Week in Review..

Last week Haley went to her high school football game with her friends, she had a good time!

Last night after the womens conference we met up with a friend and had our traditional Frozen Yogurt, it was a good night. Loved Conference, the talks were inspiring and relevant.

Abby loves to point to Grandpa Hahn in this picture and say, "Who wants to play with Grandpa?" it was a cute song that dad would sing at Tahoe, she thought it was soooo funny!

We had some car troubles this week, the starter and the battery for Ricks car went bad. We had to get it towed to the repair shop and Abby was excited to watch the car go up on the ramp. She insisted that I take a picture. 

Abby and Ashlyn have matching dresses and they were so cute at church today. Abby had to do a talk today and Rick was able to get her to sit up at the front by herself. I was impressed, but about 3 minutes later she started crying and calling for me. I walked out into the hall, hoping that would help her calm down. It didn't. Rick went up to help her with her talk and he had to hold her, but she did look out at the audience while Rick gave her talk, which was an improvement. Usually she'll hide her face in my shoulder. She has the primary program coming up, and I'm hoping that she will at least sit up with her class during it, I'm not sure that she will even do that though. High hopes!

After lots of anxious nights and praying, I've decided to take a break from school for now. I was getting a sick feeling in my stomach every time that I thought about student teaching next year and having Abby coming home from school to me not being home. As a student teacher you need to have full time hours set aside to lesson plan and work with the master teacher. It made me so sad to think that my little future kindergartner would be coming home and me not being here, especially with all of her nervous issues. Rick and I both feel like I should finish my certificate when Abby is a little bit older. I will hopefully work at her school next year as an aide or in some capacity, so that I can still help to bring in money but I want to be able to be home with my young family for a little bit longer. As if in answer to my prayers my school decided to double the observation hours that are required for each class, making it almost impossible for me to complete the requirements this year while Abby is home. So, I will finish up later when I'm ready. It just doesn't feel right to spend so much time away from her while she is so young. I'm grateful for a loving husband who understood my anxiety and supports my decisions. 

In other news, I'm training for a half marathon which I never thought that I would ever do!! Doing a 10k about killed me, so I thought that I would never desire to run any farther than 6 miles. Well, never say never:) My running friend is running a half marathon in December and really wanted me to run it with her. I'm not a race runner, I don't enjoy running in races. Yet, I love to run. So I told her that I would train with her, one saturday during the training our run will actually be longer than a half marathon 13.5 miles! So I'm going to call that my half marathon day! Hopefully I can survive this!

Week in Review...

Girls watching Trolls, which is Abby's favorite movie ever!

On Monday night we had a special ward FHE, which is the first one ever I believe. We had it at the Temple Visitors Center and the young men/young women started out the night by singing Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. It was cute! We then did a scavenger hunt around the visitors center. It was a fun night!

I even found a name tag that looked pretty cool on the Missionary Badge wall:)

On Wednesday we had a short micro burst of rain while we were heading out to drop off Haley to school. The girls were so excited!

We added on about 30 feet of fencing to our side yard so that we could have more space in our backyard. We split the cost with our neighbors and it turned out great. We have already filled it up with our bikes and now the backyard feels so much bigger!

It's been a good week, trying to piece together our family's ancestors. We had our 21 day quest conclusion night on Thursday. We had dinner as a stake Relief Society and then had a couple of speakers. President and Sister Cochran from the Mesa Temple Presidency spoke to us and they were very inspiring. President Cochran said that the answer to all of our worldly troubles can be found in the temple, he said that we will be blessed by attending. He said that if we are wary to share the gospel to the world, then come to the temple and do missionary work in the temple by saving souls already passed. He said that the temple is far too empty. He said there are 34000 temple recommend holders in the Mesa Temple district and that if every one of the recommend holders would attend just once a month then the temple would be overflowing. He said to make it our #1 priority and everything else will fall into place. He said that Satan loves to stress us out, it's his best tool. He said in order to find peace, come to the temple. He definitely inspired me to attend the temple more often. 

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Week in Review...

Monday Rick took Haley and Ashlyn out kayaking. They had a great time!

Ashlyn decided to use the kayak as a paddleboard!

Jacob had pinewood derby on Saturday and actually did pretty good! He got 5th out of 15 boys! He named his car the Freedom Fighter!

We bought some lights from Costco about 6 months ago and finally had our neighbor install them this week. They really brighten up the front of our house, which I love! Now I just need to find a matching light that will hang from the ceiling in our porch area. The light that we have in our porch right now always gets hit by the screen door. So we are going to close that up and install one from the ceiling that won't touch the screen door. If you see one, let me know:) Here's the Before:

After with our pretty lights! We also got a new address plaque and getting the old one off was quite the chore. We had to patch it up and then decided to place this flower on top. We are not professional patcher uppers! haha!

Saturday morning I took a hike up a little hill, off in the distance you can just barely see the Superstition Mountains. Usually there is a clear view, but it was a little hazy. Not sure if that's smoke from all of the fires up north, or if it was something else....

Looking towards our home...

I'm finding more clues about my Hahn ancestors. Sometimes I feel like things are coming together really well and then other times I wonder if I've messed everything up. Right now I'm thinking that Christian Hahn and Elizabeth Stoller may have died young because we keep finding their children with other families at young ages. One daughter Elizabeth was 16 and working as a servant for a family, her brother Jacob was 28 and working on a farm as a laborer, my ancestor William was living with a family named Prochoff at 10 years old. So I'm trying to piece these clues together and see what happened. I also think that Christian may have remarried because Elizabeth died young and he married another Elizabeth with the last name of Stufer which matches the last name found in an ancestor Florence Hahn's journal. So I'm trying to figure all of this stuff out so we can have them correct in family search. This is why it's so important to keep a journal!

Week in Review...

It was a big week for my baby girl! She had her first day of preschool!! I was a nervous wreck and so worried for her! She started out the day by saying that her belly hurt, which means that she's nervous. That made me worry even more! She clung to me when I was dropping her off, but her teacher grabbed her from me and they walked into the door. Her teacher texted me later that she was doing great! Prayers are answered! She fully participated and even answered "all about me" questions which was a huge thing for her! When her teacher asked her where her favorite place is, she answered, with my mom! Oh my goodness!

We sold the bunny!! Hallelujah!! It was the happiest day of the year for me! Not that I don't love bunnies, they will forever hold a special place in my heart. I just never want to own one again, they stink, they eat my garden and they dig holes all over my yard! haha! Just not my idea of a good pet:) He's going to a family that already had a few bunnies and was so excited for him to join them.  We know Thumper will be loved!

This is a painting of our family that I bought, I think it turned out cute. I wish I had had Emily paint it though, but I ordered this at the beginning of the summer before I knew she could do this kind of art!

Jacobs birthday was on Tuesday, the big 10! He took Oreo's to school for his birthday treat, because they're his favorite. He had a fun day of talking on the marco polo app with his cousins and grandma hahn and aunts, then he opened his presents. He got walkie talkies from g and g Hahn and that made his year! He takes them everywhere he goes and talks to us all of the time on them:) He also got a remote control car, a paper airplane kit and a pocket knife. He was happy!

Abby's covering up her necklace that she made at her second day of preschool, but it was so cute! She actually colored it and cut it out, we are making huge strides in preschool with this girl and she's only gone 2 days!! yay!!!

Our Stake Relief Society is doing this 21 day quest where we are focusing on Family History and Temple Work. My goal for the quest was to find my fathers ancestors past his great grandparents. We have been stuck for several years, not being able to find any ancestors. My dad and I both believed that once we found his great grandparents parents, that it would open up a huge line of ancestors in Germany. I have really struggled with this, searching and searching everyday for the past 2 weeks. I was finally able to sit down with my family history specialist in our ward today and I found them!! And my dad was right, once I found the parents I was able to pick up the line all the way back to 1705 and I'm not stuck yet, I'm sure the line will continue to go back even further. I was crying throughout Relief Society today just knowing that these ancestors have been found!! I have felt like they've been calling out to me to find them, they wanted to be found. It was interesting to me to find that my fathers great, great grandpa was named Christian Hahn and he named one of his sons Jacob. I felt strongly that I should name my son Jacob, but I never knew why. Now I'm excited to learn more about this Jacob Hahn and teach my son about his ancestor with the same name! Prayers are answered!!