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What a great day to celebrate our great dad! We showered him with his most favorite treats and all the love. We sure are grateful for all he does for our family, and for all the funny quirks that make us smile and endeared to him. He's the best!

We got to visit Grandpa Geertsen and then have a family dinner up at Cash's and spend the day with family. The best kind of day!

And of course, getting a call from Adren and getting to all chat together is one of the highlights of the week!

Of course, I am never not working on office projects. My latest is framing these cute prints that were painted by some friends in Haiti. I thought they were too cute to keep in our closet. I also added a rug from home because it seemed like it there was always water drips under the sink area. I bought a cute bamboo dish drying rack, I brought a cute basket from home to put on top of the fridge for paper towels as well as some other accessories for the table and snacks.

I also wanted to blow up some big cheerful prints from our service trips to put around our main big workspace, but framing them would break our budget. Kassidy and I chose which photos we wanted blown up and printed. I bought some trim at Home Depot and built frames myself, which turned out to be quite the project. Turns out DIY isn't for everyone. I didn't know that. But, if you don't look too close, they are good enough. Or, if you do look close, you will see a "rustic" frame, which sort of works well, considering the theme.

This is about when I started feeling a bit over my head...

Working in my 100 degree garage didn't help. Sawing, stapling and praying they would make the trip from my house to the walls of the office without falling apart, the finished project made me glad it was over and that I saved hundreds in framing!

It turned out cute! And now when people come into our office, they comment on these fun prints of the kids we serve.

As us stake leaders meet with the Stake Youth Committee, they keep bringing up Stake Trek. None of them have gone. And they want to go. We have had many meetings and discussions, the Stake President is also very on board. It seems my presidency, the Stake Young Men's Presidency and the High Council men that work with us are the only ones that need to catch up. Ha! As I was out running errands, I came across this sign and had to text it to our Leader group text saying, "Hey, look! At least we can all get counseling!" It sort of feels like a runaway train we have no control over.

I now get to drop Paisley darling off to FSY! She is rooming with Josie darling and they are going to have a great week!

I love the quiet moments in this summer house when the warm sun light hits and there is a warm feeling of this moment in time when the house looks like this and the kids are at this age and our family is here and I want to capture it because it wont be like this forever. (Especially because I am likely to change things so often.)

I found these cutie-pie prints at the Bazaar with my CRU and I thought this was the perfect spot to display them.

Elder Geertsen! We love you!

The Geertsen Fourth of July house, Summer of 2024:

A really great thing about the Fourth of July is that we get to celebrate Grandma Geertsen's Birthday! We all met together for breakfast, Grandpa cooked, and it was great to be together.