cousins, organization, and a dog on a boat

 Which is awesome because I adore her and she’s so fun to talk to…

…and is also a super organized hard worker always happy for a chance to earn a little money on the side.  So I roped her into helping me organize this jumble of family home evening lessons I’ve wanted to organize for years while Grace was at school:

You see, when Max and Elle were babies and we lived in Virginia, one of my friends put together a “Family Home Evening group” where we each made duplicate copies of enough family home evening lessons for everyone in the group.  We’d work so hard on those suckers and then get together and hand out those little envelopes of hard-worked-on lessons, all laminated and compiled with love (most of the time at least…some of the time it was exasperation if it was a lesson that took forever to finish).

Yep, I used to do stuff like that when I had toddlers hanging on my legs…right along with scrapbooking.  Oh those were the days 🙂

Anyway, we got to to work:

We arranged them all into hanging file folders and had a lot to weed out as well:

Isn’t that beautiful!

On her last day we took just the two of them…and also Bo Jangles the dog (on her maiden voyage), to the lake.

These two I think could win the prize for the most enthusiastic boat girls every year at the lake…they are great at water sports…and also brave, so although the water was FREEZING, they hopped on in and skied/surfed all around that lake that chilly day.

I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Loved getting to soak up that girl for a few days!