Our Forever Family

2 months ago I suggested to Alise that we have a girls weekend in Salt Lake City for our birthdays and before she moved from Rexburg to Washington.  Mom also worked out her schedule, bought a plane ticket and our idea turned into a reality last weekend!  We had a blast!!! Friday morning we picked up Mom at the airport.  Alise made this sign so when we drove up mom would recognize us!  We got to drive in style.  We left the minivan for David and took off in the BMW.  The last 3 weeks I have been brushing up on driving a stick, in preparation for this weekend!  I didn’t kill it, so that’s a good sign!    Mom took us out to IHOP for breakfast before we drove up to Park City to spend the day at the outlet malls…   And we shopped and shopped.  I thought it was funny that the first place we went was to The Children’s Place and bought Easter dresses.  Wait, wasn’t this MY birthday??  I guess shopping is shopping! We w...

Well, we had our very first time of forgetting a child. Luckily it was only at home but very traumatic anyway! David's parents came to visit for the weekend along with David's Aunt Kathy. Sunday morning getting ready to leave for church the kids split up among their car and ours. We left to church. We had Melanie and Jenna, I figured they had Alyssa, Cameron and Jason. I ran in the house real quick to grab Jenna's blanket and we left. After sitting in church, all settled waiting for it to start, Chuck asks "Where's Alyssa?" We searched up and down our pew, counting heads. No where. "Did she go in your car? No, did she go in yours? No" Oh CRAP!!! David took off for home. I almost started to cry just thinking about her home alone!! He said he saw her when he pulled up kneeling on the couch looking out the front room window bawling!! She ran up to David and gave him a huge hug, face and eyes red and swollen. Let's just say I was gla...