Last trip in the Honda...

I have pictures of a few of the family members with our last night out in the minivan (obviously this was last week and I am a little behind with pictures!)
Not the greatest of Princess, but none the less.

  Okay, so none of the pictures are the greatest, but the subjects are the cutest!

Good Bye Dear Friend!

Today we said good bye to our wonderful Honda.
We now have a Chevy Suburban, all carseats fit in the truck and we still have room for one extra person! (Grandma better come visit!)
It is a deep blue color, 2005, with only 52,000 miles on it. We truely should not need to buy another set of wheels for a very long time. (I know I know, that is what we said December 16th of 2006....but once we fill this up, if ever, we are DONE!!!)

The Kids of the H.House

The first picture is of Princess and Boo at a birthday party we went to on Saturday for one of the boys in our church. My dad would be impressed...we bought him the DODGE remote control truck (I was really looking for a Honda, when the found the FORD I was sold...but since the birthday boys Daddy drives a DODGE I decided it was only right!)
This is AR (in white shirt) and CR (in Navy)
So far I have seen that they are very well behaved boys and very polite!
This is KR! Isn't she just the cutes little chunk in the world. I know I posted the other day that we were only going to have two foster kids, and then I told some of you that we were going to take care of sister Kailey during the day like daycare while foster mom was at work. Well I told them enough times that I was willing to take all siblings that first they worked it out so I was going to be a registered daycare so that I could LEGALLY watch her during the day (to keep the siblings together) but then they all decided to over ride the 'no more than 2 under 2" rule to keep them together full time. So we have 5 full time kids right now...when we said we were working to catch up with Handsome's brother) & wife (N.L 9 ~A.D 7 ~F.J 5 ~G.L 3 ~& K.H 5 months) we were kiding! Our poor Odyssey is packed to the limit...but it will get us to Thanksgiving at my parents house anyway! Good, trusty, HONDA!!!

It's Not A Honda 8-( But It's A Ford 8-)

My husband bought me my truck!!! After having several occasions where we were very worried about Gramps (the truck that Handsome's Grandpa gave us) we found this one. Handsome keeps calling it my truck...so I guess that means the minivan is his...but that is My Honda! I don't know what that leaves him with!

I did need to give my tribute to my Honda. I do like the Ridgeline, but Jason didn't think it was the best option for us...but we still have the Odyssey.

Going away for the weekend

The kids and I are leaving Daddy for the weekend...we finally got in to see a specialist in Sioux Falls! The kids and myself will be heading out around 7 am tomorrow to spend Friday & Saturday at my parents house. Sunday we will be going to church in Lake Benton and then Mom will be coming with us to get a hotel in Sioux Falls. We have to be at Sanford early Monday morning and have tests all day long. The kids and I will be able to be reunited with Daddy again on Tuesday afternoon.

Unfortunately we will be missing a court date...but there wasn't much that I would have been involved with. I just like to go hear first hand what is happening.

Anyway, life has been a little crazy this week...sorry for the shortage of pictures!

More Good News!

We just found out that we get our van back tomorrow!!! I am sooooo excited, the 2000 Odyssey isn't bad, but they have made some great advances since then! I will be nice to be back in our own van. The best part of all of this is that one of the higher upper guys from Vern Eide is bringing our van to Rapid City, we don't even have to travel 5 1/2 hours to Sioux Falls to get it!

If anyone wants to buy a vehicle call Curt Foos at Vern Eide! They take care of you sooooo well...tell him we sent you and he will work very well for you! I cannot help but share how well they have taken care of us.

A rough start

Friday evening we started out for eastern South Dakota and just a half hour down the road ran into quite a suprize!
The weather was great to start with and then all of a sudden we heard a sound that you really do not want to hear while in a vehicle surrounded by glass...hail! It started small, about pea sized, but quickly grew to tennis ball size. The over passes were full instantly, we decided to keep going as this was just the beginning (we had turned off Patch the Pirate and tuned into a local radio station) there were times we were going just 15 miles per hour, but it was so sad to drive by all the people on the side of the road that had lost 1 or more of their windows. We just kept praying, "Lord, please keep the windows, please, for the children." He answered our prayer, though we did have a crack in the windshield, it never caused any trouble.

As we looked to the other side of the interstate, they had closed it due to the large amount of glass along the road. For 10 miles we saw a double lane of vehicles bumper to bumper, and almost all of them were without at least one window. Bikers were running from their motorcylces and finding safety in strangers cars and trucks. We so badly wanted to stop to see what the damage was, but decided we HAD to stay in front of the storm so kept going. We drove for about an hour before feeling it was safe to stop for a few minutes. These pictures aren't great, it was raining, but I had to have something for the blog. I have to say I was a HONDA lover before, but we faired so well in comparason to the other vehicles we saw. I saw one family in a Chrysler 300 they had two adults and three kids in the front seat because their back window had been smashed in. The cars looked like they had been beaten with baseball bats. We had minor damage compared to most others...it was hard to watch hail stones the size of tennis balls bounce off of your hood! We have reports that we had up to $10000 damage to our 2007 Honda Odessey. We dropped it off at Vern Eide Honda in Sioux Falls (were we bought our last two vehicles) and they have started on it as of today. We are now driving a loaner 2000 Odessey until our Van is finished. We are thankful the Lord protected us as well as He did!

By the way...if any one wants a good vehicle and want to trust that you will be taken care of contact Curt Foos at Vern Eide in Sioux Falls! They have done well for us with our 1998 Accord and 2007 Odessey!

I am sure you will hear more about this at a later date!