10.1.17

Can you believe it is October?!
I loved watching conference and feeling the spirit of those meetings. I'm glad we can watch them over and over and read them. I feel I never get enough out of them at first. I really enjoyed the last talk of conference by Elder Anderson.

I can never remember what I did during the week when it comes to Sunday night. Good thing I take so many pictures.
This week was nice because we all had Friday off. There was no school and it was Ray's Friday off. We took Keagan out to Yelm to go to the football game.. and to see Mikaela. It was funny, I posted a picture of going to Yelm and said something like, going to see a football game or a girl?! I loved my responses.. 1st one said, FOOTBALL, next one said, duh, the girl of course, and my last response said, oh Keagan, he is so good at multitasking. Ha!

I love that I can play peek a boo in FaceTime with Hazel! She's so fun!


And I had my first grand missionary daughter. Ha! So fun to see so many pics of Lilly! And one of my extra sons. Love them!


And a couple of Keagan's senior pics. They just came in tonight.


Have a great week!
Love ya lots!
Sis Shoop

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9.24.17

Today was a lucky day.. I got to go to two primary programs. Ours and Lacey 6th ward. I love the primary program. It's fun to hear the children speak. And I love their music. So sweet and pure. The spirit is always so strong with the primary programs. One of the blessings of my calling!
My mom and Thom have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks. We have been watching their dog. One of my preschoolers loved her!


It was fun when they got back last night to hear about some of their adventures. We also got to see their pictures. They tried to take some selfies. They make me smile!


This one is for Elder Falter


Keagan had his Eagle board of review and got his Eagle! Now he just has to wait for the big head person to sign the papers and then it will be official.


So proud of him!

I saw a post of my childhood friend having a garage sale. I haven't seen her in several years.. I just found out that she lives a few blocks away and will be moving soon. I went to her garage sale and saw her. It was fun catching up with her a little bit. My friend Becki and I. We were friends from first grade in Rochester, Wa


Aurora came over to get ready for homecoming. Hard to believe that she is going to dances again.


And I love getting messages, snaps, whatever from my RMs
Hahaha


And yes, Keagan still likes to cuddle with me. Love it!


Love ya,
Sister shoop

And I can't wait until next week for General Conference. And for cinnamon rolls. Sent from my iPhone

9.10.17

This week was a good week! Melissa and chaz surprised us and came a day early. They were missing Hazel. 

We had a fun day and went to the beach on Tuesday. It was perfect for a few reasons.. it was record breaking hot in Lacey and cooler at the beach. And I just love the beach! I've been blessed this year with being able to go so much! 

And we got stuck in the sand! Luckily a couple people helped us and we got out pretty fast!

It's been so fun having them around!

And of course, it was Keagan's first day of school! Last year! I'm going to be sad at the end of the year! He plans on going on a mission next year. Write him, then, please. 

Playing downstairs in our playroom. 

They left Friday afternoon. It's always so sad for me when they leave. I always have a hard time. Thank goodness I get to see them often for how far away they live!

Friday night we got to go over to our good friends, the Falter's house for dinner. The sisters were there and it was fun visiting with them and hearing their sweet testimonies. 

Next week I "get" to give a talk. Anyone has any great insights for me? My topic is https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2017/04/becoming-a-disciple-of-our-lord-jesus-christ?lang=eng

I start my preschool Tuesday. 8 kids. Wish me luck!

Love you all,

Sister Shoop 

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8.27.17

You know you have really good friends when they agree to bring your grand baby home with them on the airplane from Utah with them. Thank goodness kids under 2 are free.
This is one of the pictures I got of Hazel being on the plane with the Falter's. Thank goodness she's such a good baby! So we got her @1:30 Saturday and have her until her parents come and visit us next week after Labor Day. We're so lucky and blessed!


Church was good with Hazel.. she did pretty good through Sacrament meeting. She was being a little silly and making faces.. the people behind us said they could mostly ignore her until she started head banging to "Master the tempest is raging". Oh my goodness! The next two hours we had hall duty!


Keagan's meme. Hahaha


And last Monday (I know, I'm going backwards) we got to go out to Rainier to Keagan's "friend's " house for dinner for her birthday. It was really fun visiting with her parents and family. They have a great family!

Always remember to stay strong and keep your covenants. When you do the "little" things that we are taught.. read your scriptures, pray, go to church, it is a lot easier to do that. I know that is true.

Love you all! Have a good week, I'm looking forward to mine! Love ya!
Sis Shoop
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8.20.17

A day late..
We had a visit from Logan Woodbury this week. That was so fun to see him and visit. We haven't seen him in a few years before he left on his mission. I want to say 5 years. Jesse Williamson came over to visit, too.


Funny thing about this picture.. I posted it on Facebook without tagging anyone in the picture. I see Josh commenting on it saying something like yah, I had fun, huh Jesse. Facebook had tagged it for me and tagged Jesse as Josh. Poor boys.. no one can get them correct.


We took Logan to downtown oly to the replica of he tardis. I remember how he loved that show. He was even wearing a matching shirt.

This weekend we got to go give a missionary in Oly 2 his birthday package. His aunt is my good friend Angela Redding. It was fun to plan with one of our other missionaries to get it to him.


Only in Olympia... Cannabis Culture corner. Not just a store which are everywhere around here, but a culture corner! Wow!

It was the beach stake dance so we took Keagan and his "friend " to the dance. It was beautiful and sunny, but cold. We barely left the van. But it was worth it! Seeing the ocean, hearing it and smelling it. I love it!


Keagan and Makayla at the sharkie store in Ocean Shores.


And we get Hazel next Saturday! Brooklyn is being nice and bringing her to us. Melissa and chaz will come the next week.

Have a good week! Love ya!
Sis Shoop


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8.13.17

Ahh. It's cooler outside! It feels so nice. I'm a true Nw person!

Keagan and I went to a small family reunion Saturday in Shelton. It was my moms side and her cousins. I heard some great stories about my grandma and my uncle. I was blessed to grow up with so many fun great aunts and uncles. My grandma was one of ten and born in Olympia. There are tons of cousins everywhere around here. There was a cousin joking that when he went to high school, he was like umm who's your parents.. don't want to accidentally date a relative. Hahaha
It did start out a little slow.. Keagan's Snapchat.


Me and my sis


We had stake conference this weekend. As always, it was a spiritual feast. Friday night our area authority talked about keeping the sabbath day holy and many aspects about it. He said it is something that the brethren are really concerned about. He told us about the training meetings he has been to and this is the only subject that gets mentioned every time. And how our church leaders never give us the spirit of he law, but never will make lists for us. We need to use the spirit and decide for ourselves how we want to keep it holy. On a light note he added and said that doesn't mean that you can say, oh I feel good and I think I can feel the spirit and go water skiing or fishing or some other random thing that we know not to be a sabbath day observance.

After stake conference today, we got to have the Deschutes River and our missionaries over for lunch. That meant we got to have Elder Bouchard (sp?) who had been in our ward come over. It was nice to meet my own missionaries. I felt bad these are the first set I haven't known in a few years! But, luckily now it's all good!


And of course a cute picture with Hazel in it! This pic makes me smile!! We get Hazel time again at the end of the month! Sooo exciting!


Have a great week!
Love ya!
Sister Shoop

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