Safe and sound in California

We had short and sweet trip to Rexburg to pick up our stuff. We started out on Friday at 4:30 pm, after Tevan got home from work and took a shower and loaded the last few tidbits.

He has promised Addie to take her out to eat the little octopus at a Chinese restaurant for a few weeks now, so he bought some on Friday and brought them home for her that day. She ate more than I would have. She thought they were yummy but a little spicy. She thinks they taste like candy. Last week she ate way more sushi than I did. I think she has her Daddy's taste in food.

On the way through Reno we stopped at the beloved Cabella's. This is my Dad's favorite store. He gets the hard bound (Cabella Bible) or catalogue each year because of his loyalty to the store. Anyhow, we have never been their. Tevan fell in love with their used gun section. I saw a cute little baby boy hunting clothes their and a little hunting blanket, but I refrained from buying it. Well, we did not spend the average 4 hours that a usual customer does (according to the Sacramento Bee), but we did spend a hour there.

Tevan drove almost all of the way down with the exception of the last 1 hour stretch. We got really good gas mileage on the diesel truck and were very relieved about that.

Upon driving in to town one of our friends friends called and met us at the storage unit with his father in law and another truck. I went through the stuff and we filled the back of the other truck with DI stuff. The boys loaded the truck. It is amazing what we have replaced out here or decided we could do with out.

After the truck was loaded we went out to dinner with some other friends and their two kids. We went to Wingers. We saw some other friends at the restaurant. We left and made our way home and stopped at a motel.

The only other significant event of the trip was when the rope holding all of the other ropes and part of a tarp broke. We had to stop in the cold and wind and rearrange the tarps. That held us back for a few hours. We got home at 1:00 am this morning.

Easter 2008

We have had a wonderful, but busy, Easter week. It all started with a surprise visit from Tevan's sister and her family from Dallas, Texas. We painted bird houses, had an Easter egg hunt, planted seeds in peat pellets for the garden, and decorated Easter cookies, and the girls played with their cousins. It was a lot of fun to see everyone. There were 10 out of the 13 Grandkids here from Tevan's side of the family. It was a blast.

Well, everyone left on Wednesday. So Tevan and I decided to go out and buy a laptop. It is fun to have a new computer.
On Saturday we went to a huge Easter egg hunt in Lodi. It was crazy. They had 40,000 eggs. Unfortunately, there were a ton of people too. Addie got 9 eggs and her friend did not find any so she decided to share with her. It was fun to spend time with Tevan and the girls even with the craziness.
On Sunday we went to my Grandmothers house for her famous hippy pancakes! They are a whole wheat pancake with a smoothie for a topping. We have had them on Easter morning for as long as I can remember. We had the annual tradition of the Gettys Croquet bloodbath! There is always cheating, changing of rules, whining, and fighting. It is usually the uncles who do the whining. It would not be Easter with out it.
After the blood bath we had an Easter egg hunt for the girls. Brooke snuck out during the croquet game and started to eat the candy in the eggs. She is a little stinker. After Grandma's house we went back to Galt for church. I got to be a sub for the 9 year olds. It was fun. After church we went to my in-laws and my Grandma Jean and Grandpa Bev along with Cindy and Bobby came over for a Easter feast. After all we had a wonderful Easter week.
This picture of Addie shows one of her favorite things to do. She loves to pick me flowers. I just love it. She goes out into the 40 acres and finds all sorts of wild flowers and then she will bring them to me in a basket.