Mother's Day and a LONG Distance Phone Call

Last year before Mother's Day I starting hinting to Marc things I would like. When he didn't do anything I asked him why. His only reason, "We don't have kids yet"! Not an excuse in my book. I will be the mother to his future kids, isn't that worth honoring. I lovingly teased him about it for a whole year. I expected the same for this year, but he surprised me. I had mentioned that I needed some new clothes since summer is coming quick, and neither of us has lived in Arizona for a summer in almost 5 years and since we are moving in during the summer I figured it was a valid excuse! He kept hinting to something on Friday about "When we go out tomorrow", so I knew he was planning something, I just didn't know what. We woke up on Saturday and I had a pretty good idea we were going to go to Idaho Falls and go shopping. I was right! We stopped in at Target first just to look around and I found tons of cute stuff! We didn't even need to go to the mall because I found exactly what I wanted. We walked around the mall just to use up time, we went into Bath and Body Works, which Marc claimed was a planned stop. I picked out a few hand soaps, theirs are my favorite! Then he told me I had to decide where we were going for lunch. Ever since the Red Robin opened I have had a hard time passing it up. It was packed, but then again, not many people go out on Sundays in Idaho! We shared a Whisky River BBQ Wrap and Mozzarella sticks and were super full. We got in the car to come home and I almost fell asleep! We got home and rested while watching T.V. Later that night we were feeling pretty lazy so we invited some friends over. They have been wanting to teach us a game, so they brought over Killer Bunnies, silly name, really fun game! We played two games and they left around 11:30. We had such a fun day!

Sunday Marc really wanted to make me breakfast, but we have 9 o'clock church and didn't have much time to eat. When we got home we watched a movie, rested, and ate roast and potatoes. That is about when I started getting antsy! My brother is serving a mission for our church in Madagascar. Every Mother's Day and Christmas he gets to call and talk to us.

Thanks to modern technology, we were all able to be on our cell phones through Skype. My dad had us all ready to go and tried calling my brother, once, call failed, twice, call failed, third times a charm right, call failed. My dad ended up calling his last area and getting the right number from the missionaries there. It worked. It was 10:30 pm in Idaho, 9:30 pm in Arizona, and 7 am Monday in Madagascar. It is also winter there! We had so much fun talking to him. We called my grandma in Arizona and my Grandpa in Colorado and had 8 people all on at once without any problems! Once we had all asked our questions Elder Livingston's mini companion (he is preparing to serve his mission, so he serves a 3 month mini mission to help him prepare), wanted to talk. He is from Madagascar and has learned English from my brother. He was excited to try speaking to Americans. I think that the 6 other people and the delay scared him because he said hello, then again in Malagasy, then gave the phone back! It was so fun to talk to him. We talked for about 2 hours at christmas and it cost less than $1! I love my family so much! We realized that next Mother's day will be a great one, my first home in 5 years, Caleb will be home from his mission, Marc and I will be living there, and my youngest brother will be getting ready to graduate high school, and my sister will be finishing middle school! It will be so nice to have our family all together again! We can't wait!