Some weeks are hard

This was a hard week to get through.

Started off having to make car repairs on Sunday. Not fun, but Avery worked on it and got everything working like it should.

He went back home on Tuesday. I always feel so bad for him and/or Abigail when they travel, because there is no quick route between the two towns.

Abigail came down with a stomach virus. I took her to the doctor on Thursday. Unfortunately there wasn't anything they could do. Abigail just had to wait for it to run its course. She has stopped running a fever now and is feeling better, thankfully.

Dax and I have had to attend two funerals this week. That's a bit tough.

The most challenging part of all of it though, has been trying to keep a positive attitude.

I'm looking forward to a better week this next week.

More late stuff..........

I think somewhere along the way, I managed to never post that we got our final child out of braces in November last year.

I don't know who's happier.........her or us.

Okay, I'm sure it's her, but still.

Anyway, more stuff that I failed to share earlier. We had our first annual gingerbread house building competition. We competed in pairs and it was a lot of fun.

The winning construction:

And from above. (Ignore the headless gingerbread man. His head was used on another more ominous looking house.)

 

The poor winning house fell apart at least five times during the construction process. But then days later when I threw them all away, all that icing had actually cemented it all together and it didn't even chip in the trash can.

There was a two-story house in the development.

 

A little A-frame model with a tree out front.

 

This house looks pleasant enough from this view.

But if you look closely, the gingerbread man's head is at the peak on the front of the house. Although, the tenants are nice enough to try to warn would be trespassers.

 This is the house that Dax and I built. Based on the others, we played it a little too safe.

 

All in all, we had a lot of fun. We could spend time this year practicing our techniques, but where's the fun in actually being good at this? Ha!