Busy

It's been a busy run for the Streetman clan.  Between travel and house hunting, holidays and birthdays, play dates and the daily grind, I haven't had much time to update our blog.

First things first.  Emron and I traveled to Delta and Gunnison about a month ago.  We had a wonderful time visiting family and relaxing.  My mom threw Emron a birthday party, too.  We were able to include family from all over the west.  Murry's folks were able to attend as was the Rynearson crew, all five of them.  My step-sister and her husband and dogs drove over from Albuquerque, and my dad came up from Gunnison, too.  Emron loved the attention but I think his favorite part of the day was when he was unleashed on a piece of chocolate cake!  He loved the cake so much that he would not sacrifice the smallest crumb and ended up eating (or at least trying to eat) the plate!  It was a lot of fun.  I still have a hard time believing a year has gone by since Emron entered into our lives (see previous post)!

It starts...

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Might as well eat the plate!

Upon our arrival home Murry and I decided to seriously consider purchasing a home in Temecula.  The past two weekends we've spent all day Saturday looking at homes and going on model tours.  I think we are narrowing down our options but we haven't made any decisions as of yet.  We plan on taking this weekend off but will be back at it after that.  We certainly enjoy spending the time together and we are excited about the prospect of owning our own home, but house hunting is very time consuming and tiring.  But, I need to add Emron does so well with all the in and out of the car and the drive.  He is so cute sitting in his car seat reading books and singing songs.  I wanted to brag a little about my little guy.

Last Tuesday we celebrated Murry's 32nd birthday.  Murry was able to get off work a little early and came home to balloons, streamers, gifts and a homemade carrot cake.  I had a great time preparing for the party.  We went out for dinner and ate mexican.  Emron ordered a cheese quesadilla, I ordered a combo with a tamale and enchilada and Murry ate a spicy, kind of creamy enchilada plate.  The food was pretty dang good.  When we came home Emron headed up to bed and Murry opened his presents.  He got a new iPod, iPod sports band, holster thing and a polo shirt.  Emron picked out the shirt!  We then had cake!  We weren't nearly as messy as Emron was at his party but it tasted just as good, I think.

Yesterday was Easter.  We went to a nice church service, though Murr and I were walking the halls for the majority of the time so I can't write much about the talks.  It was also my first Sunday back in Primary.  I am teaching the 7 to 8 year olds with another gal.  The class was alright but amazingly I ended spending most of the time in the hall again.  One of my kids hurt his ankle and decided to tough it out and not get his mom but he needed his rest so we sat in the hallway and talked.  He told me about his siblings after I explained that siblings are brothers and sisters.  He has a brother and two sisters though he forgot their names.  By the end of the hour he remembered most of their names but called one sister Mary then Maria.  He was adorable.  I think I will enjoy teaching the class but I need to get over the fact that I am missing two hours with my family.  

After church we headed home and starting rolling out Murry's Mom's rolls (I had prepared the dough on Friday).  Murry helped me roll the rolls into crescent shapes and we let them rise for two hours.  While they were rising I remembered I needed to make stuffing!  I got to work on that and everything came together in time for us to head over to a friends house for a nice Easter dinner.  We had turkey, cranberries, stuffing, carrots, potatoes, rolls and homemade gravy.  For dessert we had a bunny shaped carrot cake.  It was a great meal with fun friends!

Today is Monday and I have chores to do.  I hope everyone is well and that you each had a wonderful Easter.

XOXO,

Aspen