Seven Years!

Tomorrow is our seven year anniversary!  We our finishing off a wonderful weekend.  Yesterday we drove up to the Birmingham Temple and had a lovely time there.  It's 2.5 hours away (.5 hr closer than Columbus!) so it took most of the day, but we were so glad we went.  We were trying to decide what to do for our anniversary and finally decided a trip to the temple would be just the right thing.  We switched off watching the kids and they were really good.  Jeremy took them to the park (right around the corner) while I went to the 9am session and then I took them to the nursery in the church and to get lunch and gas while he went to the 11am session.  It was great!  We stopped at the Costco in Montgomery on the way home, had leftovers for dinner, and then watched a James Bond movie after the kids went to bed (I love getting movies from the library!)

Today was another great day.  I got sustained as a Sunday School teacher.  Yep, teaching Gospel Doctrine is the dreaded calling for me.  I just feel inadequate and I've actually never taught a church class EVER.  Most of my callings are choir director, organist, music chairman, you know, those ones.  So this will be exciting.  But they already have a teacher called, so I'm more of the back-up/assistant.  I guess she's really flaky and doesn't come sometimes without a word of notice, so I have been charged with trying to communicate with her and in the meantime preparing a lesson every week in case I have to teach.  It may sound kind of terrible, but I'm actually looking forward to it.  I needed a kick in the pants for my person scripture study, so this will be just the right thing!

Then for dinner tonight we had the missionaries over!  We love having the missionaries.  There are five of them and they are great.  I think we're going to sign up to have them at least every other week if not every week.  Since it's a small branch, I don't think they're getting fed by members often enough, so I think that will be nice.  And it's nice for us to have them in our home.  Jeremy's been working with them this week a lot and will be for the whole summer, so it will be nice to have them around.

In other news, Jeremy is really enjoying his job.  This last week was a really good week and he seems to be on fire about that and his calling, so that's always fun to see. :)  The boys and I continue to be hermits, but we're trying to find more things to do.  We did try out the "rec center" that has 2 pools and that was a huge hit with the boys so we'll be going there a lot more often.  It has also been raining almost nonstop since yesterday and it is sooo humid.  Thank goodness for air conditioning!  It's amazing how different it feels inside my air conditioned house at 76 degrees and outside at the same temperature with 90% humidity.  My hair is poofing and curling in ways I never imagined, and it's all been very exciting to say the least. :)

So that's the latest here from Troy!  The camera is not looking too good, but we'll keep working on it...so in the meantime here are some older pictures that somehow never made it onto the blog.