March 8th and before

Well Larry and I are alone for the next week.  Marcy flew in today and they went to Galveston.  We had the kids yesterday and this morning because Sara consented to let us have them on her time so that Nathan could work on Pinewood Derby cars with the three littlest.  We had the kids this morning and went to Church with them.  We only stayed for Sacrament and then we went into the Bishops office and He interviewed Sammy for Baptism.  Then the kids and Nathan and I went to the airport.  We took two cars to church because there is only room for six people in Nathan's van so Larry stayed at church the rest of the time.on

Maggie on Nathan's chair at the airport

We got to the airport about 1:00 p.m. and Marcy's plane did not come in until 1:30 p.m.  I was surprised because the kids were thrilled with seeing the inside of the airport.  They were so excited about the baggage movers in the claim area.  I forgot that when they picked me up they always just came in the car and I guess they had never been in the airport.  Isaac said, "I have seen this in books but it is really cool to finally see it."  It is interesting that often we think because we have experienced something that others have had the same experience.  I find this is often true with children.

We arrived home from the airport and fed the kids and they changed their clothes.  Nathan and Marcy hurriedly packed for him and then they all got in the van and Nathan took them back to Sara.  Nathan and Marcy went on to Galveston for the week.

Last Monday we went to Weight Watchers in the morning.  I was thrilled because I had lost 4.6 lbs. so the week started out good.

I had sent out the orders for Mission Leaders Conference earlier last week and so I spent some of my time trying to print out the orders and filling some of them.  I also had a lot of other work to do as it was the beginning of Transfer week.

Monday and Tuesday there was a lot of drama on Facebook in our lives.  It was very frustrating because the person did not feel good and they got mad so they were taking their anger out on Facebook.  I tried to calm them down through texts but that just made things worse so it was hard to see the posts that were ranting about how things were and they were not exactly true.

Elder Nebeker, Tingey, Trammel  Joseph and Jessica Slaughter in back

Tuesday we spent the day at the office as Williams had to feed the missionaries going home.  We have not had so many missionaries coming in lately because they are trying to pare the missionaries down to 200 in the mission.  We had 8 go home and 11 come in this week.  I also had some more orders to fill.  I was able to get half of them filled by the end of the day.  Larry was feeling overwhelmed because he had to fill out the reports for mileage for Salt Lake and he also had to monitor the reports that were coming in for Transfers on the Tiwi boxes they put in the cars.

Wednesday we had to feed the missionaries that were coming in.  It was fun to see them as usual.  We have one missionary that came from South Africa and his parents thought he was coming on Tuesday so they emailed me to find out if he was okay.  I told them that they were just coming in on Wednesday and that I would take a pictures so they could see him.  It was fun to take the picture and be able to send it from my phone immediately so they could see him.  It was also fun to see the appreciation in the emails they sent after.

Elder Jacobs and Aguila Front  Rasmussen background

Nathan got someone to take him to the ward house because he had a cub committee meeting that night.  He is really getting so he can be independent which is what he wants and ultimately what we want.

This week was cold for San Antonio.  Wednesday night they were predicting ice and snow in the morning.  So they decided to have Transfer meeting at 11:00 a.m. instead of 9:00 a.m.  We have a meeting before the Transfer meeting that is usually at about 7:45 a.m. so we got there at 7:30 a.m.  No one was there.  We missed the call that the meeting had been delayed because of the weather because my phone was dead and Elder Presser left his at the office.  So we went to the office to work for a couple of hours after we found out and then went to Transfer meeting.  Because of the later meeting I did not feel that I could go to Austin because I had to help Nathan get his kids at about 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon.  Larry however needed to go to report on the Tiwi's to the missionaries and so he went and I stayed home.

We picked up the kids at school because Sara needed to stay to school to do things.  We started at 4:00 p.m. and finally had them all at about 6:00 p.m. We went to ChickfilA and got food and then took the kids to Nathan's new apartment to work on Pinewood Derby cars.  When we got there they had not put any nuggets into Maggie's kids meal so I had to go back and get the nuggets.  Even though it was just across the street from Nathan's apartment complex it took me about 20-30 minutes.  When I got to the apartment a car drove up beside me and I just thought it was someone at the complex but it turned out to be Larry so it was nice to see him.  It was kind of a miracle that he had found us and so it was good that I had to go get the nuggets.  I was really stressed because in addition to Maggie not having any nuggets Nathan had squeezed his drink trying to put on the lid and spilled it all over him and on to the floor. I cleaned him up but I had to clean that up off the floor when I got back.  It was good to have Larry there to help with some of the derby cars and to get things done.  We started to get cleaned up at 7:45 p.m. but we were late getting the kids back because it took forever to get things cleaned up at the apartment.

Maggie's dance class tap

It was really interesting to see how the kids reacted to Nathan's new apartment.  They wanted to know if we were going to live there and why not and they wanted to know when he was going to move in and they just had a lot of questions to try to sort out why Nathan needed this apartment.

Friday was a catch up day at the office.  I had about 30 baptism and confirmation records that needed to be typed in.  I did not get them all done but I was able to start.

Maggie dance she is in the light blue

Even though it was our weekend to have the kids, because of it being Spring Break and it was Sara's turn to have them for Spring Break we were not supposed to have them this weekend.  Sara agreed to let Nathan have them from after dance on Saturday until after church on Sunday so we could work on the Pinewood Derby cars.  We met them at Maggie's dance lessons and brought the kids home to work on the cars.  I was amazed at how the cars came together on this day.  It was amazing how Nathan knew what needed to be done on the cars and we just had to do it to help him.  But considering that his cars in the past were winners I am sure he is just using what he has already learned.

Saturday was a good day.  We worked on the cars while we watched the Hello Kitty movies that Nathan got for Maggie from Netflix.  The kids played with their Ipads but they also talked to us and we were able to get the cars worked on.