Jake's 1st Wedding to officiate

 

Jake officiated his first wedding March 29, 2024.  He was a tad nervous but did a great job.  Love is his specialty as he loves wonderfully and big. It was a nice evening.  I was reminded of the love that I have for him and how love changes people for the better. It is a Christ-like characteristic that I want to more fully develop so that my heart will change for the best and I will think of others more often. 

Happy Birthday Bug

 Happy 22nd birthday to our Ginny. She scatters sunshine wherever she goes, even if she’s being a tad dramatic at times. She patiently helps us navigate parenting and is a great oldest sister. We’re lucky she’s ours! Happy birthday, Bug, or as her dad calls her, Sunshine Princess. 

Happy 45th to our Jake

 

Jake = a builder of people; one who loves deeply; one who is valiant; a protector. 

 

Happy Birthday to the man who make the lives of others better. He is the rock of our family and sets the bar high. Over a decade one of the kids said, “Dad’s the cool one and mom’s the responsible one”, and it still rings true today; he is a wonderful dagger and even a better husband. We love you Jake. Happy Birthday!

 

He ended up working a craft fair some this morning until I got there from a shorter one but we enjoyed lunch together and an evening in. Will did have a slight fender bender this evening backing up.  He hit the trailer hitch of our friends but pulled to the stop sign and called to say he hit the curb and the bumper fell off.  He finally told the truth.  I was not upset that he had an accident but was disappointed he was dishonest about it.  

Spring Break

Christopher ran a fever and was sick for 7 days a week before Spring Break. I ended up taking him twice to the doctor and they could not determine the cause.  It is no fun to see your babies sick. 

 This past week, I attended my first ACGME conference with my job (made the welcome page for the website too).  Initially I was a little sad that Jake was unable to attend with me because it was the week before Spring Break and teachers are discouraged from taking time off then.  I do feel like I made some friends at work though.  I was anxious to get home Sunday because Ginny had gotten home.  The nice thing is that I got home sooner than expected due to my initial flight getting cancelled the afternoon before it was suppose to depart the next morning.  I was able to secure a flight Saturday evening out and left the conference a little early. There were long delays but I was able to wake my boys up for church Sunday and attend.  Although I had to work during the day, we crammed as much as we could in the evening from eating out to the zoo to going to the Orpheum to see Ms. Doubtfire.  It would have been more enjoyable for me if Aubree was home but she went to California with some friends from school.

 

 

Christopher's 1st Dance

 One of the perks of Jake being bishop is we can attend various youth activities we choose, although we go to most all of them.  Christopher had his first dance this past Saturday evening.  It was so cute to watch him prepare. he had looked up online dance moves and asking a girl to dance.  He also showered right before and kept breath mints with him in his pocket. He danced most of the night and every slow song.  His first slow song was with another who was new to dances, it was funny to watch them try to get in position, so Jake and I went over and showed them.  Not only did I get to see my boys but I as able to dance several times with my sweetheart too.  

On the other side of the country, in Utah, Rebekah and Adam went to visit his family and were able to see Aubree at an Aggies game.  Her leg is still sore but she attempted to remove her stitches herself but ended up back at urgent care because wound began to bleed. She did not heed my advice two weeks ago to make an appointment with an ortho doctor but has now made one. She was also supposed to initially return to urgent care two weeks after stitched in for them to look at. I just want her to take care of herself.

My forever handsome Valentine.

Salem the fat cat

Argh, those are my words.  We have four cats (that I thought would be dead by now) and I had the chance to make it 3 this week.  Will and I noticed some drops of blood Thursday evening in the office as we were cleaning some.  Later that evening, I realized it was coming from Salem and about 9:30pm after Jake was home from bishoping and calls, I told him I thought something was wrong with Salem.  Jake began to look up things online and called a vet. He was encouraged to bring him in. The initial ER visit and treatment were estimated to be $2700-$3500 max but we received a call the following morning stating he needed surgery, which would be an additional $3500-$4500 to remove the bladder stones causing the obstruction. Now, please know we already thought $2700-$3500 was too high for a cat but we know the love Aubree has for that cat, so we paid....needless to say we did the same for the surgery. In the past, I would say people were crazy to do those things and to just put them to sleep but we were in the situation....and it was not about the cat per say but our daughter's feelings, so we saved the cat. I have mixed feelings about it but here we are.  We did decide in the future, we will put the animal down if it arises again. That is a lot of money!

Dad’s finger

 Tuesday evening dad called to let us know he got his finger caught between a compressor grate and his tractor mast. He went to an urgent care and they sent him to the emergency room. Mom was out of town, so I headed down to meet him at the ER. He was so busy being friendly he had missed the two times they called his name. When we were finally called back, they had him soak his hand in a solution, took a few pictures, and called hand doctor. The decision was made to to put 2 stitches in, wrap it, and see hand doctor the next day. I decided to spend the night and take the next day off work so I can carry him to the doctor's appointment.

We went to lunch and doctor the next day. He (doctor) was amazed it was still alive because could not see where blood flow come be coming from. They decided to see if it would live by removing stitches and wrapping it. The body is a miraculous thing. I was concerned about dad trying to clean and wrap it alone so suggested maybe his sister coming the next day to help. He was persist he didn’t need help and told me something to the effect “you do you and I’ll do me”. I chuckle thinking about it.