June & July 12of12

June was a little busy.  I spaced the 12of12 until the 14th. The photos are from 3 different days.  Random like my mind.

1.  Miss M. playing on a iphone.  Probably Rob's because I think this photo was taken by a sister with my iphone.

2.  Tonya LeMone.  I was helping her put together some flowers for a wedding reception.  She is a professional and I was learning the ropes, or at least some of them.

3.  One of the bouquets.

4.  I miss this place.  (Tonya's backyard) I still go there, but it isn't a simple 2 minute walk anymore.
5.  A stuffed garage from the move.
6.  Random photo with Miss M.
7.  Miss B & M on the deck of the new house.
8.  View from deck by kitchen.
9.  Jenica helping me color my hair.  Going back to natural.  Thanks Jenica!
10.  McKenzie and Perry kiddos glued to a movie.
11. Miss M. holding the bride's bouquet while the bride danced.  At receptions M. is attached to "the princess" as much as I will let her.
12.  Dancing the night away at a wedding reception.

JULY

 

1.  6 eggs for

2.  yummy German Pancakes.  Recipe coming.

3.  My path in the morning.

4.  B. leading the song for morning scriptures.

5.  Waiting for Rob.

6.  My Pearls were thrilled that I let them Each buy a strawberry milk.

7.  Weeding my wee garden.

8.  For FHE we baked some bread and took it to some old neighbors.  Sister Clegg was our next door neighbor.  We love her!  Little I isn't pictured because she ran behind a chair and didn't want to be in the photo.

9.  At Susie's (our old backyard neighbor).  Baby M had just been scared by the sneeze of a baby goat.

10.  B. using Susie's zip-line.

11.  I went to check on the girls - they were supposed to be reading before bed.  And THEY WERE.  A lot of the time they are messing around.  But A&I were reading and B&M were practicing the Articles of Faith.  It made me so happy.

12.  Rob getting ready to watch a movie with me.

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Update

Wow!  A lot has gone on since I really posted last.  I still won't get it all in now.  

But here are a few photos to show you what we've been up to:

  

Rob and 4 older girls camped in a tent in the backyard for one last time. 

Hanging out in the fruit trees.

Eating otter pops.

 

Celebrated Miss A's 5th Bday and Miss M's 7th Bday. 

Partied & said "see ya again later" to a friend.

Played hard in our backyard before moving. 

Worked a little.  Bev smelling herbs in Tonya's garden.

 

And moved.  That is what has taken a lot of my time.  We are enjoying our new home, but miss the old home and everything with it very much! 

More to come.

Changes

I haven't posted in awhile.  I've been busy packing, pondering, moving, unpacking, hiking and on and on.  It has been daunting for me to post again.  There is a lot I would like to write about, but don't know if I have the courage to do it.  The move has been a very emotional one for me.  I thought my emotions were causing the physical pain I was going through because the day we signed papers with a realator I was in tremendous pain.  I couldn't even do much but lie in pain the next day.  It subsided, but would came back now and again. So 2 weeks later I went to the doctor about it.  I thought maybe I was having an ulcer.  Nope.  I am fit as a fiddle.  But the pain was there.  The doctor thought it may be an ovarian cyst.   So he had me get an ultrasound.  The day I went in for it was when I didn't have any more pain.  Of course.  The technician said it was most likely a ovarian cyst, although there was no sign of it.   She informed me that women apparently get a cyst when they ovulate, but they usually go away with the cycle.  But then sometimes they stick around and get bigger.  Like this one with me.  They leak out (which is where the pain comes in to play) and usually dissipate on their own.  So, although I went through a lot of pain.  That was it.  Problem gone.  Pain gone.  I was relieved.

But the emotions with the move are still here.  I suppose some depression.  No I don't suppose, I know I have been depressed.  But there is no time for that so I keep pressing on.   I have found that I don't like big changes.  Like moving.  I need things in order.  I also have a control problem.  So not owning this house we live in now is hard for me.