bg limbo

ok i have been avoiding this far too long.  life has been soo crazy that i haven't even wanted to try and write.  well, now life has been crazy for two months and i haven't written, so there is no way that i could catch up.  i haven't even had the time to read all the blogs.  but slowly and surely i will get through them.  i love to read, i just haven't had the time. 

first, jessica and tony,  i was at camp during your family fast, but we did fast on the fast sunday before for you and indie.  you are in our prayers and we know that Heavenly Father will be with you.

ok in july after our awesome week with cameron and monica, we went down to ashland, or., just 10 miles north of the california border, so that i could try my hand or i should say feet at the siskiyou out and back.  it was amazing.  it took me 7 hours and 7 minutes which is about what i thought it would, but i ran with the stomach flu, so maybe i could have done better if i hadn't been dry heaving all the way through it.  but maybe not.  that night brind and dad babysat so that cory and i could go see romeo and juliet.  they have a shakespeare festival in ashland every summer.  it was a ton of fun.  the drive home was less than great, seven hours in the car with the stomach flu, thankfully cory was done throwing up and i only dry heave, (while driving, less than safe).  the next weekend cory turned 30.  yucky!  he is taking it much better than i am.  the weekend after that we started moving and did that through the end of july to the beginning of aug.  then it was off to girls camp, which went very well, we have such a good group of girls and fun leaders.  mom and i had a blast, but it wasn't quite the party that camp was as a girl.  responsibility has a way of doing that.  we took the girls on some beautiful hikes, none as intense as monica's, but fun none the less.  beacon rock was our first hike which is right on the columbia river and you can see for miles, the second one was to some water falls. 

mom and dad took the three oldest kids down to utah for dad's family reunion so i got to see them for about 10 mins. on friday after being at camp all week and then they were gone until tues night.  it was fun to spend one on one time with hazel, but we were both very bored.  it's just because she is use to having other kids around, but she just wondered through the house asking, "where guys?, where guys?".  

ok so mom told about the excitement surrounding hazel's broken finger but i wasn't totally freaking, my mind was still working trying to figure out how to get her to the hospital and accomplish everything else i needed to do before leaving for camp, but my body just gave up.  well now hazel has the cutest little purple cast you have ever seen.  it goes from the tips of her fingers to an inch below her elbow.  cory calls her hammer hand, because, well, she uses it as a hammer.  to hammer on door, floor, wall, brother, mother, etc.  i'm really afraid now that she is going to break her other arm.  only having one arm in use has not slowed her down, but it should. 

we are still in limbo, but it looks like we might be into our house the first week of school, which is after labor day.  not as soon as i was hoping for, but it could be worse.  to be completely honest it still seems too good to be true.   most of the kids feel right at home staying with mom again, but hazel keeps asking if we can "go home our house". 

i miss you all and hope that life will become a little more normal soon.  as of now we are scraping by and doing very well ...........me