Marisa

We had another amazing weekend! 1) The National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City was legit. 2) I love to see the temple. 3) Teotihuacan was amazing!

Vacay to Utah

Bob and the kids left to Utah this weekend. I will meet up with them after my conference in Des Moines

We said goodbye to Charlie and Tyler.  Charlie will be living with my brothers family in utah. They have 4 young kids who can give Charlie all the love and attention she needs

Tyler is going to stay at Jonathan’s house for about 6 weeks.  He will then head to Logan.  He was accepted into the Vet Tech program there.  We are excited for him to start this new adventure in his life!

(This was Charlies special place for the long van drive)

Look at the awesome desk I (and Ty) put together for my computer area in the kitchen

Marisa had a Disney dance?

This week’s top 10

10.  Spent the week continuing to organize

9. Started working on my new library:

8. Amazing Home Chef meals:

7. Lunch date with Tyler at Pancheros

6. Lunch date and shopping with Alayna at Panera’s

5. Finally got a baby dancing Groot

4. Happy Father’s Day to Bob and all grandpas and dads!

3. I woke up on fathers day planning to go to church and ended up flat on the bathroom floor throwing up everywhere.  It was a bad stomach virus.  Let’s never do that again…

2.Pictures from Marisa.  Still need some from Kayla and Brandons camping trip

1. Did I mention I kick butt during the summer???!!!

Girls camp

This week’s top 10!

10. I started working on all my stuff for my new position.  I have been organizing while watching lots of fun movies.  It’s been great!

9.  We got Alayna all packed up for camp!  This will be her 1st year to go and she leaves on Tuesday.  Also, only has a couple of months left with her braces!

8. Took Tyler in for his post surgery check up.  All is healing well and the cysts he had are benign!

7. Finished deep cleaning and organizing every single room, drawer, closet, etc in the house.  No easy task, but extremely cathartic!

6. Finally got the pictures in I have been waiting for and finished the living room walls.

5. I started a new puzzle and spent lots of time with Alayna and the guineas

4.  Took my car in for an oil change.  Found it was leaking steering fluid and all 4 tires needed replaced.  Blek!

3.  One day I did “Watching Bourne Legacy, Blog-Booking, in my Batman pjs. How's that for alliteration?!”  I got all of Kaylas wedding photos into a blog book for me and its ordered and on the way!

2. I guess I am getting older.  I had my eye appt this week and have to get bifocals for my glasses and reading glasses with my contacts.  They had me try out this new thing where you have one eye for the long distance and the other eye for the close stuff.  worst. Headache. Ever.  I’ll take the reading glasses thank you!

1. I TOTALLY KICK BUTT DURING THE SUMMER!!!!

Starting the summer with a bang!

Monday was Memorial day and we had huge plans to go see Cpt. America Civil War, but Alayna woke up sick with what we thought was a bad cold.  She has continued to get worse and sadly missed her last 2 days of middle school

I am officially done with Anamosa and extremely happy to never be there again.  But I will certainly miss the teachers and students at AMS.  It’s time for a new adventure!

Glad Kayla is ok.  She had a 4 wheeler fall on her and ended up really sore.  We are so grateful she didnt break anything!

In the spirit of getting all the yucky things done 1st, we took Tyler in to get all 4 wisdom teeth taken out.  Today he feels the worst he has since the surgery.  Not a happy camper.  His surgery wet well although they found several cysts which they have sent down to be tested.  He was hilarious after the surgery but they said no videos or pictures in the office.  I stole a picture anyway.

When I 1st walked in he looked at me and whispered “Do you see that bag? (referring to the IV bag) It’s VERY SCARY.”  His head went up and down and then he fell back asleep.  A few minutes later he woke up and started feeling his face and said, “oh no, did they take my lips?”  I told him no and he said, “Oh good” and went back to sleep.  Then he woke up and informed me he liked pudding before he went back to sleep.  Then, he woke up again saying he wants to go home and I said we have to wait for the IV fluids to get him.  “Why don’t I just DRINK this dumb bag.  It would be faster.  This is taking a whole stupid year. Then we could go home and I can get pudding.  Let me just drink the bag.”  Then he got this scared look on his face and said, “Oh no!  Did they take off my lips??”  I was totally cracking up!

On Saturday, it felt like things were working against us getting to the temple.  We pushed to go anyway.  It was a youth temple trip for our ward but since I am done with work, I was finally able to go as well.  Alayna was feeling much worse and Bob and I weren't feeling well either.  Got in the car only to find that it rained badly the night before and i had left my car window open so the floor and seat (and therefore my butt) were all wet.  We also went the wrong way twice.  But, we eventually got there right when our group was entering the temple.  Grandma Hart gave Alayna several family names and Bob was able to baptize her.  There was a very special sweet spirit there.  I think these beautiful ladies have been waiting for a while and I am so grateful we went!

It was also awesome that Jared, there on a summer mission in Nauvoo, was easy to find and we got to say hi to him!!

We stopped at the Happy Joes Buffet on our way home and Alayna continued to get worse.  This morning I had to take her to the doctor.  She has a severe sinus infection, bless her heart.  We now have her on meds so hopefully she will start feeling better soon and we can party!!!

I have already started on our home projects and I am making some great progress.  It is exciting to finally be sleeping and getting things accomplished!  Here’s to a successful week where everyone feels well!

Tyler graduation