April 2013

 It is finally time to post about April's adventures. I got back to town from Disneyland on the third but included all of Disney's adventures in March. The first major incident of April was dad getting sick. He was having pains on his right side and not always able to keep food down. We thought it was his appendix so I took him to the emergency room and discovered that instead he had kidney stones.
Off to another doctor's office and then we set up the appointment for the next day to have them blasted.

Here he is just before the nurse took him into the room for his procedure. She weighed him before he got into his hospital gown and he has lost a lot of weight since a year ago when he broke his hip. He is down to 140 pounds.  He just doesn't feel like eating much: whether I take him to his favorite restaurant or to my house for one of his favorite meals, he isn't much for eating.

In the middle of the month, I took Kaven to Park City for a Lego exhibit at an art gallery. We were both quite enchanted with what can be done with Legos.

This is a self-portrait of the Lego art work exhibit's creator - made with Legos of course. 

This Lego art was Kaven's favorite piece. I wonder why?

This was my favorite piece and though you can't tell - it was life size.

Finally, on the very last day of the month I decided to visit the plant nursery to get some fertilizer while I had my nephew with me to be the muscles of the operation. While sitting in the turn lane waiting to turn left, and with my signal on: a lady hit us going 45 miles per hour and knocked me out for a minute and totaled my car. We were so fortunate that dad wasn't with us as we had just dropped him off at the assisted living center after taking him out to lunch.  Devon wasn't hurt but I had a bit of whiplash and they had to take me to the hospital for a few hours of observation. Other than being a bit stiff and without my car that I loved all was well. We were so blessed as we both could have been hurt really badly.  Unfortunately, my brains were scrambled for a week or two because I would forget things easily and totally forgot to get a picture of the car after the accident. The back bumper was behind the front seats and I had really wanted to get a picture of that. Plus, I forgot to get ALL my stuff out of the car before the insurance company picked it up and trashed it.

March 2013

 It is now the first of June and I am so behind I decided to put March info here so I don't forget. My life doesn't seem that busy, but the days seem to run by so fast that the fact that I can't even get a post entered once a month is ridiculous. So here is March. I am going to put lots of pictures in and hope that I remember everything I wanted to write about back in March.

I finally made the black curtains for my office/sewing room and got them hung up in the cleaned out rooms. The front door was painted black last year so now the windows on each side of the door are black also and it looks better than the miss-mash I previously had hanging in the windows. I got the curtains from my daughter who didn't like them in her house and I traded fabric for them. I cut them in half and had the perfect amount of fabric left over to cover both windows.

The end of March I flew to Orange county to meet up with the Browns for a romp at Disneyland.  We all met at the airport and then motored over to a house they had arranged for us all to stay at. It was a large home that the owner regularly lets her extended family stay in while visiting her, Disneyland, or California in general. Luckily, she trusted her grand daughter's opinion of us and let us stay there too. The house was huge and had a yard for the kids to run in, a hot tub and a swimming pool. It was so much better than being cooped up in a motel for 5 days. Here is a picture I took of the Browns at Disneyland. I am not sure at what time of day it was but I think it was first thing on the first day. The youngest had never been so were still unsure what a treat was in store, plus it was verrrry early.

The first few rides we weren't standing in line long but after that - oh brother!  We managed to get the rides in FantasyLand the first day, AdventureLand the second day, and repeats the third day. We took a break of two days between the second and third day of standing in line and going on rides. The "fast pass" helped the lines a bit but it was still a lot of standing. The kids took it like champs though and we had no meltdowns or temper tantrums. They are such good kids.

Standing in line again.

Bumper cars

I got to sit out on Dumbo and just take pictures!

Kyle just being "Goofy."

The hat Aaron picked for his take-away.

Just trying on funny hats.

  

The hat Chloe chose for her take-away.

Trying on hats was really good for a lot of laughs from us all but only Aaron and Chloe bought them. It was truly entertaining for us all though just to observe.

Sarah trying on BiG HaT.

Emma crowned as Princess of Love and Beauty!

We spent one night dining and being entertained at Medieval Knights eating establishment. After our knight won the tournament he crowned Emma his princess. She wasn't nearly as thrilled at it as we were.  Thus, ended my month of March,  although a couple days of Disney were in April. Oh, well.