Fun Monday and more on Kelly and Alaska

This weeks Fun Monday comes from Vicky and she wanted to go back to the first Fun Monday and this is what she said Next week is my turn to host Monday Funday again. We'll need Spring pictures from your front door please, and also could you take a picture out your backdoor to satisfy my nosy sweet tooth?

This was pretty easy to do today because we are having fabulous weather and are finally seeing some sun! So I had no problem taking pictures of our outside.

Of course we have 4 kids so of course our front and backyard looks like we have kids. Notice the picture with the spoon? Yes whenever we feel like we are running low on spoons I always know where they probably have ended up because certain children in this house have found that they make great shovels. I can't say to much because I put my mother through this same thing by stealing her spoons all the time when I was a kid also. I never taught them this though so I have no idea how they figured it out! It must be a kid thing.....

Also with the digging they have been playing at pulling some of the weeds lately and do you notice the truck full of weeds? I guess filling the toy truck makes it more fun. If only I could convince them to pick all the weeds and not just the "fun" ones, whichever those are....

Of course since Kelly is getting ready to leave for Alaska on Wednesday we have his trailor in the driveway as well ready for him to go. The trailor is ready but I'm not so sure we are ready for him to go....





On that topic I had a question as to why Kelly is going up 4 months ahead of the rest of us from my last post. Well its complicated but alot of it really has to do with the fact he actually doesn't have a job up there yet or a place to stay beyond the first couple of days. We are doing this kind of in a strange way I guess. We feel strongly that this is what we are supposed to do for our family everything esle is working in our favor to go so we are sending Kelly up ahead of us on faith basically. The thing is we can't just pick up the whole family and go. We can't risk any time without medical insurance and I am the one carrying it right now. With our kids its just not a good idea. Also I don't want to pull them out of school before the end of the year. If I continue to work though we still have a steady income till his is coming in regularly. I have to stay hear in Oregon right now due to some family obligations that I have for this summer. And just a whole lot of stuff....I said it was complicated there is a lot more to it but its hard to explain.

Also on the note of Kelly leaving on Wednesday. I am doing okay with it I know that it is what we decided together I'm just kind of freaking out about it right now. I know we will be fine and I can handle it though. I'm not sure how much the kids really get it. It pretty much dawned on Izzak today at school and he pretty much lost it and had to come home lucky Dad was home and they got to spend the day together and hopefully that helped a little. Joshua and the girls? I don't think they really understand that he is going to be gone that long. They still don't always have a full sense of time.

I do ask that you keep Kelly in your thoughts during his drive and I will let people know when he is there and that he got there okay. Also the one I am worried about is Izzak. After his reaction today I am a little worried about him. He has anxiety issues and usually they come out pretty bad so we are trying to figure out how to keep him mellow or feeling okay about it and talk about how it will be when we move. He hasn't posted anything in his blog lately but I will see if I can get him to write something or do something on it. If you feel like it he loves getting comments directed toward him and if you don't mind could you leave him a message on his blog? I know he would love it!

*Update* Izzak did write a bit on his blog.