One Whole Month

I have received a few comments from fellows bloggers inquiring about my lack of posts. I hadn't realized that it has almost been a MONTH since my last post. I apologize for any of you who may feel their life has been lessened because of my blogging laziness. If only this were true . . .

There are currently no pictures to post. I went to get my camera today and it was MIA. After panicking over the loss of our nice digital camera (in my ignorant eyes at least), I paused to consider the possibilities. I came up with one conclusion- Carlo. It's always the husband. In this case, it really was him. He was in a small car accident last week and was going to turn his truck in today to get fixed. Naturally, he took the camera to take pictures.

In other updates. I have been busy with volleyball, volleyball and volleyball. No joking aside- two weeks ago, my schedule was something like this:

Monday:
5:00 PM - watch cousin coach high school team
Tuesday:
3:45 PM - ref stake young women's game
4:15 PM - coach our YW team
5:30 PM - coach our other YW team
8:00 PM - play for ward team
8:45 PM - second game for ward team
Wednesday:
9:30 PM - play volleyball for fun
Thursday:
5:30 PM - practice for YW volleyball team

Last week was much less and this week is an off week. But I do love volleyball. I have really enjoyed working with the young women. They have such a refreshing, young vitality that I had forgotten I once had. They are a lot of fun and I'm so glad I get to coach them.

Coral is now teetering around the house. Carlo and I love watching the endless cycle of crawl a few feet, stand up, teeter a few steps, fall, stand up and then walk a few more steps. She is getting quite good at it. She took her first steps a few weeks ago, but her balance has taken awhile to catch up with how fast she wants to walk. She is on the go!

Daniel continues to humor and astound us each day with his intelligence. He often asks questions that take a minute for me to come up with an answer; and I believe in giving the full truth. If he asks why the sun rises and sets, I explain about the rotation of the earth. He sits and listens and then asks more questions. It is a lot of fun to have a child so interested in knowledge.

It has also been fun to see him grow in gospel knowledge. I try to teach him what I can and hope he will gain his own testimony some day. I believe he has a little of his own right now, but really can't grasp the concept of a testimony. Carlo gave our FHE lesson on President Monson tonight and then helped Daniel give the closing prayer. He told Daniel to say "Bless President Monson" and Daniel turned to him and said proudly "President Monson loves us, huh Dad!" Those are the moments that make it all worth while.