Wedding

Spencer and Maddie got married in the beautiful Draper Temple. They looked beautiful and the day was so nice. Their venue was awesome and the food was good. They had a fun donut truck for dessert and they had dancing. I was so happy that I was able to come and celebrate. 

4 generations:)

Cute cousins, Marshall and Noah.

The bride and groom❤️

My and my siblings, minus Michael. Anna and I did go see him after we left the airport. We met for lunch. 

 

Mother's day weekend

 Friday Rob and I wanted to go to the movies.  When I went to get tickets they were $21 a person, so we did not go.  Inflation is hitting hard and it's nuts, thankfully my morning diet coke is still $1. Instead we drove out to Clarmont to see the model homes of the builder we will be using in MD.  It's a different line than what they sell in MD but we just wanted to get a feel for it.  I thought the house was really pretty and Rob thought the construction was acceptable.  After we stopped for BBQ at an on the side of the road BBQ place.  I didn't like it, and felt sick after.  R liked it fine. We came home and watched a movie in our bed.  Grace was out with friends.

Saturday we had planned to go out to lunch but as we pulled into the restaurant Grace called and said her car wouldn't start.  She was at a gas station.  We turned around and went to help her, then we went to Wal mart for some grocery shopping (and a new car battery) and then in the evening we went to the restaurant.  I had been gifted a gift card to Coopers Hawk for Christmas and we needed to use it before Rob moves. My food was so good! I had lobster bisque (delicious), shrimp scampi (which Rob ate a little of too because it's sauce combination was unusual and yummy), and then salted caramel creme brulle.  It was all so good!

Sunday morning Ethan called for mothers day! It was fun to talk to him.  I also got to talk to or text all of the girls and that was the best!  

We went to church but shortly after we got there Grace had an itching attack so she and Rob went back home and she showered.  (the only thing that helps), she's been having extreme itchiness recently.  We went to the doc once for it already and he referred us to a GI doc and an allergist (both of which we have appointments for this week and next) but other than that offered no good help.  Then yesterday she got a new rash, little red splotches that bleed.  I texted Alec and he consulted with his pediatric dermatologist and said to go to her doctor today.  The worst part of working is that I have missed a lot of doctors appointments.  Rob has taken her, which is good but I hate to be out of the loop.  This morning she has her AP Calc test and then they will go this afternoon.  I don't even know what we will find out.  The pediatric derm thinks it may be scurvy or petechiae.  We also talked to Craig (who is a doctor, and the father of Grace's friend Scott, and a friend to Grace and all the band kids, who has been helping us out with some direction for her) who thinks she needs to have her platelets checked.  Honestly, who bleeds from their pores?  We should have named her Job.  This is so frustrating and sad and hard.  

update: Rob and Grace got done at the doctors.  She most likely has petechiae, EDS related.  Poor little Job.  They are doing some blood work and then we'll see what we do next.

I stayed at church and it was really nice.  The talks were sweet and the ward gave out cookies and all the sisters YW and RS met together for a nice meeting.

And here we are at the start of another week.  I started my ESOL certification course this morning.  Grace is testing, and we are crossing our fingers and sending prayers heavenward that this medical mystery, enigma really, gets solved so she can go to college and live a happy life.

Friday!

 Sometimes, when I know I don’t have to wake up early the next day I find myself staying up really late. 

That is all.

Art

 Cora drew her family and me flying to Florida. How cute is that! Look at that little baby Darcy! Too sweet!

I had to get up really early this morning so I could get a mammo on the way to work, my appointment was at 6:30 so you can do the math!

Then we had a testing day.

Then home and tonight a meeting with a stake presidency member.  When I arrived at the office Laurie was there and Stephanie was there so we visited.  We wondered why we were all there.  Laurie went in first and then Steph and I thought maybe they wanted to talk about camp because there have been a few challenges with ward camp and $ for each ward (Stephanie is the YW Pres. in her ward) But then it turned out that they are looking at seminary for next year.   This year has been a challenging one stake wide for seminary, so challenging that they called in every YWP from each ward to discuss it. “Sadly” since I am moving I am not a good pick. I say that tongue in cheek because OF COURSE I would glad accept any call extended and seminary is a lot of fun....it's just so early in the morning.  My many year long fear has been that when Grace graduated I would get called.  I have had a lot of mornings (years of them!) of seminary wake ups.  To be transparent this year I am not getting up with Grace...and she rarely goes.  Hers is online but she often is in a lot of pain and the morning is really hard.  She finds that if she wakes up a little later her body does better.  We need to work out an independent study for her so she can still apply to BYU, and so she can have the personal growth that comes with seminary.  Anyway when Laurie was done then Stephanie went in and Laurie sat down and we chatted until my turn.  

Grace got her ACT score back, she got a 34, which is really great! 

And we found a neighborhood we want to build in so that’s good too.

update: We are going to build in Clark's Rest.  Grace will finish her senior year in Florida and I will teach so we can afford living in two places at once, and traveling back and forth so we can see Rob each month.  When our house there is done, and our house here is sold, and Grace is graduated or 18 and only has a couple months left and has a good family to stay with then I will move too.  So we are looking at 8 months minimum of living apart from Rob...maybe a little more depending on all of the above.

May the 4th be with you

 Another Star Wars day has come and gone. At school we read our book and then the last 15 minutes of each class period we played Baby Yoda Speedball. 

For YW we had a swim party and made “light sabers”. It was a beautiful night out!

Random stuff

Yesterday we had a camp planning meeting with our YCL’s after church. Here they are picking camp shirt colors. Hannah designed our shirts (see below) and they are so cute!

Grace is good at everything she does. She bought these little white ceramic gnomes at the target dollar spot and then painted them in different careers. This is the cowboy. 

Today was FSA testing at all the schools and she didn’t have to take any so she stayed home. She made lasagna and bone broth and did homework. I got to clean the kitchen after, new cooks need to practice cleaning as they go. I think she used every dish we own BUT it was amazing to come home to dinner that I didn’t make!
 

Today was a good picture sharing day (my fav!) Ruby and Cora painting (after doing yoga).

Ezra and Hannah went to California Adventure today. He was so cute! It was fun to see him enjoying the day! Hannah sent a video of him riding ‘Mater’s Tractor, he loved it!

Here’s the shirt design! We ❤️❤️❤️it!

Girls at work pictures. Sierra didn’t send one and Dani gave her the cutest haircut so I wish she had. I was proctoring the FSA.

I got to confiscate this little gem during the test. 6th graders love bathroom humor!

We got to talk to Ethan today. He’s doing great! Here he is with Elder Storheim, his companion.

This is a picture of Ryan with a couple of his mission buddies. The one in gray is Elder Storheim (senior!), Ethan’s comp’s father! What?? It’s such a small world!

Cirque

To celebrate my birthday we got tickets to Cirque du Soleil at Disney Springs. Last night was our night to go and it was amazing! All 3 of us loved it.  The story was very sweet, Disney themed, and clever. The performers were outstanding. I can’t believe some of the things they can do!!

We ate at the food truck at DS then stopped at Port Orleans on the way home. This time Grace got the beignet sundae. Those pastries are heavenly! They come out burn-your-fingertips & tongue hot and melt in your mouth!

I’m glad we went!

 Our Saturday was good. It was our turn to clean the building, then we went to a youth service project, then to Walmart for groceries.

Meanwhile in Utah the girls ran a 5k!!!

And in CA Ezra got a swimming pool!

We had a camp meeting for adult leaders a couple days ago and Grace brought down the dinosaur she is crocheting, Ann sent me this cute photo!

And lastly, Darcy, the cutest little strawberry in all the land!!