days at the end of summer that folks are granted permission to burn things.  I'm assuming that it has to do in part with the threat of fires that only certain days are marked for burning.  What they are burning:  all the left over stuff from the farming season. Not sure why they don't just plow it under.  So, it smells here in Idaho.  And the sky is all hazy.  I'm not liking burn days.  Neither do my eyes, nose, or throat.

Trick-or-Treating on Halloween.

I'd never actually thought about it before because in Ohio we also took the kiddies out the Thursday before.  Then all the adults could do their partying on the 31st.  Normally it wouldn't be a problem.   But here in Idaho they go begging on the actually holiday.   And this year, Halloween is on Sunday.  Keeping the Sabbath day holy is the major debate.  It even made the news.  Hmmmm.  I guess I'm glad that we have a Ward Halloween Party & tri-ward trunk-or-treat.

First Week at Work

This week I began shadowing the lady who helped me get my job.  She was explaining how things work & some background info on my first client.  She is a wealth of information and experience!  There is definitely room for creativity in working with clients!  This should be interesting!  Friday, I get to meet the parent!