Thanks ladies!

So thankful for the two sweet friends, Christina G and Alicia W, who spent the morning helping us with the move. You ladies are angels! Can't wait to get to the new house tonight and be done with this!

A Husband Quiz

WITHOUT ANY prompting, ask your boyfriend/husband these questions and write down EXACTLY what they say. 

(I did this with Hubby, and here's what he said.)

1. What is something I always say to you? "You're nice"

2. What makes me happy? Quiet evenings

3. What makes me sad? Family problems

4. How do I make you laugh? When you're being silly

5. What was I like as a child? "I wasn't there!"

6. How old am I? 45

7. How tall am I? 5'2"

8. What is my favorite thing to do? Play with your phone (busted! But everything else is either packed or sounds too exhausting, haha)

9. What do I do when you're not around? A combination of things

10. If I become famous, what will it be for? Genealogy or music

11. What am I really good at? See above

12. What am I not very good at? Handling stress smile emoticon

13. What do I do for a job? Housewife

14. What is my favorite food? Ummm...halibut.

15. What makes you proud of me? You're a good mommy (♥)

16. If I were a character, who would I be? Either Meg or Jo from Little Women

17. What do you and I do together? Hang out, go to movies, shopping, church stuff

18. How are you and I the same? We both love peace and hate confrontation

19. How are you and I different? I'm chill about most situations, and you're....not wink emoticon

20. How do you know I love you? By the way you talk to me

21. What do I like most about you? That I'm sweet

22. Where is my favorite place to go? The beach!!

WE HAVE KEYS!!!

NEW HOUSE NEW HOUSE NEW HOUSE

Trek Adventures

Hubby and I slept on our cots underneath some cozy tree branches last night, which would have been fun and romantic except that 1) We are so tired and 2) I woke up this morning and found bird crap on my pillow. Awww, thanks bird!

Oh man. I'm unbelievably tired and my feet feel like I'm walking on bare bone. We got breakfast for the group, took everything apart and packed it in the trailer, and rode to the beach and set up. We had lunch waiting for everyone (or was it the other way around?) and I slapped people's hands if they tried to take more than one cookie. They were Costco cookies and everyone loves Costco cookies. 

We rode back to the stake center. I'm so sunburned. Wishing my dad were around so he could ask if my face hurts. "Cuz it's KILLING me!"

What a day.

Day 3 of Trek, and we're not done yet. Here's a map of the route the Trekkers took over the last two days - 25+ miles over some of the most physically demanding terrain in our stake's Trek history (or so we heard from some experienced Mas and Pas). 

Yikes

After spending the night in a rock quarry, I kid you not, we woke up under a wet tarp. It was seriously one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. I was very, very grateful that Hubby had our tarp ready when the sweet cool mist turned into rain in the middle of the night, and that he woke up enough to spread it over us. We were nice and toasty warm in spite of the rain.

Then everyone loaded up again and the kids walked some more, this time to a cushy campground outside of Long Beach. It was a most welcome sight.

These are tired, sore, but happy feet

Leaving for Trek today!

Heaven help us!

Okay, no whining. Let's do this.

Getting good work done today. Moving next week actually seems possible now. 

Trek is in three days, we'll be gone for four days, and then we move three days after that. 

CRAP

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all of you awesome dads, especially my kids' dad, aka UltraDad. You are better and more than I ever thought to ask for. I love you always.

Hubby may be an awesome dad but he sure is being a baby about my singing every conversation to "I'm So Glad When Daddy Comes Home." WHATEVER you big pantywaist

We're getting down to the wire.

Boxes will now go from having cute, color coordinated labels to being labeled "Food" or "Not Food".

Later: Mom and Jeremy are here, and we went to P-town and had lunch with Hubby. Mom asked me to drive, since I'm familiar with the area. We were parked in a parking garage, and as we were leaving, I backed into some lady's Volvo, going about 1 mph. Oops. Dumb. Stupid. She was fine, we were all fine. Hopefully Mom's insurance will think it's fine, too.

At any rate, after that happened, my thoughts were, "All right, that's it. The day is over and I'm going to bed." And can you blame me? Oh no. You cannot. 

Last Day of School

First some science-y wisdom from Carter:

"It's a little known fact that if you pull off a lizard's tail, it'll grow back. But if you pull it off again, the lizard'll be like, "Dude."

Today was Rosalind's last day of elementary school, which equals the end of a long era for our family. No more school supply lists including crayons and paints. Awww! Sad! I met her after school and we hugged people goodbye - I will admit that I cried when I hugged and said goodbye to certain teachers and a particular secretary who "loves her Rosalind." We have loved this school and the staff.

With her friend Rylee

With Ms.W. She was also Carter's first grade and
fifth grade teacher, and we are huge fans. We're going to stalk
her at her new school this coming year (shhh, don't tell her).

Miss Judie the secretary. Oh goodness,
how we love this sweet woman. 

Note the Kleenex. Lots of bawling.

Mr. K, who was never Roz's teacher but had a fun trick
of shaking a kid's hand and leaving behind a piece of candy or sticker
or eraser. He was also "really funny."

Ms. F, one of our favorite crossing guards,
best known for her Gummy Bear Fridays.

 After school, some of the school families met at the nearby park (close to our old house) for the yearly end-of-school picnic. Here's a group shot of the kids:

Kind of frightening

It's weird to think that there was ever a time when I wasn't obsessed with boxing up everything in the house.

Spelling Bee

Roz had a spelling bee today and she was nervous about it. This morning she told me to make silly faces at her while she was up on stage. "One time in the Primary program, Jaydn made faces at me and it helped me feel better."

Thanks, Jaydn, for that. I plan to return the favor at your missionary farewell. :) 

She made it to the very end, down to herself and another kid, and she misspelled a word, which the other kid spelled correctly. It was a crushing loss but we were so proud of her. She did a wonderful job. 

I can't school today. I have the tired.

Seriously. Why does our school year go so late?

Free is the best price

We're done with our dining table, so I had Brennan and Bella put our table and some other furniture outside on the front lawn with "Free" signs. I'd love to say that we're just generous and philanthropic people but really, we're just too lazy to try and figure out how much our very well used furniture would be worth, place ads, show it to people who come over, and haggle over price.

At any rate, a young man pulled over his car (not easy on our street) and asked if the table was really free. "Yep," Bella and I said. He was quite happy. He loaded up the table in the back of his truck and was on his way.

Bella noted, "It's nice to think that we can be Fortune smiling down on someone." 

I love thinking of it that way. May it ever be thus.

Stupid Landlady

Packing for the move *and* for Trek: Just. Why.

We've been planning on going on the Trek since October, when Hubby was called to serve on the stake Trek committee. Then in early February, we found out we're moving. 

THEN WE FOUND OUT THESE TWO HUGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THE SAME WEEK. 

Bringing me to my pondering... why. Why on earth. I'm sure there's a reason why this would be asked of us but right now, it's hard to see what that reason may be, unless it's "The Universe hates us."