Mesa and movin' cows

Things were kindda crazy this past week.

Amongst other things, the kids and I made a trip to Mesa to attend my great Uncle Ray's funeral. My Aunt Deanna (Ray's husband and my Grandma's sister...) is the sweetest person ever. I am glad I was able to go down and spend some time with her. She was staying at my parents house too. My girls got a chance to bond with her. Watching them together reminded me of when my Aunt Deanna would come visit us or we'd go visit them and she's show me how to knit or chrocet. She's never had children of her own...but she is a great example of motherhood in how kind she is and how she is always trying to teach children something. Adelin slept with her at night.....it's a good thing my Aunt's getting old or else Addie night have kept her up...but it was the other way around! You know how people get when they are older....frequent trips to the bathroom and then come 5 a.m. they are wide awake! I had to force Addie back to sleep in the mornings because she thought she should be getting up with Aunt Deanna....and I would have let her if we had gotten to bed before midnight an night that we were there! Anyhow...we drove home Friday after the funeral. Our niece Sydney was at our house and she spent Friday and Saturday night with us. She was a lot of fun! Friday night we all decided that we were going to take blankets out and lay on the trampoline and look for shooting stars. Well...the moon as a little too bright for that so the girls ended up getting flash lights and looked for worms in the garden. They ended up with quite the collection! Then Saturday we moved cows. Kaitlyn, Sydney and Brandon rode horses and Adelin, Weston and I drove the truck and tried to keep track of the girls + look for cows from the highway. I was pretty proud of Kaitlyn and Sydney. When we first got to where most of the cows were, they started driving about 16 of them south towards the canyon while Brandon rode out to find the rest of the cows. Well...I watched the girls for as long as I could and then they disappeared over a hill. I knew Brandon was going to catch up with them but I was getting nervous after a while and drove out to see if I could see them from the highway all the while praying that they weren't scared and that they horses and cows would be nice! Well...I found them waiting by the fence not too far from the canyon. They had gotten the cows where they needed to be and were waiting there without a care in the world! Seriously...I don't know what's happened to me to stick a 6 year old and an 8 year old on a couple horses and let them ride off with a bunch of cows...(have I finally gone completely nuts?)but they did it with no problem and had a great time! Well...Brandon and the girls ended up having to go back and look for some other cows so I waited for them knowing the girls would probably be sore and ready to quit....which they were. But Brandon still needed a ride home so we all went to the drinker that he was herding the cows to and waited. The girls got the horses out of the trailer and rode around and Weston, Addie and I hiked around a little. OH! I forgot to mention that I turned the truck and trailer around...by myself!

I am just rambling. There's so much to catch up on, it's impossible...so I guess I'll just consider that good enough! Oh! One other thing! I start my yoga class tomorrow! I am excited! It's every Tuesday and Thursday for a hour and a half! The class is at NPC. My niece-in-law Michelle is taking it too! Should be fun and it only costs us $24 (each)!

Okay...it's after midnight...better go to bed!