Mission 2 Accomplished!

I decided to do this one at Walmart. I've been feeling bad for putting it off so long. When Mike picked me up from work I invited him to join the adventure. We decided to go to the toy department and pretend like we were looking at toys. I really wanted to see the reaction of the kid that found the quarters. So we scoped out the toy department and decided to put them in front of the games because that's where the one kid was that was in the toy department. But he left before we planted the money. Still we thought it would be a good place to wait. We waited and waited. We looked at the puzzles and the Rubik's cube. I know Mike was having fun because the magic 8 ball told me so. Finally when the Walmart stocker lady started hovering around we decided to try a different strategy. We scoped out the toy department one more time...not a child in sight. I was kind of in a hurry because I had to be at Zumba at 7 so we decided to try the cereal aisle. Right as we were walking up there we knew we made the right decision because there was already a little kid leaving the aisle. There's always kids on the cereal aisle.... Except for when I want them to be! Finally a family of boys came down the aisle. I hurried and put the quarters by the Lucky Charms and pretended like I was reading an oatmeal label. I heard one of the boys exclaim woohoo! I felt so happy that I made this little boy so excited! It turns out he was only excited because his dad had lifted him out of the cart. They walked right by the quarters! We weren't getting any action on the cereal aisle so we moved over to the candy aisle. Seriously? We live in Utah! Where are all the kids??!! No kids on the candy aisle. So we moved over to bologna. There was a family there so Mike hurried and set the quarters right in front of the bacon. The bacon that was on the other side of where the family turned and walked away! Next we tried the easter candy aisle. No kids! I was starting to get a little panicky because I needed to get home but I really wanted to finish this. So Mike (I love him!) approached the family that had been by the bologna. He pulled the dad aside and explained to him what we were trying to do and if he would steer his daughter to find the quarters. She was about 5 or maybe 6 years old. So we planted the quarters just at her height in front of the bunny shaped marshmallows. I could barely contain myself as she came around the corner and....walked right past them. Her dad had seen them though so he walked back and pretended to be looking at candy. She followed him, walked up to the quarters and got on her tippy toes and pointed to the lollipops on the shelf above them. We were trying so hard not to laugh! And then oh my gosh, this lady came around the corner and started grabbing bags of bunny shaped marshmallows all around the quarters! The pink ones, the yellow ones. I would have been so crushed if she would have taken the quarters! Somehow she either didn't see them or didn't take them. After she left the little girl FINALLY saw the quarters. It was so cute. She saw them and then went over to her dad and said "daddy!" and pointed at them. She didn't want to take them because they weren't hers but her dad said it was ok. It was so nice to see the innocence of a child, knowing that those quarters weren't hers and asking permission of her dad. She was so cute walking away with her handful of quarters and Mike and I had a lot of fun accomplishing this mission!

Mission #2 ~ For those unknown

HIDE SPARE CHANGE WHERE A STRANGER WILL FIND IT WITHIN THE HOUR

This will be easy. I'll just go over to Walmart and put a stack of change on the cereal or candy aisle. I think I'll put it down low so a child will find it. I don't think I have enough spare change to really impress an adult! But I want to see what happens when they find it. How am I going to pull that off? I guess I can just hang around and look at cereal til someone finds it. What if their mom tells them to put it back? What if they put it in their mouth and choke? What do you think I should do for this mission? Taking suggestions!

I made bread...

So I've been thinking and thinking of who to make the bread for. I was so excited about this idea. As time went by I decided to make bread for several of my friends! I got up this morning and got the laundry going and started making bread. I always make pigs in blankets when I make bread but I had to wait for Amanda to bring me some jalapenos so I made the loaves first. I got the first two loaves rising and started on the second batch. That's about the time I noticed my feet were starting to hurt... and that's the last batch of bread I made. So in the end I made two loaves for my family and some pigs in blankets and only one loaf for a friend. :I

I chose to give the loaf to Darlene Pierce. She used to be the relief society president and has always been very nice to me. She taught me how to knit and always gives me a hug on Sunday. She wasn't home when I got there but her husband was. He was just leaving. He said that their daughter was sick and Darlene was with her and would be spending the night over there. He was headed over there too. I told him to let her know how much I appreciate her and all she's done.

I have been grouchy today, I don't know why. I just don't have patience anymore. But when I walked away from Brother Pierce I could have been walking on clouds. I can't remember what the next idea is I left the list at work so I'll be blogging about that next week!

Blog by Mac

I just joined the track team at my high school.. At the beginning of each season they have a 5k fun run to raise money for the team. That 5k run happened to be today. So me, my mom, and my dad all woke up early this morning and met at Elton park. There, they shuttled us up to the gun club. We warmed up and the coach shot his gun and off we went.. The very first part was uphill but it was mostly downhill. I took off running with a group of my friends. There were times i wanted to stop but i wanted to keep up with my friends so i pushed myself harder... There was a lady there from the newspaper taking pictures. When we finished the race she came up to us and asked for our names. Then, she told us as we were running closer to her she noticed we have A LOT of personality and just had to take our pictures for the newspaper!! It would be pretty cool if i made the front cover.(: haha.

When i was running and saw the finish line me and Jackie pushed as hard as we could to make it there as fast as we could. It felt good to cross the line and have all those people cheering for you. I came in 68th place (out of an estimate of 200 people). my time was 37:54. Its nice having all this support from my family and track team. I'm excited to be trying new things and meeting new people.!

March Madness

I have been so grouchy lately. Ask anyone! Everybody bugs me from the people closest to me to the chick with the german accent on the walmart intercom. I feel like everything is getting worse and worse. I don't even like hanging out with me because I bug myself! I am desperately searching for an attitude change. I'll never forget the time I was at Primary Children's hospital waiting for Kasara to finish with her babysitting class. I was in the bathroom and I overheard a conversation between two moms about their kids. The moms knew each other because both of their kids were cancer patients there. They greeted each other and asked how things were and the one mom started talking about how lucky and grateful she was that it turned out that her child had one kind of cancer instead of another. What a thing to be grateful for. It's so easy to forget my blessings and as I start to think about it I might even say I have more blessings than bad things. Even though the bad things can feel suffocating sometimes. I'm not a very selfless person but I do remember times when I helped other people and it made me forget my problems for a while. So here's my plan...I'm going to try to do a random act of kindness as often as I can and blog about it. Not to brag but for the selfish fact it will hopefully make me less grouchy! I printed off a list off of the internet (because I'm so grouchy I can't even come up with my own stuff!) The list is broken up into 4 categories; for people you know, for those unknown, for our world and for yourself. There are 13 ideas in each category and as you do each one the next one gets harder. The first suggestion is leave a snack for an unsuspecting co-worker or friend. Right now I'm thinking I will make a loaf of bread and give it to my friend Camille. I'm not completely committed to that yet, I'm still thinking about it. I'll let you know what I decide!