catching up

You know its sad when your husband asks you what the last post was on your blog, that he doesn't read. and what better time to update then sitting in the car on our way to Arizona for the weekend.
A lot has happened in the past month. We were looking at the calendar last night and realized that we haven't really had a calm weekend all month long.
We started April out in Spokane visiting our family. It was a very nice trip. we spent a lot of time up visiting with my grandparents. My grandpa is doing so well! It made me so happy and calm to see him and talk with him. I got a lot of information out of him in a short period of time. Learned a lot about the cars my grandparents drove, and about my grandpa's army days.
One way cool story. My grandpa bought a motorcycle in 1952 from a Bobby Ocheltree. Ocheltree just happens to be my mother in laws maiden name. After some asking around we found out that my grandpa bought that motorcycle from derics grandpa's cousin. kinda random but totally cool that our family's crossed so long ago!

We also celebrated Derics 24th birthday!!! He is finally the same age as me and can't rub it in as much! I surprised him with golfing with his buddies! He loved it and then on his actual birthday we went to Disneyland and ate the blue bayou! The blue bayou is inside the pirates of the Caribbean ride and we got to sit right by the water! totally worth the money oh and the food was so good. But it might have been the fact that I hadn't had a steak in a year.

My best friend from growing up stayed a couple days with us. It was SOOO much fun to catch up and talk about the good ole days of forts, and her mom ripping my tooth out, or me getting sprayed by a skunk at her house!
My sister in law and 2 nieces came to stay for a couple days also. My niece Natalie turned 9 back in March and wanted to go to the American Girl store in LA for her birthday! It was so nice to have them at our house, and Diesel LOVED the attention from the girls!!

We are on our way to Arizona to spend the 2nd weekend in a row with Derics biological Grandpa. It was a lot of fun last weekend to spend time with them. It was my first time actually spending more than 5 minutes with them! Diesel is in heaven at their house! They also have 2 little dogs that he loves to play with and annoy! Grandpa Al  bought a new york style hot dog stand and sells them at big events and every weekday at a corner in the Maricopa area. We are going this weekend to help him sell them at the Salsa Festival in Maricopa,AZ. There will be upwards of 12,000 people. It will be pretty dang crazy but we are super excited to spend time with them and sell some dogs!!!!!