Hot Dog

What a whirlwind week! We got to keep 3 of Brad's sisters boys this week & had a great time. They were a big help packing & playing with the other kids. The plan was to have them spend a few days at our house & a few days with Grandma & Grandpa Dillan...but Grandpa Dillan had a heart attack & was flown to Lincoln on Wednesday.

He is doing well, didn't need surgery or anything. That is an answer to prayer. He'll have some recovery time at home & hopefully will not have any more problems. He is at home & hopefully resting for when we come to visit him this week! This week seemed to fly by very quickly worrying about Pete, packing & having a house full of 8 kids.

We did take another big load of stuff to Minden yesterday & also took our nephews home. I miss them being around! Hunter ended up staying here with a friend of his & was in charge of coming home to take care of the dog. He did fine except for one minor flaw--he was worried that Sunny would get too hot inside so he turned the air conditioner down. Way down to about 56 degrees. AND turned it to ON instead of AUTO. So, guess what happened?

When we got home tonight it was about 84 degrees in here & there was about 1 1/2 inches of ice on the air conditioner. So, we pried all the windows open (when was the last time we had them open??) & are trying to air it out. Sunny was definitely a hot dog. And we were worried about him being too hot OUTSIDE!

We went to the E Free Church in Minden today & liked it a lot. We've met a great couple there who have already had us over for lunch (thanks Doug & Angie) & lined up more help for us to put up a fence in the yard. The kids had a great time at their house this afternoon while we worked at the house.

It was much harder than I thought thinking of going to a new church this morning. I even ended up calling & talking to Alice on the phone at CWC. She let me "cry on her shoulder" over the phone as I was driving from Kearney to Minden. Thanks Alice! I'll miss my CWC family so much.

We saw Brad's Grandma Neva tonight on our way home. She looks so much better than she did a few short weeks ago. She is in the hospital in Cambridge until there is a spot open in the assisted living complex. She is very ready to be at "home." She thinks she's drank about 2 gallons of milk of magnesia the last 2 weeks. They keep slipping it to her she says! She definitely hasn't lost her sense of humor!

A Big Thanks goes to Sharp's for mowing our yard--it looks great! What a nice suprise to come home to. We'll miss great neighbors like you for sure. Can Jared come & stay with us for a few days in Minden? We'll sure miss him around our house.

I also had a cupcake catastrophe this week. I love this new muffin pan I got that cooks 24 in one pan. It's GREAT until you drop it as you are putting it into the oven & you have 24 cupcake liners filled with batter all over the bottom of your hot oven. Flagan was so sweet--he offered to clean it up for me, though I didn't let him since the oven was hot. And he kept telling me how good the cupcakes were! He knows how to butter his aunt up!!