Email from Mom to Kaitlyn: Sunday, April 18, 2021

From: Mom
To: Kaitlyn.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Sunday, April 18, 2021
Subject: Spring in Utah is deceiving

Hey!
I am going to apologize right now for not having much on the drive from home this week. I am hopeful this next week will be better.

It has been a hard week but we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and for that I am grateful. Brooklyn has worked her guts out and has a B in math and is so thrilled. I love seeing her realize that she is good at math and capable of getting higher grades. Christian worked everyday until Alaina arrived in Utah and then he pretty much bailed on that. He went to prom last night. Didn’t send me any pictures so the one I took is literally all I have. I know they did breakfast at Kneaders, went to a trampoline park in Orem and that he is pretty much America ninja warrior ready, had dinner at a kids house, went to the dance, then back to the kids house for a movie. I don’t know if he will share with me what he did or how it was and it’s another one of those that I have learned that I can’t ask because then I am just judging or whatever. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The weather here is so lame. You hear the birds chirping like crazy outside, the trees all look super pretty with their blossoms, grass is turning greener by the minute, the sun in shining, and so you head out thinking it will be warmish...yeah. Not at all! It’s like 40’ and so cold! Oh and it snowed two days this last week too. It has been a horribly cold Spring this year. Let’s just say I am more than ready for Summer and hot weather. (Even though right now my body temperature is all over the place and I can’t decide if I am freezing or sweating hot at the moment)

Tyler and I went and walked through chuck and Shawna’s new monstrosity last night. Wow. There are literally SO many walls everywhere and the layout makes zero sense as you go through it. Choppy but as long as they like it that is all that matters. And Ryan balls is doing their massive block wall in the backyard...it feels super industrial. And their backyard isn’t very big at all. And the kids’ bedrooms, smaller than your room and their closets aren’t even walk ins. All talk but now it is coming out and they aren’t getting what Shawna has been tossing around. The stairs it will take to go from the road to the front door is going to be awesome. It’s a pretty good grade change so there will be plenty of them. (Oh and you will never guess, they will be doing pavers for the stairs 🤦🏻‍♀️)

We have the landscape guy coming Wednesday and Thursday this week to get all the new planting done. I am so stoked about this! I cannot wait for color to be back in the yard instead of just cream and beige and that’s all. 😂😂I’ll have to keep you posted on that

Well, that’s about it for here this week. Other than the fact that banning was called on by Tyler Wednesday night to see if he could come get 2 bags of fluid in me. I had a horrible setback of a dang bout of not eating after not worrying for 15 years. I don’t know why I let it happen but it got bad and Tyler was hoping banning was available but knew if he wasn’t, an ambulance ride was going to have to happen. It wasn’t good. And I am paying the price of allowing it to happen but life is getting better. I need to not care about a # on the scale, I need to eat & not starve myself, and I need to find the happy within again. Banning got 2 bags of fluid in, I was finally able to sleep, I still have a headache I am dealing with, my eyes are a little blurry, and I can’t decide if I am sweaty hot or freezing cold. Eating disorders are lame and I swore I would never go back to the life after the last time in beauty school but I found myself there over the last 3 weeks and it wasn’t good. But today is a better day. And tomorrow will be too. ☺️

I sure love you. I can’t wait to hear about the Book of Mormon painting you did and how that came about. I can’t wait to hear about your week this week too!

Love you to the moon and back 😘💕
Mom

Brooklyn chose this picture as her profile picture for her LaGoon pass this year. So freaking funny!!

I got this picture of Max today. Don’t know why he has a bow but I guess is it makes them happy to dress him up like a girl then more power to them.

Oh and then there is the garage cleaning day (again) because the new boat has to be picked up this week and brought home. (Remind me to tell you about Chuck and his inquiries into all of our ‘stuff’ these last couple of weeks)


 

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