CG Life Is Good: May 2011

Mother's Day 2011

Look at my beautiful girls! What an amazing weekend it was. It started out Sat. with Chuck and Madeline running a 5k at the Silver Mile. What an experience it was, and one that Chuck doesn't want to repeat. Sat. night Chuck and I finally went out to dinner to celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary(which was in Mar.). We went to Kelly Jay's, a neat place in Goshen. Yummy Tapas!! When we got home, we watched to Latest and Greatest Harry Potter movie with the girls. Sunday morning we woke up to a beautiful sunshiney day. The first I think this spring. We all went to church together, something that very rarely happens in the Lasley house. If Chuck happens to be home with us, he most often is traveling to another ward doing his High Council thing. So we went to church, then when we got home, Chuck made the announcement to the family that Mom gets to watch what she wants to on tv!. That was a treat. I honestly don't think I have sat down since we have moved and watched a program, or whow one time. So I immediately found a college softball game on ESPN and watched the girls dissappear in a matter of seconds( to go find another tv to watch probably "Disney" or something). I watched almost an entire game in peace and quiet, while Chuck was busy in the kitchen preparing our yummy dinner. We had our first dinner from the grill this year: guacamole & chips,Steak, shrimp, grilled asparagus, zucchini, prtabello mushrooms, potatoes, salad with bacon vinegrette, and for dessert raspberry cream pie from Essenhause Bakery. Yum-mo!!! Probably gained 5 lbs. in one meal, but I'll behave the rest of the week to get back on track by Friday. After dinner the girls and I played catch in the yard while Chuck cleaned up the dishes. What a deal! I was spoiled too with gifts. Chuck gave me the two teak rockers that sit on our porch( I have wanted them for 8 years, and never splurged on them), he also gave me a yummy new perfume called "Daisy". Meg made me a flower pot at school with a poem which was darling. Madeline gave me fresh flowers for our table and made me a bookmark, and Morgan gets credit for the delicious pie we had for dessert!

Silver Mile May 7, 2011

Oh gee!!!! Chuck's words, " I will never run in a race with Madeline again!"... He said before they were even out of the parking lot she was complaining. My knee! My back! I'm thirsty! I'm tired! He was a good sport though and kept her going. Not sure what their finish time was. Chuck wasn't very interested in finding out. I think it was around 40 min. I do know that the first place runner came in at I think like 15 min. I think that's insane! for a 5k. It was an experience though. And Meg, Morgan and I were very happy to be waiting at the finish line.

Level 8 Regionals

Regionals this year was in Lansing Michigan. Morgan had tuff competition. She did place on vault though and Caitlin had a good meet also. Telisa came in first at level 9 Regionals and then went on to place 1st at National. We'll see what's next for her.

Easter 2011

Easter was fun this year... We spent the day with friends at the Kennards house. A conglomeration of food, which was sooo yummy, and got to visit with everyone that we don't see too much lately. Chuck was even on town. A bonus!

Our New Dock

The girls have already spent countless hours on our dock. looked at fish, feeding ducks. Soon they will hopefully be able to swim, we'll see.

Goodbye Covington Shores

Oh how we miss our home............But certainly not the neighbors! We couldn't believe, after living in this house almost 8 years, with the moving truck in our drive way for 2 days, not one neighbor came to tell us goodbye when we left. Not One!!!

Moving Day

What a crazy, crazy turn of events. I feel like I've told this story until I'm blue in the face, but just for the blog..... We had our house on the market for 11 mo. With the goal of finally being able to move to Utah. Chuck company Affinity Media was going to allow him to work from home in the Salt Lake City area. Showing the house almost 35 times and having about 15 open houses, was probably about the hardest 11 months of my life. And at the same time allowing our family to still "live " in our home. We loved our home that we built almost 8 years ago, but moving West was finally with in reach. We hadn't had any offers on our house in about 10 months, then in one weekend we had 3 offers. We accepted an offer and declined the other two. We were very excited and nervous at the same time, because we needed to figure out where to live for the last 2 months of school...but then we were headed to Zion! Well all of that changed, because the very same day that we signed papers selling our house, Chuck was offered a job that her couldn't pass up. About a week before this, he had gone to Middlebury to meet a new ward mission leader that moved here from Idaho, Bro. Jenkins. He had invited him to come see and tour his new factory at Jayco. Chuck had done this not thinking about anything, just talking about Church stuff. Well Bro. Jenkins handed Chuck a job opportunity. We now had a great new job , with more stability, and had just sold our wonderful home. We enlisted Monique to help us look for a house, and she found us a rental in Prairie Lane Estates. Certainly not what were used to (about 30 years old and about 1/2 as big as our Coveside house). But we feel blessed that we found something.

Birthday dinner

Happy Birthday to CiCi! This was a fun nite to get to get together and see friends. Yummy food and great company(even if I had to go stag!).

Level 8 & 6 State 2011

Madison Indiana, this year, what a long, long weekend. But Grandma's were here and the girls did great!

Surprise Visit from Grandma's!

The girls sure had a surprise in March when I told them I had to run to the market and instead of bread I came home with not just one Grandma but two! Mama had this plan of flying in to surprise the girls to go to Morgan's and Madeline's State meet, but just to make it even more exciting, decided to fly Grandma Morgan in too. We had an amazing week with the Grandma's. We went to the meet , And I was even able to pick Chuck up at the airport so he could be with us. We also tootled around town. It was Meg's week at school to be star of the week,the following week, so I pulled some strings, and had it switched so Meg could bring her 2 grandma's for show and tell, and story time. What a super fun week!