To Blog or Not to Blog

To Blog or not to Blog has been the question.  Those of you that are close to me know the recent trial our family has been dealing with and in light of that trial I have considered taking my blog private to shut out those that will only view my blog to spy and gossip, leaving it as is, or not blogging at all.  Many have encouraged me to continue and for now that is what I will do.
One day I may be able to talk about this recent trial but for now just know that my heart is broken but not my spirit.  With Faith in my Heavenly Father, a strong testimony of the Gospel and my family and friends I will not only survive this but Thrive!  A dear friend of mine, Shannon Davis, told me that her motto for the the new year was "2010 Starting Over Again".  She told me that this was officially my motto too. 
Its' funny that when you feel like dieing you expect that the entire world should stop spinning because "your world" has and yet everyday life just keeps on happening.   So to catch you up on my "Everyday Life" I will blast you with one of my usual "Picture Overloads".

RaLee went to "Forthcoming".  Their school, being new, has not had a graduating class yet so instead of a Homecoming Game and Dance it's forthcoming.

John took his son to his first football game.  This was a huge deal!  John LOVES football and is hoping his son will grow to love it too.

I painted a pumpkin on Amanda's Baby Belly.  When she was pregnant with Izzy I painted an Easter Egg on her tummy so we had to keep up the tradition.

RaLee got her drivers license!  One evening I got a text that read, "CALL ME!!!"  So I called her and she was hysterical.  She said the van was parked in front of her friend Taylor's house and a big truck hit it.  I told her to call 911 and that we would be right there.  So Crystal, Spencer and I rush to her.  But when I got there things just didn't ad up to me.  After I turned "Angry Mom" the truth came out.  She had backed into the hitch of a big lifted truck in a parking lot.  The truck had no damage but the back of Crystal and Spencer's van didn't fare so well.  Spencer and RaLee took the car to the grocery store to get Mylecon drops for Ellie Mae while Crystal and I took the van home.  As Spencer was pulling out onto the road he nearly hit the median.  A policeman pulled him over and saw a 34 year old man with a 17 year old girl that had her knees to her chest and still crying from her earlier accident.  The officer assumed Spencer had kidnapped or assaulted her so he was asked to step out of the car.  More policemen were called and things got pretty scary for poor Spencer.  RaLee finally stopped crying long enough to help explain the situation and they let him go.  He said, "I was certain the guy was going to taze me!"  We have gotten some good laughs out of this one.  If you know Spencer he wouldn't hurt a fly! 

 

The poor mini van. 

We are thinking about getting a Sharpie and writing, "RaLee was Here" on the back of the van.

RaLee cheered her last home football game.  It was their Forthcoming game.  Sadly CHS lost.  But they qualified for the Semi-Finals!  Not bad for their first Varsity Team and not one Senior.

During half time RaLee and a couple other cheerleaders performed with their Jr. Cheerleading group.  She worked hard all week teaching these little girls cheers, chants and a dance for half time. 

She is so good with the little ones and they LOVED her!

We are sure going to miss Friday Night Football! 

We had a baby shower for Amanda and she had her baby!  I will blog about that in my next post.