Vacation fun!

I am not able to post any photos yet, but wanted to take a second to write about our vacation so far. We have been having a great time!

The drive was not so bad. Logan was really good. Avery and I both came down with a cold,so she was more fussy than usual for her sweet self. It was sad.I was also deaf in my left ear from Denver all the way to Blanding. So annoying. As soon as we got to Tony's parents house, Tony unloaded the van, and then took Logan up on the mountain to camp with his family. I stayed at the house with Avery, along with Tony's sister Jody and her little girl Macy. We drove up the next morning.Logan had a blast! He had so much fun playing with all his cousins, and getting oh so very dirty. I almost didn't recognize the kid! He got to ride a horse, and he even rode on the four wheeler with Tony to help herd the cows into the corral when it came time to brand. He was quite the cowboy.

After the round-up, we hung out at Tony's parents house, and Logan spent almost all day long jumping on the trampoline. He also ran through the sprinklers and had a great time...as long as Uncle Andy's dog Ruby was nowhere to be seen.

We left Blanding on Wednesday and drove all day to San Diego. The kids were both really good for the long drive, and I was very proud of them.

My sister Kristy and her family have been in California as well. Logan got to play with half of his cousins here as well.We went to the beach, and Logan played in the water and found some shells. We also went to the beach at night with my family for a cook-out. Tony took Logan swimming almost every day, and Tony got a very nice sunburn as a souvenir of his trip. We had a chance to go to the temple as well, which was very nice, and long overdue! Tony flew back home Sunday, and we will be without him until next Tuesday when he will meet us to help drive home.For now we are just relaxing and hanging out at Grandma's house and having a fun time.

I will post more later along with pictures!

Happy Anniversary to us!

I thought I would update a bit before I leave on our great cross-country adventure.Tomorrow is my last full day to get ready for our trip. We plan to leave in the afternoon on Wednesday.I still have several errands to run, some laundry to do, and finish packing. Craziness.

So, yesterday I sang in church. It was a last minute thing, but it was an easy arrangement of my favorite song, so it wasn't hard to prepare for. I was just a bit nervous since it was my first musical debut in our new ward (besides choir). O.k., there were actually 3 of us, but still. We sang Sally DeFord's arrangement of "Come Thou Fount". Did I mention how much I love this song? It was especially beautiful because we had a violin and an oboe as well. So pretty. It gave me chills. I would have loved just listening to them. Anyway, I think it went pretty well.Glad it's over.

So, this morning we had an appointment to take our van to get serviced. Tony was supposed to meet me at the car place after his dr. appointment. I ran around like crazy trying to get me ready, and gather up some supplies to prepare for the card class I am going to teach while at my mom's house. They told us it would be about 2 hours, so I figured I would wait, so I wanted something to do. Well, Logan didn't wake up until after 8, and so I hurried and got him dressed, and made him toast to eat in the car. I loaded him and all my stuff, then woke up Avery to put her in the car. I finally got us all loaded by around 8:40, only to discover that the battery was dead. Arggghhh! So, I unloaded everyone, and Logan was crying beause he wanted to go, and I was mad because I had woken up Avery and I knew she wouldn't go back to sleep. I had to call the car place and tell them i was coming later, and then I had to call the doctor's office to tell Tony that I needed him to come home to jump the van. Anyway, it all worked out in the end. It was my fault that the battery was dead however, so I can't blame that on anyone but myself.

Last night I was trying to figure out stuff on my new mp3 player. I discovered that the Kansas libraries have free downloads of audio books and cd's. You have to "check" them out, so if they are already "checked" out, you have to place a hold just like you would if it was an actual book. Of course the books I wanted were all checked out. Anwyay...I was trying to download some audio books to listen to on our trip. Well, then I told Tony that I needed a cable to plug the mp3 player into the van. He told me he had one so I was really excited to try it out. Tony, Logan and I all went out and sat in the van and listened to music from my mp3 player in the van.I happened to turn on the reading lights for Tony to read the manual for the stereo system. He and Logan went in after a while, but I stayed and listened for a while. Silly, I know. Well, I forgot to turn off the reading lights, hence the dead battery this morning.Duh!

And another note. Today is our 8th wedding anniversary. We didn't do a single thing to celebrate other than say "Happy anniversary". Sad, I know. We are planning on going out to dinner when in San Diego so my parents can baby-sit. That will be really nice. There was just too much to think about with getting ready for our trip, that we didn't even try to squeeze in our anniversary. All I have to say is that by year 10, we better be able to celebrate in style. I will give us one more year of blah anniversaries, but by #10, it better be good. Like a trip somewhere, or maybe even a wedding band to go with my ring. I didn't want one at first, but now I think I do. I want lots of sparkle.Ok. 2 more years. I can wait.

Doctor visits

Today both kids had a doctor appointment. Avery went for her 4 month, and Logan went for his 3 year. Both kids had shots. Logan was sooooo brave! He didn't even cry! I was very proud of him. So here are the stats:

Logan weighed 31 pounds and is 37 inches long. 50% for height, and 80% for weight.
Avery weighed 13 lbs. 10 oz. which is 60% for weight, 26 inches long which was 97% for length, and her head is in the 95%. When Logan was 4 months old he weighed 16 lbs.6 oz, and was 27 inches long.Anyway...it is fun to see how they have grown, and to compare them as well.

We leave on our trip next Wednesday, so I have a lot of planning and preparing to do before then! Yikes! Can I get it all done in time? I need to get my haircut, go shopping for some clothes for me, and new shoes for Logan, and get the van serviced.And then figure out how to pack everything.Such fun! I have lots of movies for Logan to watch, but I need to figure out good snacks for the road. I am all for suggestions of any good trips for cross country drives!We will take a cooler, and hopefully stuff for sandwiches, etc. so we don't have to eat out too much. Anyway...it will be an adventure!

FREE PIANO!!!!

Yeah! I am so excited! My fetish with Craigslist has paid off. I got us another free piano. You can't beat that. We had a free piano in Indiana, but gave it to some friends when we moved. I have been wanting to find another one for our new house, but we just didn't have it in the budget right now. I have found some pianos for sale for a few hundred dollars that I thought we could do a bit down the road, but Sunday night I saw this one for free! It is in decent shape, and for free I couldn't complain! It turned out just right because Tony's cousin happened to come into town last night and had a truck. So we just needed one more guy from the ward to help, and we moved in our new piano! My dear husband has had quite a bit of experience moving pianos, and our neighbor had a dolly and some ramp thingy's to wheel it off the truck onto our door step, so it was a breeze! Ha! I say that as I watched three men turning red and dripping sweat. It will need a tuning eventually, but it sounds much better than our last one! It looks a bit better too. I figure with Logan playing it, it doesn't have to be in the best of shape. We can always pass it on and buy a nicer one some day if we want.