SAYING ADIOS AGAIN TO ALLISON January 6, 2012

Grandpa Hiatt, Rebecca, and Grandma Hiatt.  I entitled this blog saying adios to Allison, because that is what took us to Mesa, but they're are some special things that happened before we dropped her off that I want to share.

I sat on this side of Grandpa, because when I was sitting on the other side of him he couldn't hear me, so finally he said, "if you want me to hear what you're saying, you're gonna have talk into the ear that's not deaf."  I love my grandpa so much.  Even though I wasn't sure if he knew exactly who I was the whole time, he was so happy that I was there.  He always has had, and still has an amazing amount of love to give.  Grandma at one point pulled up her pant leg to show us her knee surgery scar and grandpa without even thinking whistled.  Grandma laughed, it was fun to see.

I had grandma and grandpa sign their life history book that my mom wrote.  Well it belongs to me, but I wanted to have their signature in it, along with mom's.  Grandma was telling us a funny story about not having a bathroom in her in-laws house in North Carolina, she was also pointing out some people to us that we didn't know.  She is so happy that mom wrote the book for her.  I love grandma so much.  She loves to be loved, and loves to have visitors.

Polly, Lillian and Allison in the picture with the Hiatt grandparents.  Polly was walking over to get into position, and grandpa patted his knee and said to her, "this is the right spot for you, right here."

Sure do love her!!!

I love grandpa!!!

Well now, let the girl party begin!  We went to dinner at Cara bas and then to a super cute movie, New Years Eve.   We had a lot of fun just being together.

The Evans girls, in the parking lot of the theater.

This is after the movie, they couldn't resist taking pictures with the life size Chipmunks.

Oh don't leave me Allison.  The drop offs are always so quick!  We loved having Allison home for 3 weeks during the Christmas break.  She makes our super great family even better.  She is always positive and always has a beautiful smile to share.  We love you Allison and hope you have a safe trip back to the land of Dixie.

I'll just add right here a note.  I dropped Allison off at 5:30 am.  It was dark still when I left her at the curb.  The airport is not a comfortable place for me to drive around.  I had followed a car out of the airport the last time I was there so I followed the same route and it worked out well.  I then had to decide what exit to take.  I thought that I took the right exit, and I ended up being on some freeway.  Then I started seeing signs that were saying West and Los Angeles, then I knew that I was wrong, because, I knew that home was East.  I stayed on the freeway passing exits that I didn't recognize, until I came to one that said University.  This was a familiar name to me so I got off.  I was going an unknown direction on University knowing for sure that there weren't any freeway exits off of it, so I figured that I would drive the surface streets all the way back to Mesa hoping that University would do that for me.  Well I voiced an out loud prayer to my loving Heavenly Father, knowing that this is probably not that big of deal to him, but to me it was huge.  It was dark, I was lost, and I left Lillian and Polly asleep at the Condo by themselves.  So seconds after my prayer I came upon a freeway exit, I took it, and somehow I went in a full circle and came to the exact point where I had to choose between East and West again.  I knew the the West was wrong since I had been there so I took the East, and I then started to recognize things.  I said a prayer of thanks and felt so much peace and love from my Heavenly Father.  This may seem like a small thing, but I wanted to write it down so that it gets recorded, and also my testimony of prayer and of the love that our Heavenly Father has for us.  I know that I was guided by Him, and I am so very grateful!

After safely getting back to the Condo, I gathered the girls and we went to the Mesa Temple to do Baptisms.  Polly had never been to the Mesa temple and I thought that this would be a good time to go.  It was beautiful and so nice to be back to the place where Scott and I were sealed, exactly 23 years ago.

Another shot of the girls, but with Polly taking the picture.

This is what Scott and DeWitt did while we were off having ourselves a girl party.  Scott is in the attic blowing in insulation and DeWitt is packing the insulation into the blower.  What a job and what a day!

Lots of work.

It's a really great shot of Scott in the Attic blowing in the insulation.

The missionaries have been doing service and helping Scott, because one of the apartments that Scott rented is to a newly baptized family and the missionaries wanted to help get them moved in.  Good for all around I'd say!

Playing in the leaves

Polly couldn't resist.