I've been thinking a lot the last few days

There's a song that keeps coming to my mind: "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Garth Brooks. I can't help but think what if this is the last day I get to see Ray? I may be wrong, but I think Ray's thoughts have been running the same way. I know I've been trying a little harder and I think he has, too. Patrick, Ray, and I are all the same age. Right now I'm very grateful my girls aren't old enough to understand the concepts of death and age. It's hard enough for me to be scared and worried, I'm glad they don't have to feel that yet. My thoughts are so jumbled it's hard to put them down. I've typed and deleted a lot of different things. I don't know how to put into words what I'm feeling. I want to know why, but I probably never will. So I have to rely on my testimony. I know Heavenly Father loves Beth, that He knows what is best for her, and that He will help her make it through this trial and be a stronger person in the end.

For those who knew him:

My brother-in-law, Patrick, was killed in a car crash last night. I don't know any more details than that. I just wanted to let people know.

It's a slow way to travel...

Exciting Happenings at our house

A new (to us) stroller. The babies had to try it out.

Who needs toys?

We have chairs.My girls were very entertained with their maze. As they climbed from one chair to the next I was hearing, "Up I go. Down I go." Over and over again.
When they tired of that configuration, they tried something new:
Did you notice anything about Ruby in that picture? Need a closer look:
I didn't realize until I had the pic up on the computer that Ruby was midair. Yes, that chair has springs.

Safety First

I made the girls some "stick" horses. I didn't use sticks. I feel that sticks in the hands of my children are dangerous. (If you follow the link and the video doesn't work for you, I apologize. It was working, but I can't get it to right now.) So I made my own sticks, out of fabric. These sticks bend. Much safer.

Weird, weird, weird

At the moment we apparently have two phones -- a home phone and a cell phone -- with the same phone number. Weird. What happened is this: Ray finally relented and got a cell phone on the condition that the home phone number would become his cell phone number. I'm fine with this -- this means I don't get all his business calls with questions that I can't answer, it also means I don't get all the telemarketer phone calls. I'm really liking this. Anyway, the instructions to activate the cell phone were to wait until the home phone stopped working, then call and do all the activation stuff. So, yesterday Beth called my cell phone to inform me that she tried to call my home phone and it didn't work (exactly a week after initiating the switch). I activated Ray's cell phone. I called the number several times, it always went to the cell phone. Ray got the the telemarketer calls yesterday afternoon. :-) The weird part I noticed yesterday was that I could still make phone calls from my home phone and the number still showed up the same on caller ID. Weird, but whatever, Ray's cell phone was getting all the incoming calls, that's what I really cared about.

Then this morning my home phone rang. Having been only a day since I stopped having a home phone I didn't think much of it at first, but after a moment realized it shouldn't have ever gotten the call. The call happened to be for me, conveniently, if it only works when someone is trying to call me instead of Ray I would be fine with this. But, I was a little worried, so as soon as I got off the phone I dialed the number -- it went to Ray's cell. Weird.

I'm sure it won't last long, Ray is supposed to be getting the home phone disconnected fully. But it's still weird.