5-23-2010 Week in Review

This week started out with Ryan headed out to his first new job since High School!  He was pretty excited.  So are the rest of us!  We haven’t had Ryan home before 6pm in Years!!

Tuesday I had a very scary moment (seems to be a theme this week….).  Anyway, I was pulling out of Corben’s school when the school bus pulled up and blocked my view.  I couldn’t go because I couldn’t see, and he couldn’t go because I was blocking his wide turn.  This actually happens quite often and usually the bus driver waves to me when it’s clear to go and I inch out.  Well today a woman pulled in from the right to turn into the school, thus blocking my exit anyway.

However, the bus driver was looking at me and told me it was alright to go.  Noticing that the woman was also watching the bus driver and seemed to be pausing I started to go.  Suddenly the woman turned to make the left turn in front of me and I had to slam on the breaks.  At the same second we all heard screeching tires as a car that had come speeding past the bus slammed into the back of the turning vehicle and spun her around missing our car by inches.  I suddenly realized that if she had not taken that ill timed left turn then I would have been the car struck by the speeder and it would have hit my drivers door straight on.  Not only would that have been bad for us, but seeing as I was in a suburban and he was driving a compact I think it would have been very bad for him.

I was shaky for the rest of the day!!!

The next day we had this rabbit and two of its siblings chasing each other for hours in our yard.  It was fun to watch and take pictures….until they headed for the garden!  Then Dade and I had to chase them off!

Thursday brought my next big scare!  See these cute innocent faces below??  Well….they brought me……

…THIS!!!

(mouse over no pun intended the picture for what I got a view of)

I’m sitting in the house when I turn around to have a DEAD MOUSE shoved into my face by Ella while Bean yells, “It’s a baby mouse who lost it’s family!!”  They were so concerned….and so confused when I started SCREAMING!!  Luckily I got Ella to drop it outside instead of inside and we did a thorough hand scrubbing/sanitizing before they asked me to come outside and take a picture of it for them.

We then had a funeral where they each gave a prayer that consisted of asking for the mouse to come back alive and then asking for it to see it’s family again.  Bean started out and listed every family member she could think of (including aunts and cousins), Ella was next and I think she said the same thing, then Sylvie (who kept getting interrupted by Bean as she reminded Sylvie of a family member she’d missed).  It was so cute!  When Sylvie finished they all turned to Monkey Man (my nephew) for his turn when Bean exclaimed, “But he can’t talk!”  We decided that 3 prayers was enough and we went on with our day.  There’s no woosy girl’s at MY house!!

Friday I was the assistant photographer at a Youth Dance.  It was a Phantom of the Opera theme and so fun!

Why Editing is often Necessary when I’m taking pictures…..

This is the Final Edit….

This is the BEFORE!!

I’d actually looked at this picture 3 or 4 times wondering who that kid was before I realized it was ME….LOL….I’m such a dork.

Saturday the boys headed out for a weekend with their dad and the rest of us enjoyed the fact that we had NOTHING we HAD to do!!  So, what do you do when you have nothing to do?? You go shopping….  Now, I don’t go for much that’s fancy but I do have one vice.  I LOVE super high heels.  I always have, always will.  So, we headed to the mall and added several (very affordable) pairs to my collection.  (Thanks, Honey!!) – I wore the pink ones to church today!

 

Sunday brought the 3rd (and hopefully final) scare of the week!!

During church Ella started making some weird sounds and started saying she needed to cough but couldn’t.  Her (wonderful) teacher had taken her to the hallway to see if she was alright when Ella suddenly got very lethargic and started going limp.  Fearing an asthma attack they ran to get me but, for the first time, we didn’t have Ella’s inhaler with us.  We ALWAYS bring two diaper bags to church but today we only grabbed one.  HOWEVER, Ella’s teacher had inspiration that morning while packing for church to pack her son’s inhaler (something she doesn’t always do but felt prompted to do today) and had it on hand.  It was a VERY scary few moments for me and her…and the people around us in the hallway.  The inhaler seemed to help bring her around a bit but she was still very sleepy so the ambulance was called.

The paramedics checked her out and informed us she had a fever but that they thought we could take her to an urgent care.  We took her back inside where she received a Priesthood blessing.  By the time we had her in the car going home she was back to herself and she’s been fine all day.  I am so thankful to everyone who was there for us at church and for all the calls and visits since we got home.  We are so thankful for you all!