Indoor

We had a pretty fun Friday. In the morning Grace and I went to Epcot. We had set up some fast passes. Our intention was to do two parks but unfortunately Lu wasn’t feeling well. Her joints and pain have been doing really well for a couple of months. The last week or so it’s become progressively worse though and now she’s having bad days:(  After our morning there we left so she could rest. 

We also had an appointment with the elders for dinner so I spent the afternoon getting ready. We always eat nicer food when we have company. I made Mexican lasagna, which was good. Chicken enchiladas which is easy and everyone likes, salad, corn bread and sopapilla cheesecake. Everything turned out yummy. We had two sets of elders over and had a fun dinner. I can’t believe in a year and a half (ish) that will be Ethan!


At 10pm Ethan had a soccer game. Watching indoor soccer is always a lot of fun. It’s quick and has fancy footwork. Our team lost but Ethan scored a goal and we had a lot of fun watching and he loved playing so there you go.

The boys are back

We went to the airport last night and picked up the travelers.

The whole family went.

Grace was excited to take Luka in the car. He’s actually well travelled since he’s gone to the vet several times for all his well kitten visits. 


Ethan and Rob had a great time! Rob and Abba and Michael were sick the whole time, so that’s a bummer.  Today Rob is at urgent care. Hopefully he’ll get well soon.

2019

The men are in CA. They woke up early and went to watch the Rose Parade. 

Then they went to the game. Right now, this second while I am writing, it’s the 3rd quarter and OSU is ahead so I imagine they are pretty happy. 

Rob, Michael and Abba all went to Ohio State!

Grace has Ashton spending the day and the night. They’ve been busy with lots of fun projects. They made macaroons that turned out really good!

They have made many batches of jello and eaten it. I don’t know why but if they are happy and not wasting it that’s fine.

They went roller blading and swimming. They are now in the process of making pelmeni. 

I took them to chipotle for lunch.




I took down Christmas, and cleaned the house, and did some laundry and walked the dog. 

Dani and her friends also went swimming. That’s a little bit more crazy!! I have seen lots of polar “plunging into the new year” pictures today so I guess it’s a thing??

They won!!!

Year in Review

I chose a picture a month to summarize our year.  It's been a crazy one (as they all are).  Full of highs and lows.  

Ethan played soccer for QH (high), didn't make the team at Windermere (low). 

Sierra went to Korea on a trip! Travel is always fun fun fun!

The twins were born!

Grace had a great year.  She won science olympiad, got a part in the play, made all state for choir, competed in a choir competition in CA.

Hannah and Sawyer got married!

We got Disney passes (yay!)
Rob's done a lot of fishing, changed jobs (the verdict is out on if that is a high or a low).
We bought and sold a home.
Said good bye to friends, made new friends.
Went to the beach on both coasts and spent the holidays with family.

There's too much to capture.
I am grateful for a growing family, and for any and all time we spend together.
I am sad about health problems that every family faces, and ours is just the same as everyone else.
Jobs, I got offered a teaching position, which I was excited about, Rob's division lost a contract, we ended up moving (again). New job is hard, I subbed again, Hannah and Sawyer searched for jobs (and got them).
Now we live near a temple!!! But far from Utah :( But closer to Ohio!

See how we are all over the place.

another year ends

This morning I took Rob and Ethan to the airport at 4:45am. They had an unpleasant flight to LAX and now are there celebrating new years eve and looking forward to a full day of fun tomorrow.  

Then I came home and went back to bed.

Grace and I spent the morning cleaning.  I had planned for us to go up to Winter Park to see Mary Poppins and go to Cafe Rio (Grace's favorite).  She complained a lot about hating to go to the movies and begged not to, then she didn't want to go so far for lunch so we went to Disney Springs instead.  We ate at Raglan Rd, and the food was really good.  She had her favorite bangers and mash, I had a buffalo burger.  I really want to go back sometime in the evening because they have live music and dancing.  I wanted to do a little shopping...but no surprise she didn't.  

We did go to kohls on the way home and stopped at Books A Million.  So now I have a NYE companion (a new book to read).

Tomorrow Ashton is coming over to spend the day.  I offered to take the girls to the beach, the weather is perfect and I thought it would be an awesome way to start the new year.  Ashton wanted to but somehow Grace convinced her not to.  Oh that Lu is a lot of fun.

Yesterday we started our new "Come Follow Me, for Individuals and Families" right after church.  It is an awesome program and we learned that our family focused scripture study muscle is a little weak.  We did our hour of study and then chose a FHE topic for the week, that Grace will prepare, and got our individual assignments for the week.  I am not sure if that's how it's supposed to go but it seems like it went well so for now that's how we'll do it.

home

the cat missed us

It's in the 80's and so nice.  We are happy to be home.  Luka missed us and spent the whole first 12 hours we were home attached to one of us.  He's a friendly guy and we were glad to see him too.

This morning we went on a bike ride, it was very pretty cruising around the ponds and lakes. It's fun to see all the birds.

We went to the grocery store, unpacked, had to get a new battery for the flex because I got stranded.  I gave blood and Rob and I went on a date to a very crowded, very busy Disney Springs.  Grace went to Ashton's for the afternoon and Ethan set up his new electronics and went on a run.

bike ride

Two days

We’ve passed the last two days playing with babies and doing puzzles and watching movies. 

The Johnson’s left yesterday (sad) and we drive home tomorrow. It’s been a fun visit.