Each month we write a letter for family that sums up our monthly activities. My Grandpa collects these from all the families and post's them to a family website. I know some will be repeat of other posts, but since other family views this also. I figured I would post on the blog.
Hope I don't bore any of you.
Karryn & Roger I guess I had better start first with an apology to Carson. Writing the letter last month I left out his birthday. We celebrated with a family/friend bar-b-que at our house and then went and played in the river. He asked for a Chocolate cake with lemon frosting and M&M's. He wanted the M&M's to cover the whole cake so that everyone would think there was not any icing. He did a pretty good job with this and was a big help in decorating this. (making was little harder as we had to borrow our neighbor's stove, so he played with friends during this time)
Having to use our neighbors stove was due to our stove not working. We have only been able to use the stove top. But even that has been a challenge.
One morning Roger was cooking breakfast and we heard a pop and had fire underneath the stove top. The pipe going from the propane to the burner had come apart, so the fire was under instead of on top. Roger turned off the stove and blew out the flame and later that day Roger and were watching a move and he asked if I could smell the propane. I told him I could smell something funny. He checked and the propane was still turned on, but the flame was out. One of the burners (no matter how low you turn it) flames would come over the edges of the pan. it would not adjust at all, would just burn at full. Flame but would not heat up. We even turned it up to 500 degree's and the inside only got up to 250 degree's. (We had to cook Carson's Birthday cake over at our friends house, and when the kids wanted cookies, we bugged them again for use of their stove)
Just some of the fun. But thank you to a wonderful sister-in-law we were able to get a new stove. We had been trying to save, but it seemed like anytime we got anything saved then something would happen to need just what we had saved.
After we got the stove ordered we took a break and went to Dallas to visit my parents, and take care of Doctor's appointments and continuing ed for Roger. The week before we left our car started over heating. The drive up was very hot as we left 111 degree weather and not able to use the Air Conditioning. (the over heating was due to the cooling fan not working) luckily with my Dad's help Roger was able to get this fixed. I guess our car decided that one repair was not enough so the next evening they were back under the hood and tires off working to repair the (wing nuts?) luckily this was the only thing and we were able to enjoy our time with my parents and relax a little bit.
When we got back to town Roger's sister Holly was in town for the week. We enjoyed spending some time with them.
Zack's school was selling discount tickets to Wonderland Amusement Park a few months before school was out. We decided it would be a lot of fun to buy them and go as a family while Carson and Tristan were in town. Needless to say this was before I was pregnant. Roger was not up to getting motion sickness, so we invited the boys cousin (Cedar) and friend (Beau) to come with us. Roger and I got walking passes, so we could watch the boys, and take pictures. It worked out really well, and was a blast.
Very First ride they went on was the bumper cars. Thank goodness Cedar was with us so that Carson could ride. They had a blast, and went on this time and time again. (Carson told me it is good thing I did not go on the bumper cars, because if I did and we crashed, the baby would have just gone flying out of my stomach.) (good thing I did not go on them huh?! LOL) fun things from the mouths of kids.
Thursday we ended up at the Hospital for an emergency ultrasound and then to the doctor after. Luckily everything was ok, just a scare, but we were "upgraded" to High risk pregnancy and will be having more ultrasounds and 70% chance of 9
the baby being born c-section. We also got the "pleasure" of going to see more doctors as our OB is worried about my heart doctor not being close during the pregnancy. Blessing in all of this is we got notice Thursday morning that our insurance had gone through and we would have coverage for the pregnancy.
That weekend we were working on our Honda getting it ready to take the boys back to Colorado. Roger was changing the brake pads, when he took the front driver's side break pad off it was wet, as he was looking at it, he found out the Caliper was broken. This was about 8:15 pm and we had to leave for Colorado the next morning. We decided we would hurry into town and hopefully catch the parts store before it closed. We debated about leaving the boys home since they were getting into bed, but changed our minds. We grabbed some snacks and headed into town. (drive takes about 45 min) about 15 miles into our drive we hit a deer and ended up on the side of the road with a non-working car. We called our friend Berne to come and help us tow the car and called Roger's parents to come and get the kids and help us get the part that was needed. Luckily everything worked out ok and we were able to get the boys back to Colorado. Nobody was seriously hurt, just some sore muscles from the seatbelts and Roger's hip from pushing on the brake so hard.
The day that we got back from Colorado our car was back "up on blocks" as there are more problems with the brakes. I had to laugh and try to smile as our friends son (Beau) asked what needed to be fixed on the car. Trying to list out everything was kind of fun, but hard. Needless to say we realized we were putting more money into keeping this one going than it would take to make payments on a reliable one. We went and were able to get a 4 wheel drive truck that seats 6. We have realized all the blessings from this as the night that we got the truck we got a very heavy rain storm and had to use the 4 wheel drive to get home. Since then we have used it multiple times to help move things, or just to be able to get in and out of our home. (last/first 10 miles from our house is dirt road)
Zack and Roger were able to go to a two day 11 year old scout camp. Zack's cousin Cedar was able to go with them, and get some of the requirements he was still needing. They had fun even through it rained and flooded their tent, and they got to watch as Roger killed a rattle snake. But they had a blast and got a lot of the requirements needed, taken care of. and just enjoyed the time together.
Other than all this we have stayed busy with working cows. If you are interested in seeing some of what roger works with and some of the land around us, our friends have a wonderful blog at http://lazyarrowbranch.blogspot.com/, patients, insurance companies and staying busy together as a family. I was talking to Mom and she said she did not know if we could make it through a week without something happening. Roger's mom mentioned that this must be just because we are doing the right things and trying to get through the temple. My friend Benji mentioned that all the blessings that have come out of everything is because we are doing the right thing.
We love you all and miss you. Hope things are well with you. Love the Conlin's Roger, Karryn, Zack, Tristan and Carson.
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