Here is a catch up of some things that we have been doing these past 2 weeks. Youth Conference was last Friday and Saturday (July 13th and 14th). Every year it rotates location and last year it was in North Carolina and this year it was here. Bret had off on Friday so I was able to go be with our Youth and know that Mark would be okay at home. He did really well for Bret, but towards the end of the day he was wondering were mom was. I was gone from 8am to 10pm. Bret is gone a lot with his schedule right now so Mark doesn't get to see him very much. So it was good for both of them to spend sometime together. This is what Bret wrote on facebook about his day with Mark.

"Marximus did some funny things today that were unique. He at dinner time got homesick for Mom, and he looked away and looked back at me hoping I would become Mom. It was funny. He didn’t cry, but you could see that look in his eye. This was the first day I babysat him the whole day. Then when we were sitting on the ground, he looked at my face and then my arms and again did this three times and analyzed me very keenly with his eyes trying to see if I would suddenly become Mom. Haha… It was funny. He did it twice. Then, he got really funny and hyper and started laughing for a good 15 minutes to anything I said or did. Haha… Then I put him in his crib, and I said, Are you going to be good big brother for your sister Aliza? And immediately he shook his head really strong back and forth 4 times!!!!! I’m not even kidding! Haha, I’ll pretend you meant yes Mark my son since you haven’t learned your head shakings yet or its timeout for you. Haha..." When I came home Bret was really happy and I could tell that he really enjoyed the day with his son. He took great care of him. A couple days later Mark started saying "da,da,da,dad". He just needed one day with dad and now he says it all the time. He says "mom" and very clearly especially when he is sad or hungry. Also from that night with dad he now shakes his head "no" all the time.

All ready for church and matching with mom...

Picture of us at Youth Conference

 This year at Youth Conference we had Jericho Road come and perform for us. It was really good.

Mark and I went to Youth Conference for part of the day on Saturday and watched Jericho Road perform. A man behind us put his sunglasses on Mark and right when I took the picture Mark pulled the sunglasses down. So cute!

This week I took a Navy class called "Compass" for 3 days 9:30-1:30pm and they had babysitting for Mark. He really enjoyed being in there with the other kids and with all the toys. Our base just got this program and it was great. It had lot of great information to help us Navy wives. I really enjoyed it. They gave Mark and our baby on the way a compass bib, so here is a picture of Mark wearing his bib. In this picture Mark is doing his new face expression. He learns a new expression or new sound and then does it all the time for a month or so and then moves on to a new one. He is doing a new sound now that he does with his lips and he doesn't do his lion roar sound anymore. That one was really cute. Well, at least I got that one on video.

 This is how Mark looked this morning when he got up. Look at his hair. His hair is getting long and curly.

Mark sucking on his toes...

Every third Friday of every month we do a missionary movie night/activity. It gives us members a chance every month to invite our friends to an activity. We can do our part by inviting then it is up to them to come. And last night we did an activity that was good for the whole family. We did a cook out with hot dogs/hamburgers and people could bring a side dish or a dessert. Then we had a church movie set up in the rooms in Spanish and English for those who wanted to watch a movie. We had a lot of members and missionaries bring people.  It was a great turn out.  Then today we had a RS service auction activity. This activity is so much fun. They had a list of different things with points by them and if you have done them then you get those points. Then you add up all your points and use those points to bid on different service that people signed up to do. Like some people signed up to babysit, make a dinner, make quilt, hair cut/highlights and etc. My service was babysitting and I made 3 tie onesies. And then with my points I won homemade pizza, homemade baby blanket and homemade baby shoes. Which I am very excited to try this Sister's homemade pizza and I am excited to have a nice baby blanket for our little one who will be born in December and then I won my friend's extremely cute homemade baby boy shoes. She did such amazing job. So I went home and made a bib to go with the shoes for church. I probably need another project that I can make fast without a sewing machine, but the ties are fun and easy to make. I got the pizza for Bret because he loves pizza and would be so happy if we had pizza every night. This a fun activity and everyone goes

home with a service.