I made a deal with Andrew that if I picked up the house, he had to put picture frames up on the wall. He took the deal and I have picture frames up by stairs and he has a clean house.
We dropped Abby off at Terra's house. And Andrew and I headed towards Mesa. Our ward had a cannery assignment Friday and I used it as an opportunity to turn the cannery into a little date. We picked up gamma seals for our 5-gallon buckets. Don't know what those are? -- they beautiful! They're a seal that goes on your 5-gallon bucket, and instead of prying it off the bucket for 15 minutes, it just screws on and off for easy accessibility and still keeps out the moisture with a great tight seal. Now we'll be able to keep all the rye, corn starch and wheat in these buckets and I'll be able to use it more!! oh the joy.
After that we booked it over to the cannery where we helped to bottle spaghetti sauce. I'm not going to lie, I was disappointed when I found out it was spaghetti sauce. You each get to take home a sample of what you helped bottle and I can't eat the church's spaghetti sauce. :( It has dehydrated mushrooms in it, and I'm allergic to mushrooms. But it was still fun to go there and serve with Andrew. We took the hot (120 degree) bottles full of spaghetti off the conveyor belt and onto a rack that pulled the bottles through a cold water bath, which sealed, cooled of and rinsed off the bottles. Then put the bottles off the rack onto another conveyor belt which took the bottles through a dryer and into a little machine that put the labels on the bottles. It's the kind of mindless busy work that I don't mind doing, I could probably do it every day. And it leaves me to my thoughts as talking isn't easy to do with all the loud machines around. It's amusing to see how all the machines work and see how they make things that we buy in stores. It's also kind of a self-gratification knowing that the food we're helping bottle is going to food banks, bishop store houses (which then go to members whom the bishop thinks are in need of food) and bought for food storage.
That finished early so we were then able to go pick up and pay for the window tint that Brent, Andrew's brother, ordered for us. We're hoping that the window tint is 1, accepted by our HOA and 2, will help keep the house cooler in the summers when it's so hot and our AC is blasting. Hopefully it'll help our AC out. I can't wait to put it up and see if we can feel the difference.
Last month we put insulation in our garage door. I couldn't believe the difference it made in Abby's room which is above the garage. The garage is much cooler, still hot, but cooler and Abby's room doesn't take in so much of the heat now from being above the garage. AND it made the garage door quiet! She used to wake up any time the garage door was opening or shutting. NOT ANY MORE, you can't hear it any where in the house. Now she no longer wakes up at 2am when Andrew comes home from work thanks to the insulation. I can't believe that garage insulation isn't a given thing down here in this heat!-- it should be. We're hoping that the tint will be just as miraculous as the garage insulation. *fingers crossed*
Then we called in and ordered some amazing pizza from Picazzo's it's a fresh organic Italian kitchen that's based in AZ that makes amazing food that tastes soooo soooo good. It's so healthy for you too, but unfortunately with that comes pricey. ... Organic olive oil and garlic, mozzarella, fresh Roma tomatoes, Kalamata olives, artichoke hearts and French feta topped with fresh basil: it makes my mouth water. And their hummus is soo good, it screams garlic but mmm-hmmmmm.. delic.
We couldn't stay, we just picked up the pizza and left because I had doubled booked myself. Thank goodness the cannery didn't take very long. I had to go with the missionaries that night to an investigators house and Andrew picked up Abby.
I got home, searched the house for a large set of scriptures as the regular BOM is too small of font for the investigator then happily dragged Andrew, Abby and I walked back over to her house and gave her the large print BOM for her to read. On the way home, we walked over to the new neighbors behind our house and introduced ourselves.... and then asked if we could get our ball back that had bounced into their yard. :) We ran around the neighborhood chasing Abby and watching the sunset, asking Abby what colours were in the sky. Then got home tired from chasing and decided we needed to go to the store and buy some Blue Bell Ice Cream. yummmmm.
We got there, and Andrew bought my FAVOURITE flowers, Lilies. Oh they smell so good. I don't even have to walk up to them to smell them, they fill the air in the room with the smell of lilies. i love it. It reminds me of the song :
"Consider the lilies of the field,
How they grow, how they grow.
Consider the birds in the sky,
How they fly, how they fly.
He clothes the lilies of the field.
He feeds the birds in the sky.
And He will feed those who trust Him,
And guide them with His eye.
Consider the sheep of His fold,
How they follow where He leads.
Though the path may wind across the mountains,
He knows the meadows where they feed.
How they grow, how they grow.
Consider the birds in the sky,
How they fly, how they fly.
He clothes the lilies of the field.
He feeds the birds in the sky.
And He will feed those who trust Him,
And guide them with His eye.
Consider the sheep of His fold,
How they follow where He leads.
Though the path may wind across the mountains,
He knows the meadows where they feed.
He clothes the lilies of the field,
He feeds the lambs in His fold,
And He will heal those who trust Him,
And make their hearts as gold. "
He feeds the lambs in His fold,
And He will heal those who trust Him,
And make their hearts as gold. "
And of course at the store, we picked up Abby's favourite, pink sugar cookies. Then Andrew's favourite, mint chocolate chip ice cream to top it off.
Best. Day. Ever.
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