Mini-Vans and Elementary Schools!!!

SO you all know I have nothing against minivans. In fact I just traded our Expedition in for one. And I am so happy we did. And as for Elementary Schools, now we have 2 in school. Amazing!! SO what is so interesting about these 2 things? Well I'll tell you. Other people have them too! Ok here is the explanation.... Since I have decided to join you all in the 21st Century and start blogging I have been pleasantly surprised to find old friends I have not seen since high school graduation ( really) have their children packed in the van and headed to school. I love it!!! I know it shouldn't be a surprise and I guess it wasn't really, I think it was just because of the fact that I haven't see so many of these people since before they were married. It has been so much fun to see this new generation of beautiful, perfect and happy children born to parents who were just recently children themselves. Do they know there mom used to drive around in the Bronco with her best friend wearing Motorcycle helmets with an empty Big Gulp cup taped to the roof? Their dad stood in front of his math class and rapped like Vanilla Ice? Their dad and his friends put the couch on the roof to play cards? And a million other crazy teenage pranks. Can you believe how we have grown up? We have spouses and children, mortgages and student loans; now we are the young women and young men LEADERS; we are the ones packing lunches, buying school clothes, and keeping others quiet during sacrament meeting (trying). I am so happy at this stage in my life. The happiest I've ever been. I love being a wife to my loving, patient and handsome husband and a mother of 4 of the cutest and funniest children on the planet. And I am overjoyed to see you all in the same stage of life. I just love to see you all doing what you are doing.