some thoughts

I have some pictures that I need to post, we are heading up to Utah tomorrow though so I'll have to do a better update later. The school year is winding down. Allison has one more week of preschool and the boys have two more weeks. I'll be glad to not have to do all the driving and yet I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them all summer! We are planning a road trip back east and are thinking that we will be gone for most of July.

I need to get the kids registered for school next year! I'm not sure where to put Daniel. I went through this last year too. He'll be in 8th grade, wow he's getting old!

My grandma Gardner passed away this week. She was my mom's mom. My dad's mom passed away a little over a year ago. We are heading up to Utah for the funeral. It will be a fast trip.

I've always been scared of death. To be honest I am afraid to die, although I know that everyone has to go sometime. I guess maybe it's just the fear of the unknown? When I go, I want it to be peaceful, without pain.

Going Crazy................

Have you ever lost something and have no idea what happened to it? Have you ever wondered "whatever happened to that"? Allison had a dress that was a really cute Christmas dress, she wore it several times at the beginning of last fall. I think it was in late November early December of last year that I realized I hadn't seen the dress lately. I've looked everywhere for it, and we've even moved in the meantime and I've been through things and I've never found it. I've wracked my brains thinking about what could have happened to it. I remember her wearing it, I remember seeing it hanging in her closet, I've been trying to remember if it was taken with us on a trip. Been trying to think where we could have left it! I've even wondered if I could have dropped it somewhere outside ( we were living in the apartment at the time) or did someone sneak in and steal it? Maybe one of the maintenance men came in and took it? So...

All points bulletin :

Have You Seen This Dress? Black Velvet on Top with a shimmering green ( kind of metalic like) material for the skirt and sash?

I remember looking at pictures of the boys awhile back and realizing that I hadn't seen the shirt that Cade was wearing in the picture lately? Where are these things going? Where do all the socks go?

On the flip side, I've ended up with clothes that I know don't belong to us. Right now I actually have in my possesion a boys long sleeved white dress shirt from Children Place size 10/12, and a t-shirt that says "Oakley" on it. I have now idea where these came from, but if they are yours I have them. I know that we've also ended up with socks that I know we didn't buy, sometimes it's just one and not a pair. So if you are wondering " Where do all the socks go......." I just might have them at my house!

Happy Easter!

We just happened upon free Easter bunny pictures at Bass Pro Shop on Saturday! I thought they turned out really cute! Of course the boys were "too old" for that kind of thing!

I don't have a whole lot to post about, just the usual routine, driving here and there and everywhere. About a week ago, Allison had a barrett in her hair that she couldn't get out. So instead of asking for help she decided to cut it out. I found her sitting on her bedroom floor with a clump of hair and scissors in her hand. She had cut off a chunk on the side, it was very noticeable. I was pretty upset with her so the thought of taking a picture for blogging purposes never occured to me. We went and got her hair cut to a bob, but that piece is too short to pull back very well, so there is just only one way I can do her hair! Now her hair isn't as curly as it once was, sigh. That piece will just have to grow out in time I guess! And I thought maybe we could get away with her never cutting her hair!

Adam does not sleep through the night yet, I'm tired!!

Blessings

As many of you know, we recently moved back into our house in Tempe. What to do with the kids and school was not an easy decision, but after praying about whether or not to transfer schools, we decided to keep them in their current schools until the end of the school year. We knew that it would not be easy with needing to drive them back and forth. Dennis still works up at I-17 and Bell Rd, so he takes them in the morning and drops them off. We also decided to keep Allison in her preschool, and that makes it a little more difficult with her schedule. On the days she has preschool, we have a wonderful friend in our previous ward who picks Allison up along with her daughter and takes her back to her house for awhile until I pick her up and then pick up the boys from school. So it's a lot of driving on the freeway back and forth. Well on Tuesday I had to be up in the area earlier to take some kids to the doctor (yes, our dr. is still up that way too). When we were done, I called Dennis to see if he wanted to get together for lunch. I picked him up at work, then headed to pick up Allison. As I turned onto the street where our friend lives and was almost at her house when the tire on the van went flat. It was amazing how flat it got and how quickly. I was so grateful that Dennis was with me and that I wasn't on the freeway by myself with a baby! The tire was changed and I no longer wondered how I was going to bide my time until I had to get Cade and Ethan. I took it to Discount Tire where they found a hole in it that was most likely made by a bolt or something like that. This experience has just been a reminder to me of how much the Lord is watching out for us and blesses us. Was I excited to have a flat and have to buy a new tire and have an unexpected expense? No, but it was a blessing that it didn't go flat on the freeway, which would have been a more dangerous situation.

We had parent teacher conferences this week. I'm grateful that we have such great kids and students. Their teachers expressed their gratitude for not switching the boys in school and making the effort to get them to school even though we are farther away. It helped reaffirm my feeling and decision to leave the boys where they are for now.

These small experiences have been a great reminder to me that the Lord loves me and knows my situation and is watching out for me.

WARNING!

I had a lot of updating to do. There are a lot of posts!

Adam's first trip to the park

Allison is such a great big sister. She loves her "baby Adam".