The Weidmans

 Mindy got married on March 21st to Simão Martins.  He's from Portugal and we call him Simon since we can't really say his name properly, including Mindy.  It was a beautiful day and she looked incredibly happy.  I had an eye appointment that morning and the doctor said my eye was looking better so he put in a new contact that could be in there for 30 days to help it keep getting better.  My eyes were doing pretty good that day and I was even able to go to her wedding ceremony and dinner with no sunglasses on inside.  It was a good day.  We left the kids with Simon's niece (she's 20) in the waiting room at the temple.  She is really nice and we're so grateful she was willing to do that for us.  The ceremony was beautiful and a little different since Simon's parents don't speak much English at all, so it was translated to Portuguese. While we waited for them to come out of the temple the kids enjoyed the sunshine to be a little warmer....

 The weekend before St. Patrick's Day my eyes got bad.  I had found out I was expecting in January.  This was the longest that we had tried to get pregnant, so we were super excited it had happened.  And I was determined that I would drink enough water and use drops so that my eyes would be good this time.  I don't get sick, my eyes just get really dried out and I get corneal erosions each time.  They are very painful.  My family found out I was pregnant when my sister, Mindy, saw that my eyes were bothering me at the end of February.  I was doing really good with my watering routine and yet, I still ended up with a corneal erosion.  They hurt really bad, and of course it happened on a weekend, so I stayed home from church in bed while my wonderful husband took our four kids to church and took care of them all day.  The next morning, St. Patrick's Day, he got them ready for school and found someone to watch the two smaller ones while he...

I'm still trying to get caught up so I'm trying to do a whole week at a time.  Daylight savings started, and then we had a pretty full week.  I had set the clocks forward Saturday afternoon so there was no complaining when it was bedtime, although it was still a little light out.  They adjusted pretty easily this time. We got ready for St. Patrick's Day by putting up a few clings on our back windows.  The next morning when the girls went out to the bus it was snowing.  You can see them running in the snow.  Cougar waited for Hailey to come home in our nice, warm house. The girls got to dance like leprechauns and rainbows.  They learned that in Ireland the field workers couldn't be seen dancing so they had to dance with their arms straight by their sides.  They had a lot of fun dancing like that.  I took a few pictures through the door. Then we were let inside to watch them.  Hailey danced like a rainbow (slow, with big arm m...

 March started out really fun!  Hailey had an assignment from school to watch the weather on the 1st to see if the month came in like a lion or a lamb and since it rained, that meant it came in like a lion. Mindy's bridal shower was on the 1st at Heather's house and then Weid and I went on a date to see a Variety Show.  It was really fun, but we had to listen to this band perform for like an hour before the show started and they weren't all that great.  The show had a few comedians who were not very funny, this comedic musician who was hilarious, and then the fire eater who is one of Weid's students.  It was a fun night out. Weid went out of town for a couple days to Las Vegas and while he was gone we had National Pancake Day.  When I told the kids what day it was they asked, "How on earth could dad be gone for National Pancake Day?!"  I'm glad they like celebrating random days just like I do.  I even made some chocolate chip pancakes eve...