Sam and I work in the Nursery at church every Sunday. We both swear this calling is the best kept secret. We get to play with babies for 2 hours, and have snack time. We both LOVE our calling. The little kids are all really smart, very active and entertaining. This Sunday started a little more challenging than usual. One little boy came to nursery wailing and screeching and the nursery leader handed him off to Sam and instructed him to do whatever he had to to make the kid pipe it. Sam had a panic stricken look on his face, as I have never seen. I took the crying baby and held him for a half hour. The kid did not relent. We found his mom and asked her to take over. Phew.
When we rejoined the rest of the group we arrived just before singing time, which I lead. I started with “follow the Prophet”. For this song we have several laminated 5x7 photos of President Monson on tongue depressors the kids waive around as we sing our song. When I began to hand the photos out one little boy yelled “I want a puppet!!” I briefly thought about how a 2.5 year old may think this picture on a stick was a variation of a puppet. I handed one to him and began the song. When we hit the chorus I looked over at the cheerful boy who was happily singing “FOLLOW THE PUPPET! FOLLOW THE PUPPET! HE KNOWS THE WAY!” I started laughing so hard I cried. It more than made up for the rough start.

Wedding Photos

I just received the disc of photos from our wedding. What?

We only got married a year and a half ago...

Here are a few of my favorites:

Where we will be on Saturday

At Stacy and Matt's watching the BYU game.

It's so much fun watching with people who get really into it.

PS. I stole this photo from Brooke's blog

Yum

I have to say, Arizona has the best of all worlds when it comes to restaurants.  They have In-n-Out, Cheesecake Factory, Jack in the Box, AND Cafe Rio!

(Me and Sam at Cafe Rio last weekend)

You may be thinking to yourself, Heather doesn't like Mexican food so what's going on here?  No, I am not diluted enough to think people pay attention to my likes and dislikes which is why I used the word MAY and not probably.  Anyway let me just say, I don't know anyone who doesn't love a chicken salad from Cafe Rio, they are delicious.  I'd only change one tiny thing, when I ask for both kinds of cheese all of the workers yell "EEEEEXTRA CHEEEEEESE!!", it's kind of  embarrassing.

Arizona Science Center

I'll let the photos tell the story:

No idea what this exhibit was

The balancing experiment

My very own Atlas

I road this bike all the way across a tight rope.  It was $5 which they tell you after you commit.  I mean seriously, $5?  For 30 seconds?

Sam experimenting sleeping on a bed of nails; he liked it.  Se how relaxed he looks.

Hardest!

My hero.

Besides the depressed Dragon the Science Center was a hit!

You'd miss him too

I am pretty sure Sam misses him as much as I do.

Restless Leg Syndrome

I have received so many dirty looks for my bouncy legs. They shake the church bench, and bleachers, and entire cars. I have always had this problem. Someone once asked if I was on drugs, saying they'd never seen anything like it. I've always said I am just anxious. Recently Sam and I had our DNA tested for various diseases.
Turns out I probably have RLS, restless leg syndrome. I mean results won't tell you you have something but they let you know what your genes are predisposed to.
Here is my RLS result:
To calculate your estimated lifetime risk, we looked at two places in your genome that are associated with restless legs syndrome. At each location, there are two markers, for a total of four possible risk markers. You have four of the four risk markers we looked for. Each risk marker increases your odds by a different amount — some a little, some a lot.

Saturday I told one of our friend about this and she said they have medication for it, but one small possible side effect a medication induced gambling addiction. Wait... What?...