Five for Friday--Working Girl Week Edition

1. Last Friday Michelle sent me home with a birthday gift for Whitney (the hits just keep on coming for her). She gave her a bag full of various colors of nail polish (far more pleasing than the many shades of pink I have around here) and some candy.


2. Our primary president made these darling cake pops for us to hand out to all the primary teachers as a thank-you for all their help with the primary program. She gave the music people and our presidency each a little terra cotta pot with 4 of them in it. Could they be any cuter?


3. On Monday afternoon after my first day of work and just 2 minutes from the time I was about to leave for Activity Days, Jenn showed up at my door bearing gifts. And while she stood on my porch, Michelle drove up bearing gifts as well! Neither of them knew I'd be leaving at that time, so it was quite miraculous that they both showed up right then.


Jenn gave me the world's cutest lunch bag! It's insulated inside and has front and back pockets (Whitney has been trying to convince me to give it to her but that's not happening). She also brought me a loaf of my favorite white bread because I had written in my morning post that I didn't have any bread to make a sandwich for lunch. She also included a super nice note.


Michelle brought me my favorite vanilla cream pie! This is such a treat for me and seriously makes me giddy every time I open the fridge and see it tucked back on the top shelf (also when I eat it). I may or may not have been eating right out of the pie plate the other night while blogging; I just had to straighten things out so it wasn't lopsided.

It was so incredibly thoughtful of them to recognize my big first day of work like that!


4. I went with the Activity Day girls and their 2 leaders to BYU for the James Tissot: Life of Christ Exhibit, and must say that even with 3 leaders wrangling them it was challenging to manage 14 girls ages 8-10. The girls were pretty cute though and a couple of them went through the entire exhibit with their arms around each other (apparently they took the buddy system seriously), and it just killed me not to be able to take pictures in the exhibit. (The exhibit was amazing though and I'm so glad I got to see it.)

I took this picture from the parking lot.

5. Landon had a Band Bash for school this week, and other than the ridiculously warm temperature in the gym (I was surprised no one passed out) and the uncomfortable bleacher seats it was fabulous! Our schools have amazing music programs and our high school marching band is #1 in the state in is ranked nationally as well, so there is a lot of excitement surrounding this program. Landon is in the early stages of music development but aspires to move up and be part of the amazing high school band (they're not geeks here).

It has been a super busy, but overall enjoyable week around here. It doesn't feel like any week I've ever had before (because I haven't) so that's something crazy for sure.

**How was your week?
Have you made flower pops?
Do you enjoy nail polish?
Do you play an instrument?**

Comment Window Tidbit: Phew, I have almost made it through my first work week! I have woken up before my alarm for the past 3 days (what the?) and am in good form.