Hooray!

The last few weeks have been great! We have invested more time and effort to make our place seem like home. The other night we spent the day in the yard. Todd dutifully built me a bunny hutch. The boys built a fire pit with some bricks mom and dad Barney brought us from their house. They did an amazing job and did it with almost no direction. The next day we roasted marshmallows and sang camp songs. It was fun!

Ok so I have a funny story, one that seems typical of small towns. But yet you may not really think it would happen. So I was across the street talking to my 80-something year-old neighbor named Reba. We were just visiting when we heard sirens in the distance. I didn't think a thing of it. In fact I didn't even really notice it. In Riverton we lived pretty close to the fire department so I heard them several times a day. I just tuned it out.  So anyway she stops in the middle of our conversation and listens...... and waits...... and listens some more. The ambulance comes down our street and she jumps up and hobbles to the middle of the street and says "Hurry you can go faster then me to see where it is going". Ha ha then I see three cars following in pursuit trying to find out where it was going.  One of the trucks drove by and Reba sighed with releif oh good it's Sally she has a police scanner she will know. She always knows. Then jokes to me about how nosy they all are. So then I hope in my van and follow the chase so I can let Reba know what happened (now remember I am a dumb person to send because I don't know whose house is whose anyway). So I come back to report the street coordinates and Reba had already pulled several cars over to find out the dirt. Haha The next day I go to visit with my other neighbor and sure enough they are making and freezing creamed corn in their kitchen listening to their own police scanner. Haha I guess that's entertainment in a small town.  Are you all itching to know what happened. I will keep you in suspense.

Mom and Dad Barney came up on Friday. We had such a great time with them. We ate, went to the library, and the park. It was so good seeing them. It made it feel more like home. Today after school I took Thomas and Sam to the Dinosaur Quarry. It was actually really cool. They showed us a 10 by 30 yard area that they have found 10-12,000 dinosaur bones. The interesting thing is that non of them were connected. They were just a bunch of random bones. They are still digging.

Oh and the most important news of all Todd passed his test! He did a fantastic job! We are all so proud of him. Thomas also started his first day of school. He came home and told me one of the kids names was Draw. Today he came home and said that he found out it wasn't Draw it was Ryder. Cute kid.

I will post pics tomorrow