Week 3

I haven't been feeling well, sorry this is a day late...

On Saturday we went to a cattle auction. It was an interesting, but fun, experience. As you walk in the front doors of the auction house you will notice a little family diner on your right and a cashier desk on your left. In the middle is a set on double doors that lead to the half stadium. There are probably 10 rows up and we sat on the 9th. As you look down you will see a small corral, the floor of which doubles as a scale for the cows. About 11 cows weighing 500ish lbs each could fit on the scale at one time. There were some screens telling us how many cows were on the scale, what the total weight was, and what the average weight was, it was rather interesting and we plan to go again once we are settled in our humble abode  :)    Husband has finally settled on doing a cattle ranch (our bishop is a rather successful cattle rancher and could give him much advice on the subject).

Speaking of which...we have been going to church in our projected ward and are very much pleased with it. But first I must tell you about the ward house...

...we got the address and after we typed it in to Mapquest we found out it was 1 hr 45 min away from our current abode...luckily that means it was only 45 min away from our soon-to-be little nest...

...we started off and after driving for what seemed like 2 hrs (oh wait! It WAS 2 hours) we were supposed to have arrived at our destination...we were in a little town and of course we were looking for a steeple of some sort when driving down the road I saw to my left 2 men in white shirts and ties...and was that a sign in the window reading "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?!?"...What a wonderful site!!! Turns out our church house happens to be a former furniture building...crazy! It is super cozy with no walls that completely reach the ceiling and 1/3 of the walls are temp walls that get rearranged between each meeting. It was definitely a new experience for me...but all the people are so warm and amazing and they quickly let me know that there is a new chuch building being constructed that we will go to. They say it will hold 3 wards and a little family history center...so I imagine it is probably as big as our stake centers back home...They also informed me that they used to meet in the high school gym, so this was definitely an improvement :)

Our bishop introduced him self with a smile and pointing to his family said, "See that family over there? The multi-colored one? Ya, They're mine." He said it with such fondness that I could not help but ask how many kids he had, to which he replied 25. Yes, 25. I grew so much admiration for this man in about a mili-second! He was not going to think I was crazy for my want of 12 children! How happy!

At church, during Sunday School, we sat on the same row of foldable chairs as another young couple that has a baby only about a month older than Baby. At one point during the lesson, Baby was standing on Husbands lap and he was (we believe) involved in quite the staring contest. It lasted about 5 minutes and was super cute :)

Gee...this has been longer than intended and yet I'm not finished...

Baby attended his first ever football game tonight. Yes...I realize we were sitting in Applebees watching the game on a flatscreen, but it is the only way to get BYU games out here. He even went in a "Y" onzie that a girl in my previous ward made for him :) I will post pics as soon as I'm feeling better...