Heading to California

It can be quite the ordeal to pack for a month.  It's fall, it can be hot, cold or mild on in one day.  But then you have all the unknowns, that you aren't sure if you will need or not like to have pans, utensils, food that is easier to buy in bulk, coats, shorts, you know the usual.  So it was decided we would take our van.  More room for all things including the kitchen sink.  This meant oil changes, belts that needed to be changed sooner or later got them done sooner, and last minute it was decided it needed to have the tires balanced, rotated, and aligned.  So amongst the packing and cleaning, we went to the tire store.  We were told that two of our tires were bald and needed to be replaced, but that they didn't have the tires we wanted.  So we went to the next tire store, and was told that a bearing on our front driver side tire needed replaced.  It wouldn't make it 12 hours at 80 mph let alone lots of miles for the next month.  Of course, they could replace it...on Tuesday!  So John decided he would do it himself (sounds like his son)!  So three neighbors later, he found someone with the tools that he needed to do the job with.  Did I mention this was discovered at 4 pm on Saturday night?  We had a party in  Salt Lake City for the Colorectal Group at Primary's for the family's at 5 pm.  Did I also mention that Saturday was John's birthday?  What an awesome birthday he had, stayed behind trying to get this fixed.  I got home at 8 pm, got Hyrum's flush done, showered myself and got everyone in bed including myself by 11 pm (I had to be to work the next morning at 5 am).  John crawled into bed at 2:30 am Sunday morning.  The van was grounded.  The part failed and no way he could get it fixed before we left Monday morning.

John knows that I can not answer my cell phone while at work.  So I know that when John calls me, it's usually going to involve a visit and blood of some kind.  Rachel got a new type of EPI Pen, it's called an Auvi Q.  She loves it, because it tells you what you do.  She created a video of it, which I will post (here eventually) for you to see how cool it is.  Well Hyrum loved playing with her practice Auvi Q, so as John and the kids were on their way to church, they decided to drop a few things off to Grandma's on the way.  Hyrum found what he thought was Rachel's practice Auvi Q and learned very suddenly and quickly that he grabbed and used on himself Rachel's actual Auvi Q...with a huge needle it. 


So after work, we loaded the essentials into the car and left everything else to the Lord to help us out.  We were a full house, but we mostly got it in...minus a few things.

Hyrum was very excited to begin the trip that as soon as he saw the loaded up car, he wanted to go "right then".  He finally settled down enough to read himself a book, and fall asleep.

We decided to sleep in, there was no rush Monday morning.  So we didn't get out the door until 7:30 am.  Hyrum was very excited and did great in traveling.

Thanks to some friends in the ward, Hyrum had plenty of things to do.  He colored, played games, read books, and overall only asked if we were there every hour or so.

A little after lunch, we received a phone call from the billing lady for the surgeon. She had received a letter from the insurance denying our in network benefit that we had gotten approved last month.  We confirmed that not only did we know it was approved in network, but that we had a copy of the approval letter with us.  We took a picture and emailed it to her, and she then called the insurance back to let them know.  Least to say, it is still being covered in network.  But to sooth our pounding hearts, DQ came to the rescue.

A little while later Hyrum announced "Mom I think I ate too much sugar"...Me: Really how did you figure that out?..."Cause I think I'm going to be sick"

Least to say, I grabbed a ziploc back for him just in case.

We also played games by creating "Man caves" and naming the various unique cars we saw.  I'm hoping someone can explain what "Chalk Red" is?

Overall he did very good and was very happy to play with his new cousins in California...best part was they had Legos!