Wow! This has been one heck of a Spring for our family with colds. Towards the end of last week Keiera woke up one morning and coughed for about an hour, but then was just fine. She did that for several mornings. Then family arrived to visit for their Spring Break and she decided she better start coughing more. What fun is family visiting if someone isn't sick? By Sunday she was coughing quite a bit. The poor thing coughed ALL night long! Actually I think she went 20-30 minutes in between sometimes. Chad finally took her downstairs and held her while he tried to sleep. She never complained once! They "slept" until 10:30 the next morning. By then, she definately had a fever too! No school, much to her frustration. She was almost done with the yellow books and really wanted to start the green ones. She didn't get to go to school yesterday either so I called her teacher and we went and picked up her last yellow book and her first green one. She was feeling much better, and barely had a fever, but I thought she probably shouldn't go and cough on everyone. So instead, I took her all over Logan running errands and coughing all over everything in the stores! We went to seven different stores and she did amazing! Her reward was a package of straws--go figure on that one! She coughed quite a bit last night, but hopefully can go to school today--we are out for Spring break the rest of the week :) I am suppose to be helping in her class for their Spring Party, so I hope she can go.

Anyway, yesterday finally felt like Spring and 3/4 kids had soccer practices. Keiera was one of those, but she didn't get to go. She coughs and coughs when she is running around. It was hard to keep her from running around though. It was a beautiful day and the snow has melted again, which means more is probably on the way! It's suppose to be a rainy Spring Break. Chad only has tomorrow off, so we might go to SLC--if we do, we might have something more exciting to tell about!

We did get to enjoy a lot of Chad's family this past weekend though. We had a niece and nephew stay with us from Friday-Sunday. On Saturday evening, Chad's sister and kids came up to spend a few days of their Spring Break. Sunday was a fun day with Chads sister and two of his brothers (plus their families of course). The kids loved playing and didn't want to leave, but we had school. We went and visited for a few hours on Monday night and then yesterday. They are leaving today.

I gave a FHE lesson on general conference a couple of weeks before conference using an article from the March Ensign. I adapted our thoughts around King Benjamin and the tents the people stayed in to listen. The kids didn't forget the tent part and were determined to have a tent to watch General Conference in. Chad helped them make one Saturday morning and they all did pretty well--especially considering their two cousins were there! I think this may become a tradition for them. They also enjoyed taking turns sleeping in the tent. The boys took the first night and the girls took the second night. This was one of the only times Chad has been off! I can only remember one other time he had both days off and on occasion has gotten one of the days! For some reason he is ALWAYS scheduled to work that weekend in April and October! It was very nice having him home--or maybe it was the tent and cousins--but I was able to listen to EVERY talk. I even stayed mostly awake. There were MANY amazing talks and I am excited for the conference Ensign to read them again.

There's are last week--much more to say than the previous weeks!