Service auction!!! (A lot of writing...sorry!)

Today was a really busy day! This morning, we had Jocelyn's last ballet class before her recital! AHHH! I was getting VERY nervous b/c three of the girls in her class, including her, had not received their costumes and they are having class pictures done on Saturday! The studio called this afternoon and said they came in. I am so excited for their recital! Jocelyn and I have been practicing her dance pretty much every day and she does great! I don't have to remind her the steps at all anymore! Today Ms. Christy asked all the parents to come in and watch the girls do their dance for the last time. For some reason, Jocelyn has told me not to smile at her while she's in class!!!! WHAT?!?! So sad! I don't know where that came from, but when we went in to watch them, I FORGOT and smiled at her! Little Miss Sassy put her finger up and said, "stop Mom!" right in the middle of the dance! I was so embarressed! I am hoping that all the other moms were watching their own child and didn't see what my little stinker said! HA HA! After class, I nicely asked her why she did that and she said, "mommy you can smile at me"...I think she felt bad!

After ballet, we came home and I had to finish making sixty auction paddles for our enrichment meeting tonight. (For some reason, they decided to make me enrichment leader AND primary teacher! FUN!) Thankfully my Mom had stayed at my house late last night and helped me out! Thanks Mom! We had a service auction and an ice cream sundae bar for enrichment! It was so fun!! I had never been to one, so I wasn't sure what to expect. A lot of people brought things that they had made like food, quilts, a painting,spa items, etc. Other ladies wrote a service on a piece of paper like babysitting, rides to the temple, free haircuts, interior design help, birthday party planning, homemade specialty cakes and all kinds of fun stuff! I was impressed with the variety! Anyway, we had a questionare sheet that we passed out and that's how you earned points to bid. Some questions were did you read your scriptures, have family home evening, make your bed, bear your testimony, do your visiting teaching, etc. and each question was worth a certain amount of points. You would think since I helped make the questionare, I would have had made sure I did everything...nope! :) Oh well. We had one of the husbands lead the auction and he was SO FUNNY! I think that is definitely what made it so fun! He had us all cracking up the whole night! What was my service, you ask?!? Well, I decided to make something instead! Around three oclock I decided I should probably run to Micheal's and get something to make! I ended up getting a scrapbook shadow box frame and found some cute family theme things and left room for the person to add their own picture. I was a little worried how it was going to turn out since it was SO last minute, but I was happy with it. As the night went on, my frame just sat up there and sat up there....I was beginning to wonder if anyone would have points left when it came time to bid on mine! He literally left mine until the very last thing! Usually he would start the bidding at ten points. The most you could have from your sheet was 110 points. I was sooo surprised when he picked up my frame and he didn't even have time to say "do I hear ten?" when people started yelling out 60, 80 and finally 110! We had set everything out on a table at the beginning of the night so everyone could see what was up there, so I guess some people had saved all their points for my frame! Crazy! I seriously don't write this to brag, I was just shocked! It was such a fun night and I walked away with a card redeemable for BABYSITTING! WOHOOOO!



Surpringly enough, this is my HAPPY girl at 9:30 tonight when we finally got home! She went to the children's class during enrichment and loved it. One of the mom's came out and said, "are you Jocelyn's mom?" I was thinking...OH NO! :) She said, "I have to tell you how much I just love your daughter. She was cracking me up the whole time! She acts so grown up and is just hilarious with her stories!" One of the things she told me was that one of the toys was driving this lady crazy and Jocelyn heard her and said, "Yeah! That toy is just driving me insane!" HA HA. Can't imagine where she got that. Anyway, it was pretty funny.