What have we been up to these first two weeks in June? Well, I have been craving old fashioned buttermilk donuts (ever since national donut day) so I tried my hand at a gluten-free version on Saturday. They tasted good but I confess, it has been almost 20 years since I tasted a "real" one, so I really can't remember the taste well enough to compare.
With the summer heat, our Saturday adventures have to be indoors as much as possible. There is a Living Spaces furniture store right next to the mission office. We drive by a Potato Barn furniture store every time we go to Mesa. And, ever since I picked out the couch and love seat for the house we are living in, I have wanted to take Steve to America Furniture Warehouse. So, on Saturdays, June 2, 9, and 16th, we visited one of the three. Here is my report:
June 2nd - Living Spaces - nice selection of furniture - 90% of which we would be happy to have in our house, decent prices, low-key sales people
June 9 - Potato Barn - extremely expensive furniture - 90% of which we would NEVER have in our house. Everything was BIG - meant to be put in huge houses. It was in the shabby chic style but even shabbier that what I could stand.
June 16th - America Furniture Warehouse - HUGE selection of furniture - 90% of which we would be happy to have in our house, great prices, semi-low key sales people. I wish they had one of these in St. Louis because I would love to buy from them. Ultimately, we want a sectional living room set, a recliner for Steve, and one of those huge, over-sized chairs with ottoman for me. We also need new dining room chairs.
Last Saturday, Steve and I met my sister Juli at the Gilbert Temple where we had lunch at Smashburger, did a temple session, went to Milano Music in downtown Mesa, and then we visited our sister, Jerri.
Steve and I did baptisms at the Phoenix Temple this past Friday. We went to see Incredibles 2 last night. We LOVED it. Plus, we loved the Pixar short that was shown before the main movie.
In the mission office: I got to help serve the lunch at the Mission Leadership Council last Tuesday and got a free meal out of it. Steve has been processing a bunch of new vehicles and decommissioning the same number of old vehicles. Over the past three weeks, I got to drive a couple of brand new Corollas and a Tacoma off the lot and to the office.
During slow days, I have worked on TWO Young family reunion plans. The first one is in November for all the posterity of my grandparents - John and Belinda Young. The second one is next June and will be for all the posterity of my parents - Ike and Florin. I am soliciting fun children's activity ideas.
I played cello in church two Sundays ago with the Carlyle family. Mom played piano, two of the children sang and I played the obligato. It was a nice arrangement.
Progress with the seminary classroom remodeling is going quite slowly. In the past two weeks, it only looked like we had workers about three or four days. Not sure what the hold-up is but I DO know that the wall they knocked out has some load-bearing studs still in place and just recently, we have seen some steel poles laying on the floor ready to be installed.
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