Saturday, February 20, 2010

Alexander's document

I am in charge of the 8 year old Scouts. This week we talked about computers and all of the boys had to prepare their own document and show competence using a computer. Alexander is by no means competent, but he does like to use the computer. Here is a nice letter he wrote this week.

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Can you tell he really likes the letter "A?" He was really happy when he found that one. It is funny because I can remember all of my kids going through this phase when they think they are really grown up and can do what you do. I think my sister, when she was on her mission, got a lot of goofy letters like this a few years ago when the twins were competing for my computer time.

P.S. I finally have updated our Thanksgiving pictures and also posted our 2009 Christmas Letter.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Best and Worst of January

Yes I know it is half way through February and time just keeps on ticking. I am still working on Thanksgiving pictures, haven't touched Christmas, and now I have birthdays and Valentines stacking up.

Here is the post that was meant to be a couple of weeks ago, but I was waiting to put up the Thanksgiving link with it. I know no one cares about Thanksgiving when we are all covered in hearts eating too much candy, but it is more just for me to have something to look back on in the years to come. So on to the best and worst of January and we will keep working on all that other stuff that is backed up. :)

Every year our family puts together a Best and Worst list for the year. We have tried on several occasions to put together the 2009 list and we come up with the highlights but that is all we can remember. We definitely need to give it more attention, but over the last month I have thought of a lot of things that need to go on the 2010 list. January is normal an uneventful month where I can catch up from all the holidays before our February birthday’s start coming.

Best:Scott's sister Audra got married and Scott got to go be with the family.

Worst:Jacob glued his eye shut with super glue over the weekend Scott was gone.*Note: picture was after we had been to the eye doctor and pried his eye open and removed what we could of the glue. I never think to take pictures in the moment.


Best:The twins both got “All A’s” and improved their grades from last term.

Worst:Alex got locked in the car for over an hour and had to be rescued by the police and fire department.

Best:Alex loved the firemen and gave them all high fives.


Worst:All the kids got their flu shots, but earned ice-cream for being so brave.

Best:Samantha and Jacob improved their grades and got awards.

Worst:Scott's 94 year old grandma passed away so he took another trip to Salt Lake.

Best:I got to work all my shifts this month. (I got cancelled 6 times in December.)

Worst:I think my salary this month got eaten up by multiple plane tickets to Salt Lake. (1 for the first wedding, 1 for the funeral, and 4 for another upcoming wedding.)

Best:Samantha has passed all my tests and can now officially baby-sit for our family, which means regular date nights again. (We trade for privileges—one night she practically begging me to go somewhere because she wanted something)

Best:Our family has been really healthy this whole season; beside a random runny nose we have been really blessed.


Best:I got to go on a field trip with Samantha’s class and had a lot of fun helping and demonstrating at my station.

Best:We got a screaming deal the TV we have been waiting for, it was $400 off an already discounted price.

Funny thing is I started this list with a lot of the worst floating around in my head and I am glad to see the good out weighs the bad. Plus now some of those things that seemed bad are just plain funny.