Not Quite Easter

...but some new church clothes for Hailey and Jaden.

(Besides, I needed a new post :) 

Savannah Blessing

I have to admit, these pictures look better than what reality was. The way Annie put it, "It wasn't an ideal weekend, but it was, what to was". We almost postponed at the last minute,  but since we had travel plans and Mike and Carrie had travel travel plans we decided to go ahead. Alex had been sick for a couple of weeks with a staph infection- to make a long story short- by Sunday morning he was back in the ER. I was sick at our motel (probably brought a nasty stomach bug from home). Carrie was sick at their motel. Ron helped Annie get the boys and Savannah to church. Mike got his boys ready and went to sacrament meeting. (They had to head back home about noon- with Mike feeling somewhat ill at that point) Annie and Alex got permission to do the blessing at home at 12:30 on Monday. Then Annie had to take us to the airport about 1:10. Good thing the Santa Barbara airport is small and close.

Some of the good points of the weekend- besides the blessing- was the Simms boys and the Thompson boys got to play with each other. We had alittle outing to the SB zoo on Saturday afternoon. Ron spent almost all of his time on Friday, Saturday, and Monday morning, building a tree house in the back yard. The CA weather was magnificent. Savannah is a little angel and a miracle- Alex says that a Simms girl is only born every 64 years :)

Little White Dress

We are headed to CA this weekend with a little white dress.

Savannah's blessing is on Sunday.

 Annie's wedding dress.

 Savannah's blessing dress.

You Would Think...

it's Ron's birthday, or something, and he feels like he can do whatever he wants :)

He has been sitting on our bed reading a book all evening. Pretty exciting stuff around here :) He is old enough to retire..oh wait a minute...he already did that. But he is not old enough to get all of his retirement money yet. (59.5 for that :) But we already have plans to spend a good portion of that as soon as he gets it. haha
Since my oven is broken, I did the best I could with dinner in a crock pot. He is not a birthday cake person, but I know he loves pie. Thanks to a friend, willing to give up part of her Sunday afternoon nap, to let me use her oven- we had birthday, raspberry apple rhubarb pie. (I have managed, to figure out how to master that after 36 years.) I wasn't going to buy him a gift, but there were some music CD's he wanted. I ordered those on line last week- hoping to be a surprise, but I didn't get to the email confirmation before he did. So no surprise, and not arriving until Thursday. I told you there is some exciting stuff around here. We maybe old and boring, but we are still in love with each other. We have some exciting plans for this year. I'm super glad that I have Ron- he is a great husband, and father. And unlike with the kids (where I may not know exactly where they are these days) I usually have no trouble finding Ron... right there beside me!

Our Middle Child...

is 30!

Now no counting to try to figure out how old that makes me :)

Sounds like Sam has turned the "go to a wedding week" into "celebrate Aud's bday all week". It started out with thirty candles, that caught her hair on fire :) I'm not sure exactly what else has been planned and I'm not sure exactly where they are. I guess I'm not supposed to know where my children are, any more, right?!

Happy Birthday. We love you and we adore your cute family.

For Ron

This song seems like it is "from" a guy- but if you skip the line about "giving life to our children"- it works just as well "for" a guy :) Ron truly is my bread, my shelter, my hope, my strength, my anchor, and my best friend. My Valentine.

Corner Man...Oh, I mean Corner Woman

I did what I was told. "Here take the end of this tape measure and go stand at that corner." So I was Ron's corner woman, to roughly stake out the house.

Here he is, trying to figure out something :)

While, I am standing at a corner with my camera.

I can't remember which corner I was standing at here.

This might be the front of the house or it might be the back of the house :)

This pile of cactus is the corner of the wrap around porch,

just outside of Ron's study.

In this picture, I am standing in mom's bedroom, looking out a back window. Those trees will need to be removed- they are too close to the house.

In this picture, I am standing in the back yard, looking down the breezeway between the house and the garage.

This pile of burnt rocks is our living room.

Are you impressed yet? hehe

It will only get better from here.