Sad, Sad, Sad

So I haven't blogged in a while because I couldn't bare to. Before you get to worried, It's because I have NO pictures. Kaitlyn got a hold of my camera and deleted 2 months worth of pictures. My trip to Texas, Em's first success at going in the potty, when Ryan and I bought our house... to name a few. It has been a very eventful couple of months and I had some great photos. Next time I WON'T ignore the prompting to download my photos and wait tell the morning to do it.

So here's my photo-less blog about Texas. :(

My WONDERFUL (seriously she's amazing!) mother in law flew up to Wisconsin, for the sole purpose of helping me drive down to Texas. I was thinking I could do it on my own, but VERY happy for the help. As it turns out I had to have a wisdom tooth pulled just 2 or 3 days prior so it really was a life saver that she came up! I couldn't have done the drive by myself. I think it was nice for her too. When we got to Texas there was so much family wanting to play with and hug my kids, they were kind of overwhelmed, but since they'd already spent a few days with Grandma Dalton they'd run to her. She loved it!
We spent a lot of time hanging out and having so much fun with Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and friends. We had a great time. The excuse, Um I mean reason I had for going to Texas was Jace and Shawn were graduating from High school. Since there was 2 really close (they got to different schools) together, and I hadn't been back since Christmas I decided to go. I mean we decided. Haha, who am I kidding I decided and Ryan relented! I was very sad that Ryan wouldn't be able to come and it ended up being a month stay! He met us in Utah for 5 days in the middle. That was WONDERFUL to see him! And then we were back in Texas with out Ryan. That was the only bad thing about the trip. The kids and I missed Ryan terribly.
So LOTS happened in that month. We met up with friends and spent time with all the family down there. We went to Shawn's graduation. Man Allen doesn't know how to do things! They need to take a note from East! I think Mom said they called names for 3 HOURS!!! I'm glad we left early! It was fun to see Shawn walk though. So proud of him and Jace! Then we went to Utah and I met tons more of Ryan's family. We did a lot in those couple days and had a nice time. Plus it was WONDERFUL to be back together with Ryan. Em wouldn't let him out of her sight! Oh and we flew. The kids did pretty well, but I was pretty stressed out. There was tons of family to help, but I felt the pressure because Ryan wasn't there.
Imagine here a really cute picture I took of the kids in the plane.
When I got back to Texas things were a little crazy. I actually was watching my little sisters Jessica and Tiara while my parents and brothers went on Trek. (A reenactment of some of our church and family history) That was pretty crazy! The kids were great and my sisters are huge helpers, it's just a lot to have 5 kids! We got together with Julia and Cooper (and Cody) so that was fun too. After the family got back it was just a few days and then we were off to Wisconsin again. This time my brother Jace came with me. He's staying with us until October, he's saving up for his mission. I was so happy to get back! Ryan has said, quite frequently that I'm not to do that again! He really missed us while we were gone. We got back on a Wednesday. I worked Thursday, we packed all weekend, and on Tuesday we bought our first house!! It was a CRAZY CRAZY week/month! We are so happy in our new house though. It's wonderful. So there's a quick(ish) update!