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Training for Dad

Dad left early this morning to go to a training meeting in Idaho Falls. Even though the meeting took a lot longer than expected and he almost had to stay the night, he said it was the best training he has had on recruting duty. He learned all about facebook and some other things about security & groups. He shared with Mom better ways to communicate. They have done studies and if Facebook was a country it would be the 3rd largest country. That is amazing!

Mom couldn't wait to get started on one of our new projects so she started in the kitchen. She cleaned off the counters and had them all ready for Dad, but since he didn't get home late we didn't quite start on it tonight. But the before pictures are here.
         
The day was so nice & the kids just played most of the day while Mom cleaned and did laundry. She has a new system with the laundry and is hoping it sticks. If she would just do a load every morning she will never have piles of it to do each week. The trick is staying on top of it and that is where life happens. Laundry is her least favorite thing to do.

For family home evening we talked about prayer and the kids each made a prayer train to remember the order and importance of the steps of praying. Then they painted their rocks they collected last week up in Idaho Falls. Brayden had so much fun and the kids got paint everywhere. Since we are redoing the cabinets Mom let the kids paint at the kitchen counter. That may have been a mistake, but the kids sure had a good time creating.

 
                            

Dad is working on a new project and is doing so well we had to share. We can't really explain what it is for but this is just a tiny part of the artwork. When he is all finished we will share the entire project. His airbrushing skills are becoming really good. There just may be a future in this for him.



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