Brad, Lisa, Makenna and Tanner

Monday, May 9, 2011

Easter 2011

Over the Easter weekend my brother Spencer, his wife Emily and their kids came into town. All of my siblings helped come up with the idea to make a water balloon launcher and we had a lot of fun trying it out.
 
 
Scott



 
Rhett
Hailey
Waiting to catch the balloons


Matt
Whitney
Paige

Macey and Erin
 
Super Spencer

The Butler Family April 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

The Big News

Look out for a new Shumway coming in October 2011!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Working Girl

I officially started my new Job at Critchfield Dental this week and I really enjoyed it. . This is actually the office that I just walked into and asked them if they happened to have any openings back in September, and they didn't for a hygienist, but they were in desperate need of a dental assistant for the next week. So I did some assisting for their Doctors for a week and from then on they have been calling me when ever they needed a temporary hygienist.  Then about a month ago they asked me If I would like to work there and of coarse I was excited because I love the Dentists and Staff and its less than a mile away from Midwestern in Glendale. It will be a consistent 2 days a week but some weeks will be 3 days, which is perfect.

I also will still be working at Wigwam Creek Dental out in Litchfield park a few days a month, mostly on Friday's or Saturdays. This office has such an upbeat staff that is hilarious and just makes a great experience for their patients.

The job hunting experience has been such an humbling experience for me, its hard to put yourself out there and try to convince people that you are the best for their job. I would always feel as I was applying to jobs that if they would just let me work for them for a day, they would see that they would want me.


It is another testimony to me that Heavenly Father works in his own time and what will be the best for us. Even though I don't like the starting a new job every day feeling of temping, I learned a lot from having to temp at a lot of different offices and made some great connections that way. It helped me to know what I would want in a job and employer and want I would not like. In addition, the tender mercies that came along with getting these two jobs have been pretty neat.
So I'm a little bit worn out from working this week, but also really excited to be a little bit more of a (consistent) working girl.


Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Brad playing QB

Brad has been playing on a Flag football team with some of his classmates. Their team name is Anatomic dead-space  ( You can ask Brad what that means exactly). There are actually quite a wide array of nerdy team names. I got the pleasure of being the official time keeper at the game.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Some visitors

This week one of Brad's Mission Companion's had a interview at Midwestern, so him and his wife came to stay with us.  It was fun for Brad to catch up with Andy Fraser, and I had a good time hanging out with his wife, Micah. They also have a little boy, but he stayed back in Utah with some of the Grandparents. After the interview was over we went and hiked at the Thunderbird Recreation park which is not far from our house. It was the first time we had hiked the trails and we look forward to doing them a lot more. They are kinda short so they aren't a huge time commitment, but still fun. The mountains also over look where the north phoenix temple site is so that was fun to see. I was surprised to see how small the temple sight is. It will definitely be a smaller temple compared to Mesa.  We were so glad that the Fraser's came to stay with us, it was really fun for us. It would be neat if he ended up going to Midwestern, but he has some more interviews, so we will see what happens.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Stake Basketball

An action shot in all it's blurriness of stake basketball.  Brad accidentally bounced the b-ball off someone's face to make the ball out on them in this game. Oops! Man Church ball can be viscous.
Church Basketball- The only fight that begins and ends with a prayer.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A New Calling

I just got an additional calling this past Sunday that I'm pretty excited about.  I'm going to be the...........



Ward Girl's Camp Director!
Cabin Mom 2009
 Bring on the singing, woods, crafts, laughing and crying and over load of estrogen. I'm excited to get to know the Young Women in my ward.
Camp Lomia