Rachel Fuhriman: May 2014

Sunday, May 4, 2014

The first signs of spring time

I love Spring (and Autumn for that matter), and in Idaho that is kind of a fleeting thing. It's usually either freezing and windy and cold, or it is blazing hot. It is kind of rare to have mild temperatures so when we get them it is wonderful! One of my favorite things about spring is when the tulips come. I have them, but they don't come up very good at my house, but I really enjoy what I get of them. It is always such a feeling of hope that the long harsh winter is over! I am so grateful for the fresh start that spring brings!

Friday, May 2, 2014

A new van

We drove our 2000 Honda Odyssey for 7 years, I loved that van. I was so excited when we paid it off and we actually had a car paid for, for several years. (this is not normal for us, unfortunately). Then we got the truck paid off and we had no car payments for about 3 months. Over the past year we have had many repairs on the van, quite costly but we kept telling ourselves it would be ok, its a Honda and it will keep running forever. Then we found out that the transmission was starting to go out. This was going to be a very costly fix, since the fix would cost more than the van was worth we decided it would be best to cut our losses and trade it in. We looked around for a little while and Reid did a bunch of research. We test drove several vans and ended up getting the 2014 Toyota Sienna. We are super excited to drive a brand new vehicle. We ended up leasing it, which after doing some research found this was a good deal for us. We were really happy with Teton Toyota and would go back there or recommend them to anyone.

And just like that Mitchel turn's 10

It seems like just yesterday that I was pregnant with Mitchel, my darling baby boy. He is now 10, it does not seem possible! I can always remember how long I have worked at Koala Kids because I was like 9 months pregnant with him when they hired me. Mitchel is a great kids. He loves to dirt bike, wrestle, do anything his Dad is doing, and he is a great boy. He does not like reading or school work so we will keep working on that. He is taking piano lessons right now and does well when he puts his mind to it. He is also playing baseball this year for the little league, we hope he has a great season.

He had a great birthday this year! We had a full weekend of celebrating. We went to IJump on Saturday and it worked out that Ben and His family were here from Seattle so they got to come with us, we went out for Birthday dinner at Chili's which is his favorite and of course we did cake and ice cream and opened presents. On Sunday Grandma Sargent made him his favorite dinner of pork ribs and we had cake and ice cream and opened presents. He had so much fun!