Week in Review...

On my last day off which was Monday it was raining and cold so I took the kids to Fat Cats and they had lots of fun playing the arcade games for a few hours. Abby loved playing the racing games!

Since I didn't get to go see my parents, I needed to distract myself from feeling down so of course I got started on a project! I decided to paint and put up some board and batten in our kids bathroom. I cut out the wood, nailed it, painted the whole room and now I just need to paint the cabinets because they're looking really dingy. But for now, it looks good! Here is the before----

And here's the After, I love the color. It's called Imperial grey but it pulls green which I love!

One of my students parents made me a scrapbook calendar for the whole year with pictures of my family! It's so cute, I love it!

On Thursday night I took Abby into the urgent care because she had been feeling really sick all week with stomach pains. The urgent care thought it was her appendix so I took her to the E.R. The E.R. took a urine sample and an X-Ray, she was so brave doing both! The X-Ray showed a bunch of black spots over the area where she said it was hurting. I googled as I waited and it said that black spots usually mean gas or constipation and that's exactly what the dr came and told us several hours later. We left the hospital around 10:20 and got home and put to bed around 11. It was a late night for her, so I stayed home on Friday and we tried to get her feeling better. Today she finally turned the corner and started acting more herself. I've missed my happy baby. Here she is being so good in the E.R. she does not like drs offices at all, so this was really hard for her but she was so brave!

I found this bedframe on Offerup for $30 so I snatched it up! Ashlyn's bed frame broke and I was thinking this would be so cute for her. I quickly painted it and we set it up for her, she's loving it!

Abby likes it too!

Ricks parents started their mission last week in the Provo MTC, they loved that the lights were still up for Christmas. They're now making their way over to Ohio, we are excited to hear all about their adventures. 

Rick, Jacob and Rusty went for a hike yesterday, they said that all the hikers just loved Rusty. He's definitely a people loving dog! He loves everyone and everyone loves him. He was so good on the hike they said....

Ashlyn and Maddie trying on their winter guard dresses!

Rusty so happy being out on the trail....

 

Week in Review...New Years!

 Jacob got a recognition award at school! His JROTC major submitted him for displaying courage, respect and influence. He got to go to the office and pick a gift card, he got a free in n out burger! So proud of Jacob! Today he was ordained to be a Priest by his Dad, it was a beautiful ordination. Jacob is a very hard working young man, and i'm so grateful that he is making good choices as he grows up. 

We caught Rusty laying on top of Kyler, so cute!

We got lots of lemons from our neighbor so I made a lemon meringue pie, my meringue failed but I was able to salvage it a bit. Rick said it was definitely not a fail, haha! He loved it!

Playing racko today, my favorite game!

We lit off fireworks for new years eve!

I got rollerblades for Christmas and Abby and I have been rollerblading! I haven't fallen yet, which is good because it's tough to stay up!

We are getting $6000 for our totalled honda civic, so after spending all week at dumb dealerships and not finding a great car without a ton of added on fees we found a car at Carvana! It's a car vending machine! Best car buying experience ever! 100% online, you show up and drive away. You have 7 days to drive it and if you don't like it you can return it no questions asked! So far we love it though! 2016 Ford Focus, drives like it's new 48800 miles and gets 40 mpg on the freeway!

Watching our car get picked up and brought down to us...

Jacob got to drop in the coin that would bring the car to us...

I was supposed to fly out to go and visit my parents this week, it was my present from Rick. I got up at 4am on Thursday morning, we got to the airport in perfect time-got through TSA super fast and all of us were on the plane and boarded by 5:55, my flight wasn't supposed to leave until 6:10. A few minutes later we were told that the flight was cancelled because the engine needed a part that needed to be flown in. The next available flight out was on Sunday, when i was supposed to be returning home. I was crying on the plane, it was like a nightmare. I called Rick who had just gotten home, to come back and get me. Sarah was so sweet and sent me this Cinnamon roll to cheer me up!

She also sent me this cute ornament! So thoughtful!

It was a crazy week, Rick's Honda Civic had rodents eat his clutch wire to his AC compressor and they quoted us $1700 to repair it. We submitted a claim through Geico to see if they'll fix it and we will pay our deductible of $1000, hoping that works! We need AC in Arizona.