Thankful Tuesday : Angels Among Us

If you are on facebook, you already know some of this, but I am going to write more about it.  Okay, so I took my boys to Spanish Fork on Thursday to spend a few days with my sister and her family and because Zach had an appointment at Shriners Hospital in Salt Lake on Friday.  My husband couldn't come with me, he had to work Thursday and Friday.  Anyway, we all had a good time and it was nice to get away from Cedar City for a few days.  On Friday Connor and Ethan stayed at their cousin's house, while Zach and I went to Salt Lake for Zach's appt.  All they did was check his wheelchair and made sure everything was working properly and the wheelchair guy did fix everything.  He said we have kept it in pretty good condition and we also talked about getting Zach a power chair, so we will see on that.  Then we ate lunch at the hospital and then we left and went to go look at a few places that I used to live at when I was younger.  We found 1 in the Salt Lake area, with no problems and it was nice to drive around that place, even though I only remember a few things about that place, well it was back in the 1970's after all.  My dad went to the University of Utah and so we lived in married housing, called The University Village.  I also walked to preschool and I found that preschool.  I got a little emotional about seeing it and I don't know why.  I wanted to take pictures of the preschool up close, but there were kids playing on the playground and so I didn't think it would be good of me to take pictures.  Then off to Sandy to find the other 2 places I used to live on Dimple Dell Road.  One was my grandparents house, we lived there while they were on their mission and the other one was right next door.  Well I couldn't find the houses and I did forget that the homes were back from the street, so that is why I couldn't find the homes.  Maybe I will try again soon, when I am up there again.

So on to Saturday, where I took the 2 younger ones with me to Riverton to see some friends that used to live in Cedar and they have kids Zach and Connor's age.  Ethan didn't want to come because he wanted to spend time with his cousins and I understood that.  We had a wonderful visit with them and then Zach was getting hungry, so we left and went to Wendy's for lunch.  Then on to Lehi to meet my best friend at the gas station and then we followed her to the Children's Discovery Garden at Thanksgiving Point and that was fun, well I have never been there.  We visited some and the kids liked it okay, but not as well as we had hoped.  Then we followed her to her house, since I have never been there before and it was nice to finally see where she lives.  The kids enjoyed that and then I had to get back to my sister's because Ethan wanted to go shopping.  We got to my sister's house and he changed his mind he didn't want to come with us and so we stayed a few minutes and then left for The University Mall in Orem.  We decided to eat dinner first because it was 7 pm and we were all hungry.  So here comes my title of my blog Angels Among Us and so most of you have heard some of this if you are on facebook that is.

Connor wanted pizza, so he ate at the table with Zach, while I got Zach and my dinner at Chick-fil-a.It took a little while because for some reason there was a problem, but I won't get into that.  We finally got the food and started eating and at this point Connor was already done eating.  We were just eating and then this guy  walked up to us and I would guess he was probably in his 50's wearing a red shirt.  He was asking me how I was doing and I said okay and he said it like he knew me and I was trying to see if I could place his face, but I couldn't.  He then slipped me something in my hand and just left.  I opened my hand and there I saw the $40 and well I looked up to see if I could see where he went, but I guess I looked up to late.  Well, I was speechless and my eyes started tearing up and I just couldn't believe someone would do this for me.  Maybe someday I can do this for someone else, but I don't know when I will be able to.  After we ate, we looked around a few stores in the mall and then off to Kohls, so I could get a few shirts.  I will always remember the guy in the red shirt doing this for me because he will always be an Angel to me.  I am so Thankful right now, so thank-you to whoever you are.