March

By looking out the window, you would never guess that in two days it will be April.

So much has happened in March I'm not even sure where to start.

Let's start at the very beginning.

March 2,3,4 were high school soccer tryouts for Justin. He made the cut each night and then the coach said there were just to many good players he would need to see them all one more time. SO... on the 5th we went back to the soccer field to show the coach what he had. According to Ryan (his club coach) he would make the team no problem.
Well, everyone can't make the team and Justin was one of them. We were all shocked when his name didn't appear on the list. Justin was tough and didn't say much, just buried himself into his book. I could tell he was very hurt and my heart ached for him. I called Ryan to ask what to do with him all spring. He was as shocked as we were that he didn't make the team. It was a long Thurs. night at our house.

Fri. while I was doing some subbing at the middle school, I got a call to have Justin at the field ready to play, the coach wanted to see him one more time. After he offered a spot to Justin on the JV team. Congrats to Justin! I guess a few parents of other players, and former high school players who knew of Justin called or emailed the coach and told him what a mistake he was making. It's all good, thanks to our USA soccer family. As you can tell, March has been a lot of soccer.

We also had a big birthday bash for Kirk's dad. Grandpa Phillips turned 93! He's doing awesome, he lives by himself still and is getting around a ton better. The toes that were giving him so much trouble a year ago are finally better.

While the kids were off track, we checked Justin out of school and went on a long awaited family vacation. 22 months ago I booked a condo in Hawaii. The 22 months seemed to go by slow, but they finally past and on March 17th we flew to the big island of Hawaii. When we landed Krista said, "Mom, this is not what I thought Hawaii would be like." Mind you that when flying into Kona, it looks like your flying into St. George, just a little more black lava as far as the eye can see. You don't even see trees of any kind.

We spent Tues - Sat. at a condo closer to the North end of the island and then Sat - Tues. we moved condos and went to more of the south end.

We hiked to waterfalls, went to the market, spent a day at the volcano national park, a day or two the beaches, we did a Luau, tide pooling, Justin and Kirk did baptisms at the temple, we snorkeled, body surfed, we saw dolphins, beautiful fish, and whales, most of all had a great time being together as family.

Now it's back to real life.

When we got back Kirk and I had tickets to a play with some friends, I usually make dinner for the kids and they stay home with Justin. Justin had a soccer game before we left so instead to making dinner I went to the game. I stopped by home to get Krista and Jared settled before Justin got home, Krista was getting her TV dinner ready, and things were okay. Justin would be home within 30 min. I guess while Justin was home showering, Jared decided to make Mc and Cheese. Jared has been making Mc and Cheese for some time now and does an awesome job. Krista decided to wash her dishes at the same time Jared was draining the Mc and cheese. You guessed it. Boiling water on arm. She has quite the burn. Jared felt bad, Justin helped Krista run cold water on it and she cried. They tried to call us, but we had shut the phone off. I felt terrible about not making them dinner and leaving it for them to do. Krista has been tough and has a nasty looking burn on her little arm.
Other adventures we done this month was selling our trailer. Yep, that trailer we spent all spring fixing up. It just wasn't for us. It was nice and roomy inside once it was up, but we had no place to store our camping stuff. We have stuff in the garage, in the shed, in the house, some in the trailer and when we went to use it, some of the stuff would be with us and some was not. We finally decided it was great for towing, (even I could do it,) and it was great for sleeping in (the beds were great) but it just wasn't right for our family. So on to KSL it went and to a new home. So that's our March; we can't wait to see what April brings, hopefully nice spring weather.