Today the kids had no school as well so I was able to go to work again! I’m saving the days for Christmas and for this summer when we’re going to be running around like crazy with mission returns, college drop-off, possible wedding, etc. 😐 Again, the kids did a great job getting along and […]
Angela arrived in Japan safely and happy today! She’s pretty worn out from the flight and is trying to make sure she sticks to the daytime/nighttime schedule over there so she can minimize the jet lag she’ll feel. With a 15 hour difference and loss of time, it will be tough, but we know she’ll
Today, I took Angela to the airport and she started on her LONG journey to Japan! She is really excited to go, although not totally excited about the long trip. She said she wouldn’t know what to do with herself traveling for 17+ hours with no children! 🙂 She flew to LA and then jumped
Tonight, Sarah was awarded the Indian Prairie Scholar Award. Throughout Sarah’s high school career, she kept up her GPA to qualify for this prestigious award. Indian Prairie Scholars recognizes seniors who have maintained a GPA of 3.6 or greater throughout their high school career. The ceremony took place in the Metea High School auditorium, and
Today, our Ward had a service event at Feed My Starving Children. The youth decided they wanted to head this up, so most of the participants were youth. We had a great time and packed enough food to feed 53 kids for a year (I think). It’s always a good feeling to go there and
Tonight, I went and hung out with all the St. Raphael’s coaches for an evening of pizza, beer, and chat. Every year, the football league has a coaches party to thank everyone who helped out during the season. The pizza and wings were great, but unfortunately, they just assumed that everyone drank beer, so they
Today I flew home from Napa and was really excited to see the family! The boys were probably the most excited! I really love to spend time with them! I almost didn’t make it home on my intended flight, however. I changed the car pickup from the hotel to a half-hour earlier (6am) which I’m
Today, I woke up and had a wonderful, elegant spread for breakfast. The meetings went very well and I learned a bunch about what we were doing right and a TON about what we were not doing as well as we should and should fix. The people there were a great help! We had participants
Today, Brittany started driver’s ed! Yikes! She’s really excited, but we are pretty nervous! 😐 We know she’ll do great, but the issue is that she tends to be a little more distracted in driving than Sarah is. Her big issue is that she’s addicted to music and thinks that she has to have it
We had a fun Halloween evening tonight! The boys were so excited to go out, they were ready as soon as they got home from school! They looked so cute in their pirate costumes! We went out around 4:30 to start the candy scavenging, and were out for about 3 hours! The boys were not
Today was Zach’s last football game. He was sad that the season was over. We as the coaches are kind of relieved but we will really miss the kids. It’s been a fun season! Tonight we had our Ward’s Trunk-or-Treat activity. Everyone got dressed up in their costumes and we went to eat some food,
Tonight was the Marching Band Banquet for Metea. As usual, the food and entertainment were great! The skits the kids put on to make fun of themselves were pretty funny, although 90% of the stuff they did was “you had to be there” things. The directors were honored and the seniors were as well. It
