Updates

The "helper" In our effort to save moneys we save coupons for things to do and foods that we buy and we keep all of those and our gift cards in here. Zion kindly decided that she would unsort it for me.
Zion loves to build lately and especially likes to make towers. She also loves to color and do anything artistic. In fact she is sitting here next to me coloring right now. She is talking so much and can say pretty much anything when prompted. She loves to point to things and tell us what they are. She is starting to say little sentences like "see you later" and our favorite "love you" or "sshhhh daddys sleeping". AND she is using the potty! This was not our idea but she kept telling us when she had to go so we figured we should start taking her to the potty. The other day she made it to the potty three times! She is very proud of herself and we are proud of her too. We were not quite prepared for this whole potty training thing as we did not expect it yet and did not know what to do. But she seems to be educating us. I always forget to ask her if she needs to go potty and we have had our share of accidents. Like yesterday she woke up from her nap and I was working so I was trying to finish something before I got her despite her calling "mommy mommy" and then I hear her say "mommy pee pee" and I knew I should have gotten up at the first mommy.
On other fronts we are already in the midst of planning for this years Night of Praise that our church dance ministry puts on every year. I am very excited about how God is already pulling everything together. We plan to have it in September this year. We also have a week long dance camp coming up in July with all different guest teachers one of whom is a friend of mine from middle and high school that moved into the area which I am very excited about. The girls are going to be tired at the end of the week! The last day of the camp we are also going to get to experience a ropes course together. Above is some of my youth ladies at the churches 90th anniversary.

For the month of June we did pretty well with our financial goals even despite the fact that we traveled to Pittsburgh and Texas. We went about $70.00 over our grocery budget of $300.00 and the best part we stayed below our gas budget!

We decided to exercise together and Travis somehow got me out there running yesterday. I hate running, I always have and I am not optimistic about ever liking it but hey it can't kill me right. I greatly prefer pilates, or yoga but I guess those are not the greatest cardio work outs. Zion loved being in the jogging stroller and afterwards she did situps and push ups with us.