The Beal/Cannon Family: Chess Club

After a long two years without getting our carpets cleaned we finally broke down and cleaned the carpets in our whole house. Our carpets were rock bottom! Having basically white carpet is truly not practical for anyone but especially not anyone with little kids. The people we bought the house from (incredibly clean, retired couple) wore house slippers. I am way too lazy to change my shoes every time I go in and out and to have a special pair of shoes just to wear in the house. I can't see trying to make my kids wear indoor shoes either. Well it showed! Our carpets look much better now.

The primary program was today. Corbin stood right up and said his part great. The Bishop even said to me, "Corbin was a rock star!" That's right. I think it's because of the huge improvement over last year when he cried and I had to say his part for him. Huge improvement indeed! He was slightly naughty and irreverent up front. I wanted to go up there and sit with him. I blame the leaders though. They assigned him to sit right next to his very rowdy friend. Duh! There was a quiet girl on the end. Put her in the middle people! Oh well. I kept giving him dirty looks and he would cool it. Ha.

Summerwind Elementary School has a chess club. I encouraged Corbin to join and he did. Luckily his friend from his class is in it too. I just like the idea of him learning how to play a really slow, strategic game. I think this will be a nice change of pace from video games. I can't believe I signed him up for chess club. Nerd! Ha. I married a nerd, they are pretty cool. It is every Friday after school for an hour until the end of December. I hope it's a good experience for him. It was cute to watch him. Love him!

I am the compassionate service leader in my ward (not my favorite calling). Well we now have sister missionaries assigned to our ward full time. This means they need dinner every night. The ward mission leader felt like it was too much for him to do so they assigned it to me. Thanks! So now I have to find a meal for the sister missionaries everyday from now until forever. Ha. The worst part is it's supposed to be a missionary fellow shipping time so I have to call inactives I've never met. The ward mission leader wants me to call them and ask them to feed the missionaries every month. For real! I called all of them today and got a hold of one. I think I made phone calls for an hour and arranged 3 meals. Get excited! I may have to play the baby card here pretty soon. Ha!

On Tuesday I took Corbin and Gabby to Monster's University. I really like that movie. I also like that there is a movie theater in Boise that sells movie tickets for $1 on Tuesdays. Anyway on the way there Corbin was talking to Gabby about her thumb sucking and how it was annoying and this and that. He said, "Gabby when you grow up you better not suck your thumb or people will make fun of you." Gabby: "Oh, I'll go somewhere else." So funny and so clever. She is very clever I must say. Although I was hoping Corbin would be able to talk her out of her little habit. She is has also been saying "Are you kidding me?" lately and it is super funny when she says that. Scott wasn't feeling well and he was sleeping in our room during dinner. The kids were asking about daddy and when he was going to be home. I told them he was home. Gabby said "Daddy's home? Are you kidding me?" You have to hear the tone and expression to truly appreciate it but it was funny. The other day Piper came running down the hall with her arms stretched and said to me, "mom, I can't find it anywhere." That was probably the best sentence I've heard from her yet. Good job Pipes. Kids are super cute and tons of work. The end.