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It is nearly midnight and I should really be in bed, but I'm not. We just got back from my friend Kendra's house. She is the bestest friend anyone could ask for. Not only did she feed us dinner, but she helped me to make table decorations for our enrichment night tomorrow night. I was sort of in a bind because the person I thought was overseeing the table decorations asked me yesterday what we were doing because hardly anyone had signed up to bring table decorations. Weeks ago I had suggested that we make some cute table decorations that I found on-line.

Minus the cows since our theme has more to do with sheep.

No one liked my idea, I think they didn't want to bother with having to make decorations. Fine. Rather they wanted to ask around to see if anyone had sheep decorations that we could borrow. She was supposed to follow through with this. I didn't know until yesterday that only 3 people had signed up. Panic! Can you imagine bare tables at a Relief Society enrichment night? So I turned to Kendra with my sob story and of course she came through. We spent 3 hours this evening making these (minus the red hangers).

Click on the sheep for directions

They turned out pretty cute. We even got our husbands in on the action, probably because it was 10:00 and they wanted to go to bed. With a little Spanish moss and raffia, I am hoping they look better than bare tables. With a little luck and a lot of blessings from above, everything will turnout nicely tomorrow night. I've threatened Scott with possible mental breakdown with definite psych ward possibilities if he doesn't consider getting me released from this position, or at least get me more people on my board. Who said you couldn't take advantage of a husband in the bishopric, though I am still wondering how I got this calling in the first place.

Our quickie trip to Bismarck went well. We left Friday afternoon just before 2:00. Apparently the storm of the century hit Rapid City about 3 hours later. We missed all the action, complete with tornado sirens blaring, heavy rainfall with flooding, and baseball size hail. Looks like Scott will be pretty busy for quite a while. I guess all our prayers for more work have really been answered! Fortunately nobody was killed.

I didn't realize that winter comes early in North Dakota. I am not sure what the temperature was when we got there Friday night, but it was mighty cold. Our t-shirts and shorts didn't cut it. I was half expecting snow on the ground when we woke up the next day. Didn't happen. I need to remember that North Dakota is always colder than we are, even in the summer. We will be heading up there again in October. I better pack snow boots. ;)

My package from overstock.com arrived today. I listened to ABBA all afternoon and can't wait to start reading New Moon. As soon as this enrichment night is behind me I can lose myself in a good book once again. Or maybe I should clean my house and catch up on the laundry first.

The rest of the week is shaping up to be a busy one. Wednesday I am helping my friend Jin, who is 9 months pregnant, clean her house that she just moved out of. I promised my kids a trip to Reptile Gardens this week for sure, probably Thursday. On Saturday I am having a baby shower at my house for Jin so I need to spend Friday cleaning and getting ready for that. There is just no rest for the wicked I guess.