1. New Years was fun. I had to work until about 6, but raced home to get ready for a small party we threw. We had our neighbors, Destry and Crystal, come over to play Wii and other games to ring in the new year. We had pizza and other yummy snacks. We introduced them to Ravin Rabbits and Wii Fit which was fun. We then played what I thought was a really fun game...\
I thought it was hilarious!!! We ended the night with some sparkling cider and stayed up playing more games until about 3am.
2. Shaelynn is home and is doing much better. She is on two medications and Michelle and Steve have to watch her closely, but she is home! She turned a month old on the 6th and is continuing to grow big and strong. Check out her first CTR ring!
On a side note, one of Michelle's roommates from college was basically going into Primary Children's as we were coming out. She had a baby boy a couple weeks after Michelle and it appears that he has the same problem, but worse than Shaelynn. We are hoping that everything goes well with their family as well.
We feel so blessed that Shaelynn's health issues are small considering all the other sick babies that are there.
3. Mom, dad and Lisa went to Vegas to be with Mike, Karen and Kate. While there, mom and Lisa were determined to potty train Kate. It worked! It was so fun to get phone calls from Kate expressing "She did it!" She was so excited. Good job mom and Lisa!!! I know who to call when we are at that point. Here are a couple of pictures I stole from Karen's blog.
4. Nate had a very low key birthday. We just went out to Texas Roadhouse. I got him Get Smart and Eagle Eye since he likes both of those movies. Oh yeah....we had birthday cake too when we got home.
5. Last weekend I thought it would be a nice gesture to take Andrew and Trevor and have them stay the night with us. It would give Michelle her first true weekend to try and catch up on some rest. So, we drove down to Poccy and picked the boys up on Friday night. They really were very good for us and we had a fun time. I must say I was really tired after and didn't fully realize what it takes. By 9:00 Nate and I were ready for bed, unlike our midnight routine. Saturday, I took the boys to Blast Off! and then we took them food shopping. They helped tell me "what they needed". It was really fun though. Sunday we woke up early and make a massive breakfast. We then headed to church. Trevor was scared and didn't want to go to primary, so he hung with Nate and I the whole time. Andrew did really well and even got a CTR ring from his class. Then we invitied mom, dad, Matt and Lisa over to the house for dinner. We played a little Wii and then all headed to Poccy to take the boys back.
Now the other side to the story is that Nate had a cold this entire time....well, apparantly it spread. I started showing signs on about Tuesday and have felt crappy since. Needless to say, I got a call from Michelle yesterday....calling from mom's. I asked why she was there and she responded that he two sweet boys were sick....with a massive COLD. oooppppssss!!! I have a feeling that that will be the last time for a while that the boys come and stay with us. Not becuase we don't want them, but because Michelle probably won't let them come. So, Michelle and Shaelynn are staying with grandma until Monday. Hopefully the boys will be in the clear by then.
6. I slept ALL day yesterday. As soon as I woke up, I would fall back asleep within 10 minutes. Megan and the kids came and said hi since they were in IF. They didn't stay long since I was sick, but it was good to see them all and Lisa.
7. Mom called last night and said that Josh Jenkins had been killed earlier yesterday. He was snowmobiling and got caught in an avalanche. He has been home from his mission for only about a month. It is really crazy. I used to babysit him. I feel horrible for Kurt and Launa and our prayers will be with them during this horrible time. What is worst is that Air Idaho flew his body and they were calling mom to ask a quesiton. She asked who it was and found out it was Josh. Launa didn't know yet, so mom asked if she could go tell her. So, mom had to go and tell her friend that her son was killed.
8. Nate started school last week. It is going really well and it seems like he has some good teachers this time. They are willing to help out and answer quesitons any time. Nate has been studying a ton already so I am really proud of him. Keep it up....only 15 more weeks to go.
9. I didn't mention this in December because of everything else going on....but anyway. Nate's boss moved him down to 3 days a week instead of 5. We were extremely anxious about this wondering if we really could pay all our bills without that money. He filed for unemployement and he got a couple small payments that helped. Now will school, Nate actually had to ask to go down to 2 days a week. So, I really think it was a blessing in disquise becuase we were not positive that we could do it at that amount of hours, but we can and it is helping him to be able to study more.
10. Along with the previous item, we were worried about how we were going to pay for his schooling this sememster. He was not eligible for a student loan....so we were going to pull it out of thin air...somehow. Anyway, Nate double checked if he was eligible and found that he actually DID get it. So, again, a blessing in disquise... we were able to pay for this sememster and pay off two other loans that we had. Now we only have his credit card with a very very small balance and Les Schwab...which we hope to have paid off with our tax money. My student loan is totally paid off and my credit card is paid off. It feels really good and we were even able to put some in savings.
11. Taxes.... we are really anxious to see what happens here. We have heard that having the house will really help and that we should get almost all of the interest back. We will see....we are just waiting for Nate to get his stuff and then we can get moving on it.
I hope everyone has a good couple of weeks. We don't have any plans for the coming weeks. Yet again...boring!!!
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