On June 11 my family had a big yard sale during the day that we helped with, and then that night Dal and I went to Provo to hang out with our friends Braden and Lyndsey. It has been so long since we have seen them and we miss them lots! We were so excited we got to finally get together with them. They took us out to dinner then they took us to Provo Beach, it was a really fun kinda "high class" arcade. It was a blast. We played croquet and I kicked some serious butt at it, who knew I was such a pro at croquet! We love Braden and Lyndsey very much and are very glad we got to spend some time with them.
For all of April, May and the beginning of June Dal has been studying and I have been stressing over his LPN boards that he has to take in June to get his LPN license. So finally the day came, June 15 was his test, it was at 8am in Draper, so he went up the night before and stayed at his sister's house so he only had to drive 10 mins to his test instead of 2 hours. We are very grateful that Des and Kel let him stay the night at their house. All the meanwhile I was at home stressing and not sleeping over this test. I don't know why I was so stressed, probably because the test cost $300 and because it determined whether he got his license or not. So Dal took his test and passed with flying colors! It was a quick process, we were able to see his license online at dopl.com 2 days after his test, and we received the license in the mail 3 days after his test. Quick huh! So he has his LPN license and hopefully he can find an LPN job soon so he can start to make a little more money. I am very proud of him and how hard he has studied for this test, and very proud that he passed it! So now he will work all summer and then take classes in the fall for his prerequisites for the RN and Bachelor's program.
I got another nephew, Keaton Russell Dettinger on June 19th and he is an adorable, sweet little baby and we are very excited that we live within 10 minutes so that we can see him quite often.
On June 22nd we said goodbye to Drayson as he entered the MTC to serve his mission. We are so proud of him for the choice he has made to serve a mission, the people in Mexico will be very blessed for his efforts.
Me, Dal and his brother Dray at Dray's farewell.
Dal's family- last photo of the whole family for 2 years.
Right to Left-Dal, his dad, and his brothers Dray and Devin.
Saying goodbye.
We will miss Dray very much, but we are very proud of him!
So this month has been full of a lot of ups and downs... Probably one of the two worst downs would be my parents moving! I have never lived farther than 15 mins from them my whole life... My mom has always been here and now she will be in Tennessee for the rest of the summer and then she, my dad and Matthew will live in Milford. It's not so much that she is going to be over 2 hours away, its just that she won't be living in our home that we grew up in anymore, and I know that is really hard on her. She is very tough though and loves my dad very much, so she and Matthew will be living with him this year in Milford and I am very happy about that! And it will be fun to go visit them down there. It's bitter-sweet, mom, dad and Matthew won't be here anymore, but I am really excited to have my brother Jake and his family so close to us now! We love them all very much and are very grateful for how close my family is! It was just really hard saying goodbye to them, I will not see them until September and that seems so far away.
The other thing that is really hard is that Dal has 2 jobs right now, one is where he is an adviser at a boys home in Wales and the other is at the hospital in Mt. Pleasant. So remember in my last post how I mentioned that I am really excited that now that Dal is done studying for the summer that I am so excited to get to spend lots of time with him. Well poo, that sure went out the window! Ha well listen to how our past few weeks have been going, Dal worked at the hospitalfrom 10 pm til 6 am then crawled into bed at 6:30 as I was waking up for work, so I went to work all day, and he went to work at the boys home at 3pm til 11pm then drove straight to the hospital to work til 6:30 am then went straight back to the boys home at 7am til 10:30 pm then drove straight to the hospital and worked til 6:30 am then he Finally got to sleep for 2 hours but then we had to leave to drop off Dray at the MTC, we got home at 2 pm, he slept for a half hour then went to the boys home by 3pm and worked til 10:30 pm then went straight to the hospital to work all night again. So just repeat the all work, no sleep, never see his wife process for 2 weeks straight and what does that equal... an EXTREMELY exhausted husband.... and a Very Sad and Lonely wife!! I slept an entire week by myself without ever seeing Dallin. It was so weird, and I hated it. It was really hard not to see him, and I feel so bad for him. I have no clue how he even did it. He got less than 7 hours of sleep in an entire week! Poor guy, one of the very few times I have seen him this month was like this...
...Thrashed on the couch. Poor thing, he is such a sweet boy for working so hard for us, and I am very grateful for all that he does for me. I just wish that I could see him a little more often! Eating dinner and sleeping alone gets lonely, and I don't like it, it's hard that he is gone all the time. But July should be less busy and we should be able to spend some quality time together, I can't wait!! July should bring happier times that I can spend with my hubby!
