notes on the week

The week began with my RS dinner plans for next week exploding. Oh the joy! The other ward who shares our building invited us to participate with them in hosting a passover meal for our March RS meeting. We thought that sounded great and each ward decided to plan for 60 people -- a total of 120. No big deal. Well, the idea was so popular that lots and lots of people wanted to come (this should be perceived as a good thing) and so with limited space in our building we jumped through a bazillion hoops and commandeered the stake center for the evening. Once we knew we could have more space we mistakenly told people that and allowed more people to sign up to come and bring a guest, if they wanted. This exploded our numbers to 225!! Who knew?!No more people allowed!! This brought on a whole new set of problems, including wondering if our stake even had enough tables to seat that many (because you can only sit on one side of a rectangular table and round tables are taboo for this event) and if that many tables would fit with the requisite amount of space between them! So, I've spent hours calling people to confirm their presence and count invited guests. I've measured gyms and tables and counted paper products. I'm delivering invitations and delegating stuff left and right. I'll be grocery shopping tomorrow and distributing food for people to cook next week. I'll be glad when the event actually takes place and concludes next week.

In sports news, Jacob began spring soccer yesterday with a cold and windy game. We hadn't planned on playing spring soccer, but since he has the uniform and the team only has 6 kids anyway (they play 4 vs. 4), we decided to play. He was very excited! Hopefully soccer games won't conflict with baseball games in the coming weeks.

Ryan received word from his basketball coach this week that he has been nominated to the all-star team! Ryan was really excited! Apparently this nomination will involve some sort of a tryout next week, a couple practices and one all-star game to be played in mid-April. I'm excited for him -- its a nice reward for giving his best effort all season despite frustrating losses.

Jared has been furiously working on merit badge requirements this week. He is sooo close to finishing up 3 required badges. He even attended the political caucus meeting with Mark on Tuesday to take notes on a public meeting in which different points of view are expressed. And boy, were there differing opinions on several issues! I think he rather enjoyed himself actually.

Toss in all the regular weekly scheduled stuff, visiting teaching, and some small out-of-the-ordinary issues, and we're having an unexpectedly busy week. There's always something though -- that's just life. Keeps us out of trouble I suppose.