April Mission Pictures Morgan Sent

April 2019 Happenings

Had to through in some cute Sister Keller Pictures today!  I usually post them seperately, but we love that she is serving the Lord in New Zealand and that she now has permission to study spanish and answer calls at the OTC in Spanish!  Wonderful blessing for her on her mission.

So the beginning of April brought lots of rain, also a little drip from the fire sprinklers inside the house also!  Troy and I had thought the kids had spilled stuff the first time we saw the darkish liquid on the floor, but it continued to show up and then I realized that the splatter pattern was from single drips and I looked up.  Silly me. That same night we had our Congo Party with Margaret Young.  We had lots of yummy food and she talked about some of the many things they have been working on in the Congo.  Especially the oral histories and the film making.  She showed a little bit of the movie that they will be showing in the Carnes Film Festival later this year.  It was a lot of fun to have her over and we had a pretty good turn out for it being Spring Break and Conference Weekend!

Exciting things are happening at the house!  I finally got my laundry room cabinets installed and the elevator is being installed as I type this.  I'll add some at the moment pictures of it.

Ana turned 18!!  Very exciting.  So exciting in fact that we bought her a Fiat for her birthday with all the hope and bribery that she will finish up her 20 hours of driving to get her license and graduate from High School or get her GED!  The future is looking bright.  Well it was until she put tinder and snapchat back on her phone and then kept it in her room all night and it got taken away, again.  I guess we had different ideas of what it meant to turn 18.  Hahaha, life is full of surprises!

Julie answered Ethan with a Yes! I'll go to Prom with you and dance to some tunas. Cute and clever.  Suzie and I still try to attend the temple every Thursday.  Last week we went pretty early so we could fit everything else into our days :)  Beautiful.

Troy and I went to dinner with Janya and Rich Hendershot over the weekend to visit and to get the raccoon cage back.  As soon as it was returned home Ethan had it set up to catch some coons.  Percy got up three times in the night barking and making noise, we are pretty sure he's def, but some how he could hear something going on outside. When we got up we found we had a pretty old and docile raccoon in there.  He didn't mind Percy sniffing around or barking at him.  He even watched Ethan as Ethan was trying to feed him.  He wasn't going to eat the offered food, but he would sniff at it and at Ethan's hand.  Then it would lay back down.  Upon releasing it, Ethan had to make some noise so that it would turn around and see that the door had been opened.  Once he figured it out he was long gone under the fence in the back yard.  Ethan reset the trap and the next morning we found it had captured a cat.  Not an old and docile cat!  That cat was hissing and mad and it didn't like Percy one bit.  So I took a very blurry picture and let it go!  I'm not a fan of cats at all and this one didn't have a collar so I figured it was not happy to be in that cage!  Plus once it hissed at Percy he wouldn't stop barking, he was making me crazy.

Speaking of pets, the second Ana turned 18 she had a friend take her to the pet store and she bought another hamster, a regular sized hamster.  Her dwarf hamster lives happily in a cardboard box, we have been pleasantly surprised it has never tried to get out.  I'm sure you can guess where this is going...  A few days later, Ana didn't want her parents to know she had purchased said hamster, even though she was keeping her door shut and she had told all of her friends and I had already heard about the hamster, we decided to play along.  So when she finally came and told me she purchased another hamster it wasn't to be honest or for us to share in the joy of another pet, but to tell me that said hamster had chewed through its cardboard box the day before and she couldn't find it.  She had kept her door closed so she knew for certain it hadn't gotten out of her room.  With that said, I shared with her that rodents can get through things the size of your pinky finger and that the gap under her door was definately bigger than one finger.  So she informed me that even if that was the case it would be upstairs because they can't go down stairs.  As I'm trying not to laugh I remind her that we had mice and the kids would chase the mice in our 500 Sugar Plum Lane house and we had a rat in our Texas house that came in and out of the roof all the way downstairs to the kitchen to eat Percy's dog food.   I still don't think she believes me to this day, but thankfully we found the hamster in one of the upstairs bedroom closets.  In a quit dark corner under the craft drawers.  He was returned to her room in a plastic bin.  Good think we had already purchased a hamster house for her Easter basket this year.  That of course led to Ethan getting yet another fish tank for his Easter basket this year.  Sigh.

This seems to be a good stopping point. We had a lovely Easter, with extra large pet homes as baskets and a lovely dinner and Easter Egg hunt and Mike and Stacies.  Glad it stopped raining for the egg hunt.  Hope we all can show gratitude for our Savior and Friend all year round, not just at these holidays that help us to remember His life and sacrifices for us.  I wouldn't be where I am without prayers answered and inspiration from a higher power.  We are truly blessed to be a part of such a wonderful Heavenly plan as to have a Father in Heaven who loves us and sent his beloved son to die for us and to atone for our sins.  I'm forever grateful for this beautiful gift.  Happy Easter, Atonement, Resurrection and Eternal Life.