Smelly

O.K., so last week when I was sick, I asked Mikey to put a rice bag in the microwave for me for one minute. (on our microwave this means you put it in and push start). A
little while later I started to smell something burning. As I walked into the kitchen, the microwave beeped. Since I was not feeling well, I have no idea how long it was in the microwave, but the fabric had burn spots, and we had to throw it away.
The problem:
Now whenever we use the microwave we get the same nasty burnt smell.
The Fix?
Does anyone have an idea for getting rid of this smell, buying a new microwave is way not in the budget.
Lillie

Ha Ha! I'm not gonna put a title on this one either! (oops)

thanks for all of the celebration. Let's see if anybody else can pay more attention than my wife, who loves me dearly, but doesn't always listen. My application is complete and all that is left to do is get it through the education review. After that they will send me a letter saying I can schedule my tests. There are 3 of them the EPPP (national certification test), jurisprudence (ethics and state law regarding the profession), and state oral boards. If I pass all of these tests they will then offer me the opportunity to pay for a license. Please keep praying and I will prepare well, which by the way also includes much prayer, and before long I'll be licensed. Hopefully before the end of the year.

I was sick on Friday and missed school, which included missing a test in math. I had to go in on Tuesday, ( I don't usually have to drive into mitchell on Tuesdays.), to take the missed test. My teacher had also given me a wrong score on one of my homework assignments which I talked to her about today. I just checked her online gradebook, and found that she had corrected my wrong score and posted that I got 57 out of 60 on the missed test. I am now getting 86.5% in my math class this takes me from a solid C to a solid B. the chapter we are covering now is about paychecks (I am much more secure in this) so hopefully I will keep the B for a while, Maybe even the whole semester?
Lillie

BIG WEEK

This is a big week for our family.

Most importantly for the whole family is that Toms licensure application was approved, the letter is on its way to us, and then he can schedule his test.

Then for the little boys, on monday they received their b-day present from Nana and Poppie. Geotrax from fisher-price. For those of you who dont know this is a really cool train set that entertains kids of all ages. danny (age 3) loves it, he can take it off the track and the remote still controls the cars, Mikey (age5)likes trying to build new shapes with the tracks, which are really easy to put together. Poppie( age : grandfather to a 15 year old , and many younger) likes it because he can play with it with all of his grandchildren. Geotrax does take six batteries for each train and Nana shipped the batteries separate from the train, so for the first two days the kids could only build tracks and hand drive the train around it. But the batteries came today in the mail. so now they can play with the remote.

I think I like them better with out the remote. But we all know I don't like noisy toys very much. Maybe they will just have to play in a room they can close the door in.

Lillie

Birthdays

Last night I made cupcakes for the boys to take to preschool. I was going to send some on Monday with Mikey and then some on Friday with Danny, but I was tired sunday night and decided that while I would not always be able to double up. (next year mikey will be in kindergarten). I would while I could, so I sent cupcakes to school today. Jim frosted them this morning. The teachers said thank you.

Tonight Carie and I made suckers. for her to take to school for her birthday. When I looked in my recipe box, I had five different recipe cards for the same finished product, mostly just different sized batches. I thought I had more than one set of sucker molds, apparently I thought wrong. I have one set of 10 gingerbread men. For Caries class of 24, we had to make 3 batches. We made them, pink, purple and blue.

Have I mentioned lately how great it is to live in a town where I can take/send homemade treats?

When we asked mikey what he wanted for his birthday, he said dot soda. ( this is
7-up.) So we gave him that and some M&M's. He loved being able to go to the fridge and take out a soda without asking. He also did a great job of sharing with anyone who asked.

Mikey has several times asked to do things that he was not big enough to do last week, but now he is five. It is a sad day that he is still not big enough. He makes a point of reminding me that now he is five.

I am looking forward to finishing this week of birthdays, we will be finishing it with a branch brunch on sunday, I think we counted seven birthdays in our branch for this month. So there will be lots of birthday cake.

Our Twig

I am excited this week.
when we moved into our branch there were two other families that regularly attended plus a couple of couples and single members. so on a good week we would have about 30 people in church. We recently had another family move into the area. They live 15 miles farther east than we do giving them about a forty mile drive into church each week. Last night for YM/YW. they drove in to our house and then we drove the rest of the way. When I called to invite the mom and younger children to stay at our house during the activity, Shelly was very excited. They have five kids, pretty close to the same ages as some of ours. including a six year old set of twins, one is named Lily. Sunday we had 46 people in church. There was someone on each row in the chapel. I have only seen it that full for branch conference.
I guess the bottom line is that our little "twig" here in S.D. is growing another leaf, and becoming a stronger and bigger branch all the time.

Lillie

This is dedicated to the ones I love

This post is dedicated to all those that I love that are improving their lives.

This is a picture of Echo wearing a shirt that reminded me of a post on Della's blog.



At our house we are all about choosing our own destiny. By the way I think now would be a good time to congratulate Della on completing her first half-marathon. Della you are a good example to my children (wow did you ever think you would hear someone say that about Della?) That last comment is from my husband who loves you too Della.




We already posted that Jim's football team won their first game. Here is a picture of Jim in his snazzy uniform.



I also want to let you know what is new in Tom's life. He has been asked to be a guest lecturer in a physics class at Dakota Wesleyan University. He will be speaking on intelligence. The class is called from blackholes to blackberries.