Happy Mother's Day!

I have the best wife in all the land. She is a great mom (see exhibits C, A, K, and other A). She is beautiful and kind and good and creative. Happy Mother's Day my dear.

Also thank you to my mom for the years of care and concern and tender nurture. You are great. And a superb grandma!

We went to church today. I got to help Jeanna in the nursery, which was great. We only had two kids including Ammon, so pretty easy.

The kids made sweet pictures for Jeanna. The younger ones also sang a nice song for the moms during church.

Luckiest man and most wonderful woman ever

Popsicles for dessert

Fashi

Saturday: work then fun

Today was a day for projects around the house. Watching walls, washing the siding, buying supplies, cleaning. Then Jeanna and I went to see avengers endgame. It was ok. Lots of cameos. Good job good guys, neener neener bad guys. Then home, food for kids, sushi takeout for me and Jeanna, then bed time.

Work was at a different location today. About 2 hour drive to work (leaving at 630) and almost 3 hours coming home (leaving at 1430). Very grateful that's not my normal location!

I got home in time for our before leaving going away potluck party for friends and neighbors. We also have away as much of our extra stuff that won't store or travel well as we could. Thanks for everyone who took things. Grateful the thunderstorms were mostly before and after the party : )

I mostly neglected to get pictures of out guests at the party. Sorry!

Coriel snuggling baby Camron (sister Crites grandson)

Jeanna and Miss Frankie, the homeschool co-op mastermind and lovely person.

Ammon hiding in a shoe cubby

Random red bugs (spider mites) swarming just one tire at work yesterday. Odd!

I love blueberries in plain Cheerios.

Ammon enjoying the clean carpet and mostly empty room the other day

Ear ache for the littlest bug plus carpet cleaning

Yes, Ammon has an ear infection. Last night was rough for him (and therefore some for us). But he finally slept and this morning I took him to the CVS minute clinic. My favorite part was when the nurse practitioner asked Ammon what his pain was on the smiling / crying scale. He said I'm feeling better and then pointed at the crying face. Then the nurse asked him again and he said zero pain. I laughed and told him he was the most unreliable witness. Thank goodness for amoxicillin! We're grateful he'll be able to swim again before our adventure to a water park.

Then we moved some furniture out of the way so we could get the carpets cleaned. We'll probably have them cleaned again once we're out since this company (oxiclean) didn't get some stains out. Which was expected because they were in there good.

Jeanna prepared for co-op tomorrow and got lots of cleaning and organizing done. Plus kid wrangling.

After I got Ammon settled, I went to work. I got to talk to the person I'm replacing in Australia. That was nice. I also put a presentation I've been working on into a new temple and streamlined it a lot. It's mostly done, just waiting on final comments.

Then I came home. Coriel made German pancakes for dinner. Jeanna cooked some sausage to go with it. Then Addra and Jeanna went to activity day girls. Ammon was feeling much better and had lots of energy, so I took him, Koa, and Coriel to Skyzone again. Their main court was broken, so me and the boys spent most of our time on the dodgeball court. Happily, mostly occupied by other little kids, so it was friendly for us to be there.

Then home for second dinner (cereal) and now bedtime.

No pictures today sorry

Moving day, round 2, fight!

Yesterday was or second shipment of stuff. This one goes by air instead of by ocean. Afterwards I took the kids to Skyzone to get out some wiggles. Everyone had lots of fun and got all tired out. Coriel also had an orthodontist appointment in the morning. Things are going well, although we'll have less acres to orthodontist where we're at in Australia.

Sad news, tonight Ammon is sick! Fever and pain : (

In other news today, Jeanna and I both got lots done. Me at work and cleaning out accumulated junk from the branch president's office. I also went for a jog tonight in the lovely weather. Jeanna did appointments including getting 2 booster shots in preparation for going, caring for the kids, paying bills, and cleaning so the carpet cleaners can come tomorrow.

Skyzone jumping chasing and racing

Addra is fantastic at climbing these posts. So fast!

Movers loading stuff into wooden crates

Kids hanging out. Check out the fashion.

Shipment #2, mostly just what you see, but it still adds up quick.

Our neighbors showed me this picture of our house in 1954!

Sunday May 5th 2019

I got called as assistant branch clerk today. That means I'll help update callings, count tithing, and get things organized for a few weeks before we move. Mostly as a temporary thing until the branch president calls a new long term clerk.

Jeanna cooked vegetable soup to use up more of our dehydrated vegetables, pretty good. She also made peanut butter chocolate chip banana muffins. Oh, and some whole wheat bread. What a feast!

Girls drawing magnificently. A witch riding a broom on the left. A shape shifting fox girl in the other two. And a silly Ammon trying to jump in on the picture.

Can you carry boxes bigger than you?

We made silly faces during our mini date tonight. We recorded ourselves blowing raspberries in slow motion. Pretty funny. Then we watched some random videos from the Slow Motion guys. Impressive dedication to their art.

Tomorrow is packing day. Oy!

Today was heavy on packing and sorting, especially for Jeanna. Her brother West also came and visited. He brought us some delicious Indian food. I got to take Ammon with me to Brother Kevin Sites' baptism, which he asked me to perform. What a privilege!

Family picture with West

Sibling time over dinner

Ammon's new creation, rice-topped pizza

The wonderful sister Crites helping Ammon during the baptism

Me with Kevin and part of his family

Time for fun during packing

The boys absolutely love selling pretend ice cream from their shop at the top of the stairs to the attic. You never know what flavor you're going to get. Today Ammon was selling chocolate and or vanilla. Koa was selling cinnamon cream.

Cute present from Addra. One benefit of going through old papers!

Happy Sunday to you tomorrow.

I love spring when you can go on a walk and the weather is lovely.

The girls came on the first part then I jogged with the boys the rest of the block. Oops, turns out I'm more out of shape than I thought

Bye Ray! Gave him a ride to his aunt's house. Here's hoping North Carolina treats him well.

Here's a fun little post office I saw when trying to drive detour around a wreck on the freeway. (Everyone else felt the same, so it wasn't any faster). But I got to see this so maybe good.

Happy birthday little friend! Our lovely neighbors Shannon and Tim as well as the missionaries from our church came over and had dinner with us. It was a good evening.

The last one is Ammon in a new snuggly ice cream blanket. Yum!

We saved a groundhog yesterday. Its head was stuck in a peanut butter jar. It scared Ammon a lot; he fell and scraped his foot on the sidewalk. The groundhog was just standing there calmly. It twitched when I first went to grab the hat but I got a good grip the second time. Then I pulled hard. That lifted the critter off the ground. I yanked and the jar came free. The groundhog flopped on the ground and ran away, seemingly fine. Weird experience!