We are just finishing a very busy three weeks!  We moved into a none-bedbug and cockroach infested apartment.  The last day we were moving out of the previous apartment Heather discovered a whole nest of dead bedbugs in a room we had used for storage.  From what the exterminator told us, if the bugs came in after we moved in they should have been living in the bedroom or the living room, places we spent a lot of time.  They should not have been in the extra bedroom, that wasn't close enough to a meal.  Take from that as you will, but we are pretty sure the apartment had bedbugs when we moved into it.

Yesterday Heather passed her Registered Dietician exam so she is now Heather Call R.D.  I am super proud of her and how hard she worked for that.  It is the culmination of almost four years of work for her.  After the test she said she just felt relieved but it slowly became happiness.  Unfortunately we didn't get much time to celebrate.  We were in charge of getting food together for a church activity last night and right as it started we got a call from our good friends the Stewarts.

The Stewarts just moved into the ward about a month ago from Oregon.  He called because mine was the only number they had for someone in the ward and their baby decided to come yesterday even though it was a few weeks early.  They called because their babysitters had another commitment and they needed someone to step in for them.  Heather and I grabbed plates of food from the activity and went to their house to watch the two kids until their Dad could be home.  It took a while but their third child was born early this morning and he and his mom are in very good health.  Busy day, but absolutely worth it!

As for me I just finished a week of TA training and will be starting classes on Tuesday.  It is going to be a crazy busy semester, hopefully I can stay on top of things, though I already feel like I am behind.  Three Sundays ago I was also asked to be the Sunday School President in the ward.  That means I am something like a "teaching specialist" and it is my responsibility to make sure the classes have teachers every week and make sure the teachers are all trained.  I've been doing a lot of reading for that to figure out everything I need to do, I think it will turn out okay.

One last anecdote from the last few weeks.  The week after we moved into our new apartment we were asked by a family at church to house sit for them while they were on vacation.  We agreed to do it and it was great blessing.  That week we cleaned an organized our house but went home every evening to their beautiful home.  They had this dog named  Indy that Heather fell in love with.  It was hard for her to say goodbye to Indy.  Anyways, so the anecdote...

Indy the dog.  She and Heather loved playing together and going on walks.

One evening while we were at this house Heather decided to practice the piano.  I was doing some work in a nearby room but as she played I couldn't resist going in to where she was and sitting down to listen.  She played a number of primary songs from church, they were all beautiful.  As I sat there I remembered my grandparents in Utah.  Sometimes Grandpa asks Grandma to play and he goes and sits in his recliner.  He closes his eyes and gets this smile on his face and the peace in their home becomes so very profound.  Usually Grandma plays church songs and that makes the spirit fill the whole house.  I felt like Grandpa sitting in that chair and Heather felt like Grandma.  I hope that in the future we can be more like them, there isn't a better set of role models anywhere.