Life as a Yowler

Today is Valentine’s Day/ Brielle’s 6th birthday. Six years ago, I was due on Valentine’s Day, but I didn’t really fear I would have her on my actual due date. Who does? Well, I was proved wrong. For six years Valentine’s Day has been a celebrate Brielle day, instead of a romantic day. I really…

I never realize how often my kids pee, until we go to Disneyland. You’ve got the nervous pees(before rides) on top of the regular pees. Thank goodness it’s Disney and everyone’s understanding. I’ve learned to NOT just leave the line frustrated. Find a worker and tell them. They’ll let you right back on. I’ve also…

Yesterday, we made it to Sequoia National Park. We weren’t even in the park for 5 minutes, when we stopped for our first photo opportunity. Evan had the brilliant idea to do a little off trail hiking. Joah ran after him. I decided to tag along with Brielle and Caed. Brandon stayed back with Isla,…

Hello 4am. We ended up making the call to wait to leave until this morning. The repair man did end up showing up last evening, but he wasn’t finished until 8pm. He didn’t fix the slide, he just got it shut. He said he would need another week(to order another part) to totally fix it.…

Our leave time has been pushed back, because of this broken slide. My brother Evan flew in yesterday. He and Brandon went and did a store training together this morning. The plan was for the repair man to meet us at the campground at 10am. He had ordered a part and it was scheduled to…

I wouldn’t consider myself a huge germaphobe, but I am a slight germaphobe. The thought of picking up the corona virus as we are about to head into California has crossed my mind. I realize the chances are slim, and I know I’m not overly rational. Caed woke up coughing today and my first though…

This morning was fairly laid back. We did school. We read some books and did some more puzzles. I broke up 600 fights. Today, the weather was a lot nicer than yesterday. It was in the 50’s. We played outside quite a bit. Our campground is enormous and most of the spots are filled. We…

Las Vegas is one place I won’t let my kids go outside, even with walkie talkies. In fact, when we checked into the campground the owner told us to make sure to watch kids and lock all doors, including all our doors down below the motor home. He said, now that it’s so cold, the…

Let me just start out by saying yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday. Brandon always likes me to make three different chip dips for big games. We had bought the ingredients two days ago, back when we were at Walmart. We realized yesterday, while driving, that we had forgotten one ingredient….blue cheese. We googled to another…

Yesterday was mostly a travel day. We woke up and hiked up a mountain before leaving Hill County. We had nine hours of driving to do yesterday. Our kids are kind of like dogs. Because we exercised them and walked them, they traveled pretty well. It wasn’t until the last hour that they started to…