Changing of the guard

Yesterday one of my best friends, Karen, son came home from his mission. I cannot believe it's been 2 years that Honest Mike has been out. Jaron will be home Dec 30th. I can't wait!!! I miss him so much!! But my heart is pulled because in my family.....when one comes home it means another one leaves. Great timing on our part. Haha!!

Yep....last night Nathan met with the Stake President and his papers are sent in. The soonest he'll find out is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I am so excited for him and I know he will do an awesome job...........I'm just going to miss him so much!!

Flu Fighters!!

Yesterday morning (around 7:15am) I drove to the Utah Health Dept. to get in a huge, huge long line to get an appointment to get the swine flu vaccine. There were about 500 people in front of me and even more behind. After over an hour waiting in the cold I got an appointment for me and Emily to go in today.

We waiting in line for around 45 mins. and got our flu mist. Emily was so happy it wasn't a shot!!!


Here we are as flu fighters.....stickers and all. I am so glad to have that done and over with!!!

It spins

Last night Lesa made us dinner. She asked last week if she could make us tomato basil soup with grilled cheese sandwiches for Sunday dinner. Of course I said YES!!! I was so, so good and perfect for a chilly day. Thank you Lesa!!!
Steve has a record player and Maddox loves it when Steve turns it on. It's not the music that fascinate Maddox but the spinning of the vinyl. He could watch it for a long,long time. It's funny whats entertaining to him :)

What were we thinking?

One piece of our siding came off on the 3rd floor of the house. The culprit???.....a beehive. So we borrowed a ladder from a friend thinking it would be easy to climb up, knock down the hive and attach the siding back on. Steve got up. Scraped the hive off but the ladder wasn't tall enough.
So I had a great idea!! Why don't we go on the roof and hang over the edge and attach it? So Nathan went up and Steve. They came back and told me the roof is too steep and that they would slide off. Steve told me to come up and see.
I have a thing about heights. I just don't do them. I got up and thought there is no way I can get up to the top here without shaking uncontrollably. I did but it was scary!!! And we didn't hang over the edge.....way too steep. It didn't look so bad on the ground.

The passing of xbox

It's true........last month xbox died. It got too hot and it fried. It was very sad for Nathan and he was mourning the loss for weeks.

But then Steve surprised Nathan by getting a ps3. You can see by Nathan's face that he is totally excited about it!!

Cool controller!!
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And this is where he's been since.

Life

This is what I did today. I filled up Steve's compost tower. I could probably fill up 5+ more of these. As you can see on the ground there are tons more apples and thats just a little spot you see.

Also, yesterday Emily stayed home from school cuz she wasn't feeling good.....sore throat, etc. What is the first thing that comes to mind when your kid comes home from school not feeling good? Swine flu. I'm pretty sure she just has a bad cold but I feel like she's a walking specimen going to the petri dish (school) every day and hoping she doesn't come home with it. I'm trying to get her in to get the flu shot but the shots are so hard to come by.

And one more thing......Nathan got laid-off by Old Navy. He was seasonal help and all the seasonal help got laid-off. I guess they're not making enough money so some workers had to go. Nathan was really bummed but he's hitting the pavement today to try and find something else.....good luck Burger!!



So there it is....always something going on :)

Looky what we got!!!

Yesterday in the mail I got a cute Thanksgiving card and inside it a beautiful, beautiful picture of my grandson Kingston. I love the joy in his face and his big smile!! He is a very happy baby!! I miss him so much!!



Thank you Timothy and Jessica!!! It made my day!!