Monday, April 12, 2010

One year anniversary

It was one year yesterday since my car accident. I think I should magically be ok now. No more residual problems (especially the craziness when I am riding in a car). I thank the Lord all of the time that he allowed me to live and enjoy my family and life this past year. We definitely have had some challenges but I can't imagine not being able to be with my family.
Meg is waiting for our Monday night show. We have all gotten hooked on "24". I know that is not the ideal family home evening activity but at least we are pretty much together. She hung out with Ali and the kids today while I was at work. Ali is so great to come in and spend Monday with Meg. I think that has helped Meg mentally more than anything.
Sammie is never with us because she works on Monday nights. She loves her job and is doing great in hair school. We are so hoping for scholarships for her so she can continue school through the summer and finish that part so she can move on. She is thinking at this point (things change continually) of going to Weber State College to get her bachellors degree.
Kaysha decided not to do dance company next year at Murray. Instead she decided to try out for cheer. She made the varsity team and is so excited. The advisor of the dance team told her she wished she could do both because she is such a beautiful dancer. It really is nice to have such talented kids. I think my kids are doing all of the things I would have liked to have done but was either too dumb, too broke or too scared to try for.
Colby continues to plug along at his consulting business. We keep praying that things will happen as they are supposed to and that we will have an income again. I am sure we will. We have always been taken care of and none of us are going hungry and we are able to meet all of our obligations. It always amazes me that when you put a budget on paper and can't imagine how it will work, as long as the tithing is paid somehow the miracles happen.
I had a shower for one of the girls in my ward on Saturday. I need to have more things like that so I can have an excuse to clean my house. I am easily distracted. It was a good turnout and it makes me happy to do things like that.
Colby had his birthday a couple of weeks ago. After racking my brain to come up with something fun to do for this birthday, I decided to call his friend from high school. We haven't seen Kevin and his wife Gerri for at least 15 years. Colby and Kevin used to get together to jam. I have Kevin and Gerri meet us at Texas Road House for dinner and told Kevin to bring his guitar. We came to our house after dinner and Kevin and Colby had a chance to play for a while. I made pies for dessert. We had a great time and had a lot of laughs and a change to reminisce.

Easter was fun. I loved it being on General Conference. I love General Conference. I even stayed awake through all of the Sunday meetings this year. My dad came out in the morning and had breakfast with us and we watched the morning session and after the afternoon session, the kids all came and we had dinner and an Easter Egg hunt. I'll need to add pictures when I figure that part out. I was so grateful to be here for that this year.