Wednesday February 20

We left the house at 9, with what we thought was plenty of time to get to downtown Boise for Dr Ally's funeral at 10.

It was 9:50 before we even hit the freeway!!!!

There was so much snow and SO MUCH TRAFFIC!

Luckily the freeway wasn't as bad, we went slow, but at least it felt like we were moving.

I dropped the kids off at St Johns Cathedral at about 10:15, then I had to go find parking.

I found a parking garage about 4 blocks away.....then I RAN in the snow :)

I got there about 10:30.

The service was a nice service.

Definitely different from the ones I have been to.
Lots of singing and prayers, lots of stuff that was hard to understand.

But such a beautiful building and windows to look at during the process.

They asked for families to bring pictures of their kids to put on the remembrance wall.

The best part was when Dr Ally's Mom and Dad got up and spoke.

Mom seemed very quiet, but her Dad was just like Dr Ally.

He told stories of her life and he was fun to listen to.

After that, there were more prayers/singing.

There was a sacrament of sorts for the members there.
Then they took her casket out into the snow.

Man she really was an incredible human.

We were blessed in so many ways because of her.

Dad reminded me of the time she visited Porter and us when Port had to go back because he was so jaundice.

Dad had been watching Porter under the lights and noticed she was stopping his breathing.

The nurses didn't see it and told Dad not to worry.

But Dr Ally came, took it seriously and had it checked out more.

I really do believe that if it wasn't for catching his weird breathing thing, my baby boy would have been a SIDS baby.

So thanks to Dr Ally wanting to give the best care and saving my sons life by listening to our concerns.
We just love Dr Ally.

Afterwards, Cassi, Port and I ran to get the car and we picked up Elsie and Madi.

We stopped at Chick-fil-a for some lunch.

Got the kids back to school, except Madi.

She had a movie she had to watch for a class, so she skipped and watched that.

I went downstairs and painted a couple doors in the basement.

Just a couple more things to do and it will be ready for classes :)

After the kids got home, it was time to leave for Elsie's basketball game.

Luci rode the bus home with her so she could come to the game with us.

The game was fun.

I was super impressed with Sawtooth's boys basketball team  and how inclusive and helpful they were to the kids on their Unified basketball team.

It make my heart melt to see these teenager boys be so kind to their fellow classmates instead of acting like they are superior.....

The superior thing happens all too often.

Came home and had spaghetti dinner before heading out AGAIN for YW.

We were combined with the YM and we played human foosball.

The boys are always so aggressive!!!!

They used beachballs this time instead of soccer balls.....that is what gave Cassi a bloody nose last time we played!

But still....the girls are definitely sick of playing human foosball!!!!