Cheap Thrills

The airport.
An obvious place to take your kids for some cheap entertainment, right?
For the Bunton family it works!

The Indianapolis Airport has been rebuilt recently. This spring we have had the chance to go to pick Mike up at the airport and drop him off three times. Each time, we have to use the moving walkway to get from the parking garage to the terminal.

That in and of itself is a fun time...but the kids love the fact that there are lights up above that change color and light up when you walk beneath them. The kids call it the "disco room" and love it when we have to go to the airport. It's the highlight of our trip.

Saying Goodbye

Well, it's official.

Mike is off to England.

After many hurdles and hoops he had to jump through, his visa was approved yesterday and we took him to the airport today. It was a bittersweet farewell. We were glad that he was able to start his new job finally, but we are really going to miss him.

Real rollercoasters

It used to be a family tradition...

Going to King's Island theme park every summer on "Navistar Day".

Mike's whole family (parents, sisters, nieces, nephew, aunts, grandma) would head over to King's Island for the day. It was so much fun. We would ride rides all day and go home sunburned and exhausted.

Since Mike and his dad no longer work for Navistar, we haven't gone to King's Island. We tried Holiday World a couple years ago, but it just wasn;t the same. So, knowing that we would be heading overseas and likely not have the opportunity to go to the theme park again, we decided to take the kids one last time.

We had a blast!

Sammy even rode some of the bigger rides (although not many).

We spent the whole day there and headed home...sunburned and exhausted.

A rollercoaster ride

Up:
Our passports came back...finally.
Down:
Two of the three passports came back with incorrect information.

Up:
I went to Bradford Woods last week.
Down:
It rained and was freezing cold the whole time.

Up:
We sold a lot of our big items already.
Down:
I miss our stuff. Now this move seems even more real.

Up:
Mike's visa got denied (yeah, that's an up in my book because that means he's still in Bloomington a while longer).
Down:
Mike's visa got denied (okay, it's a down too because we still aren't getting a paycheck until Mike starts work which he can't do without a work visa).

Up:
We sold our truck.
Down:
We lost money on the truck.

Up:
I got RIF-ed last week (reduction in force - aka layed off) so I don't feel as guilty about leaving after only one year.
Down:
It never feels good to lose a job, even one I would soon be quitting.

Happy Easter

Easter at our house has changed a lot over the years. Part of that has to do with the fact that the kids are getting older. This year I asked Jonathan and Sammy if the Easter Bunny still needed to visit our house. Jonathan didn't answer right away, but Sammy piped right up. "Of course, Mommy!" she said. So once again the Easter Bunny hid plastic eggs around the house. This year he hid some on every floor of the house. It took a little while for the kids to find all 92 eggs! But they enjoyed the hunt.

This makes me smile

Ok.
With life as crazy as it's been lately, I have to find joy in little things.
I did in this TV commercial for Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal (one of my favorites).
It makes me laugh every time I see it!


I just saw this one for the first time today. It's pretty cute as well.

Fears

I am not an adventurous person.
I do not deal well with change.
I have lived in Bloomington for 21 years.
I have never left the USA except to visit Canada briefly as a child.
And now I am moving to England.

I am scared that I will get lost.
I am scared that I will get in an accident because I will have driven on the "right" side of the road instead of the "correct" side of the road.
I am scared that I won't make new friends.
I am scared that I will get bored not working.
I am scared that I will lose touch with my friends and family.
I am scared that we won't sell our house.
I am scared that we won't sell our cars.
I am scared that I won't be happy.
I am scared of the unknown.

I need to have faith.
I need to trust Heavenly Father to help our family.
I need to do my best to stay positive.

But I'm moving to England and I'm terrified.