A Glance At Happenings With the Goulds

A few weeks ago Alyssa's friend, Sydney from Indiana, sent her Flat Stanley....he is from a story & it was our job to do a few activities with him & send him on his way to his next destination. He met the missionaries: Went for a hike & ended up in a cactus & then he was shipped to Sydney's Grandma.

Zhara & Alyssa got to join me for Wed night activities with the young women last week. The YW were doing an activity with the younger children & they made tote bags. The girls were so excited to be with mommy & the "big" girls. It made my heart happy that someday they will be the Young Women.

Thursday my friend Connie gave the girls a hair cut

Alyssa's hair just got trimmed but Zhara got almost 5 inches taken off

Friday at school the police came & gave the kids a ride in the police car. Her is Zhara & Triple with their badges

Zhara's first, hopefully her only, ride in the police car. She said the policeman turned on the sirens & they pretended to arrest someone for speeding :)

Saturday we went to the Mesa temple to look at the amazing flowers. The girls & I had just read about bee's & we had learned that the bee's we see buzzing around the flowers are girls. Every time the girls would say "that's a girl bee"

Beautiful flowers, beautiful girls

The group of people were waiting for a bride & groom to come out. Alyssa was telling the bride how beautiful her dress was & the photographer picked her up to place her in the picture...

We met our "family" Carrie & Addie & had lunch on the temple grounds. It was nice to be in grass that I could take my shoes off & not worry about stepping in dog poop.

Monday was a sick day for both girls. Alyssa had the wonderful puking flu & Zhara....well she came home from school "sick" so they basically laid on the floor all day. Alyssa has a smile on her face even though she had just thrown up 15 min before.