Wisconsin Trip

Suddenly, it seems like Fall is upon us. We left Idaho on Thursday morning, September 27th to start our drive to Wisconsin and the boys had still been wearing shorts and T shirts to school up until then. But then we got to Wisconsin and it was mostly cold and rainy while we were there. We did have a couple days of sun, but most of the time it was definitely sweatshirt (and maybe even winter coat!) weather. Then we returned to Idaho to find that Fall had also arrived there. The boys and I actually had a stand-off on Monday when they had to go back to school because they both insisted that they should wear shorts! (The temperature outside was 29 degrees when I looked at my phone.) I argued, "It is NOT summer anymore! You need to wear pants!" When they continued to protest, I went a little mom crazy and told them, "I am taking all of your shorts! They are mine now!!!" and then took every pair of shorts out of their dresser drawers and hid them in my closet. I told them they can "check out" basketball shorts to wear to bed if they need them. Crazy? Maybe. But they need to learn.

Anyways! So, yes, it is Fall now and I'm a little sad about it. I plan to travel someplace warm like Hawaii when Josh is retired and spend winters there. But for now, here we are in Idaho. As we drove home from Wisconsin, we got to see some really pretty views, especially as we drove from Bozeman, Montana down through the Big Sky/Yellowstone area and down back into Idaho. We wove through a lot of mountain canyons and saw lots of orange leaves on cottonwood trees. I tried to take pictures but this was really the best one I got out my window:

We got home Sunday night at about 7:00pm after two days of long driving. We stopped in Bismarck, ND on the way home from Wisconsin and on the way there we stopped in Jamestown. One the way there, we found a hotel with a water slide that we stayed at overnight, which the kids loved. On the way home we just had a basic pool and hot tub, but it was fun because we had swam a lot in Wisconsin at the Kalahari.

So when we first arrived in Wisconsin, we went to my mom's house and had dinner and just chatted for a couple hours. Then we headed over to my grandma Dahlke's house (where we sleep while we are there.) We always just take over my grandma's basement because she had a living room and a spare bedroom and bathroom down there. But Gabe now also takes over the spare bedroom/office upstairs and sleeps on her day bed. he says he likes it because it's all to himself and he can have it pitch black. (At home he shares a room with Caleb and Caleb likes to have a little night light.) So we chatted with my grandma and then got to bed.

The next day (Saturday) we didn't do anything too exciting. We hung out at my mom's house and we took the kids to Lakeside park to play. My grandpa Bestor stopped by and said hi, but quickly had to leave to get to breakfast with my aunt, Nancy, and her grand daughter, Anna. My grandpa is always in high-demand, so it's hard to schedule time to see him sometimes. ;) He's always got things to do and people to see.

Sunday, we drove up to Oshkosh for church. They are adding on to our church building in Fond du Lac, so our ward is driving up to Oshkosh for the next six months (or until it is finished). It brought back memories of when I was a kid and we used to have to drive to Oshkosh for all of our church activities and Sunday church. It wasn't until I was about 14 that we split off from Oshkosh and got our own ward building in Fond du Lac. I was telling my kids how we used to have to drive all that way and they thought that sounded horrible. Here in Rexburg our church is just down the road (within walking distance of our house.) So, because the building in Oshkosh is being shared by the other ward, I was able to see a lot of people I haven't seen in a while - the Lamont's, the Rhodes' (not any relation to Josh), Alissa Palmer, and more. I was having major de ja vu being back there and around all those old people from my youth! After church we went to my mom's and watched football and hung out. We also played a few rounds of bingo. Avery and Brayden took turns being the "callers" (with help from me and Rachel.)

Monday, my mom and I went to the Oshkosh outlet mall and we dropped off Josh and the kids at the EAA flight museum while we shopped. We honestly didn't know how exciting that was going to be for them (we really just wanted to get rid of them while we shopped) but when we picked them up a couple hours later they said it was surprisingly really fun and interesting! They had lots of old planes and then some hands-on type of exhibits for the kids. We left Oshkosh at about 3:00 and came back to FDL, then left our kids at my mom's house while Josh and I went out to dinner with Gini and Drake. We went over to their house first and then rode with them to this Mexican restaurant. I wasn't too impressed with the food but it was fun to get out with Gini and Drake and catch up. It was funny to see her again so "soon" (for us every six months is soon.) Drake is liking his coaching job at Marian and they are currently house hunting for a bigger house in FDL.

Tuesday morning we went bowling with my mom. I, for some strange reason, was struck by this super human bowling ability that first game and did amazing! Usually my mom is the one to beat (she was a bowling champion back in the day... hahaha nerd alert... lol) but I even beat her on the first game! I bowled a 125! (Which isn't even that good, but still good for me.) Josh did end up coming from behind and winning just BARELY with like a 130. The next game, my ability vanished and I stunk. My mom won that round.

In the afternoon, we went to the Little Farmer. Jasmine, Rachel, and Brayden joined us there too. It was kind of cloudy and muddy from the rain they had gotten over the previous few days. But the kids had a lot of fun riding these giant tricycles around a little race track. (Although I was informed they have four wheels so they are technically NOT TRIcycles.) They also went through the corn maze, but it was so muddy that I turned back halfway and left Josh to manage the children alone! Luckily, I had anticipated the muddy corn maze (I learned from previous years) and brought along Avery's rubber rain boots just for that occasion!

Tuesday night we met up with grandpa again and he treated us to dinner at the Chinese buffet. My mom, Rachel, Brayden, Jasmine, and my grandma Dahlke all came along too. It seems to have become a tradition to meet up there every time we come to visit. Usually the tradition is also that I get to spend about three hours in the bathroom afterwards, but it seems like I passed that on to my grandpa this year as he informed us that he experienced the diarrhea effect this time afterwards. ;) haha (I hope you are reading this and laughing right now grandpa. Don't worry, only you and about two other people read this blog.)

Wednesday was our big Lambeau Field trip day! Josh and Caleb were especially excited about this. But first we met up with grandpa again for breakfast at McDonalds. The kids got to play a little in the newly redone play place!

My mom rode up to Green Bay with us and came on the Lambeau tour too. Rachel was working and Jasmine and Brayden were in school, so they didn't come along. When we first got there, we took some pictures outside and then went in and bought our tickets. The tour was only about an hour long, but we got to go up to the fifth floor and sit in one of the box suites which was really cool. That's probably the only time we will ever be in there! (Unless we magically win the lottery!) Then they took us all the way down on a secret special elevator to the basement level. We were able to walk out through the tunnel that the players run out of when they come onto the field. Then we went out onto the field and took some pictures. Caleb looked at the padded green wall where they do the "Lambeau leap" and decided it was too tall for him to be able to jump up on. After that, we went and played at the "Title town" kids area. They have some playground stuff and a big practice field where you can play around on. They also had this big hill that the kids ran down, but in the winter I guess you can tube down it. That whole section is brand new. They were actually still working on finishing the inside of the surrounding buildings for shops.

Thursday morning we went over to my mom's house and ate breakfast (like almost every morning, which I forgot to mention) and then right after that, my family drove to Wisconsin Dells to check in to the Kalahari. Mom, Rachel, and Jasmine and Brayden didn't come until a few hours later at about 1:30. But we wanted to get down there as early as possible so our kids could have more time to play. However, we weren't able to actually check into the rooms yet, so we ended up just doing to indoor "dry" amusement area with go-carts, laser tag, a ropes course, and more.

Once the rest of the crew arrived, we checked into our rooms and got our swim suits on and headed down to the indoor waterpark area. It was so nice because it wasn't busy at ALL at first! We were the only ones there it seemed like from about 2-6pm. Then people slowly started to arrive, but still not bad at all. Caleb and Gabe got to spend a lot of time on this surfing area where you learn how to ride the waves! There is a little coach that sits there and kind of tells you what to do, but mostly you just keep trying until you fall off and wash up back to the top!

There were about 10 big waterslides that were indoors also. Some of them you rode just one person at a time and others you would sit on a tube with 2-3 people. There was one ride that me, Rachel, Gabe, and Brayden walked up to the top. When we got there we asked Brayden if he wanted to do it and he said he wanted to ride with Gabe! We were a little nervous because it was kind of an intense ride, like a roller coaster but in a tube! So we told Brayden "hold on tight" and told Gabe to kind of wrap his legs around Brayden's waist! (Gabe was sitting in the tube behind Brayden.) After they got down the first time though, Brayden exclaimed, "AGAIN!" haha. He loved it! We couldn't even get Avery to go on that one! There were some other smaller slides that she did again and again. There was also a wave pool and a lazy river.

So we spent a long time there and then at about 6pm we left and went out to dinner at Culver's. Then we went back and did the indoor stuff again like the laser tag, ropes course, go carts, mini golf, rock climbing wall, and some other things. Mom and Jasmine had to leave early the next morning for a braces appointment for Jasmine, so they had to get all their stuff in that night! The next morning, Rachel and Brayden stayed with us and we did the water park again until about noon, then we checkout out and did a couple more rides on the go carts, then headed home. It was very fun and tiring!

We got back to Fondy at about 3pm on Friday. Then we spent some time doing laundry and packing up our suitcases at my grandma's house. Then we had dinner at my mom's house and relaxed and chatted. It was our last evening in Wisconsin and we were all sad and tired!

Saturday morning we loaded up our SUV and said goodbye to the whole crew - grandma Dahlke, grandpa Bestor, mom, Rachel, and Brayden! (Jasmine was at home asleep... we know where we stand with her. lol)

Then we drove away at about 7am! Until next time, Wisconsin!

As we drove home, we were able to listen to General Conference on our phones. It was a historic moment when President Nelson announced that they would be changing the church schedule from being 3 hours long to just 2 hours long. It has been 3 hours long for my whole life, so this was a pretty big deal! Part of the reason they are doing this is because the church membership has grown so much over the past 20 years that they are using lots of the church buildings for multiple wards on Sundays. They are having a hard time scheduling three different wards of people into the same building to allow for the big sacrament meeting, then the two hours of Sunday school classes. In our building for example, there is a group that meet at 8:30am (us), then another starts at 11:00, then another at 1:30, so some people don't get home from church until 4:00! Part of this new church schedule is that they will have some lessons available online that families can talk about at home. I'm a little worried about my kids' willingness to sit and listen to me as I try and teach them Sunday school lessons at home, but we will try! Most churches probably only meet for about an hour every Sunday anyways, but here we are just excited it's now only 2! haha. The other big thing they talked about was how we want to emphasis that our church is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" and not just "the Mormons." This is because some people apparently don't know we believe in Jesus. (Duh... it's in the church name, people!) So now the "Mormon Tabernacle Choir" is also the "Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square." (We are going to call it TabCATS for short haha)

So, now we are back at home and getting back into the swing of school and work again! Gabe had to make a diorama inside a shoebox from a book he read called "The Tripods". Luckily we did that before we left for Wisconsin so it was all ready to turn in the day we got back! It had lots of little trees (that I ordered from Amazon) and he painted a woodland scene around it (I helped a little.)

Gabe is officially done with soccer. He had his last game right before we left for Wisconsin. (See picture below) Caleb has one last football game this weekend so he has still been practicing after school this week. Halloween is just around the corner and the school and church parties are coming up this weekend!

That's all for now!

Family Pictures

We officially got our family pictures back! We actually took them on Saturday, August 25th s(making this note so I can remember for next year) and it was so perfect weather-wise! We had a nice clear night and it was about 75 degrees outside. My friend, Claire, did a great job! Here are some of my favorites!
I will post about the past month in a separate post!

First Week of School

Summer is officially over and the kids started back to school this last Wednesday. I think they were all a little secretly excited, though they have still complained about school being boring and wishing they could sleep in. We took our usual first day of school pictures. I also included myself this year. ;)

Avery had to be there first at 8:00. So at about 7:50, me, Gabe, Caleb, and Avery piled into the Buick and drove across the street to the elementary school. I walked her and and we found her new classroom. The teacher is Mrs. McCoy and I know her well because she is in our church ward. Caleb also had her for first grade. She said hello and Avery hung up her little sweatshirt and her Shopkins backpack. Pretty soon Avery was working on a coloring page at her little spot at her desk and I said goodbye to her and left to take the boys to school. There were no tears or anything. She looked a little nervous, but she has her friends Adrie and Chloe in there and I think that helped too.

Next, we headed to the Jr. High to drop off Gabe. That school is the furthest one from our house. Traffic was a bit crazy so I kind of took a back way. We arrived there at about 8:15 and I pulled up to the curb. I was absolutely SHOCKED that he did NOT want me to walk him in (haha) and so I just said goodbye and off he walked up to the school! We had gone the day before and found his locker and practiced opening it and everything. He is sharing with his best friend from down our street, Porter. (They got to choose their locker buddy.) So that will at least be one thing he is at ease about!

Finally, I headed to the middle school to drop off Caleb. I felt like we were really rushed when I dropped him in front of the school because there were a lot of cars behind us and didn't really get to say goodbye. So he got out and hurried into the school and then I went and parked and ran in and happened to catch him right at the door of his classroom. I wanted to give him a big hug and a kiss and say a proper goodbye. He didn't seem thrilled. lol Here is a picture of him ignoring me.

So then I came back home and cleaned up the house from the morning mayhem, did a couple things on my computer, ate breakfast, and at 10:50 I headed over to the elementary school for my first day helping as the front secretary! It was pretty busy with first day kinds of things. The two hours went by fast and then at 1:00 I left and met Josh at the police station for lunch. He told me that a big crash had happened at the intersection up by the temple about 1 minute after i had gone through it this morning! A girl from Africa who is here for college and had just gotten her license the day earlier accidentally turned left on a yellow arrow when she didn't have the right of way and turned into a car coming straight through from the opposite side. It was pretty lucky that we weren't there a minute later! My car would've been totaled!

Then I went home and dropped off my car, then walked to the corner of our neighborhood to wait for Avery and the rest of the neighborhood kids to walk home. They showed up at about 2:40 and there was a crew of about 40 of them! Seems like yesterday it was just Gabe! Now our neighborhood has grown and there are TONS of kids.

Avery and I got to relax and look over her backpack things for about 30 minutes, then it was time to go pick up Caleb and then Gabe who get done at 3:25 and 3:35. Gabe didn't seem too thrilled about his first day. His biggest complaint was that he didn't know anyone in his lunch hour. He said it was mostly 8th and 9th graders. But then by the second day he found one kid to sit by and then by Friday he listed of about 3 kids that he sat by. So hopefully he is making friends fast. Caleb, on the other hand, said he sat at "the football table" and knew a bunch of boys from his team. He also said his little friend, Benson, from down our street, sat there with them too. (Benson is literally half the size of Caleb. lol) But I'm happy he included him! I don't want him to be the jerk football player who doesn't talk to anyone else. Caleb said he loves his main teacher, Mr. Tanner, who is a big guy who loves superheros and cartoons and plays lots of games with his students. Basically I think he is like an older version of Caleb. Caleb said in one game they had to cross the room only stepping a certain number of steps on the ground and his team was running low on steps so he ended up carrying two girls across (at the same time) on his back. lol I wish I could have seen that. He was a little ticked off on the second day because he wanted to be the class president and apparently he lost to the other candidate (it came down to him and one other boy) by a few votes. I told him, "Do you really want to go to planning meetings during your lunch and recess anyways?" Then I think once he thought about it he decided that it was better he didn't win anyways. Avery seemed to do well on her first few days of school too. Her teacher plans so many fun things it's probably hard for them to ever get sad. They did this watermelon hunt on the first day of school that ended up with them getting to eat some watermelon, which is like Avery's all-time favorite food. So, hopefully they are all off to a good year!

Also this week, Caleb had his first football "jamboree" where they met up with lots of different teams in the area and play each one for about 20 minutes. Caleb's team dominated against all the teams they played at the jamboree. Then they had their first official game on Saturday morning, but it was against the Madison Red team. Basically the Madison Red team is a very strong team with a very obsessive coach who films every game (of every other team) and then goes home and watches the footage at night to plan their plays against them. He's what some people would call... crazy. lol But his team did beat our team on Saturday so I guess it paid off! However, Caleb did very well playing center and didn't let anyone by. Josh had warned him that the center on the other team was known to just plow through and sack the quarterback. Caleb didn't let him through once and on one play he actually pushed him to the ground and just laid on him for about 20 seconds. LOL We got a holding penalty for that. Josh was laughing so hard about it though. So anyways! I think it will be a good season. I think that is probably the toughest team we will play all season and our boys still played really well against them. I will need to get some good pictures of Caleb once they get their new uniforms. They have been wearing their old ones and it's very obvious that Caleb has grown out of his! haha It looks kind of like a belly shirt on him (he always has to wear a tshirt under it.)

Later in the evening on Saturday, we got our family pictures taken by my friend, Claire. She is just starting out her photography business and I thought it would be great since my kids know her and are comfortable with her. Well it turns out they were maybe a little TOO comfortable with her and didn't listen to direction very well during the pictures. I haven't gotten them all back yet from her so hopefully we got some good ones! Here is one she did send me so far though!

 That's all for now!

Wrapping Up the Summer Fun: Rigby Lake, Rexburg Rapids, Packsaddle Lake and Hike, Wade Lake and Camping, Heise Hot Springs....1 week 'til School Starts!

Only 7 more days until Summer Vacation 2018 is over and the kids are back to school! (But who's counting...?) I will admit, at the beginning of this Summer I thought, "How am I gonna make it through this Summer?" But now here it is almost over and it went really fast! The kids seriously seem to fight like crazy when they are all home and we are just hanging out at the house bored. So really we just tried to keep them busy and keep going places just so that I wouldn't completely lose my mind. So in May, I had made a list of all the possible things we could do this summer. And I think we did just about every single one of them! There's a couple of hikes we haven't done and horseback riding with grandpa's horses, but I think we will still do that in the Fall as it cools off a little.

So since the last time I wrote a blog, the things we have done are as follows:

Rigby Lake
We actually went here a few times this Summer. It's only about 15 minutes from our house. Josh bought this inflatable canoe from a neighbor who was moving and the kids have loved taking that out to Rigby Lake and other lakes. The boys always have these fights to see who can tip the other one off into the water first. We also have borrowed a little blue canoe that's perfect for Avery and she is getting to be quite the good little paddler. She can handle herself on that really well. So anyways at Rigby Lake we like to just go and the kids play in the sand and the water. Here are a few pictures of that...

Rexburg Rapids:
We also went here I think four times so far this summer. One time was just Josh and the kids with the soccer teams right at the beginning of Summer. Then I took them twice just by myself. Then once was with the whole family for the "city employees" night. I think we actually have two more punches on our pass to use up before next week so we will have to go one more time. The boys are old enough now that I basically let them run off and do their own thing. Avery sticks by me and is getting braver about swimming in deeper water. I usually make her wear her life jacket still if she's going to be in the deep end for linger than a couple minutes with me. But she's definitely getting more confident in the water. I don't know that I would trust her to swim across the pool from one end to the other where she couldn't touch... but probably by next summer. She did go down the water slides for the first time this summer! So that was an accomplishment! They don't let you wear life jackets down the slides either ("it can scratch the slides" - eyeroll face here....) so I would go down first and then kind of linger for a minute to help her as she came down the slide - just to make sure she could swim to the steps because it's just deep enough that she can barely touch on her tippy toes I think. So anyways! That's Rexburg Rapids. Here's another picture (that's a neighbor friend's little boy, Ethan Call, we went with their family one day while Josh was working)

PackSaddle Lake Hike (July 28, 2018):
This was one of my favorite weekends of the whole summer. And that's saying something because we did a LOT of fun things. We have done this hike once before and I just think it's such a beautiful hike and then it ends as i think ALL hikes should: with a beautiful lake at the end to swim in.

So my friends, Stacey and Kamrie, came up from Utah for the weekend of July 27-29. They got here Friday night and we just stayed in and watched Mama Mia 1 on Netflix. Then on Saturday we woke up early (by 8:00... very early) and had a big breakfast (thanks Josh) and then packed some sandwiches and put on our swimsuits with some comfy hiking clothes over them. We loaded into our SUV and drove about 40 minutes toward Teton. First you have to drive up some kind of treacherous dirt roads. But the higher you can get in your car, the less hiking you have to do. We made it to a certain point last time and we got about just as far this time. Any farther and the deep trenches in the road would be too much for our Buick Enclave to handle. So we parked off in some trees and then put on our backpacks and started the hike. First you hike up the road a little bit farther for about 15 minutes. Then you get to the very top part of the mountain, which looks out over the whole valley. (See photo:)

Then, you basically start the descent down into the trees again and the path is pretty narrow and gets kind of steep and rocky. Avery did really good though and I think Caleb complained more than her. Actually I know he did. Especially on the hike back out. But here are some pictures as we started to drop down into the canyon:

Once you get down the steepest part, then it becomes easier again and it's kind of shady and in the trees for about another 15 minutes. Pretty soon you are able to catch a glimpse of the lake as you hike lower and lower (Gabe is in official pre-teen mode in the picture:)

Then a few minutes later and you reach the lake! It is so beautiful! Surrounded by trees and very remote feeling! There was no one else there when we first arrived. As we stayed longer there were about two other families that hiked in, but still not too busy. As we were driving out we did pass more people so I think it's best to go by like 10am like we did! Here are some pictures of Avery doing her handshake with Kamrie and Stacey and Gabe by the rope swing. (We didn't attempt it this year because the water was pretty low and it would've been tricky to swing far enough out.)

After we got back home from the hike, we showered and then just me, Kamrie, and Stacey went out to Idaho Falls for dinner and to see Mama Mia 2. It was awesome! Such a fun night! Avery also loves when Aunt Stacey comes to town. (As you can see there's definitely a family resemblance:)

Wade Lake Camping Trip (August 1-2, 2018):
This was something that we really wanted to do this year. We had gone up to Wade Lake and Cliff Lake (they are right next to each other) last year and were just amazed at how beautiful and clear the water was. It's this hidden lake area that you get to by driving about an hour and a half from our house, heading north into Montana. It's just between West Yellowstone and Ennis. You have to drive on this gravel road for a while, then down this mountain valley. We decided that if we were going all that way we should try and camp overnight. So we got there just by fluke RIGHT at the best time, which was about 2:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, August 1st. Apparently people need to vacate their campsite by 2:00 unless they want to pay for another night. So we got SUPER lucky and drove in to the camp site right as someone was driving out. Our camp site wasn't very big but it was about 30 steps from Wade Lake. It was super convenient! So we set up camp first, then swam that evening. We took along the little blue kayak for Avery that we borrowed from Josh's sister and then also our inflatable kayak for the boys. They had a blast trying to knock each other off. Avery is like a pro now with the little kayak. At night we made hot dogs and smores for dinner on the campfire and slept in a tent. Then we swam again the next morning and packed up by about 1:00. The weather wasn't awful but it could've been a little better. We got sprinkled on a little bit here and there! We did have some sun though! Here are some pictures! Everyone always sees my pictures of this place and asks in awe, "Where is this magical place?!" Now half my friends have gone up there too!

 Rhodes Family Reunion River Float (August 4th, 2018):
Josh's family tries to have a "reunion" every summer. I always think it's funny because all six kids and the parents live within about a 50 mile radius of each other. Heck, one of Josh's sisters and her family literally just moved in down the road from us. But yet, we need to "reunite". lol So this year Bryan (Josh's older brother) was in charge and the activity he picked was to float the river in Ashton. Everyone brought their own tubes and kayaks and things. I opted to take the inflatable kayak for me and Avery. I was glad about that decision because the water was COLD. The boys and josh each had their own inner tube that they floated in. It took us from about 1:30-4:00pm to float the whole thing and then we got out and drove to the church for a cookout.

Heise Hot Springs (August 10, 2018):

This was one place I had never been! We had driven by plenty of times on our way to pick huckleberries in Kelly Canyon, but we had never actually gone swimming here. It's kind of pricey, which is probably why I've avoided it (about $65 for our whole family to get in and use all the pools and slides for the day), but they kids really enjoyed it. I did too actually. It was super hot this day so you would jump in the pool and then lay down for like two minutes and be hot again. They have one pool thats a natural hot springs pool so it was SUPER hot. We didn't even really want to be in that one. The kids spent a lot of time going down the big green tube water slide and then on the diving board. Avery went off the diving board for the first time ever! At first we was a little hesitant but that after the first jump she was running and jumping in like a fearless pro!

So! I think that is pretty much all of the Major Summer fun activities we have done! I got a part-time (VERY part-time) job that I started today working at the elementary school across the street from our house as a front desk secretary. Avery is starting first grade there so I'll just follow her there I guess. Today was registration day so they asked if I would just come today. Then I start on the first day of school, which is next Wednesday, August 22. There is another full-time secretary that will be there everyday from 8am-3pm and they just needed someone to help her over the lunch time from about 11-1 each day. So I figured that would be a fun place to chat with lots of moms I already know and just do some easy work! I was starting to feel a little sad about being home by myself all day every day in about a week, so I'm glad that this will be someplace to go and converse with people and get out of the house a little! I also still have my Etsy stuff that I can do to fill the time. Heck who knows, maybe I'll even go to the gym!
Okay, let's not talk crazy. We all know that won't happen. ;)

That's all for now!