Sunday we had a 5th Sunday combined meeting about Family History. Nate and I were asked to talk a little about what we do with our young kids to get them involved in family history. We took a few minutes and said what we do, journaling, stories, indexing, temple work... not a big deal. But I can't help but feel like we sounded like know-it-alls or something. I hope not, but whatever. I enjoyed the motivation to get going on my own family history. I spent a good three hours updating some of my grandparents' memories :). That was fun. I really do love family history. 3-29-15
SPRING BREAK DAY 1
This Spring break was well anticipated. Not just by the kids. I have been so anxious for it! I had tried to get some big plans going, but I just kept coming back to the fact that the kids enjoy being at home and playing with their friends in the neighborhood and that this could be more of a break if we just stay home. It was fun to think of different fun things to do to keep us looking forward to the next day together. Our big thing on Monday was the park. I took them down to Heritage park and when we pulled up we realized that we needed to have our basketballs. So we turned around and grabbed them. The kids played for a long time. Kenni came and played with us about halfway through which was nice because I was about to die of heat/boredom/tiredness. She really was a pleasant surprise. We were at the park for 3 hours. Lots of fun. 3-30-15
DETOX
I went to visit my old friend Summer at LDS Hospital on Monday. I couldn't believe her message on Sunday. She sounded like she was dying. I am glad she called me but it breaks my heart to think that I am her "best friend". Just because I've been a horrible friend and if that's the best she's got.... Poor girl. Even her family has kind of abandoned her. I don't know how some people can end up with such a tough hand when I have been dealt so many blessings. She sure is tough though, I think she is going to make it out of this alive. She's been addicted to alcohol and several different kinds of prescription drugs for at least 20 years. She's resorted to both over the years to cope with her stress and anxiety. I can't imagine what that girl is keeping locked up inside of her. I hope that they provide her some counseling at the place she is being transferred to. She needs something. I can't believe she was taking 21 days worth of pills in four days. She really has gotten bad. She was drinking Nyquil like it was juice and calling weird friends to bring her more alcohol when she was unable to take herself. I guess her daughters saw her overdosing on her meds and someone called DCFS. Her three girls have been taken away from her until she can get things under control. I hope that happens. She's such a sweet girl. She's so good to everyone else and always tries to please others. It's so sad. So anyway. Nate and I went to see her on Monday. It was hard to watch her bounce from mood to mood, crying, laughing, then crying and then laughing some more. I'm glad I was able to help her laugh I guess, but it's so hard to think about the road she has ahead. I tried to let her know how much I love her and how much I will be there for her. I tried to let her know that Heavenly Father loves her and will be there for her if she wants Him to be. I don't really know how she feels about the church, she's given me several different explanations. I wish people like her could feel comfortable at church and not feel the judgement that is hopefully not as prevalent as she makes it sound. It stinks that it can't be more of a place of refuge for people like that. Nate was able to give her a blessing which was really nice. I hope she was able to receive it all. It was beautiful. I am praying for her and I'm going to try to check up on her regularly. I hope she doesn't let me disappoint her as a best friend from here on out. 3-30-15
FHE
Noah had the lesson and taught us how to make little doors. I'm not sure how to describe those, they were made out of paper, kind of like a box with a door on it. His lesson was about how sometimes we need to just close the door to not let in the bad feelings and to not let out bad words. It was so sweet! I love that he thought of it all by himself. 3-30-15
SPRING BREAK DAY 3- APRIL FOOL'S DAY TOO!
Everyone woke up to each other's pranks and had fun pulling them all morning. Nate put cups of water on people's doors, filled a yogurt container with sour cream, and I still don't know what he did with the donuts. I think it was more stressful to eat them wondering what was wrong. As far as I know- it was nothing. Kelly went all out, cream cheese on toothbrushes and deoderant, taping up people's rooms and beds, doors, you name it. I should ask her the rest. They all enjoy being able to lie and then say "April Fools". Luke put tinfoil in everyone's shoes. That was funny watching everyone struggle to cram their feet into their shoes. Noah painstakingly made brownies (practically by himself) and put clumps of them in people's beds to represent cat poo. I love their creativity :). I realized that I had so much fun watching ever one else's pranks playing out that I didn't need to play any of my own. I was also having a really off day so the idea of doing anything just wasn't appealing to me. I was too tired and weak and knew I was going to have to go on the bike ride. I hate it when I don't get into April Fools. I do have a really awesome prank to pull on Nate but the conditions have to be just so. He worked the mid the night before so it didn't work this year. Next year for sure!
Thanks to Bradley we were able to catch a little bit of Play Group on Wednesday. I completely spaced what day it is. And we needed to get back by noon for Grandpa Russ and Grandma Ruthie, so it was short, but the kids had fun. Same park with the basketball hoops, so that was fun. I meant to take pictures but never did.
After the park we hurried home for our bike ride with Grandma and Grandpa. That ended up being a LOT of fun. We hopped on the bike trail after surviving the Burton overpass. I was so proud of our kids the whole time! They are such troopers! We ended up riding up to a Chevron up in Layton and having lunch there (there's a Subway and corn dogs :) ). Since Kelly needed to get back for her friend's birthday party we turned around and came home. The whole trip ended up being about 10 miles though! Go us! That really is great for us. So far this year we've only done the four miles to slurpees and back :). So that was cool. I can't believe Erika especially made it. She's our youngest rider. She did great! She sang and counted horsies the whole way. I think she ended up at about 13 for the whole trip. Noah did great too! He struggles a lot with needing to be in the front, and he has issues with stopping suddenly ;) but he was a rockstar! He did fall on the way back and Daddy towed him in the trailer for a bit. Luke was our gold leader the entire trip. He probably could have had that trip licked in about a third of the time if he didn't have to wait for everyone :). Bradley too. He was right up there with Luke most of the time. We were glad his tire stayed full the whole time. Kelly rocked it as well. I enjoyed riding by her most of the way there, talking and having fun. Then she and I ditched everyone in our effort to get her home in time and sped up to about double the speed we went on the way there. We made it back in 26 minutes! Pretty amazing if you ask me. And I was dying. Kelly was probably laughing inside- she "wasn't even tired" so that was good :). She crashed into me when I had to stop suddenly for Noah. That was a bummer. Charity was on her roller blades again. She really needs a new bike. But she did great as well. And so did Nate, towing her with the bike trailer. I'm not sure how Nate did it!! He's awesome. Man of steel. Jack was perfectly content the entire trip- love that boy. He had a good time pointing out the popcorn trees and some of the trucks and cars on the highway. He's adorable. Grandpa and Grandma seemed to be having a good time. They're so awesome to be so active. I didn't know 10 was a lot for them too, but they don't usually go that far either :). So we all wowed ourselves :). I am glad we made time for this and arranged it with them. Good memories! I wish I'd taken a picture. Good lesson to not be such a grump when we're starting out on these things- that would have been a great time. We all crashed when we got home.
Then that night Nate and I scrambled off to the Jazz game!!! It was really cool because we thought we'd lost the vouchers that Nate got from my Dad for Christmas, but Bradley was really anxious for Nate and I to go (I secretly think that he was hoping I'd let him take my place if he found the vouchers :) ), he found them for us! Just in the nick of time too, we had to leave minutes later in order to get there in time to redeem them. It was a lot of fun! I did get pictures on my phone :). We totally killed the Nuggets. FUn game. Thanks to Charity for babysitting AND getting almost everyone in bed before we got home!! Good times. 4-1-15
SPRING BREAK DAY 4
Thursday was our SWIMMING DAY!!! The kids had been looking forward to this the most I believe. We decided to try out the Clearfield Aquatic Center this time since seeing it a couple weeks ago when Bradley went to the birthday party there. It was great because it was $2 cheaper per kid than the Bountiful Rec Center. I think we found our new pool! I liked it because everything is in the same room. It's so much easier to keep track of everyone. It's a teensy bit smaller, but I didn't care. Some of them were bummed that it's missing a high dive too, but really, it was a better pool for us. We had a great time! Three hours is the longest I think we've gone swimming in a long time, so go us :). We did have Kambree with us, so that was an interesting element to the day. I felt like things went really well. Nate was wrapped around Jack's little finger for the entire time. He was so patient with him! Jack actually got all the way in the water and even went on the big yellow slide three times!! So cool!! I never would have been able to get him on that! He loved it. He spent the last hour playing fetch with Nate with the rings. Yes, Jack sat on the edge of the pool and threw the ring for Nate to retrieve it. It was funny. I played with Erika most of the time. She and I went on the slide a few times as well. She was so cute and brave on it! We did just about everything! She showed off her swimming skills and almost braved the diving board, but I'm kind of glad she didn't. The paper work after a lifeguard has to help you get out is ridiculous. She had a lot of fun though. I stole a few minutes in the hot tub which was nice because I was having some weird pains. Who knows what that was all about. Makes me anxious for my ultrasound Thursday though. Any movement sent pain shooting through my abdomen. Not cool. Charity and Kelly played together most of the time. They seemed to be having fun. Bradley and Luke were EVERYWHERE! I never could keep my eyes on Luke long. He was insane! Kambree tagged along a lot with them. Noah too. I realized that Noah has never had swim lessons. He totally got skipped! We'll have to fix that this summer. He insists that he knows how though, so it's all good. He's the only one that didn't want to try the slide. He wasn't tall enough and didn't really want to ride with mom. Poor kid. But I think he had enough fun. Everyone took turns with Bradley's awesome goggles. Who doesn't love that. I loved how good everyone was about leaving. Made it quite painless. Almost makes me want to go again. I have so many horrible memories of dragging kids kicking and screaming out of the swimming pools that it just pains me to even think about it! Good times though.
That night we had a few friends over and watched a movie for a late night. 4-2-15
18 WEEKS
I was reading on my "What to Expect" app that I should be having really bad back pain right now, so I have to say, I'm very grateful to NOT be having really bad back pain!! What a blessing that is! I've had some other weird little pains. Pretty much constantly, but no bleeding, so I have to assume all is well. I know my body is just different having been through this so many times. I have to leave room for weird symptoms in my mind :). That's where these weird pains go :). I need bigger pants, but my "baby bump" is not where the baby is :). Kind of annoying, but that's how I am. I felt this little one move this week!! WAHOO!! Not as much as I'd like, and feels a lot lower than I expected, but I LOVE the reminder that there's a sweet little one in there :). The lower position makes me think- boy.... hmmm. We only have 3 more days til we find out the gender!! I'm nervous! I know I shouldn't say this out loud (that's why I only put it on my blog :) ), but I feel like we have a girl still waiting to come to our family. Could be all of Erika's talk a couple years ago, about her "little sister". She used to save clothes for her, toys, you name it, in her drawer. I think she and I even prayed for her little sister a few times. So maybe that's why, and maybe it means nothing, but if I find out this is a boy, I might drive myself crazy wondering if there is still a little girl. Please don't think I'm crazy. I have felt like this could be our last baby though, a few times, during this pregnancy, but I also leave room for not. So I guess we'll see :). I'm excited to see my baby though! Boy or girl, I know this baby is meant to come to our family right now. I think it would be super cute for Jack to have a little brother. SO anyway- I don't know why I even think about this stuff... it's nuts :). We're almost to hump week!!! 4-4-15
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I love Noah's lesson. So cute!
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