A job, a funeral, and new life

I've said it many times before that our lives our constantly changing. Our lives seem to never slow down. The week after Jeff accepted the job near Vernal everything has been a whirlwind. Jeff's dad came to visit from California and stayed for a couple of days. We had a really good visit with him and his wife Dolly. We haven't seen them for a while. While they were visiting we got a call saying that Jeff's grandma Thompson had passed away and the funeral would be later that week. We celebrated Cinco de Mayo (the 8th anniversary of our first date) and made preparations to travel to fairview, Utah for the funeral.
We left thurday and stayed in a 7 bedroom care center/house that Jeff's grandpa had rented for a couple of days for all the extended family. It was very nice. fully furnished with play room, kitchen, towels, media room. It was better than a hotel. We were grateful to be able to see so much of Jeff's family that we haven't seen for a very long time. All of his siblings were able to come out. Traveling from California and Maryland. After the the funeral all of our family and Jeff's siblings traveled down to Richfield to stay at Jeff's mother's place. The kids had a blast playing with cousins they haven't seen in nearly 3 years. It was good to catch up with everybody.
We stayed down there over mother's day and my parent's sent an email around to my family telling us that my sister and her husband (the one that's been married just a few month's longer than Jeff and I) were expecting their first baby!!!! We were so excited for them. It's been a long road for them because of fertility issues. Well, after a llloonnnggg weekend we made it home and were sooooo gratful to be home and to try and get our kids back on some sort of schedule.
It has been a very emotional couple of weeks buitI am so very gratful for the knowledge that I have of the plan of salvation. That families CAN be together forever and that we have a loving Father in Heaven who loves us and knows our every need and wants us to be happy. I'm grateful for my family and my 3 beautiful children. As hard as it is to be a mother, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.