Life moves on and on.

So life has been crazy in the last few weeks. I have had some ups and downs. First of all I have to say careful what you pray for because God answers prayers. In my last post I said I was praying for a early freeze to kill all the spiders well I got it. We even got a bit of snow. I'm not brave enough to check on the spider situation in the storage unit but I haven't seen one around here in a while:)

Week One: Projects.

I went to enrichment a few weeks ago and came home with a ton of projects. We made treats for every woman in the ward as a way to track visiting teaching. My visiting teachers were in charge of the treats so I offered to help finish this making treats. This was a huge blessing because I was able to get to know my new friend Jen after 5 hrs of marshmallow fun I feel like we bonded. Two of the other projects were quilts that needed to be bound. One was tricky because, well long story, but it was just tricky. So blessing #2 Melissa said she would help me figure out how to fix this problem. It took us a good part of the day but the quilt was finished and I now fill like I have 2 new friends. The last project was get my visiting teaching done. Enter Sarah Allen. We have met in passing but only passing. She is my visiting teaching partner but we just can get together. We found time, and as we visited one of our families I learned Sarah is super sweet as well. I ended the week with 3 new friends each very different. The truly amazing thing is I would start the next week in need of a friend!

Week Two: Bad News

While hanging out with Melissa last Monday I got a phone call telling me my dad was sick. Ok so I knew he wasn't filling well so it didn't catch me totally off guard, but the fact he was in a ambulance on his way to Price shook me a bit. My Dad WILL NOT do an ambulance conscious so I knew it was bad. It took a while(the next day) before I found out how serious it was. He was life flighted to University hospital in critical condition. He had Pneumonia in both lungs my mom found him passed out on the floor. His organs were shutting down from lack of oxygen(way long story short). He has been in ICU for 7 days now and is still on a ventilator but doing so much better than we could have asked for. He may be getting of the ventilator today!!! He is responsive and has no long term damage to his organs from lack of oxygen. Melissa has been so sweet to talk to me and help me trough this(she also gave me some Maternity clothes so I don't have to brave the storage unit right now:). Sarah finished our visiting teaching and was wonderful to talk to as well. It was nice to have friends to talk to and hold me together for a while. Bottom line Dad is doing well and I leave for New Hampshire as planned on Friday morning.

Week 3: Back in the swing of things.

It just started but on a good note. While we were in SLC visiting Dad we stayed at Shane and Karen's house. They had yummy food for us and Karen suggested we carve pumpkins. So we started to carve pumpkins at 9:00pm by 9:30 Abby was asleep and Aiden had given up as well. Kye stuck it out until the end not leaving Sam's lap until 10:30pm when his vampire was finished (pictures to follow). I took Kye back to school today. I was a bit was afraid to face Mrs. Briggs after missing a whole week of school. I decided to go in and tell her how it was "we were dealing with a family emergency and he's going to miss Monday and Tuesday next week as well." She was so nice and totally understanding. We do have a ton of homework to catch up on though and she is making a packet for next week. So Dottie will have fun with that! It's been strange the way life just works out. I'm so thankful for all of the help I received from Friends and Family. I'm looking forward to dad's recovery and my trip to New Hampshire.

Getting started.
The fun part scooping out the slime!! No Aiden is not eating pumpkin goo he found a dish of pretzels that kept him busy for a while. Shane helped about as long as Abby did. Karen ended up doing 2 pumpkins one for Aiden and one for her little cousin Raquel(I'm not sure if I spelled that right). We tried to get Aiden to touch the slime but he was fine just looking. This is the only part my sweet girly Abby had and interest in. Pulling out the slimy seeds! Yucky! This is Raquel she is the most respectful kid I know. If an adult talks she responds with complete respect. "Yes Trinadee" "I would love to Janice" "Excuse me may I please call you Trin" soo cute. Typical Shane and Aiden. Shane dangling yucky pumpkin guts over Aiden's head! Enough messing around down to business. Abby was out cold. Adding a finishing touch.

Fall in Mount Pleasant

I LOVE FALL!!
The colors are so invigorating. Having spent most of my life in Carbon and Emery Countys it's a change to be in the lush green valley of Sanpete. We have spent some much needed time outdoors on the mountain this month just enjoying the foliage. Although the colors are so bold you can enjoy them from town. The whole mountainside is a range of red, yellow and orange with a touch of green from the pines. This weekend we also had the wonderful blessing of moisture. For 3 days strait I don't think it stopped drizzling. So out bright mountain is now snow capped!! Now don't get me wrong fall is beautiful in Emery as well, but with our beloved Desert taking up most of our scenery we don't get the bright colors of the oaks.


My cold family on a nature hike in the rain.
One shot of fall trees the cool red trees were on the top but my camera died.
Abby in the rain.
As much as I love this area I have come to find the down side of our moist fall climate. We are over run by bugs. Not just the cute little rolly polly bugs Abby loves or fun little baby slugs she enjoys holding, but HUGE GIGANTIC CREEPY SPIDERS. I have become accustomed to the mutant bread of Wolf Spider in our house so that's not the problem. Sam says "they are so big it like chasing a lizard instead of a spider"(he gets a kick out of it). He was very understanding of the first few frantic phone calls about spiders in our house and even ran home to rescue me once. I think he was a bit annoyed today when I call in a huff over spiders in our storage unit. I couldn't even enter because of the mass collection of spiderwebs. I opened the door prepared for the worst or so I thought(I had some warning from Sam). I had to work hard to compose myself when I opened the door to a million earwigs(I don't know that's just what I call them) running out. Abby on the other had was squealing with excitement at all the bugs to chase and step on. "Oh look mommy they run so fast" she squealed. Anyway back to the problem at hand the spiders. I hate them they are in all the boxes and I swear at least one of them is a Black Widow. If I could afford it I would just abandon it all right there no problem. But I need my maternity clothes(just ask Grandma Nina) and baby stuff. So I'm praying for a super freeze that will wipe them all out so I can move on with my life. Is it wrong to pray for the death of one of Gods creatures? I guess it dose sound a bit harsh but YUCK.

I feel a bit better now getting this all off my chest thanks for letting me rant. I hope everyone is has a blissfully spider free fall!!! Go out and enjoy a fresh picked apple for me :)

(at the request of many I won't creep you out with more spider pictures)