Bad Luck

Last time I checked I do not recall walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror or even seeing a black cat cross my path but I still have managed to apparently bring upon myself a streak of bad luck.

Let's recap shall we....

1. Replace a $500 pressure pot in the basement that was never broken in the first place.

2. Water problems that led to our hole digging extravaganza.

3. I lost my cell phone

4. While biting into a raisin...yes a raisin...I broke my tooth on a pit that has led to several dentist appointments and a crown.

5. Our lovely night at the movies that I will now refer to as Butter Fest 2008!

Here is our new list that I have not blogged about yet...

6. Our lawn mower has decided to be temperamental and will only work if you cut the grass at the highest setting so it looks like you did not even cut the grass.

7. Our dishwasher started leaking and the racks were all rusted out so we decided to get a new one. Yay new dishwasher right????? Well some of the buttons are already not working so here I am blogging away waiting for someone to show up to "FIX" our brand new appliance.

AHHHHHH and now we arrive to this morning.....

My husband has BAD luck with car keys. The stories begin with just plain loosing them, to throwing them away in the trash at work, to leaving on a business trip and taking BOTH sets of van keys with him leaving me stranded at home with no transportation until the FEDEX envelope arrived the next day.

So this morning I get up and managed to get 5 people dressed, fed, teeth brushed and ready to go by 8 A.M. Before Charlie left he pulled the van keys out of his drawer and set them on the counter and left for work. I hauled all the kids in the car and was feeling like a proud momma to be ready for the day so early. Then it happened....

I went in the house to get the keys off the counter. Hmmmmm no keys. So I start to look around. Still no keys. Ok...no problem I will just use the spare. Hmmmmmm no spare either. So I start to call Charlie. No answer. Finally he calls back and sure enough in his pocket are the keys that after he put on the counter he immediately picked back up and left! So there he sat with his keys, my keys and yes also the spare keys! He brought them home and we got Ethan off to his class an hour late. And so my day continues.....

I admit that all of these things are really mostly minor irritations, and for that I feel lucky, but I am ready for the streak to end. Maybe I should go buy myself a rabbits foot and search out in the yard for a four leaf clover :)

Wish me luck!

May I have some popcorn with my butter?

If you go to the movies and decide to get a tasty treat and there is a very blond girl behind the counter helping you when she asks, "Do you want butter on that?" say NO!!!!!

I should have known something was very wrong when I went to fill the girls drinks up and I looked down and the baby's brand new car seat was COVERED in melted butter. It was a good thing the canopy was up or I would have had one slippery baby.

I was smart enough to take Morgan's box back and ask for a new one (minus the butter) but for some reason I never thought to take back Abby's as well. This is the sight I saw after the movie was over.


How Abby managed to get it all up her backside as well is a mystery to me. It was also all over their shirts but you can't see that in the pictures.

So after our girls night (the boys were at a father son camp out) I got to go home and scrub and scrub and scrub some more. Things are looking a little better today but I think I still have some more work to do if I want to try and make their clothes wearable again.

I jokingly referred to my girls as butter ball turkeys for the rest of the evening. What a funny night!

Nauvoo

We are home from our family reunion in Nauvoo and Chicago. This was the first time my whole family was all together in several years so it made this trip extra special. We all had a blast and the kids (even the baby) did so well given the long car trips and long hot days outside.

We woke up one morning in Nauvoo to a ton of fog. Charlie ran down to the temple and got some really cool shots. I loved this one of Joseph and Hyrum.

This was one of my favorite moments in Nauvoo. This is an area where they have lots of pioneer games and dress up for the kids to just play with. My kids could have spent all day there.

I loved these pictures of our adorable pioneer girls!

Here are a few of our attempts at getting some family pictures...boy was it hard!

This was Samuel's baby blessing. Charlie's sister came with her kids and her new baby that was born just a few weeks after Samuel. It was so nice to be able to bless the baby with family around.

The kids all played a big baseball game in the backyard and the girls were the cheerleaders.
I could not have asked for a nicer trip. I only wish I could see them all more often. It was hard to say goodbye this time especially since I was saying goodbye to the home I have many wonderful memories in. My parents have moved to Utah and the movers came the day after we left. Charlie and I have been making the drive between my house and his for over 14 years!!! This was the house where we had our first kiss, where I got my first car, where I blessed two of my children....the list could go on and on. It was wonderful to say goodbye on a good note all together as a family.

This was taken on the front porch of our beautiful home.....what great memories!!!!