Awesome Cheney sunset after a very dusty extremely windy day.

 

So Blake turned 16 this past Sunday.

This was his cake. It was awesome.

 

White Chocolate Frito m&m popcorn. :)

The friends at his party!

 My parents came for a visit and they camped

at Riverside campground in Spokane.

They took us to this cool bridge.

Then the boys went for a walk...

 

And a climb (you can see the two dots at the top?

Hmmmm it's been 4 1/2 months since brain surgery.

I wonder if he's steady enough to climb up there?

 So here he is shimmying back across the looks to be

very unsteady tree. UGH Boys. I told my mom...

if we don't look then they will come back faster.

She gave up and went to the car :)

 Things are going well here. The boys are meeting lots of new people.

People here are very friendly. We are happy for the change.

Moving on to week five and life lessons...

Well... Chad is ready to get a job... at least start looking into

getting a job. This is a difficult task when you can't hear.

 

So we have been directed to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.

 

We went to the orientation today... It was held at the Worksource

 office. I went there last week and verified that they had the

 equipment for those hard of hearing. They should have...

I have spent two weeks in their classes and they announce

 in every class they have this equipment and to just

 ask at the front desk.

 

So... I went the front desk "sure we have that".

I mention to Chad/Eric we should arrive early

so we can make sure this stuff is set up and works.

 

We arrive 30 minutes early to get the equipment set up.

They had to look for it...

Then they asked me if I knew what they were looking for...

Then they asked me how it worked....

Then we took all the stuff to the room where the orientation was...

The person conducting the orientation didn't know how to use it...

It seemed that their "team" who did know how to use it was gone that day.

 

It turned out that we were the only ones who would be attending the orientation

so Chad could hear and the video was close captioned.

 

 

I went back to the front desk and said ...

Chad will be back here in the morning to attend another meeting

could they figure out how it worked before then?

Sure.... They spent another 3 hours looking it up,

asking me questions, replacing batteries etc.

 

Guess what... you have to have a hearing aid for this thing to work.

 

We don't have one.

 

It was a very good lesson for me and the people at Worksource.

I wanted to cry...

Chad won't be attending tomorrow's meeting.



3 weeks in Cheney...

We have been in Cheney for 3 weeks and we have had a good time!

We have also had visitors.

Cody came to see us before he headed back to Texas.

He picked up Chad and took him to Texas with him!

Chad was gone for 2 weeks and had a good time with his friend.

Chloe came, we bought her a blow up dinosaur so she would

get into the water. She never put more than her piggie toes in the water.

 Curious about her personality...

Here is is, she is a silly girl!

She was hugging grandpa before she left.

And our third visitors were the Roches...

Friends since forever!

 This is Sian and Blake

they went to a camp together this summer called EFY.

(Especially for Utah).

This is the Roche family with Eric and Blake.

So we have had visitors every week!

We love them keep coming!

Moving Sucks!

Moving is so painful, frustrating, annoying experience

and would be made worse with out the help of so many

wonderful people.

I only got pictures of a few of the many

volunteers but I am SO VERY Thankful to them all!

This is it... Empty :(

Our moving convoy...

Truck pulling VW, My truck pulling another VW.

Here we are on our way.

We spent the night at my moms after getting there after 9 pm.

Woke up early and went to Swedish for a few

doctor appointments before leaving town.

This is the last picture.

We made it to Cheney about 5 pm.

and finished unloading close to 10 pm, totally exhausted!

Again thanks to some awesome volunteers whom I have never met before!



Last night in PA!

Well it's officially here...

Our last night living in Port Angeles.

I needed to take some pictures of my kids

before I left because they are so dang cute.

Ok I love this girl! I can't even begin to

explain to you how much! Tonight she said

"Grandma you have chocolate? I said no, She said "I love chocolate".

now I know it's official she's mine! I love chocolate too!

 I know you think I only have four kids...

The reality is here in this picture.

Marty, Cody, and Chelsey's best friend Chelsea are also my kids.

 I love this one...

They turned out great! (The kids and the pictures).

Tomorrow starts a new adventure we are excited for!

Stay tuned for updates!



7 in 7...

Officially I am moving in 7 days.  : I

But technically I am moving everyday.

Tuesday it was a large load to the Goodwill.

Wednesday it was the Piano

Today (Thursday) it was the log bed to Amy's.

Friday it's a Large load of extra VW parts.

Saturday Eric's Mustang is moving to it's new owner.

(See photo below)

Yes that is Chad moving (kindof) a piano.

He ends up suffering from these kinds of actions but

He likes to feel helpful so we argue over it. Guess who wins?

 

This is Chelsey & Chloe :)

(spy the unpainted VW in the garage).

This is what my house has looked like for about

3 weeks. (Moving UGH!)

7 in 7... 7 hrs away in 7 days from now.

Yes we are moving in 7 days.

How is is possible that these cars will be functioning

in 7 days? I believe it will be a miracle :) 

The extra parts we are selling at the

VW show this weekend are left overs from these two cars.

 The blue convertible on the left is

Eric's car. The green car on the right

is Chad's car.

Were moving ...

I am sorry that we (I) have not been posting much.

My life is pretty chaotic right now and I get a little

overwhelmed.

We are moving in two weeks and two days!

Eric lost his job, his last day was May 24th.

We sold our house, it was a short sale so we get to leave with bad credit.

Eric was accepted at Eastern WA University  and starts this fall.

I have to say it has been one hell of a year!

In the last year we have both lost our jobs,

Had fibroid and brain tumors,

Sold our house, we have to move.

Had 6 hospital visits.

And other heart breaking things I won't blog

about to protect my children's privacy.

So you can see... I am trying to keep my head above water!

We went to Spokane (Cheney) this weekend to find a home.

We have applied to rent a place but have not heard back yet.

We also took a load of stuff and took Blake to wrestling camp.

On our way to Spokane we went back to Swedish Hospital to see

the Audiologist to check up on the Cochlear implant.

Still nothing...

The audiologist wants him to wear it even though he can't hear

 anything because it burns off bubbles in his brain from the surgery.

They are hoping he will hear eventually.

I can't believe how quickly SO MANY things can change.