Aside from Carter’s birthday on Friday, we still had a great week! We were busy, but busy with all good things, and we had some days of beautiful weather which made it great!

One afternoon, we were all out in the yard and we met a butterfly. It wasn’t just any butterfly, though; it was a monarch butterfly. It seemed to be sick and/or dying. 🙁  It wouldn’t fly away when we came near it, but rather hovered just enough to move slightly out of the way. We watched it for a long time and then went back to playing. But as we were playing we realized we might step on it or run it over so we decided to try and help it scootch out of the way. Instead of fluttering and moving out of the way, however, it decided to land on my shoe, then the skin on my foot, then climb up my leg, then land on my finger, then climb up my wrist! It was way cool! I had to push it off my hand and into the garden! I feel so famous!

After all the butterfly excitement subsided, we just went to playing on the swings and stuff. Everybody had so much fun just being together outside! It was quite joyous!

Something very exciting happened this week!!!! We got this ottoman:

Isn’t it great?! So much potential! Josh and I worked together on it and turned it into more than just potential!

AHHH!!! Isn’t it GORGEOUS?!!!!! I have been wanting an ottoman like this for so long, and now my dreams have become a reality!

Anyway…

Yesterday we took a trip down to Monticello to visit my grandma! It was really nice to see her and hear lots of stories about her life that I hadn’t before. I am ashamed to say we didn’t get a picture of her; but she got a picture of us at her house, and I will share it with you.

And on top of all that, we had a super fantastic Sacrament Meeting today! I don’t mind weeks like this at all!