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Dumpster Diving??

I am seriously considering going tonight!! I enjoy just driving around and talking to Joe. We havent done that in a while. Yes I know gasoline is $3.89/gallon, but maybe we will find some amazing treasures! And NO! I dont mean literally rumaging through dumpster bins! Haha! We drive around the city of Bloomington during their Bloomington Clean-up days and peek at what people have sitting on the curb. We just refer to it as dumpster diving. :o) Call us crazy, but it has become a tradition for us each year for the past five or so years!

Tomorrow I will get a nice little break. Kaylee, Joe, Natalie and I have a Gopher Softball game that we are going to through Girl Scouts! I completely forgot about it with everything that has been going on lately.. Its a good thing I got a reminder email today! Ooopps! Dont want $24 going down the drain..

I think a break is well deserved evn if only for a few hours.. :-/  I will take what I can get haha..

My brother and I did some running around together today.. Its amazing how much we have grown up... All of my siblings (minus the eight year old) haha. We have eachother through all of this mess and that means more then it has ever before. I had never realized until now how important it is to have siblings. Thanking God my kids will have eachother when they grow up.... :o) 

I can't believe that we are already to mid-April!! Only 15 more days until April 30! Holy buckets..

Thank you to all of you who have said prayers and given your thoughts of concern and words of wisdom to me and the rest of the family! You have NO idea how greatly appreciated you are!

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