So this week was pretty fun. First off I love watching Emma and Leslie, its basically the highlight of my days. So this week started off great with an email from Elder Ryan Lehikainen :) His emails are the absolute best way to start off my weeks! He is doing great and loving his new area. Not gonna lie I always feel extra special when he emails me directly, even if it is brief, it means a lot that he takes the time to tell me he loves me in particular.
Monday I got to watch Emma and Leslie so it was a great day! That night we were able to go over to some friends in the ward and have dinner and get to know them better. They were so sweet to us and we really enjoyed getting to know them better! They have a four year old and a sixteen month old. We had some great enchiladas and tasty salad made by Caitlyn herself!
Tuesday we had the opportunity to go to and hear Jackie sing at her end of the year performance for her voice class. She was AMAZING! I had no idea she could sing like that! Tyler and I were very happy to go and support her, we miss going to our families performances so this was a fun activity! We went out to eat with them afterwards and it was fun, but probably the worst service we have ever had at Chili's. They switched servers on us and well the new server forgot to get us our food...so forty five minutes later we ate our food.
So we had a great week and I had to start working on my first research paper for my psych 302 class, which was BORING. Actually I still need to finish it and well I am procrastinating as we speak updating my blog....So I was able to help out Tyler with mutual this week which was super fun. The young men were in charge and planned Frisbee golf at the park across the street from us. The kids had a TON of fun learning a new sport. And no surprise, my team kicked some serious booty!
Thursday I was able to take Emma and Leslie to the splash park and we had a BLAST!!! It was so hot though, Leslie was done in two hours and we ended up going over to my house to watch Despicable me and eat ice cream as well as some hot dogs and mac and cheese. It was a great day! As a bonus their dad offered us free tickets to a local baseball game, the sugarland skeeters. It was so nice of them and Tyler was very excited as Tracy McGrady was pitching. We were floored to find that our free tickets were luxury boxes with a free dinner as well as ice cream buffet! Needless to say we were pleasantly surprised :) And they won so it was great!
Friday we went to see the new X-man movie at the coveted Palladium (a really big and nice movie theater in Katy) with Jackie and her mom Teresa. It was such a great movie and a really cool theater. It had a bowling alley inside as well as huge seats and floor to ceiling screens. It was really good! We went home and had to stay up till one for the meteor shower which we realized we wouldn't be able to see unless we drove out of the city. So to the car we went and out driving towards the trees we found the stars. Tyler swears he saw a shooting star but I just marveled at the beauty of stars and was a happy camper!
Saturday we had a ward Memorial day breakfast at 7:30 AM.....Yeah crazy! But we went even though we had barely three hours of sleep to go on. It was a pretty good breakfast and we liked mingling some families we haven't had the chance to talk to yet. We were too exhausted to stay for the car wash afterwards but we took home Talan in order for his mom to be in charge of the car wash. We went to Costco and had some fun running about town.
Sunday we had a great time with our class and enjoyed teaching even the twelve and thirteen year olds as well. They are much more interactive than our regular class and it was fun to get to know some of them better. We were able to attend a break the fast potluck at the Wilson's after church and it was so much FUN! We got to know some great couples and we loved watching the kids play. The Wilson's are so inviting of new couples in the ward and really make you feel at home. We have come to really love them and will miss them when we move.
Memorial day came and so did the rain and tornado warnings. Needless to say we were not very happy. Actually I had a little freak out...I have never had to live in an area where there was a tornado warning before and I found out I don't like it one bit. We went and saw Blended and it was a great funny feel good movie. We walked around the mall but then had to head home with the tornado warning. We watched Band of Brothers and snuggled on the couch will listening to the howling wind and booming thunder rattling our windows. We were happy to be safe and at home together.
Well that was our week, sorry its so detailed but we had a very busy week! We love our adventures here in Houston...just not the extreme weather ones that can kill us. Well heres to another fun week! We will keep ya posted :)
Love,
Emily and Tyler
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