Working out

Can you have a spiritual experience at the gym? Oddly enough - yes. This morning as the class I was in was stretching after our workout, I closed my eyes and relaxed and the words of the song got to me. (only in the bible belt would you hear this song at the gym...) "Jesus take the wheel...take it from my hands..'cuz I can't do this on my own" And it just hit me that I can turn my life over to him when I'm exhausted and frustrated and He can help me take up the slack and restore peace of mind.... now of course I'm typing this right after class and the kids are all still asleep - we'll see if this peace lasts through the morning! LOL

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!!

Ohh my!! Dan's parents were in town for the first half of the week and managed to keep ourselves very busy! It's amazing how much can get done when you have 4 people instead of just one! That leaves one for the baby, one for the rest of the kids and two more to actually do something useful! By the end of Thursday we had cleaned house, made curtains, done the mending, bought a fish (which is already dead....) run lots of errands, played games, gone to the park, made bread, organized the kids closet, cleaned out the garage, mowed the lawn, weeded the flower bed and pruned the bushes, weeded the garden box, took family pictures, went on bike rides and walks and more! (makes me tired just typing it all!) The kids all got good and spoiled and we enjoyed wonderful weather for being outside and having fun! The kids LOVED playing with their grandparents and LOVED listening to Grandma's stories.




Also this week Dan got a 'new' old car (that doesn't run) so he can fix it up and have fun with it, and then spent most of Saturday on that. Mommy has been trying to keep the house in as good of order as Ann kept it - but struggling - at least the kitchen floor isn't buried under a half inch of food crumbs! :)
Then to end the week the temperature plummeted yesterday and we got 4 inches of snow dropped on us last night - mostly melted now - but it was rather icy this morning.
We went with my parents and Dan's parents to go get family pictures taken by a friend. Julie did a FABULOUS job!! I'm so excited!! Maybe I'll get around to posting a couple here later.... :) LOL she took over 400 pictures and they really came out beautiful!

So now spring break is over and it's back to the grind - but I'm much better off for a week with lots of family and lots to do and I'm looking forward to spring and all that comes with it!

Cleaning and Family

We've spent this week has been crazy busy it seems! We've had something going every night this week! Monday we did a special ward Family Home Evening on gardening in Texas - so I'm now very excited to get our garden started. Tuesday, some friends and I kidnapped a friend of ours and took her out to dinner and we all had a very fun ladies night out. Wednesday was Scouts for Dan and Thursday was choir for me.

We spent a lot of time this week trying to get the house ready for guests. Dan's parents arrived safely (if a bit late due to bad weather in SLC) on Saturday night. Grandparents are LOVING seeing their grandkids and the grandkids are LOVING getting to play with Grandma and Grandpa.

Angels watching over me

Friday night the kids and I went down to Fort Worth to meet Dan (who was there for State BPA competition) We had a nice dinner, then headed home. About a half hour from home, I noticed that the gas light was on and I had no idea how long it had been on.... Thankfully - I was just coming to an exit - so I decided to turn off and fortunately there was a gas station on the exit. As I pulled in, I pushed the little button that gives an estimate of how much further you can go on that tank of gas.... it had passed the numbers and was now just on an asterisk.... So basically if there hadn't been an exit right there, with a gas station right on the exit, I would have been stranded on the toll way, late at night with no gas.... I am very grateful that someone was watching out for me that night!

Unfortunately they were not watching out for the bathroom floor. When I sent the kids in to brush their teeth, we discovered that the kids extravagant use of toilet paper had caused a back up - the floor was a huge puddle! EWWWWW!!!!!

The girls had a birthday party that they went to Saturday morning - they had a blast! The mother (a wonderfully talented friend of mine) had made matching skirts for all the girls to wear at the "Fancy Nancy" birthday party! So cute!! Grandpa and Grandma came over for dinner that night - I was so nice to have people entertaining my kids and keeping then from fussing/climbing all over me while I made dinner, ate dinner and cleaned up dinner. It was especially nice to have great company over since I'd been deprived of much adult company for the last 3 days.

Highlights this week....

Going to the park and letting the kids go crazy!

Aaron getting him self dressed and putting on one shirt on top and one shirt on the bottom....
Evelyn's new favorite thing to do... in fact I woke up to this coming through the monitor Saturday. :)