Moran Family Fun

Last Sunday Samantha and I flew to England to visit my friend Miranda and Samantha's friend Emeryss (Miranda's daughter). We got home on Friday and had a wonderful visit with them. It was so great to be able to see Miranda again, I've missed her since she left Wyoming last March. For almost the entire time I lived in Cheyenne Miranda was my Visiting Teacher, and she was the best visiting teacher I have ever had or am ever likely to have again. I'm grateful to have her for a friend. Since we've moved to Germany I've made some friends, but no one yet who I am really close friends with. It was great to be able to spend time with and talk to someone who I love and trust. Thanks Miranda for being a great friend, I hope that I'm as good a friend to you as you are to me! We had a great time while we were there. We went to Snettisham Park, a farm where the kids were able to feed the animals and gather eggs. There was also a huge playground where the kids had tons of...

This week the girls had their spring break. We tried to do something fun every day, but some days our fun involved just being together at home. The weather was wonderful all week, and Jared only had to work on Wednesday and Thursday so we were able to spend a lot of time as a family. On Tuesday there was a flight barbecue for Jared's work. It's always a little not fun for me to hang out at Jared's work stuff. I don't know if it is the military in general or cops specifically, but none of the things I've been to have really seemed like good family fun. It's the alcohol consumption and the bad language that gets to me. Still, the kids had a great time running around all afternoon. There was a softball field where Natalie spent most of the time digging in the dirt. She was covered in red dust from head to toe by the end of the barbecue but she was so happy. I taught the older kids how to make daisy chains with all the flowers that were growing in the field. It was ...

This past week it was really springlike here. On Monday Natalie, Samantha and I walked to the flower shop to see what they have there. We have window boxes with no flowers so pretty soon we need to get some things planted in there. For now, we just bought one plant for the front porch. I'm not sure if Samantha was more excited about the flowers or her cool new shades. On Wednesday we celebrated Jared's 35 th birthday. He had worked a mi d-shift th e night before so Jared slept for the first half of the day. After the older girls got home from school we went out for Doner Kabobs, our favorite birthday treat! When we got back home we ate Eclair Cake and opened presents. Jared loves Eclair Cake and he also loved his presents, especially his new weights and weight bench. Because the weather has been so nice we've been exploring the area around our new house. We've been going on bike rides and walks almost every day. Today the girls and I went down into the woods after din...