A "Regular" Week

Having just finished up the first week of June, I decided that my title for the second week should be "A Regular Week", but then I reviewed my calendar and realized that it wasn't any more "regular" than the week before and probably the week before that.  Or maybe "regular" for us is being irregular and different every day and every week.  I don't know.  But this is our life, it is a summary of our choices, and we generally like it all.  We are blessed even in the hard things by tender mercies, simple joys, and beauty everywhere.

Highlights of the week:

Monday, we drove two separate cars to Salt Lake--I went early as part of the Utah Shattering Silence Coalition to present at the Utah Behavioral Health Commission regarding their proposed 5 year plan.  Gary and Jena drove down a bit later and we met at the Hale Theater to watch Finding Neverland.  I had never seen that before and actually loved it. 

I am still wearing my USSC shirt since the bathroom
had just long lines, I decided to not switch shirts
like I had planned.

Tuesday, Gary headed to the newly opened, FIRST DAY EVER Syracuse Temple to do initiatory, The set up is a bit different so he thought it would be helpful to watch it as a patron before Saturday.  And then on Wednesday, he headed over to do sealings for the same reason--to watch the process so he could support things on Saturday.  On Thursday, Jena and I joined him for an endowment session, so of course, we have pictures--

I thought I might see more people that I knew, but I didn't.  Gary said that he saw three people just on the way to the chapel before our session.  Mostly temple workers from Ogden that he knew.

Friday, Gary headed back to the temple to cover someone's shift and he was assigned to the baptistry where he knew three of the other workers--Amy and Steve Davis and Jen Christensen.  And then Gary served his shift on Saturday where he was the helper for a live endowment, part of his new assignment. So if you were keeping track, Gary spent every day in the temple this week that the temple was open (they are closed on Sundays and Mondays) and was able to be a part of each type of service there. It wasn't his goal starting off, but it was such a great way to welcome the temple to Syracuse.  I am sure it was very meaningful to his parents, long time ordinance workers in the Ogden Temple.

While Gary was doing those great things, I took care of a dentist appointment, a doctor's appointment with Ben, eye appointments for Gary and Jena, and attended an all-day CIT training in Salt Lake which is for law enforcement and mental health workers dealing with crisis intervention related to law enforcement.  It was excellent and certainly something we are promoting as best practice for all law enforcement agencies in the state. 

I also got some pictures hung and with Gary's help also got our new photo shelves hung on the wall.

My cushion arrived and I got the main picture hung.
Still a bit more to add to this but I love it so much.

The Grandkids from oldest to youngest
Gary changed the cord because of this picture,
so I probably should take another picture, 
but here to real life, cords and all.

After having some family sibling pictures in our apartment
in Arkansas, I wanted to still display them so now they
are on the mantel on our new fireplace.

I used to have five white small shelves.
I love these and may still add one more 
for recent grandchildren photos.  I changed the order of
these family pictures so that the ones that include
the grandkids are on the bottom row.  They love seeing
themselves in photos.

And we can't leave out our parents who now
sit on the end table in our TV room.
On this Father's Day, we do count our
parents as blessings to us.

And there is our week....except for Friday the 13th---you have heard about that date, right???