Bella Tres Chic: What's On My Happy List?

Thursday, March 03, 2016

What's On My Happy List?

Kyleigh in Korea

Mission Update 42

Hello March!!!

So we had yet another eventful week here in Bangeojin!

First we went to a bonfire for FHE with some members in the ward on Monday night. It was on the beach and they lit a huge tree/bush (I forgot what it's called in English) on fire! There were fireworks and fun music!

We had Zone Conference! This transfer we are studying repentance. Repentance is such an important part of the doctrine of Christ and sometimes the most difficult to teach because people don't understand that repentance covers sooooo many aspects. People see it as only if they do something really bad.. then they need to repent. But really we should be using Christ's Atonement everyday! When we do we can progress and feel happier :)

There was a lady in our ward that has been a convert for twenty years and she just barely went to the Temple for the first time! It was amazing to help her along with the process of getting prepared to go to the Temple. I am so happy for her and she is such a sweet spirit! She is also planning on getting her Patriarchal Blessing soon which is something we taught her about! She had never heard of it! Shocking right??? But now she does and she hopes to get it soon :)

On a less exciting note...I legit almost threw up from having to eat too much food. They feed us so much here and if we don't eat A LOT it's bad manners and can break your trust with members...It came to taking deep breaths between each bite of food...my comp thought it was pretty funny...but luckily I survived!

Love you all soooo much! Thank you for all your prayers and support! Have a good week! I'll talk to you again real soon!

xoxo

Sister Kyleigh Cooper

The bonfire!

Zone Conference and familiar faces :)

Celebrating Sister Moore's B-day!

I found an Audrey Hepburn Cafe!!

Singing at Ulsan Zone Conference

In other family news this week...

Friday night Hannie was on a Stake Laurel over nighter up at a cabin in Midway. She got to go moonlight snowshoe-ing. Seriously how fun.

{I was a tad bit jealous.}

Emmsie was out with girlfriends so the younger two got to join the hubs and I at one of our favorite dives.

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Day Date!

On Saturday Emmsie held the fort down while the hubs and I escaped for half the day. ;)

She took the kids to dinner and a drive thru stop at Roxberry to visit her best friend at work...

We did some pre-birthday shopping for the hubs at one of his favorite stores...Cabela's..

I love that he is passionate about his outdoor hobbies. He LOVES to fly fish! He also has a thing for guns, knives, flashlights, hammocks, and emergency prepper stuff.

Cabela's is awesome, although not really my kind of store.

But I figure this store to him is like having ROSS, TJ MAXX, HOME GOODS, TUESDAY MORNING all in one grand location for me. ;)

We then headed to Provo and ate at a gourmet pizza restaurant called Malawi's Pizza.
A very unique African flare dining experience.
{LOVE trying new eating places.} I'd definitely go here again. Very yummy!

{Another great thing about this place is they are all about giving back...every meal you buy they donate a nutritious meal to a child in Malawi, Africa.}

We ended our evening by attending the last BYU home basketball game of the season.

Packed house.

Crazy game.

Good time.

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We celebrated Leap Year!
Emmsie and I tried out a new sugar cookie bar recipe.
{Our festivities were pretty low key compared to our Leap Year celebrating four years ago HERE}

and of course we watched THIS. I just love this show.

On a side note... the lovely Matthew Goode is NOW Mary's husband on Downton Abbey.
Man I couldn't get over that latest Downton episode. So many epic scenes.
The Marigold conversation at the breakfast table. {Oh my!}
Edith's man leaving. {Sad!}
Tom chewing out Mary. {so long overdue}
Mary at Matthew's grave. {gah!}
Barrow bleeding to death in the bathtub.. {Dang!}
Moseley's proud teaching moment {Go Moseley!}
Poor Mrs. Patmore and her 'house of ill repute' {funny!}
Mary and Edith's sister bonding convo and of course the wedding. {Awe!}
It was all just too good.
Not sure how the finale is going to top that 8th episode.
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My man turned 49!!!
The night before his b-day I fixed stuffed peppers for him...one of his favorite meals!

He took the afternoon of his birthday off and we hit one of our VERY favorite restaurants for Mexican. ...The Cantina Southwestern Grill.

We practically had the restaurant to ourselves on a Tuesday afternoon.. so quiet and nice. Their all you can eat salsa bar and chips is one of my VERY favorite food indulgences.

Birthday Boy!

He loves his pic taken as much as getting a root canal so... I have to be sneaky.

We hit the theatre after to see RACE.
SO VERY GOOD.

We tried out the VIP theatre for the first time...

Have to admit those recliner seats were pretty awesome.

{Certainly don't need to be in the VIP all the time, but did you know I'm sorta a movie theatre seat snob? haha }

It has to be the very right back corner every time or I feel out of place.

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Random School Stuff!
One day this week the older girls had a late school start {like 12:15!} while the Juniors took the ACT.
I took them to Kneaders for a french toast breakfast.

and then as if Hannah didn't get enough breakfast... she joined friends for pancakes...

Brie is at recess when Kate and Taylor are heading in for afternoon Kindergarten. She tries to come and say HI to us. :)

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Dentist trip!

Kate needs 4 + teeth pulled soon to make room for her permanent that are trying to come in.

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Celebrating Dr. Seuss Birthday!

Kate and I made red and white kabobs out of strawberries and marshmallows to replicate the Dr. Seuss hat.

{found the 'hat' printable on line}

Green eggs and ham!
Most of us just wanted eggs with a little bit of green pesto not your full out green food coloring eggs. not so appetizing ;)

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Young Women's New Beginnings!
We sorta reached another milestone as Brie will be in Young Women's this year. Say What????
Not til October, {thank goodness} but she got to attend New Beginnings Night as they spotlighted the incoming Beehives.