Our Week in Review
- Earlier this week I put E. T. the movie on for my kids to watch, I was working on some indexing (genealogy) on our laptop and I wasn't paying much attention to the movie. After a while I could hear a lot of sniffling so I looked up to find Dylan crying his little heart out. Once the show was over I asked Dylan what he thought of it. He told me it was sad and that the lesson he learned from it was that you make friends and then you have to move and then he ran out of my bedroom crying. He's most certainly a miniature me when it comes to his emotions and his way of thinking. I hope that his sadness about moving will quickly fade and that he'll find great new friends .
- The kids had one last play date with their old friends from Midvale. They had a lot of fun. I had a great time as well visiting with my dear friend Stacie. I took this picture of Alivia and all her BFF's so she could always remember them.
- The kids and I joined Uncle Nyles, Aunt Kira, Javen, Grandpa Ward, Grandma Ward and Aunt Emily at Chuck-a-Rama for Thanksgiving dinner this year. That's the second year in a row and I certainly hope it was the last time for a long time. I miss home-cooked Thanksgivings that's for sure. Afterwards we were invited to my Uncle Dean's home. Most of my fondest memories of Thanksgiving happened at his house. It was so good to see most of my relatives one last time, they are so dear to me, I have a great extended family! They entertained us with music, singing and dancing. It was lovely and will most certainly be a tender memory for me.
- Apparently right before we left Grandma "Joe's" to head to Chuck-a-Rama, Isaac decided to add a few special ingredients to her grape juice which she had set out in a punch bowl to serve to her Thanksgiving guests. The first thing fished out was a pencil, then a golf ball and last but most certainly the most awful, was a bottle of finger nail polish! Poor Grandma worried all night long that her guests were poisoned. Thankfully everyone survived and no one got sick, so now I'll have a funny story to share every year about the Thanksgiving Isaac spiked the punch bowl.
- I took Alivia to see our dear friend and hairstylist Stacie. She gave Alivia an adorable hair cut, I'll post pictures of it later after we have surprised her daddy with it.
- On Friday night Grandpa and Grandma Ward, Uncle Mitch, Aunt Cozy, Braxton, Aunt Emily and the kids and I ventured up to Salt lake City to see the lights at Temple Square. It was bitter cold, but beautiful. I'm going to miss seeing Temple Square with it's Christmas lights. The kids enjoyed buying their own hot spiced cider too.
- Moving day arrived. Uncle Nyles and Aunt Kira (who is 9 months pregnant and ready to go anyday, bless her sweet heart) took my 2 oldest kids to have one last cousin sleep over and give me some free time to get things packed and organized. My Mom and Dad were also kind enough to take Isaac, so I was kid free for the day. I wish I could describe to you what it feels like to watch everything you own being packed into a semi truck. The joy and exhilaration of finally being able to move on. Then there was sorrow and sadness when I thought about everything we're leaving behind. Bitter-Sweet, Bitter-Sweet....
- We had our last Sunday family dinner in Utah. My mom went way out of her way and made a delicious dinner with all my favorite foods. My sister Cozy made and shared some delicious cake pops. Aunt Kira and Uncle Nyles brought stuff to make floats for dessert. It was awesome.
- Isaac has had a rash around his mouth for a while now, I'm 90 percent sure it's a food allergy, I have just had a hard time figuring out what food was triggering it. He smeared some of Grandma's deviled egg yokes on his face this evening and it flared up really bad, I think I've found the culprit. He has refused to eat eggs for as long as I can remember but lately I've been slipping them in things to give him some protein in his diet. I've googled egg allergies and the pictures of rashes look exactly the same (but who knows maybe all allergic reaction rashes look the same) I guess as soon as we get to Houston, I'll get him in to see the Dr. For now I'll play it safe and keep him away from eggs.
