I guess I better not put this off anymore. We have been sick at our house as well. Skyler started a couple of weeks ago with me close behind. I am still sick! I am pretty good during the days now, but the night and mornings aren't so good. My throat has been pretty sore.

We had a busy week last week. I had my first Scout meeting with the Wolve's on Wednesday. There were only four of them there--Jaydon and his three buddies. They have a hard time sitting still, especially when Jaydon brings his football. As long as they are actively doing something, they are fine, but if you stop for a minute, they're up and going again. It will be a fun experience. I think it is probably a good thing that Jaydon will move up to Bears in a month. I have also been playing the piano in Primary--yeah, pretty scary. I am subbing for the regular pianist who just had a baby. I have done it for the past two Sundays and will do next Sunday. We then have Stake Conference and she will start back up the week after. She did ask if I would do it again when they bless their baby in March. Although I mess up every song, it has been a good experience for me. My biggest challenge is playing while they sing--especially if I mess up. I'm exercising my faith.

Skyler and Chad went on a Scout camp with the 12/13 year old Scouts on Fri/Sat somewhere in Salt Lake. They were able to stay warm sleeping in a cabin. Skyler was lucky his dad was with him as his water bottle leaked all over his sleeping bag and it was soaked! Chad stoked up the fire and dried it. They got to go sledding--Skyler's tube popped on the first run--and Skyler also got to launch his rocket, which flew! They had fun.

While they were gone, Alex got to have a late night. We were planning to get their Book It personal pan pizza's from Pizza Hut, but they didn't have any that day! So we went to Wendy's instead. We also got Movie Theatre popcorn for me, but my throat was hurting too much that I didn't eat much. We took her friend, Kaelei home at 9 p.m. because the next morning Keiera, Alex, and Kaelei went to a dance/cheer clinic held at Utah State. They had to be there at 8 a.m. to register and stayed until noon. I had to wake up all three of my kids!!! (The only day this break they didn't wake up on their own by 7 a.m.!) I came home and tried to have a short nap before taking Jaydon to his basketball game. His team was down by 11 in the first quarter. Then they held the other team the next two quarters. The fourth quarter they went ahead and almost won. Jaydon shot 2 foul shots--I don't think he was really suppose to. He made one of the two and put them ahead by 2 points. The other team scored within the last minute and Jaydon's team made several additional attempts. Luckily Jaydon had made that foul shot and they tied--17 to 17.

The girls got to perform at the Aggie Basketball game on Saturday night. When we first signed Alex up, she said she wouldn't perform. After the practice on Saturday, she was really mad at me because we didn't buy any tickets and it was a sold out game. I was able to call the lady in charge and get one before she gave back the extra ones she had. As it cost $10, we only bought one and Chad took the girls, including Alex's friend. I wanted to watch them, but I wasn't feeling good enough to go. Chad tried to video it for me, but only got a small part for some reason. I'm just glad they had fun and Chad was able to take them.

Well, that's our past week!

I am behind in typing this because we have been without Internet service since Saturday the 3rd. We are trying to save some money and switched Internet providers to Qwest price for life and in doing so, switched from Cable TV to Satellite. We didn't have the equipment to set up our Internet yet when they hooked up our Satellite and didn't realize that would affect our Internet connection. It was actually kind-of nice not to have someone at the computer all the time. It's amazing how much time we actually waste each day on here at the expense of letting you all know how we are :)

Our family stayed home for New Year's this year. The kids were so wild that we sent them to bed at 10:15-10:30. I figured that was late enough for them. Then Chad and I watched a movie. We turned it off for a few minutes to watch the New York Times ball drop--do they do that every hour for all of us? What a MESS! As New Year's is my birthday, I slept in. I received a BBQ grill for my birthday and didn't even send Chad to the doghouse!!! (If you haven't seen that you should go to bewareofthedoghouse.com -- it was a very clever ad by JC Penney!) I asked for the grill as ours died in September and we have had some steaks staring at me in the freezer since then! So Chad braved the cold weather and cooked me steak for dinner. It was FABULOUS!

Now we are back in the swing of things. We had a rough start on Monday with the elementary school. Apparently their heating system went out sometime last week and the school was freezing. They figured they'd get it working within a few hours and the kids would be fine with their coats on--funny not all kids realize the importance of wearing a coat in the Winter when it is 0-10 degrees outside! Apparently they started calling parents just after 11 a.m. to come and get their kids. Since I never received the call from the school I figured my kids should just stay there! Keiera didn't have Kindergarten and was so disappointed that I took her over to say "hi" to her teacher and to get the other two. They both went to lunch--like I said, they might as well stay there! Jaydon had finished and Alex had a home lunch so after checking them out, we went home. (The heat was starting to work at this point but was still VERY cold.) It was very chaotic and hopefully a good learning experience for the school. I was glad it wasn't an emergency because they were extremely unorganized. We were glad things were working well the rest of the week so we all could have a break from each other.

Not much else has happened, I guess we have started basketball! Jaydon had practice Tuesday and Skyler will have practice tomorrow at Nibley Elementary. Maybe he's on his cousin Tanner's team and we'll see our relatives again! We'll keep you all posted on that!