Friday Letters

Dear Children, we have spent so much time in the car this last week. Somehow we were blessed with a miracle and everyone was pretty happy. It makes things a lot more fun. Dear J&C, thanks for letting us over run your house with children. I appreciate how kind and welcoming you are. My kids have so much fun there. I somehow even got a nap on your couch? Dear Layton, I love your mission letters. It is nice to know right where you are right now. I know you will be taken care of. Enjoy the cool breeze in Reno! Dear Avary, you finally got your cast off. Your cast was full of sand and you even had a sequin in there. Sadly your foot is also covered in horrible blisters and bruises. You are on crutches now and will get a new cast next week. It will probably take at least that long to get your leg to smell normal again. Poor Babycakes. Dear Hazel, driving back from Mesa you insisted you had to go to the bathroom. I pulled over got you out only for you to say "Actually I just wanted to pick a pretty flower". Really. That was a long drive. Dear House, there are so many kids around here. You would think so many people to help clean up. Wrong. It means a tornado can strike in the 2 minutes that you left the room. We seem to be drowning in laundry at all times. But that just makes me really really grateful for a washer and dryer and plenty of clothes. Dear Mr. Clark, I love being with you. I love that we can talk for hours. I love that we get each others humor, you make me laugh. I am so grateful for you. Dear Mrs./Sis., Clark, I am still taken off guard when approached this way. I always think, Who? Haha Life is so full and busy and overwhelming at times. I can never quite keep up lately. So the laundry is never done, the house is never clean, there are boxes to be unpacked, and bikes all over the place, there are always crafts and toys out, the to do list is so long and most of those things stay as to do, we always need milk and cereal, there are always dirty dishes, someones hair isn't brushed, someones face is dirty...but most of the time those faces have a smile. When my Mr. comes in the door I have a smile. And all of these things that make life so crazy are what make us so blessed and so happy. Lucky- that's me, right here.

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Friday Letters

Dear Children, you spent half of your spring break bored and the other half doing super funness to make up for it. Dear Mesa, I don't love having to travel up there every week. Traffic didn't used to bother me, now it does. I love the small town life. Although, I was surrounded by the aroma of blossoms and beautiful flowers. That part I really liked. And the saving factor of the drive is the last hour or so the highway is lined with all different colors of wild flowers. So pretty. Dear Spring Break, going off roading on a hike to the bat cave. Hailey laughed until she cried and Kade was in heaven. It was fun. Dear Family, it was nice to see you. It was so nice to walk in sit down and have my Dad rub my shoulders and back. Dear Dentist, we had some who pulled off no cavities again. That baffles me, but I will take it. The one with cavities will make up for it. Dear Hazel, at the dentist we discovered that you have two loose teeth! You have been waiting your whole life to loose a tooth. We will see how long it takes I can't imagine you will let anyone ever pull your tooth.Your negotiating skills are great. On the drive home you said "hailey if you don't talk the whole way home I will give you one penny" Hailey said pshaw maybe for a thousand pennies. You gave her a look, paused, then said "fine...two pennies". You make me laugh. Dear Avary, I don't know if your cast will hold up for two weeks. It is already falling apart. Nothing to do with you sticking it in the tub then filling it with sand on the playground. You are not liking it. Dear Big Brother, I hope you had a good birthday, maybe even a birthday cake this year? I was thinking of you! Dear World, right about now we are traveling "supposedly" 5 hours in the car with 7 children. We will see how long it really will take and if we return sane. Dear Will, I loved our date night this week. I'm not quite sure if I've ever been serenaded in the desert by a pack of coyotes before. Thank You for the effort that you put into our relationship. I love you. Dear Self, my body is on strike. My back being out too long causing my neck and head to hurt all of the time and the exhaustion is unreal. The saving factor is how blessed I am and how grateful I feel. I wouldn't trade my blessings for anything. Not even a pain free body.

Wedding Pictures

Here is the link to some of the wedding pictures. LOVE you so much for doing this Sherrie!      picturethepossibilities.blogspot.com

Friday Letters

Dear Children, you have been so much happier this week, this makes me happier too even though picture day was a bust...again. Dear Hailey, I am so happy and so grateful for the Young Woman's Program and so happy that you love it. Dear Kade, I have had more of my sweet boy this week. I love You! Dear Avary, you rock your cast. First thing you did was pour glitter powder all over it, get on your bike then roll around in the dirt. That's my BabyCakes! Dear Hazel, poor girly still having sinus pain, that's the worst. You are a pro on your bike now and had to move up a size. Dear School Book Picnic, I love that my kids are old enough to run around with each other and I can sit on a blanket and steal Britt's babies. There were different stations that teachers, fireman, police officers all reading different stories. It was a hit. Probably the best school function so far. It's I love to read week. Dear Foot Dr., found yet another great Dr. Saw all of my kids at the same time, was super quick yet very thorough and got us in the next day. Love it when that happens. Dear Mrs. F, I just want you to know that you are such an amazing teacher. You are heaven sent, really I think I prayed Kade into your class. Even with all of the things he is having to deal with I can send him to school and know that you care about him and I don't have to worry so much about if he is ok. You may go home home tired, exhausted, annoyed ha. I don't know. But for my child you make him want to try, you make him feel loved. And that makes me want to cry and I feel so grateful. Dear Thatcher School People, after our meeting I didn't feel nearly as alone and overwhelmed, it made me feel like you actually care not just about my child's academics but about weather or not he is ok. Thank You for your efforts. Dear Body, what are you doing? Feeling nauseous, dizzy, so tired I'm falling asleep at all hours of the day, out of it, then passing out in stake conference (if not for Will that could have been even more awkward than it was, poor guy people probably think he married a drunk)  my back going out and now horrible headaches. I'm at the end of my rope!!! Dear Will, I am the luckiest girl in the world and I won't forget it. Just seeing your face instantly makes me happy. You are so kind and loving and supportive I don't even know what to do but love you. Watching you with my children and seeing their faces when they are with you brings tears to my eyes and a prayer in my heart thanking my Heavenly Father for bringing you into our life. I look at you and think "he's mine"! Despite what it sounds like, you know the mushy newly wed stuff, this is truly who you are. I love you More than Barrows Pizza. Dear Self, life is completely overwhelming and more than I am even capable of right now. I'm doing my best and that will slowly get to be better each day, I hope. I catch myself complaining about how overwhelmed I am and then I look at my husband and am instantly filled with gratitude. Even when it pours I know without a doubt how much my Father in Heaven loves me and my children. And I know I am blessed so much more than I could ever deserve. And that makes me want to be better.

Friday Letters

Dear Children, you seem to be settling in and making your selves at home. That can be taken however you want. Dear Hazelnut, poor baby has double ear infections and a sinus infection. You have been so miserable. But you look so darn cute with your new haircut! Dear Hailey, you are NOT a teenager so you may NOT act like one. I'm very grateful for mutual and those moment when the spirit can touch you. Dear Avary, you are in heaven following around the neighbors cats. It even caused you to be late for school. Dear Kade, you have been given some very hard trials and I'm proud of you for the effort that you put in. I have gotten to see my sweet little boy again this week, I'm so grateful for that. Dear Awkward, when walking to the car I hear a rustling in the leaves behind the half brick wall. I stop it stops, I walk it starts. So, I walk over to the wall and a cat pops it's head up over the wall like it's going to pounce me. I didn't react at all, nope not at all. Oh and then the taco bell girl with super long blue nails dropping my card and me having to open my door and smash myself between the door and the wall trying to get it. I'm sure the whole line behind me thought it was awesome. Dear Date Night, I like these. Sneaking into the house being built across the street, well we just walked in during day light as soon as the workers left. Will said we were breaking the law and I said there is no door. Only to find the owner sitting in the back yard...who happens to be our Bishop.haha He gave us a nice tour. Dear My Mr. Clark, I still love you. Are you surprised? I love you more each day. And even more when you let me sleep when I was sick this week. Dear Self, I am so so lucky. Even though life is still..well..my life. I am so very lucky.

Friday Letters

Dear Children, life has been so so crazy! I see some calm maybe coming our way...I hope. Dear Family, thank you for taking care of my kids while I was gone, I know it's not easy. Dear Dawna, Thank You so much for opening your home to us, for all of the other many many things you did and all of the time you sacrificed. Is Thank You even enough. Dear Margo, Again, Thank You!!! You created my dream wedding. All while juggling one of the busiest life's I know. I love you so much for all that you've done for me. And once again Thank You is not enough. Dear Brothers, It meant so much to me that you all traveled so far to be a part of our wedding. It was good to see you. Maybe we should try doing it again sometime. The seeing each other part not the wedding part. Dear Friends That Are Really Family, Thank You for loving me enough to spend your time and money to travel to be with me. And for still being my family. I love you. I still remember that moment when everyone I love so much was in the same room with me. Dear Sherrie & David, Thank You Forever for doing the pictures. I know how much time and energy that takes and I am so grateful for you. Also, I love you so much for just who you are. I love being around you, your happy attitudes towards life just make life so much better. Dear Wedding, Happiest evening of my life. Everyone I love so much all there together. Every moment was pure joy. I swear time stopped and I was in heaven. Dear Dr's., I am so grateful that the Lord has provided so much knowledge in this world and that there are people who care about my children and will share that with me. Some things you can't put a price on. Dear Moving, I loathe you. I just want to lay down and sleep for days. I finally said goodbye to my little home that could have been a great home if I had spent much time there. Moving 3 times in six months is not my idea of fun. Dear My Mr. Clark, I love you more than I can even express. There aren't words for how I felt standing there holding your hand looking at you as we joined our lives. You were all I could see all I could feel. Nothing has ever felt so right in my life. You were right, I am really glad we had a wedding now. We made it through one week of married life. In that week you helped me move, you were right by my side at the Dr. appointments for my kids 3 days after our wedding, we have laughed, I have cried, we have laughed until we cried. Just thinking about it still makes me laugh, I'm pretty sure I won't let you forget it. ha. We have thrown my life into yours. You work 12 hour days and then come home to me. I couldn't ask for more. I Love You! Dear Self, I can't even begin. I am so unbelievably grateful.