The Revolving Door

It has seemed at times that our house has become a second home for a few (lucky?) people.  This past weekend, our Ogallalians were reunited,  moving to Eaton, and Meredith's friend Kelly moved in last night until she can find a place.  It did give me (along with the help from Brad) a chance to do some cleaning and reorganizing. We were both so pooped on Saturday afterwards, that we took a two hour nap! (Of course, I pay dearly for napping, awaking yesterday morning at 3:30 and unable to get back to sleep...dislike).
Both Brad and I have enjoyed having Meredith and Emma here with us SO much...I am having early morning withdrawl not having coffee talk with Meredith!
So the weekly news....in random order!

Emma went with her school class to Elitches on Thursday and the same day, Corbin "graduated" from his preschool.  (That's Emma in her new shades between Meredith and Kelly).  Curt and Spencer were at it again in search of the perfect garage sale items for resale.  I think Curt may have found perfection in his pig!

 I'm not sure he'll be able to part with that one!

Friday night, Meredith and Steven slept at their new house in anticipation of the arrival of their moving van Saturday morning.  The kids stayed here overnight and the following morning I awoke to find both of them asleep on the sofa.  It had been a traumatic evening due to the disappearance of "Rosie", the family dog, (still no word on her whereabouts) when the moving van  was loading in Nebraska.  Sophie came over and played games with Emma one night this week (the two of them get along really well).  Yesterday (due to my poor sleeping the previous night) I started scrapbooking at 6:00am and worked on our California trip scrapbook until noon, getting it nearly finished.  I showed it to Brad and he asked, "Now when was this?", among other questions about the trip that is now mostly forgotten in his mind.  That broke my heart!  His short term memory gets worse and worse, thus my need for lots of pictures and scrapbooking, therapy for me and memory jarring for him. He kept saying, "Don't let me forget this" as he looked through the pictures....
Later, the boys (Curt, Spencer, Brad and Rory) made plans to golf, which is something Brad hasn't done for awhile, but is really enjoying it again.  He LOVED the fact that Rory went along (the first time they've all golfed together) and were able to get in 18 holes on a beautiful day.  It was also a
 day for running, where Amie and Jessie ran the Colfax Marathon in Denver. Carrie and friend Kristie went along to "cheer" them on.  (I think Carrie's idea of " cheering" ended in a hangover!)  Carrie and the kids and I went to see a movie on Sunday, seeing a great animated "OZ" movie, followed by a light dinner at the Olive Garden.  Gramma had to fend for herself, rummaging through the fridge for leftovers.  Yep, the Sunday dinner thing just didn't materialize this week!