Well, we went to North Dakota and back again this past week and a half, actually two weeks ago now. We left on the 31st and got back on the 9th. It was a really good trip, we got to meet my mom and dad and aunt and uncle in Montana for about an hour. They were heading to a family reunion in Canada, we still on our way to ND and it just worked out that we were getting to the same area within a few hours of each other. So we stuck around Billings, MT in almost 100 degree weather but got to see them which was great even if for just an hour!
We got to spend 5 full days with our friends, went fishing, played settlers, got to see Beth and her girls, went swimming, picked choke cherries, watched the kiddos pair off and play together. Fully enjoyed the freedom of super, super small town life!
We love the LeMoines!
Then we made the journey west again arriving late in the night at our newlywed friends' new apartment . Spent the night and all the next day with them walking around Missoula, eating some meals together, played Bang! with them and the kids. :)
Then we left that evening and drove through the night getting back home thursday morning around 5:30am.
So then the past few days home have been, mostly uneventful attempting to get back into the swing of things here, I really hate unpacking from long trips!
Elias' gravestone was finished, picked up and set on his grave while we were gone. On thursday we went to see it, it turned out just right. I am happy with the way it looks but I am hesitant to say I like it, love it, or anything like that just because of what it stands for my baby gone and buried in the dirt underneath that stone and so I hate it too. ;(
Makes it feel even more final then it already is, like it takes a chunk out of the small piece of hope we are fighting to hold on too.
Lately, I feel these little bursts of anger (the type of anger you feel just for a moment, and you want to hit, throw or break something to relieve it). Anger at how stupid it all is and how it's just not right that Elias is gone but my anger does not help anything or change anything so those moments leave me just frustrated and in tears.
So it took us a few days to be sure but while we were gone someone got into our apt. and stole judah's two laptops (his mac and his small pc for school) the thing that is hardest about it all is there are pictures and video's of elias on there that we aren't sure if I have on my computer or if it got transferred to our external hard drive(thankfully they didn't take that or Judah's gun which was also right near where the computer's were in our room) We think someone opened our window crawled in grabbed the computer's and left, the window was closed but we forgot to lock it before we left so they could have opened it from the outside. :( I think I am going to see if the apartment complex will put bars on the window's they do on the other-side of the building for the same apartment on our floor but there has been an increase of theft in our neighborhood lately and I never feel super comfortable leaving the window's open at night because anyone can crawl down through the "yard" between our building and the next and our window is right at ground level.
Definitely doesn't make for easy sleeping at night when judah is working.
Anyway, that is most of what is happening around here lately.
We got to spend 5 full days with our friends, went fishing, played settlers, got to see Beth and her girls, went swimming, picked choke cherries, watched the kiddos pair off and play together. Fully enjoyed the freedom of super, super small town life!
We love the LeMoines!
Then we made the journey west again arriving late in the night at our newlywed friends' new apartment . Spent the night and all the next day with them walking around Missoula, eating some meals together, played Bang! with them and the kids. :)
Then we left that evening and drove through the night getting back home thursday morning around 5:30am.
So then the past few days home have been, mostly uneventful attempting to get back into the swing of things here, I really hate unpacking from long trips!
Elias' gravestone was finished, picked up and set on his grave while we were gone. On thursday we went to see it, it turned out just right. I am happy with the way it looks but I am hesitant to say I like it, love it, or anything like that just because of what it stands for my baby gone and buried in the dirt underneath that stone and so I hate it too. ;(
Makes it feel even more final then it already is, like it takes a chunk out of the small piece of hope we are fighting to hold on too.
Lately, I feel these little bursts of anger (the type of anger you feel just for a moment, and you want to hit, throw or break something to relieve it). Anger at how stupid it all is and how it's just not right that Elias is gone but my anger does not help anything or change anything so those moments leave me just frustrated and in tears.
So it took us a few days to be sure but while we were gone someone got into our apt. and stole judah's two laptops (his mac and his small pc for school) the thing that is hardest about it all is there are pictures and video's of elias on there that we aren't sure if I have on my computer or if it got transferred to our external hard drive(thankfully they didn't take that or Judah's gun which was also right near where the computer's were in our room) We think someone opened our window crawled in grabbed the computer's and left, the window was closed but we forgot to lock it before we left so they could have opened it from the outside. :( I think I am going to see if the apartment complex will put bars on the window's they do on the other-side of the building for the same apartment on our floor but there has been an increase of theft in our neighborhood lately and I never feel super comfortable leaving the window's open at night because anyone can crawl down through the "yard" between our building and the next and our window is right at ground level.
Definitely doesn't make for easy sleeping at night when judah is working.
Anyway, that is most of what is happening around here lately.
