A Saturday With Us

Here is what we do on a Saturday...

Jill & Hanna got bundled up and Austin took them to bottle feed calves at a dairy in our ward. They do it for a little extra spending money.

I went to my first day to pick up my Bountiful Basket. It is a non-profit co-op where you pay $15 and get 2 round laundry baskets full of fresh fruits and vegetables. It is becoming a big deal around here. You sign up on Tuesday on the internet and then you pick it up on Saturday(most sites are at elementary schools). They have sites all over Utah, Idaho and Arizona (and they are adding more all of the time.)

Austin went and rode our horse, Lena, in the snow at our friend's arena.

Jill had two basketball games. She is on a competitive 5th-6th team that Austin coaches. Her team played so good, so much better than their first game in this league. They won the second game. Hanna sits on the bench with the team, and Lucy fell asleep on the bleachers right behind the team.

I went straight to the team roping. I started my job again of being the bookkeeper at a team roping that they have at the indoor arena every other Saturday night. It is my way of earning my spending $ for Hawaii.

Austin went to the priesthood leadership session of stake conference, home to fix the girls some scrambled eggs, and back to the adult session. I made it to the end of stake conference after the roping was over. We have an apostle visiting our stake, Elder Neil L. Anderson.

Jill and Hanna stayed with Lucy and Carly for the afternoon/evening. I can't describe what a feeling of freedom it is to have kids old enough to babysit and to have a baby that doesn't cry anymore when Mom & Dad aren't in sight. They decorated the house for Lucy's birthday and watched movies.

Then we all went to Arctic Circle for milkshakes after we got home from stake conference.

January

It is time for my monthly report.

My exciting news that is keeping me going through the fog and inversion is that I am going to Hawaii with my roommates from college. We have one adopted roommate that lives there. Let's just say it is really a huge accomplishment that all 5 of us found a date that would work and have great husbands that assured us they could live without us for a week. It is going to rock (metamorphic)!

I got called to teach CTR 8 in Primary. There are 16 kids in my class, and about 12 of them come. They did just call me a team teacher. They are funny. They can't stop bugging the person next to them and they say every thought that comes into their head. I am still the Enrichment leader, too. Luckily our ward is pretty laid back, so it is not too intense.

In other blog-type news, I had to use 1 of my 100 texts this morning to have Austin come home from school to jump start my van because the battery was dead from having a door left open all night. Thank goodness we live close to his work.

This month, my family has been to the orthopedic surgeon, the rheumatologist, the dentist, the chiropractor, and the orthodontist. We really are a pretty healthy family.

Austin did the Polar Plunge for the 4th year to raise money for Special Olympics. Don't you like the hat?

This is Hanna waiting at the edge of the water with Austin's towel.

We definitely live in a girly house. One night over Christmas break, the girls performed a whole dance show. They even hooked up a curtain thingy to the ceiling fan so they could stand on the kitchen table and make a grand entrance. Carly is right in the middle of it all. They are training her well.


Also, in her spare time, Jill decided to do a photo shoot of Lucy and Carly.


Going back a few weeks, we went to visit Grandpa and Grandma during Christmas break. My Dad recently had back surgery, so they had Austin put in a new dishwasher for them. It turned into in all day experience, but now they have a new dishwasher. We will frame this photo of Austin because his home-fix-it projects don't come around very often. (I hope he doesn't read this:)