63 Onions

I have been wanting to plant some onions for a while. My mom told me that she has bought them at Wal-Mart in the past and I found them there on Monday. They just came in a bunch. Anyway, Trent and Tyler helped me plant them. There ended up being a lot more than I really wanted, but we planted all 63 anyway. So come July (?) if anyone needs onions, you can have some. That is if they work. The boys also helped me plant some potatoes. I got the "seed" at Cal-Ranch (it really is just a potato with "eyes" on them). I hope they work too.

It was a way nice day on Monday (like 76) and over where my little garden is, it gets really HOT (I think because it is the south side of our house and the fence reflects light), anyway, I guess from bending over my shirt wasn’t covering my backside all the way and I got a little red strip of sun burn right above my pants, it was funny. I didn’t realize that my shirt was pulled up!

Kara loves this Old MacDonald book. She says E-I-E-I-O when she wants to read it.

I think it is funny that her baby is sitting by her on the bench. She put it there.

Apostle Song

had to post this - Thanks Christina for sending it to me.

Jumping on the bandwagon to go private.

Well, I have decided to go private on my blog. If you would like to be "invited" to read my blog leave me a comment and I will send you an invite.

First family campout to Zion

We had a GREAT weekend. We left here on Thursday morning and went down to my parents. The kids were so excited to go to grandma and grandpas. They had fun just playing and being there. That night we celebrated my 32nd birthday, yes I am 32 – every year I can’t believe how old I am getting. My mom made a yummy dinner - Thanks mom! Everyone sang to me and I blew out my candles; I blew all but one out – dang! We played some Dutch Blitz – a vonderful goot game! It was the first time I had ever played, it was fun, but maybe that’s because I won! Then my mom and I went to "town". We went to the most awesome place in Cedar to shop – Wal-Mart. I found myself some cute Bermuda shorts, I am way excited about my new shorts. Too bad my legs are whiter than a ghost!

That night Kara did not sleep well. First of all Trent threw up and he was so out of it that he laid back down in the bed where he had just thrown up and fell a sleep – sick! My mom came downstairs and told me that he had thrown up. I went up there and it reeked! I had him take a bath and he didn’t want to wash his hair but I made him because it was covered in throw up – I seriously was sick to my stomach. Anyway, the commotion woke up Kara. I got everything cleaned up in the bathroom and my mom took care of cleaning up the bed. We got Trent back to sleep and I held Kara and fed her for a little while. Then we went back down stairs and she would NOT go to sleep. She would cry, then calm down and start playing. Finally at 4 a.m. I took her and we went to another room. Needless to say, it was a long night and so we slept in until about 8:30 a.m. Then we got up and left for Zion.

When we arrived in Zion we set up our camp. Trent and Tyler made their own little fire pit and pretended to roast leaves. It was a beautiful day!We road up to Weeping Rock on the shuttle bus and then hiked that. Afterwards the kids went down to the river and played in the water for a bit. Then we road up to the Temple of Sinawava. Then hiked the Riverside Walk trail – which was the perfect hike for me. It is mostly flat and is 1 mile up (and of course 1 mile back). It is where the Narrows trail comes out. When we got there the boys and Ray played in the water. I didn’t get in the water, but Ray said it was cold. I remember one time I did get in it and it was FREEZING! Kara was ready to go and kept pulling on me to go and she wanted to get into the backpack. So I got her ready and she kept saying "GO!" that is one of her favorite words. Anyway, we headed out. She ended up falling asleep on the way back, which was good , she needed a nap. Then we road the shuttle back to the starting point and walked to our camp site. Then we went out to dinner at a Pizza and Noodle place in Springdale. It was good pizza! When we got back we stared a fire and roasted marshmallows and made smores. The boys had a blast roasting marshmallows, who would of thought? It was starting to get dark so we got ready for bed. Ray and the boys slept in the tent and Kara and I slept in the van. We folded down the middle and back seats/bench and put an air mattress in there. Kara slept good, I kept waking up cold, for some reason my blankets kept falling off. It also got really windy in the night. I did sleep better than the night before, so that was good.

We got up around 7 a.m. and Ray cooked us some "mountain man breakfast" in the Dutch oven. IT was REALLY good. After breakfast we cleaned up camp and went back to my parents. We stayed there a couple of hours then headed home.

We had a really good time. This was our first time camping as a family, I am sure there will be many more!

Trampoline

On Saturday we got the boys a trampoline. They love it! We should of gotten it years ago. It's going to be countless hours of fun!

Yesterday was such a beautiful day! You would of thought it was summer it was so warm. The boys played out side most of the day. I tended my friends’ kids then we switched and she tended mine so I could run errands. It was so wonderful! Thanks P!

Here are some of my tulips that are starting to bloom. I got them last year for FREE from the park near by (they pull out all the bulbs and people can take them) anyway, I had no idea what color they would be, most are yellow (I was hoping for pink) but what can I say they were free and they are still pretty. The only problem is that most of them are SO small. I don't know if it is my soil or if I planted them to deep. I think it is the soil / lack of water. We still need to install a drip line up there. I probably planted 125. I hope I can get some more in May for next year. I got some two years ago and most of them were pink so I was happy! Why do I love pink?

I have been couponing a lot. I am focusing on getting food storage and stocking up on things. The economy is scaring me, so I am just filling up my cupboards and my freezer.

Today it is back to cold again. There is a storm rolling in, but it will warm up again this weekend. The boys don’t have school this week because of spring break. Yesterday gave me a glimpse of what summer will be like. I think it is going to be a good summer.

So I have to share what I have been doing with my boys. They are addicted to a computer game that they call "The castle game". Tyler wants to play it ALL day and cries and whines and cries some more to play it. So I tried a couple of things, like taking away the privilege if he peed his pants (which was happening a lot) but that didn’t really work. So then I decided to make some "tickets" for a ½ hour of computer playing. On Mondays they get 3 computer tickets and 2 movie tickets. Anyway, last week Tyler used all of his computer tickets by Tuesday morning and Trent had used one but when he got home from school that was all he wanted to do. I told him that he had to eat lunch, do his homework and put away his coat, shoes and backpack before he could use his ticket. He cried for like a ½ hour saying why do I have to do 5 things just to do 1 thing. Finally I said that he could earn an extra minute for each item. I was just throwing that out there, and surprisingly he said o.k. So then Tyler wanted to earn minutes too, he cleaned up his room, made his bed, cleaned the living room and sorted the laundry. He kept asking me how many minutes do I have now? And I would say 15 , and then he would pick up one toy and ask now how many minutes, 15, I kept doing this and he never caught on, it was hilarious. They both kept saying mom what else can I do, what else? It was a great way to get them to clean.
That night as they were going to bed Tyler told Ray that he was going to mess up the house tomorrow so he could earn more minutes – AAHHHHHHHHH not the point! I told them we could find plenty to do and not to mess up the house on purpose.

So we are going on week two of this ticket stuff. I think it is working great. Tyler wakes up in the morning willing to eat, get ready, make his bed and clean up. This is a big deal because that kid usually wakes up whining saying "why do I HAVE to?" They also are doing better about listening to me because I take away minutes if they don’t do what we talked about them doing.

On to Kara. She is a funny little girl. I think she is going to be a very clean person. The other day the boys got cracker crumbs all over a chair in the kitchen. Kara saw it and started saying "Ahh Oh" like she had spilled her milk, I went over there and she was pointing to the cracker crumbs and she wanted me to clean them up.

The other day she also got into the babywipes she brought them out to the kitchen and started wiping down her baby’s face – funny funny girl!

snow, snow go away!

It seems like I haven’t written much about what we have been doing lately.

This morning when we woke up Ray said that it snowed. I just thought it was a little dusting, then Kara could see through the side of the curtain in the kitchen and she was saying" Ah Oh" and pointing outside, there was more snow than I was thinking.

Here are a couple of pictures of the yard. The boys like to tip the lawn chairs upside down and make ships out of them. They used some empty water bottles for their guns under the ship – nice. Just yesterday they were out riding their scooters, today the scooters are covered in snow. It will probably melt tomorrow. Got to love it!

I like to go to the dollar store and I always seem to buy things we really don’t need. I thought this princess tiara and wand were cute, Kara kept it on just long enough for me to snap this picture.

Trent started spring soccer this week. They have games twice a week. March seems way to early to be starting soccer. Last year it didn't start until April. I forgot my camera so no pictures - sorry!

Ray is still way busy with work, hopefully only a couple more weeks of busy season.

I will be happy when it warms up again so I can start working in the yard. I have a lot that needs to get done.

I started some seeds in my window seal with the Jiffy-7, they are peat pellets(Wal-mart) that seem to work well for growing. This will be my first year planting my own tomatoes. Last year I didn't grow tomatoes outside and the year before I bought them from Wal-mart. We will see if they work. I have done herbs and some flowers before (in the Jiffy pellets), but most of them didn't survive outside once I planted them. I guess I need to "harden" them off better before I plant them. I hope the outside planting outcome is better this year.

Sorry all the paragraphs are all running together. I have tried 3 times to put spaces in it and even though it shows it like that in the prepost area when I "publish" it , all the paragraphs are squished together. How do I fix it?

Happy Easter

Just wanted to post some pictures for the grandmas.

Hope you all had a Happy Easter.

Kara in her Easter dress.

The boys at the easter egg hunt yesterday

1 year blog anniversary

Well, I've been blogging now for a year, not that I am very consistent, but it has been a good thing for me. It definitely helps me take more pictures of my kids. I also love blogs because I have been able to reconnected with old friends. I love reading about what is going on in your lives!

We have just been busy, but honestly not really doing much.

Here are some of the things that Kara likes to do lately (she makes me laugh!)

*She loves to get into her brother's candy (they got some on St. Patrick's day) This morning she came walking into the kitchen with a Reese's peanut butter cup - her favorite

*She also likes to put on other people's shoes. here she is in Trent's snow boots.

*She likes to "play" the piano

*She LOVES to sit in baskets and anything just her size.







*and she loves her baby!

side note there is a sweet deal going on at Albertsons. Their Kellogg's cereal (see store for varieties) are 3 for $5.00, and if you buy 7 you get a $10.00 off your next shopping coupon and you can use that to buy more cereal. So basically you get 7 boxes of cereal for 1.69 plus tax. There are some coupons out there that sweeten the deal, but even without coupons this is a HOT sale.

Quack!

Today the weather was nice so I took the kids to the park. We went to see the ducks in the pond and they seemed hungry. Kara had a graham cracker and we threw it out to them, they were all fighting over it, so we drove home and got some old frozen bread to feed to them. They must have been STARVING because they came up on the shore right by us, usually they just stay in the water. Anyway, the kids had fun and I got some good pictures. Kara was apparently starving too, because she helped herself to the bread.

Mom’s little helper

Kara is starting to understand things much better. She has become my little helper. She likes to help me put the clothes in the washer (it’s a front loading one) and then she has to shut the drawer thing that I pour the soap into, half the time she tries to shut it before I get it all poured in. She also will take things to the laundry room for me if I ask her to.

She likes to make sure things are shut, drawers, cupboards and doors. If I have left them open she shuts them for me. Now all I need her to do is clean up the house and put away all my cups (yes we still live in cup land).

Her favorite thing to say is Mama! This is how she gets me to do what ever it is that she wants. Yesterday at breakfast time she came walking down the hall with her booster seat saying Mama and shaking her head yes. She has been eating pancakes for breakfast and I just cut them up on a plate and she will usually feed herself with a fork, sometimes she has issues getting the pieces on the fork, she will hold out the fork to me and say Mama and shake her head. It is funny and cute.

Today she started saying blanky and baby – they basically sound the same, but one time she was holding the blanket and the other time her baby so she is getting it.

I was cooking and had my apron on and so I put her apron on her, she looks so cute, she doesn’t like it on though and wouldn’t hold still for the pictures so I had to hold her in place.

I'm going to work my ticket if I can . . .

We had a good week last week. On the 13th we went to our ward’s scout banquet. I didn’t have to make anything they just fed us dinner, the priests actually made it and they did a great job! We had dutch-oven beef stew with potatoes and carrots, rolls and salad. For dessert they had dutch-oven peach cobbler, and a cheery chocolate cobbler with ice cream- yummy! – I was so excited to NOT have to cook dinner. Ray had to conduct the meeting, so that meant I sat alone with the three kids. Kara is obsessed with running around in the halls at the church (she also loves to do this during church) so she did NOT want to stay in the cultural hall where we were eating. Trent, who normally will eat most things, did not want anything but rolls (great dinner for him = 3 rolls with butter – that’s nutritional) Then they had the program, it got to be quite lengthy, then the reason we went arrived, Ray received his Wood badge beads. I tried to take pictures and Kara wanted to go up front to be with Ray so that didn’t help, and the boys kept walking in front on everyone while the presentation was going on, it was kind of a fiasco! The lighting was HORRIBLE at the church I had the flash on but because I zoomed in this is the best one I got - grrr! After he got his beads and sang the Gilwell song it was around 8 pm (it started at 6:30) and it still wasn’t over. Ray excused those "who needed to go" and so we came home. My title is for those who know the Gilwell song - see this about Ticket.

The next day was valentines. Ray got me flowers – what a wonderful husband! I made a little scavenger hunt for the kids and hid a little gift at the end (under the kitchen sink) along with presents and cards from the grandparents. I think the kids had fun. Trent had his valentine’s party at school and Tyler had his the day before. They both had fun exchanging valentines. I am not sure why I didn't take pictures - dang!

Kara had her 15 month well baby visit this week. For some reason she FREAKED out when the nurse tried to measure her head and length. Then when the doctor came in she didn’t want him touching her either and just fought to get off the table, you would think he pinched her the way she was screaming. Then the most lovely part of the visit, the three shots. She wouldn’t hold still to even get her legs cleaned with alcohol, so I held her arms and the nurse held her legs and gave them to her, so sad! The nurse commented that she sure was strong – Kara is still super small, in the 2% for weight, that girl will not eat. On a brighter note she is understanding more each day. She can give kisses, it is so cute! I tell her to kiss her baby doll and she does. She can say ball, bye-bye and ba-ba (for bottle) not that she drinks from a bottle (at this point I wish she did) but she holds up her fake one to feed her baby and says "ba–ba" – it is cute. She also is finally getting some more teeth, you can see her 4 teeth kind of in this picture.

pictures of 3 kids kind of impossible!

Today I wanted to take some pictures of the kids together to send to the grandparents for Valentines. I didn't end up getting ONE where they were all looking at me and smiling. We were by the stairs first but Trent said that the sun hurt his eyes so then we moved to Kara's room. Kara was the hardest one to get to sit still and look at me and smile - to much to ask of a 15 month old? The boys started being silly and there was one that almost worked but for some reason it was all blury. Then I wasted probably an hour trying to edit the pictures (putting new faces on what ever child didn't smile) then it just didn't look good so, I ended up making this with the best picture of each kid.


Trent's fake smile kills me. I need to get him to laugh because he really has a cute smile when it is real. I also am so glad for my digital camera because I would of wasted a whole roll of film and not gotten a good one!

Kara's hair was a little WILD, I tried to make it curly but it is still rather thin. I did have fun though, and once again I did things like this instead of clean my house and do the laundry. Maybe tomorrow will be the day.

Spread LOVE not GERMS!

I haven’t posted FOREVER! We have been super busy! About a month ago Ray got called to be the 2nd councilor in our ward’s bishopric. I think it will be good for our family and we will receive lots of blessings. The first blessing was I got released from being the 1st councilor in the R.S. – it was bound to happen. As a presidency we had been in for 3 years, and I guess they will be in for sometime longer, but I think it would just be to hard for me to continue. I didn’t ask to be released but, it was what needed to happen. I am SUPER excited about my new calling, I am the V.T. coordinator. It won’t be to time consuming and I like to have things organized and right, so it will be good. Sundays are a little tough, mostly sacrament meeting. My boys just don’t seem to know how to be quiet, whisper is not part of their vocabulary. Kara is pretty good, even though she sure is loud and knows what she wants and when she doesn’t get it she sure lets me know. I have only been "alone" for two weeks during sacrament because one week the boys were sick so I stayed home with all the kids. We have been doing great about getting to church early. It really helps that we have the 11 o’clock time and the fact that Kara takes a nap around 8 or 9 so I can get myself and the kids ready while Ray is at his morning meetings.
I can’t believe it is February already! February is a hard month for us. It is the month where Ray is the busiest with work and add bishopric stuff to that and basketball -- so we don’t see him much. I also am swamped with work; trying to get year-end stuff done – I hope to get it all done this week – YEA!

The kids are just getting older. Kara is learning and growing everyday. She doesn’t know how to say much but she does say mama, and dada and mimics thank you. I think she is really starting to understand things better. I said out loud that I needed to take some pictures, and then she wanted down from her highchair and walked over to the computer and pointed to the camera. I asked her if she wanted me to take her picture and she shook her head yes, then she stood still and I took a couple, then she wanted to see them in the viewfinder. She gets real excited when she sees herself. She also remembers things, I asked her if she wanted to take a bath and she shook her head yes, then I got distracted and had to do something, then a few minutes later she got mad at me and started crying, I said what do you want and she took off to the bathroom – she wanted her bath!

Kara’s hair is getting longer on top. I usually pull it up into a little ponytail. This day she pulled out the elastic and her hair was just sticking up so I had to take some pictures. It is funny when she walks because it bounces as she walks. Ray likes to call her Cindy Lou Who (from the Grinch who stole Christmas) – sometimes I call her Kara Lou Who. She is a funny little girl. She is finally getting her bottom two teeth. When she smiles you can just see the one on top, it makes me laugh, it is a funny tooth.
The boys will be glad when it warms up around here. We have gotten so much snow this winter, it is crazy. It seems like it snows almost everyday! They got scooters for Christmas and hadn’t even taken them outside until Saturday. I was at the church doing the V.T. report, and Ray went outside with them, they both wrecked on the walk way, great! I was surprised that they wrecked because they ride them around the kitchen table all day – I don’t know if it is bad for my hardwood floors or not, but hey it keeps them entertained and I do need to get the floors resurfaced sometime, so I figure it won’t hurt the floor.

As for me I seem to have issues with keeping my house clean. There is just always toys everywhere, laundry to do and put away, dishes in the sink and a big clutter mess. I have got to do something – maybe I will try flylady again, I read some of the stuff a while back and "shined my sink", but never established good flylady habits, I have got to do something! Goals would probably help.

We went visiting teaching today, I am so proud that we got some visits in the first part of the month. We didn’t do good getting out last month, so it was good. I took my ladies some hand sanitizer with a note that said – "This Valentines’ season spread LOVE not germs", I thought it was funny and yet useful because there really are a lot of germs floating around this time of year!

SEE you in 2 years JOHNY

Today my parents, John, Mike and Tennille (and kids) all came to my house around 10 a.m. so we could visit a while before we took John to the MTC. We drove down to Provo around 11:40 because John was supposed to be there at noon. We waited in the lobby for him, then when he came we took some pictures and went to the chapel. We barely missed the 12:30 session and were seated on the first row in the following session. We sat and watched Mormon ad commercials for a while then when the meeting started we sang a very lively rendition of Called to Serve and heard from the MTC president and his wife, they shared really good messages. Then we watched part of the Called to Serve movie, said our quick good-byes and we went out the "family exit" and John went out the "missionary exit" – SEE you in 2 years JOHNY!

We then came back to my house and hung out for a while. My Dad had to go up to Salt Lake to get his work instrument fixed. Around 4 p.m. my friend, Linda, who volunteers at the MTC (she takes the new missionaries pictures) called so say that she had met John and that he was in a threesome companionship – I guess there was an odd number of Elders arriving today to go to the Czech Republic. She said he was happy as could be, so my mom was happy to hear the news of his companions and that he was fine. It was a good day!

90 years old

We had a good weekend. Ray went on a camp out with the Teacher’s quorum Friday and Saturday up to Strawberry Reservoir (COLD!) and I hung out with the kids. I went though all the kids closets to clear out clothes that no longer fit and make room for all the stuff that I bought at the Old Navy sale (they had their clearance marked down an additional 50%, you know I love deals!)

Saturday, when Ray got home we went over to his Aunt and Uncles’ house for a open house for Ray’s grandpa who turned 90! Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Can you imagine all the changes in the world in the last 90 years, he has seen a lot. He likes to joke about dying, I heard one of Ken's cousins say to him "when I saw you at the reunion, you told me the next time I saw you would be in a pine box!", to which he replied, "someone better call the mortician." He is a funny man!

We had fun visiting with family. Ray’s parents came up from New Mexico and his two uncles and their families were there. Ray’s sister, Jenny, had baby Ethan two weeks ago and she was there with him. Kara LOVES babies, sometimes I don’t know if she understands that they are real. She loved Ethan and wanted to hold him. I thought this picture was cute of her hugging him. She also wanted to hug Jenna.

We attempted to get a picture with all the grand kids with great-grandpa, they were not to co-operative, this is what we got.

That night we went to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate Andrew’s birthday (nephew) the kids LOVE Chuck E. Cheese, Kara even had fun riding the rides.

First part of January

Well, we haven't been up to much. Tyler had his first day back at school yesterday so I went and ran errands. It was nice to not have the Christmas crowds everywhere I went.

So Kara is still nursing and I was getting up with her several times a night, mostly out of convenience and I would just get her and nurse her in bed so then I didn't loose to much sleep. Then she was sick forever and I told myself that once she got better she was going to just have to learn to sleep through the night - AKA - cry it out. Sunday night was the first night that I decided to give it a try. I nursed her around 10 p.m. then she slept until around 3 a.m. . She cried and cried then finally went to sleep, Ray thought I should go check on her, and when I did she was on top of her blankets weird so I tried to fix her and woke her up - DANG IT! So then I just held her and rocked her and she poked me on my chest telling me she wanted to nurse, I told her no and she cried like I had hurt her feelings, even though it was kind of a fake cry. She was awake off and on until 5 a.m. It was a LONG night. In the morning Ray referred to it as her torture night. But last night (night #2) she did really good. She woke up once around 5 a.m. and I got up and went to the bathroom and by the time I got out she had quit crying so I think that we are on the road to her sleeping through the night. YEAH!!

In my cleaning out the basement I came across long lost treasures, not really but I had forgotten about this little bike thing that we got Trent when he was one. Kara loves it and the boys like to push her on it, and Tyler likes to ride it which makes Kara cry.

This picture shows very well what Kara play with all day. She puts her purse on her arm and carries her baby and the baby's blanket everywhere, It is so cute to see her walking around with all her stuff.

What did the pioneers do without rubber gloves?

So here is one I wrote last week.

Well, today has been a very poopy day – literally! I tended a little girl that was potty-training and at the first buzzer (1/2 at my house) I took her in to go potty and she had pooped in her underwear, it was gross! Lucky for me I have my trusty yellow rubber gloves, so I put them on and twenty wipes later she was good as new. I then cleaned the toilet and for a special germ killing touch "lysol"ed everything – toilet, doorknobs, sink and even the light switch. About a ½ hour later I went back in the bathroom and there was a can of aerosol hairspray on the counter, I did a double take, I didn’t use the hairspray instead of Lysol did I, YEP, I did, so now I have hairspray on everything – nice – I bet it kills germs though!

Second reason it is a poopy day, Kara has had diarrhea since she started her antibiotic, we go through at least 12 diapers a day, it should be ending soon, she only has one dose left.

Third reason it is a poopy day, Tyler has had diarrhea too, must be a little bug he has, he said he needed to go poop and then I hear him say – Darn, I didn’t make it to the toilet. I go in there and he took off his undies and instead of just letting them slide to the ground he flipped them over to me by the toilet (he was in the entrance), as they flipped across the room they hit the door and splattered poop on the door and floor. SICK! Once again lucky for me I have rubber gloves so I cleaned it all up.

Sorry no pictures :)

It was a poopy day, but I can do anything when I have rubber gloves on!

Last week of Dec 2007

So sometimes I write things in a word document then plan to post them but never get around to it. So, this one is kind of old but I wanted to post it anyway.






















I spent the days after Christmas cleaning up the basement. Ray has been framing under our living room and I needed to move all the toys and JUNK out of there so he could do the "furnace room". I got a lot done, but I still have so much more to do.






We went down to Enoch Sunday (Dec. 30th) morning because my brother John is going on a mission to the Czech Republic and he spoke in church. We left here around 8:45, we got there in time for the kids to play a bit and for us to change our clothes and get to church by 1 p.m. John gave a really good talk and so did the other speaker who was just returning from his mission. After church we ate a ton of yummy food back at my parents house. It was fun to visit with family and friends. Ray took a lot of pictures but the one good picture of John was fuzzy so this one has him in the background.We didn’t get to stay long because Ray had to be at work on Monday, so we left around 5:30 for home. I think that is definitely the shortest trip to Enoch ever. I was sad that we couldn’t stay longer and so were the kids. I told them that dad had to work and their idea was to go back to grandmas when he got off work – good idea if we could stay but dad has to work the rest of the week and Trent had school on Wednesday.