So I was all pumped

about this week being the last week of school...








or NOT. Turns out that my kids have school through June 5th. That bites. In fact, the last two days are pretty much a waste of time- awards assembly and a half-day of watching movies in class. Yeah. Oh, not that any of the days next week are actually devoted to LEARNING anything, but Tuesday is their annual Field Day [similar to a carnival, but usually outside and the school pays for the rides and stuff]. Monday, well, Monday is another 'let's watch movies' day. sigh. I am so terribly ready for the summer, and our trips, and to have 2 weeks of school after Memorial Day just seems wrong to me. :)
Although to judge by the weather- wet, cold, and rainy every day this week- we're still in early spring...

We had a very wet Memorial Day weekend :). Monday we drove up to Heber to visit Myles' grave, and spent some time geocaching afterwards. And it rained almost all day long. I swear, I felt like I was in Iowa! I haven't had to water my garden at all this week.

N 40° 39 W 112° 01

If you have a GPS, you now have close to the exact coordinates for our home :) [don't laugh, I had to edit it for national security reasons LOL]. My Mother's Day present was a little GPS unit, and we went geocaching Monday night. We got coordinates for 2, found both of them, and we've got the bug! Since we ended up at a park, we let the kids play 'till it was time to go home. We talked about what Myles would be doing if he were here. It's good to remember, and getting less painful.

And, the other day, someone noticed a toddler in a car and called the police, who broke the window and rescued him. That's the silver lining in our cloud right now.

Memories

I'm sure this will get easier with time. Right now, I am thankful for all the pictures I have that help me remember Myles.

I can't promise to post as often; we're working to find a new daily routine here. But our family has been greatly blessed during the past week and a half. We can feel the prayers and good wishes supporting us all. Thank you. We are more grateful than we can express.

Where in the world...

is my husband today? LOL, okay, I know where he is- on a plane, headed for Casablanca, Morocco. Then on to Rabat. And, for those of you who have forgotten your African geography [I'm raising my own hand here], Morocco is located on the northern coast of Africa, across the Meditterranean Sea from Spain and the Rock of Gibralter. It's also the setting for the movie, "Casablanca" which starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Oh, and my sister has a few friends who live there. And that's absolutely the limit of my knowledge about Morocco. So here's some snazzy pictures that I found on that wonder of information, the internet!





And that's all for our tidbit of Morroco culture for today!

Today in lists

- I stayed up till 5am reading, because I wasn't tired enough to go to bed. I finished 6 1/2 books before my eyes started drooping.

- Got at the grocery store: creamy peanut butter, bread, noodles, milk, yogurt, mayonnaise, carrots, apples, 1 green pepper, 1 red pepper [because Hyrum asked for it, and 4-year-olds don't normally ASK for vegetables], olives, celery, broccoli, granola bars, corned beef, potatoes, spray starch, ice cream, cheese- cheddar, parmesan, mozzerella, and eye shadow [because I dropped mine in the toilet yesterday]

- Places I drove today: dropped a friend off at a meeting in SLC, drycleaner's to pick up Jared's uniform pants, Gardner Village for some yarn and needles [and 2 donuts to share between Hyrum, Myles, and myself], grocery store, gas station, and back home.

- I made: breakfast [oatmeal and chocolate milk], lunch [pb&j sandwiches plus a granola bar], and dinner [chicken and rice], knit half of a dishrag, piles of clean laundry on my couch that are still waiting to be folded, plans for Saturday, a trip next door to visit my neighbor, another list of books I want to look through, Myles spit out the dogfood he was tasting, and my kids mad by forcing them to play outside while the weather's nice.

Writing practice

So, Morgen got into trouble the other day [Jared handled it, not me] and later that day she handed me a sheet of paper. She took it upon herself to write down some sentences:
1. I will not be mean to Walker and Hyrum. [her own sentence]
2. Honner thy father and mother so thy Days shal be long. [I did not assign her these!]
3. I sall love one another as I have loved you.
4. I will not be rude. [back to her own sentences now]
5. Some times ther are thins a girl shold Never do no mater how raty her brother is. [Oh my goodness, ROTFLOL!!! Thank heaven she handed me the paper and walked out of the room LOLOL!!!]

Oh the games you will play

I heard Jared in the bathroom with Myles, "Come on, do it again! Get the ball... Throw the ball... Good job!!!"
And this is what they were doing:
Wow. Just... wow.

Cleaning house

:)Hyrum is an expert scrubber. He's practiced on the walls to clean off where he drew with crayon [on purpose] and marker [accidentally]. He's also practiced on the bathtub [since he pooped in the bathwater, and left it]. However, the good news is that I think he's learning his lesson ;).

In other, non-related but much more exciting, news: We cleaned up a debt!!! With the money we got from our tax refund this year, we completely paid off our 2nd car! Hip hip hooray!!!! *confetti throwing and horns blowing* Now, on to that pesky student loan...

And, I am slowly going through each of my rooms to clean out and clean up any old or no longer useful items.

I think this means it is officially spring!

Remember this?

Well, this cute little head is changed now. A wicked witch attacked him and stole all his curls. Poor little guy! He's almost bald, and less than happy with it.

Easter fun

Myles was the first one out the door, to hunt for eggs. It took him a while to get the whole egg thing. He was much more excited about seeing the dogs, and headed straight for the backyard gate ;)
Morgen and Walker searched high and low- mostly high [because they could see the eggs in the tree from our kitchen window], to find all the eggs the Easter Bunny hid.
Hyrum had some big hints from his dad, but he found a lot of eggs on his own, too.
Morgen finally got Myles' attention, and offered him an egg from her basket. He grabbed it, and carried it around with him while the rest of the kids finished looking for the eggs. When I took it away from him, he screamed. He's really into the 'once I hold it, it belongs to me forever' philosophy. :)But a quick application of Easter candy dried those tears right up!
Morgen colored and drew and dyed her eggs to look like dragon eggs [more on this theme below]. She dipped and mixed and created happily.
"Mmmm! This smells like food!" Then, to Walker, "Hey, smell this!" Walker thought it smelled nasty [vinegar in the dye]. But Hyrum put it back to his nose and sniffed again. "Mmmmm."
The eggs, the dye, and Walker singing some loud dragon song to Morgen. :)Because what would Easter be without dragons?!?