Our Life Lessons: Week 12 - Spring Break in Arizona

Spring Break was in Arizona. Our friends invited us to come work! Home improvement projects are one of my favorite activities - painting, gardening, pulling up carpet, putting in new flooring, amongst other work projects.

The task was pulling wallpaper - three rooms of wallpaper.

The boys got the spring break of their dreams. They played with friends, games, Legos, jumped on the trampoline, went to the park, and watched movies. Yet we took their piano books to practice while my friend and I pulled wallpaper. Every so often they were called up to pick up the pieces of the wallpaper that we dropped on the floor.

Merris, Sweetheart's sister, gave her husband a kidney the week before we came. We didn't tell them we were coming because we didn't know how things were going. On Sunday before heading to church, we came to the house and surprised their family.

The night before we asked about ice cream toppings. One of their cousin's reaction was shock. Luckily we got to see Grandma, Aunt Yvette, and our Arizona family.

One day the boys' cousin came and played for the day; a different day their Auntie took the nephews and niece to a museum. They got to swimming with their cousin and his friends. We are so grateful for the kindness of family! We are so happy to have spent time together.

Our annual tradition of getting an free cone at Dairy Queen.

Sweetheart got one in Colorado.

We went to the one in Arizona with our friends.

While we were in Arizona, Sweetheart did a significant amount of work on the Honda Pilot. He replaced the front and rear shocks, power steering pump, a arms, inner and outer tie rods, rear brakes, water pump, timing belt, accessory belt, belt tensioner, spark plugs, power steering fluid flush, new coolant, new transmission fluid, and an oil change. He has left to change starter, valve cover gaskets, and power steering fluid flush. He would go to work, the chiropractor, and work on the car.

We flew stand by gratefully. We usually drive everywhere so this might be a surprise. Picking a flight to come home was more challenging than we thought because of my indecisiveness. We were enjoying ourselves so much but missed Sweetheart. He was concerned that he didn't have the car finished so he encouraged us to stay as long as possible.

Since we were in Arizona, Sweetheart had to make the dessert for our Spanish class. He made homemade pumpkin pie.

I was so proud of him!

The one down thing that happened was when I was putting away the citrus picker after getting Sweetheart citrus was I was hit on the head by a fertilizer spreader that was hung improperly in the garage. My head immediately started to hurt.

Underfoot started to take care of me because he has had a concussion and thought that I had one. Saturday was a little hard because my headache wouldn't go away, and I was significantly irrational and emotional.

We went to an Easter egg hunt and church breakfast. The boys had a marvelous time!

One sad moment during the week was that we learned my sister-in-law's mother passed away from meningitis. She had been hospitalized for a time. We are grateful for the goodness of Stephanie and her life.

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