Thursday, Feb. 25

Thursday was such a great day!  First of all, it was a big day for Addie.  My Mom is a 1st grade teacher and invited Addie to spend the day with her at school.  Addie has a lot of Richardson in her and has to keep it cool, not appearing like she is too excited, but let me tell you!  Was she ever!  I gave her a shirt that I bought a few months ago for her birthday because I knew she would need short sleeves and we don't have lot of those around here right now.  She was so excited to take her own backpack and that Grandpa was going to pack her a special lunch.

When I dropped the kids off that morning she hopped out and didn't even look back.  I knew she was going to have tons of fun!  She even got her own desk.

She also came home with a pile of about 20 of these-

 

  

  

According to my Mom the kids just loved her!  And I know for a fact that she loved them  right back.  I guess the next day one of the little boys in her class asked if Addie was sick because she wasn't there.  Addie only wishes she was old enough to really be in that class.

Like I mentioned before I was able to spend the day with Jordan shopping for clothes.  My sister in law, Yvette, offered to have Kimber over for the day.  Kimber had a blast!  Aunt Vet took her to get lunch and then to the park to have a picnic.  She said that Kimber didn't each much because she spent more time on the toys than eating.  Sounds about right.  She also said that Kimber wore her out on the slides.  That's Yvette for ya.  She's so good to my girls.

Thursday night Annie and I made a run to Walgreens to use up some Register Rewards that expired that day.  I had $3 to use and no matter what, we weren't walking out of that store without spending them.  We finally settled for some yummy chapstick and a pair of 25 cent kneehighs.  After buying that we earned two more dollars so we grabbed a bag of Twizzlers (that my brothers literally scarfed down).  

I am going to leave it at that.  Let me just tell you that with me and Annie and a pair of knee highs things can get pretty crazy.  She has the pictures to prove it.  I will say that I paid about 75 cents for all it and it was more than worth the laughs.

Thursday, Feb. 25

Thursday was such a great day!  First of all, it was a big day for Addie.  My Mom is a 1st grade teacher and invited Addie to spend the day with her at school.  Addie has a lot of Richardson in her and has to keep it cool, not appearing like she is too excited, but let me tell you!  Was she ever!  I gave her a shirt that I bought a few months ago for her birthday because I knew she would need short sleeves and we don't have lot of those around here right now.  She was so excited to take her own backpack and that Grandpa was going to pack her a special lunch.

When I dropped the kids off that morning she hopped out and didn't even look back.  I knew she was going to have tons of fun!  She even got her own desk.

She also came home with a pile of about 20 of these-

 

  

  

According to my Mom the kids just loved her!  And I know for a fact that she loved them  right back.  I guess the next day one of the little boys in her class asked if Addie was sick because she wasn't there.  Addie only wishes she was old enough to really be in that class.

Like I mentioned before I was able to spend the day with Jordan shopping for clothes.  My sister in law, Yvette, offered to have Kimber over for the day.  Kimber had a blast!  Aunt Vet took her to get lunch and then to the park to have a picnic.  She said that Kimber didn't each much because she spent more time on the toys than eating.  Sounds about right.  She also said that Kimber wore her out on the slides.  That's Yvette for ya.  She's so good to my girls.

Thursday night Annie and I made a run to Walgreens to use up some Register Rewards that expired that day.  I had $3 to use and no matter what, we weren't walking out of that store without spending them.  We finally settled for some yummy chapstick and a pair of 25 cent kneehighs.  After buying that we earned two more dollars so we grabbed a bag of Twizzlers (that my brothers literally scarfed down).  

I am going to leave it at that.  Let me just tell you that with me and Annie and a pair of knee highs things can get pretty crazy.  She has the pictures to prove it.  I will say that I paid about 75 cents for all it and it was more than worth the laughs.

You say Hello, I say Good-bye

After reading this blog for any amount of time you should know how much I hate winter.  Cold winters, anyway.  Growing up in the Valley I never had to invest in a coat because I had a light jacket that would get me through the few cold days that we had.  And now every time winter starts to roll around I get all agitated and count the days until the sun stays up longer and the temperatures will warm up again.  I hate anything below 60 degrees.

Well, on my drive down to the Valley last Wednesday I realized how happy I was to say "goodbye" to so many things and "hello" to so many others.

Goodbye snow.

Hello desert!  (Although I hate the desert, I am learning to appreciate it more and more.)

Goodbye cold tempuratures.

Hello Spring!

Goodbye Main Street- Hello Brooks Farm Rd!

 

Goodbye long sleeves- Hello short sleeves!

Goodbye long days inside- Hello fun times outside!

And no picture, but almost most importantly, Goodbye closed toed shoes-Hello flip-flops!

You say Hello, I say Good-bye

After reading this blog for any amount of time you should know how much I hate winter.  Cold winters, anyway.  Growing up in the Valley I never had to invest in a coat because I had a light jacket that would get me through the few cold days that we had.  And now every time winter starts to roll around I get all agitated and count the days until the sun stays up longer and the temperatures will warm up again.  I hate anything below 60 degrees.

Well, on my drive down to the Valley last Wednesday I realized how happy I was to say "goodbye" to so many things and "hello" to so many others.

Goodbye snow.

Hello desert!  (Although I hate the desert, I am learning to appreciate it more and more.)

Goodbye cold tempuratures.

Hello Spring!

Goodbye Main Street- Hello Brooks Farm Rd!

 

Goodbye long sleeves- Hello short sleeves!

Goodbye long days inside- Hello fun times outside!

And no picture, but almost most importantly, Goodbye closed toed shoes-Hello flip-flops!

Wednesday, Feb. 24

We finally got home from the Valley on Monday and since there is so much to post about I decided to break it up, day by day.

So you read that my little brother came home that day, but there was lots of other excitement as well.  Of course all of the anticipation at the airport is priceless and I have to mention it.  When you come from a family of 10, any occasion is going to be a big event, but something like this is priceless and doesn't happen very often.  

While we waited for the plane to land the kids played around while we tried to keep them out of trouble.  

Aunt Annie with Addie

Uncle Taylor with Kimber

Little Ivy

My brother Ben also entertained us with his Medical Rotation stories.  

 Gotta love the shoe and the unknown child!

It always seems like the last few minutes before the plane lands is such torture!  Once he landed and we all said our hellos, it was off to Mom and Dad's house for that yummy Mexican Food that I talked about.

And since it was so nice outside my girls took advantage of the backyard.  I think they spent more time on the swings while we were down there than they did anything else.

Wednesday, Feb. 24

We finally got home from the Valley on Monday and since there is so much to post about I decided to break it up, day by day.

So you read that my little brother came home that day, but there was lots of other excitement as well.  Of course all of the anticipation at the airport is priceless and I have to mention it.  When you come from a family of 10, any occasion is going to be a big event, but something like this is priceless and doesn't happen very often.  

While we waited for the plane to land the kids played around while we tried to keep them out of trouble.  

Aunt Annie with Addie

Uncle Taylor with Kimber

Little Ivy

My brother Ben also entertained us with his Medical Rotation stories.  

 Gotta love the shoe and the unknown child!

It always seems like the last few minutes before the plane lands is such torture!  Once he landed and we all said our hellos, it was off to Mom and Dad's house for that yummy Mexican Food that I talked about.

And since it was so nice outside my girls took advantage of the backyard.  I think they spent more time on the swings while we were down there than they did anything else.

Another one home

Yesterday we made another trip to the airport to welcome home this guy-

(He's gonna kill me for this no-neck picture!)

My little brother, Jordan just finished his mission to Rochester, NY.  He is my fourth brother to come home and although they all have the confused, "where am I?, please let me turn around and go back" look, he was the worst I have seen!  That didn't take long though and he was just back to the same old Jordy. 

He wanted some real Mexican food so my Dad made his delicious and famous red chili burros.  Mmmmmm!  The family had a good time chatting and hearing his stories.  Classic returned missionary scenario.  After everyone left Travis, Jordan and I talked about all kinds of fun stuff until Travis finally decided he needed to head home.  Jordan and I continued the conversation until 1 am.  It was great!

This morning we started off the day by playing piano/guitar duets.  We went through the Beatles songbook and randomly stop at a song.  We play paying no attention to the timing, just playing the way we think it should be done and every so often one of us will pipe in and sing a line or two.  Always fun.  Later this morning we're off to get him some clothes this morning and then it's lunch at Someburro's.  One of his favorites.  It's going to be especially nice because I will be kid free!  More to come on that.

For the first time in three years I have no missionary brother to write or pray for (not that that means there aren't any missionaries to I could write or pray for), but it's sure nice to have everyone around again.