Hannah, what's the news?!?!?!

So Mom told me that you went to see a movie at a boy's house this passed weekend. Give us the scoop! Was it a "date" or not?

Another weekend in Michigan

Well we went back to Michigan for a weekend to take care of the van we wrecked. Because this weekend was stake conference for us, we took advantage of not having any Sunday responsiblities and went. Charlie took Friday off from work and we took the kids out of school and left Thursday after school. We bought another aerostar off of Ebay and needed some parts from our wrecked van for the new one. Charlie worked most of Friday to switch the parts. He did a really good job for one who doesn't know much about cars. The biggest job was swapping the mufflers and he did great. Then we took the wrecked van to Charlie's parents' house. They said we could keep it there for a little while. We are hoping to hang on to it in case we need other parts from it. Charlie actually drove the wrecked van to their house, on the expressway and all. We were impressed with how well it drove. In fact, Charlie's dad might use it to drive back and forth to work instead of using his truck which guzzles gas. When we got back to Mom and Dad's house we noticed the stering wheel was whining real bad. Charlie popped the hood and found the engine sprayed by something that we assumed was power steering fluid. So we called Walkers where Dad takes his cars and explained that we needed the car by Sunday to go home with. They fit us in on Saturday morning and found it to be a hose from the power steering pump had come off. They replaced it and it was good. Then we were driving the van to Flint that afternoon and the van started to wobble. So we took it to Muffler Man in Flint and they balanced the tires and it was good again. Man, I didn't plan on having to take our van in to be fixed so many times while on vacation. It was a pain. It's a decent van overall and the inside is so much roomier than the van we bought from Mom and Dad. It was nice to not have to cram everything for a trip inside.

We enjoyed being back to see family though, and we accomplished what we needed to. We are still considering moving back to Michigan. I'd like for Charlie to have a job though, so we'll see what happens. We are praying for guidance.

New post

I have some new post on my blog!!!!! Sorry, I don't feel like retyping it.

Something funny

I was just looking at the blog and something funny happened I thought I'd share with you. Charlie is sitting next to me and he let a really bad smelling fart go, really, really smelly. Jaxson is sitting on his lap and when he smelled the fart he tried to pull his shirt up over his nose but couldn't get it up there and said, "Please help me," to Charlie to get help getting his shirt over his nose to find relief from the stench! We all laughed and I thought maybe you would to.

My sister's baby

Here is a picture of my beautiful sister Lisa and her new baby boy Jacob.

I've seen it all!

No joke, I opened up Yahoo! yesterday to check my email. The home page normally has short tid bits of news stories. Every once in a while one or two will catch my eye and I'll read the whole story. Yesterday the story that caught my eye was about a pregnant MAN! No joke! I read the rest of the story, it wasn't long though, about a transvesdike (spelling?) man who is 6 months pregnant. He claims his wife had a hysterectomy (spelling?) and can't have kids or he wouldn't have gone through with this. He is legally a man but has a uterus. How weird is that? If you want to check it out, the story I read was at People.com.

Our family challenge

So during fast and testimony meeting on Sunday a woman from the ward got up and bore her testimony about how her family had unplugged their TV for 4 weeks. They got the idea from an article in the ensign a couple of months ago. She talked about how different her kids acted toward one another and how much better they got along. She figured it was because they actually had to do things together to entertain themselves. She loved the ways she found to fill her time up, mostly being with her kids more and doing things with them. So Merrit turned to me and said maybe we should try that. So Charlie and I talked about it and introduced the idea at FHE lastnight. We decided to start today and go to the end of the month. Alexis complained the loudest and said there is nothing to do around her if we turn the TV off. So Charlie has turned our challenge into a scientific experiment: to prove or disprove Lexi's statement. We'll let you know how it goes. I think it may just be the hardest on me. I like to turn the TV on at night to decompress after the day. I guess maybe I just might start to read more (which is not me).