Our BUSY Saturdays

By the picture shown above, it's obvious that we are hard workers. Saturday is the busiest day of the week... Well, kind of.

(Right: 2 very tired girls. Even after eating a green sucker)
YAWN! Just before 7 A.M. my wonderful Father woke Maria, Joshua and I up, so that we could be ready to help clean our church building at 7:20. We where all out in the car ready to go when my father walked out the door with a crying Gabrielle. She had woken up a few minutes before to "use the bathroom" (She said). Mom told her that since she was up she should just come with us to help clean. She wasn't too fond of that idea.
Maria and I where put in charge of cleaning the windows. We got about half the building done before we really started to goof off. I'm sure we where appreciated when we did our work though. (:

Dad and Gabrielle worked on vacuuming the walk ways together. They did an excellent job and finished really fast. Well done!
There was one other family, and two other Brethren that helped clean the church with us. It was nice, and went by really fast!

So... He's a teen? What do you expect? Joshua was put in charge of cleaning the Bathroom floors... though I never saw him do it, I'm sure he some what did it. I found him in the Priesthood room setting up chairs (at least that's what I think he was doing before I walked in). I walked into the room and right away noticed they had chalk. My first thought was to run to the board and start to draw. So of course that's what I did. Joshua found a bible while I was drawing. And started to tell me about it. This is what I got on Video...

[*Note. Sorry it is sideways. It was just the way I was holding the camera... Forgot to switch it.]

Dad wanted to make sure I got pictures of everyone working. So here is proof as to how hard us Monsivais kids can work.

After we finished up at the church we went home to eat our Mother wonderful Saturday morning Pancakes. But instead I was shocked to see...

My youngest sister Emma (Age 9) cutting up Strawberries for breakfast. About 15 minutes later I walked up to the kitchen again and saw her cooking pancakes. It wasn't so much of a shocker this time since just a few days ago Emma and her friend made brownies for fun. She has been growing up real fast and has gotten quite mature... Well... Somewhat. She still has a huge attitude, and has gotten really good at trying to boss me around. She has accomplished the hobby of "Talking Back". I'd say she gets a gold metal in the category of "Little sister"

There has been quite a bit of "Age Talking" today. As I made "No bake cookies" I messed up a bit. As Maria did the dishes she was trying to direct me along as to how things are done. I got very frustrated but responded to her attitude with
"I'm calm I'm calm. I grew out of my 'Terrible two's' last year."
Within a few minutes my mother was telling me I couldn't put a wet measuring cup into the sugar. I responded with
"I know I know. I'm not 3 anymore... I'm more like 3 and a half now."

It started to rain around noon today. Though the sun was out it still rained, with fairly good size drops. After a few minutes it was done. Until about 1:30. As I finished up my cookies it started to rain so hard. It got very dark and the wind was blowing like crazy. Maria looked out into the park from the kitchen window and said "Wow! It's already broken off branches!". The wind was very strong. The sky got dark extremely fast to go along with the constant thunder. An hour later it was all over. I love rain storms, so it was fun while it lasted. I hope we get a lot more of them throughout the summer.