Family By Divine Design:: Three for Thursdays: Dietrich's b-day

03 May 2012

Three for Thursdays: Dietrich's b-day

Three Facebook status updates from this week:

Who needs Wii Fit if you've got Wii Just Dance? Wooo! Fun stuff. Happy birthday to my crazy six year-old. Man, he's growing up fast.
Was talking to a tech support guy on the phone about my printer/computer (he was a little hard to understand). I had to leave a couple of times for my kids and explained that. He asked me if I was a housewife and I said yes. He chuckled. Why did he chuckle?
Lesson learned from tonight's dinner: spinach is only worthwhile eating when fresh. No exceptions - for me anyway. :)

Three favorite candies:

Reese's P.B. Cups
Sour Patch Watermelons! Got some in bulk from Winco recently - it's shocking how quickly they disappeared.
Lindt chocolate truffles

Three BIG plans for the future:

Go to Hawaii with my husband. My sister's husband is being stationed in Oahu very soon, so this could conceivably happen. Crossing my fingers!
Run a marathon. Probably you're sick of hearing about it. I'm sick of thinking about it. But in a week I'll begin training for it, so get used to it! :)
Travel Europe. Okay, so that's not so much a plan as it is a dream. Quite possibly unattainable, but I can still dream about it, can't I?

Three things I say to my children that I ought to mind myself:

Go to sleep. I have no problem going to sleep, but somehow I always end up going to bed later than I should/want to. Hm.
You can only have dessert on Sundays and Mondays. I feel kind of bad about this one. I heard it myself all growing up. I feel badly about it b/c I have a dessert or something dessert-like pretty much every night. Is that bad? I'm nursing is my current excuse . . . and after that it will be that I can have it as long as my portions are reasonable.
No singing at the table. I've mostly got a handle on this one - it was a rule at my parents' home, too. Occasionally I'll break the rule, though. It's funny when my kids catch me at it and tell me what I tell them. :)

Three things I would buy with Amazon gift certificates if I had any:
I have SO many things on my wish list, but I do have priorities . . .

Triathlon gear
Wii Remote Plus
Sheet music

Three pictures:
Recently celebrated Dietrich's 6th birthday. Whoa.

Isn't that banner beautiful?! My amazing sister-in-law made it. I should say one of my amazing sisters-in-law. :)

Blowing out the candles on his specifically requested rainbow cake.

Yes, rainbow cake. I made it! This is by far the most effort I've exerted to make a cake. That said, it wasn't actually crazy hard. It's pretty, though isn't it? Totally worth it - Dietrich was both impressed and pleased.

2 comments:

Emily Judd03 May, 2012 22:38
such a pretty cake! i love your 3 for Thursday posts!
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Tiffany Giraud04 May, 2012 08:24
Wow, great job on that cake! I laughed when I read your status about the tech guy chuckling. He must be related to the cable guy I talked to months ago. :)
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David's Bio

I grew up in southeastern Idaho moving at age one from the center of our town to the outskirts. This home had approximately ten acres and much of my youth was spent outdoors both playing and working with my grandparents on their farms. I enjoyed sports throughout my life and was active in wrestling and football throughout junior high and high school. My junior and senior years at high school a sweet young girl even convinced me to join the ballroom dance team. I graduated from high school and attended BYU where I earned my Bachelors degree in Biology in April 2007. Having been raised in the gospel it has always been an influence in my life.

Rachael's Bio

I lived in south central Idaho on a two-acre property in a three-story home until the fourth grade. We moved to Idaho's capitol where we lived until I was in eighth grade when we moved to south eastern Idaho. This move affected my life greatly. It helped me to gain and solidify my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ as well as helped me decide how accurately I was going to live the gospel. This is also where I met David who was to become my best friend and husband. After graduating from high school in 2001 I attended BYU for four and a half years and graduated with a B.A. in Modern Dance, shortly before giving birth to our first child. Through all of my experiences my faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ and my dedication to living His gospel with integrity has increased. My greatest desire is that I will be able to help my children live and love the gospel.

Our Love Story

Rachael and David met first in their ward after Rachael moved in at the age of fourteen. Rachael's family had just moved across town to a home more suited to their needs than the original duplex. Both of their families were active in the church and Rachael and David both served in leadership positions of their respective YM/YW groups. With that constant exposure to each other was added the fact that they went to the same high school and were in the same graduating class. They found each other to be attractive and dated each other quite a bit near the end of their senior year and the summer afterward. After his freshman year at BYU David went on a mission to Russia - Rachael wrote him about every month and a half, just as an "interested" friend. Rachael was at home working for the summer when David returned from his mission and immediately felt that she wanted to date him again, so she asked him to go see the Phantom of the Opera in Salt lake City; thereafter followed about six months of courtship before they were married in Logan, Utah. Now they're both "the luckiest."