Boy I'm bad at this

So, it seems as if I am as bad at blogging as I am at journaling. Or maybe it is that every day is so repetitive that I just don't imagine anyone else would want to have to suffer through it as well. Life continues on at the Walker household. Things are starting to settle after moving. Scott and I both got callings in church and are now the 14 and 15 year old Sunday School teachers. I am excited about this, and have been preparing my first lesson all week. It is amazing how many things I don't know about the gospel even though I have grown up in it. We were also asked to talk about the Creation on July 13th. That is a surprisingly hard topic. Not because the material is necessarily that difficult, but because everyone has heard it a million times. I am trying to think of a way to present it that will be interesting, but it might just be another Sacrament talk that people fall asleep during.

We have started our weekly field trips, and they are even more fun this year than last. Although it is harder with Ben, it is nice that Wendy lives close enough to go now. Before it was sometimes hard to blend the other kids, and Katie got left out a lot. But this year she is much more able to keep up. We went to Classic skating last Thursday and it was a lot of fun. The kids played hard and we watched. Ben was so funny. He would dance and dance. He has my natural rhythm. You will see him next on Soul Train. Sean was really good on a scooter, and he just went around in circles. Katie was Katie, and she was kind of everywhere.

Scott struggles with his job. He is not very happy in it right now because his company is being dumb. I feel bad when he is unhappy at work, and it sometimes makes home life a little harder, but he is planning to apply for other jobs, and hopefully he will find something that makes him happy. It is important to me to have him feel happy and fulfilled at work. He is much happier at home when he feels that way.

I quit the Children's Place and am happy and sad about that. I really liked the people there, but I missed being with my family. It seemed that I was working whenever something was going on, or at least it felt that way. I also felt like I should be doing something more productive. Anyways, I am hoping to find my niche, something that makes me feel a little bit more like there is still part of me instead of just Mom and Wife. I don't quite know what that means, but am hoping that I can figure it out.

I also just went to Book Club. I absolutely love it. Scott jokes that we are just like The View, and that we don't even read books, we just pretend. That might be the case sometimes (Diana was the only one who read it last time and she didn't even pick the book), but I really enjoy my friends, and feel really happy about being there. The next book we are going to read should be really good, and I am going to make a real effort to read it.

Anyways, like I said, life goes on...

Back from Disneyland

Well, we made our 6th trip to Disneyland, and it was interesting. The first day was way too hot, and we were neglectful. So of course, the next day Ben got sick. He puked in the entrance of Disneyland. Someone came to clean it up, and he asked if we needed a nurse to come check him out. We laughed and explained we travel with our own medical team (Nurse, EMT, CNA, and just in case a lifeguard). Later he pooped all over Scott's shirt and he had to go buy a new one. Then Ben didn't eat well for about three days and I was worried. I think he lost weight too, because he keeps walking out of his pants. The last two days it rained. I don't think we will be going in May ever again. It was just too crowded (lots of school kids) and the weather was really unpredictable. Katie was so proud of herself, she rode Splash Mountain, Soarin' Over California, and Matterhorn. She liked all of them and wanted to ride them again. Hopefully we will get her up to liking all the big rides, although I think she will always love "Singing Dollies" best.

Sean got to fight Darth Vader again, and then he had to use The Force to push back two stormtroopers. He loved it and it was so fun to watch. We did a character breakfast again too, and Scott and I both thought that Ben would love it, but it was when he was sick and so he was just too sad. He was also a little afraid. It was funny though...Scott asked Captain Hook to take his picture with us and he dipped me and gave me a big kiss. I was embarrassed and Scott pretended like he was mad. There were great pictures though. All in all, I had fun, although not as much as I usually do, I was just too worried the whole time. We did get to see the electrical parade, which was really cool because it had been probably 15 years since I saw it last. All in all, another wonderful time at Disneyland, "The Happiest Place on Earth."