A Post Without Pictures!

I know, I know! I usually include way too many pictures, but today I just feel like getting all my thoughts out! It has been quite the weekend! Friday night I drove down and met my sister Kristina at IKEA so I could give her some hand-me-down-and-backs to give to our sister Kelly! Kelly passes me clothes and I pass them back to her for her daughter Mae! Kristina shopped for a few lamps and I got to finally buy a bookshelf for ALL of my books! Jeff was really surprised that I had enough books to fill it! I've been storing them in my nightstand, in the cupboards of our extra kitchen, and in our office closet. Well it is time they receive a proper home, all in one place! I've been wanting a bookshelf for a very long time, and we decided to use my babysitting money (from my triplets!) to purchase it! ALL of the babysitting I did in January was SO worth it! Kristina and I had a nice but quick visit, and then I went home so Jeff and I could set up our bookshelf in the basement.

Right before we started to put it together Jeff thought he heard something. He told me that he had changed some of the plumbing in the extra bathroom while I was gone. Well, when he had turned the main water supply back on the pressure must have been too much for our old pipes outside because now we have a leak somewhere between the house and the street! Jeff looked at the meter and it was leaking a gallon a minute! Not good! He ended up calling the city and they came and helped him shut it off at the street. They are going to come and replace the meter because it is set up all funky out at the street and it's OLD! Long story short...we have to dig up the beautiful lawn that we replaced just a few months ago to replace the main water supply pipe to our house! NICE! So we've had no running water since Friday night (minus the few minutes he turned it on for a quick shower on Saturday!). I felt really good knowing that my friends had come help me fill up my water jugs earlier this month! One of our ward members told me after church today that we could tap into our neighbors water just by hooking a hose up to their house and running it into our hose bib! So we are currently stealing, with permission, water from our next door neighbors! NICE!

Back to my play by play...on Saturday I was feeling a bit stressed and didn't get myself together to go to our friend Abby's baptism. Jeff had work he had to do up in Park City and I just couldn't get all of us ready without baths/showers. I really felt bad about missing it! I ended up having a visit from the Bishop and one of his counselors who released me from my calling as Secretary in the Primary. Mixed emotions there! I LOVE our Primary! I LOVE the people I have served with. I will miss being in the Primary, BUT I don't have a new calling yet, so who knows! Later, we had Jeff's mother watch our kiddos so we could go to the temple with our sister-in-law Tricia. It was so nice to be somewhere calm and peaceful with running water! :) When we dropped the kids off Chad said he wasn't feeling that good, but Grandma said he seemed a little better after he ate. Well, we stopped at Clay and Tricia's after the temple to give the kids a bath. Shortly after, sweet Chad threw up all over their carpet! NICE! He did it again on our drive home in a grocery bag! We cleaned him up as best we could without turning the water back on!

So today arrives, I go to church by myself and CRY during the ENTIRE Sacrament Meeting and most of the rest of the day! So many emotions going on in my little head! Getting released, having my friends that are all the Young Women leaders give wonderfully spiritual talks about the YW values that I actually got to listen to since I was alone, hearing our Young Women sing a beautiful song about being STRONG, thinking how three of these girls have just graduated from Primary and I miss them already, sitting behind one of my girls who I taught in Sunbeams who is now 8 and getting baptized on Saturday, hearing the Primary President who I've served with for almost 3 years bear her sweet testimony, knocking on the Primary doors for the last time, having so many good people offer help and advice, having my sweet friend Leslie try to come and steal our laundry so I wouldn't have to worry about it knowing full well that she has A LOT on her plate as the new Primary President, worrying about all of my kids getting sick, wondering what's going to happen with our water, wondering what new calling I'll have to learn how to do, and KNOWING that my Heavenly Father knows me and loves me and will help me through EVERYTHING!

Well, Chad looks and acts and feels totally better! We're stealing water from our neighbors until tomorrow (hopefully) when Jeff and his brother dig up our lawn which will grow back in the Spring! I don't have any tears left, and I don't think I needed to cry about any of this or freak out at Jeff all weekend, but I had just reached my limit I guess! I don't need any "poor Liz" comments. I don't need any help. I just needed to get this out so I can move on! Oh, and I am LOVING my bookshelf! AAAAAHHH, I feel so much better! Sorry if that completely bored you, but I sure had to get it out of my head! Let's see what tomorrow brings!!!