Time Out for Women

Time Out for Women this year was awesome. We had a group of 15 from our ward who drove to St. Louis. This year's theme was Seek The Good and we had some incredible speakers and had a wonderful time being back in a city.

 

 

Our row of women deep in conversation.



 

This picture is for my sister. She was at Time Out in Vegas at the very same time sitting in the very first row. We on the other hand were on the very last row. I also love that Alyssa and Mandy are popping up their heads to try and be in my picture.

 

Love these girls. 

 

I adore Kori. She had 5 kids in 7 years so she knows exactly where I'm at in life. Her youngest is Ashton's buddy. When she sits down next to me at church she always says, "What can I do to help you this week?" Anyway, at Time Out she held Lucy a lot and after the breaks she would come back and tell me how when random people would tell her that Lucy was cute she would say, "Yes and her name is Lucy Mack" or she would dive into my birth story. So funny and so awesome that she was so proud of little Lucy.

 

Lucy was my only child all weekend and traveled amazingly. She was also passed around to everyone all weekend. If I wasn't nursing I hardly held her. When I was huge and pregnant in August and planning on coming in September everyone thought I was crazy for bringing a newborn. But I knew that they travel the best and sleep anywhere at this age. And she proved me exactly right. This picture is from Friday night after Kori laid her down in her seat she kept herself in the exact same position as she was on Kori's chest.

Here are most of the women from our ward. All but two are military wives.

When I uploaded my pictures I looked at this one and thought about how amazing it was that I would and could call almost any of these women if I ever needed anything and I would feel comfortable doing so even in the middle of the night. I've loved every ward we've lived in and always had incredible friends but this ward is especially unique because the Gospel and the military bring us together. And I feel blessed and spoiled to have so many wonderful friends.We stayed up way too late. We ate way too much. Talked way too loudly. And left better wives and mothers and friends.

 

It has to be said that David was an awesome Dad all weekend and said "having just the three of them was easy".  It's amazing the perspective a newborn brings. I couldn't be more grateful for a husband that tells me to go have a wonderful weekend, to spend however much I want at Target (since I see them only 6 times a year) and then cleans the house before I come home. Time Out was perfect once again.