Happy Birthday!

Joe and Jessica came to mom and dad's to help with their house. It was close to Joe's birthday so we decided to throw him a birthday party. You know you're getting to that age when the candles are hot enough to melt the frosting and almost set off the smoke alarm. Happy birthday Joe!

Busy as usual! I just spent time emailing a doctor in BYU-Idaho. Celeste is making chocolate chip cookies (yeah!), Alec is doing homework, Sterling is working and Celina is asking me frequently when I will be done so that she can do her homework.
Last night, Celeste and I went to her induction into the National Honor Society. I am very proud of her! She got her name called and stood up on stage where they presented her with a nice certificate. There are several things she must do in the following two years to continue in NHS.
Alec started wrestling and appeared to have a real interest in it but I am afraid the spandex uniforms are setting him back and I am not sure that he will continue. He and Sterling had some "fun" matches in the house several times, though.
Celeste had her second cavity today. Her first was so tiny they drilled it without a shot. Today, when they gave her the shot, I was feeling queasy but afterwards, she said she hardly even felt a thing. In fact, she said she didn't even realize she was getting a shot until halfway though it. She has an amazing pain tolerance!
Well, that's all for now. I am too tired and there are things to be done! Laurie

This week has been very busy! I took the kids to get caught up on all their shots. I didn't realize how many they needed! They have come up with a lot more shots since I was little. Sterling and Celina had four shots and Celeste and Alec had 2-3. Needless to say, they were not very happy. I took the kids to get glasses afterwards. Then I let them stay home because I was late for work and their arms hurt. It was funny because we were going home from those appointments and got stuck between a HUGE piece of farm equipment. It had wheels that would have stretched across the entire road except that the wheels folded up on each side. As we followed, it started taking out tree limbs and missed a power line by about 8 inches. Just as we got to a stop sign, a semi going the opposite direction, turned into the lane beside us. As he did so, he took out huge chunks of a business's fence. It was quite the adventure getting home!
Work has been all right. It is not so busy in the morning which is hard for me because I don't like being bored. I like a medium and in this business it doesn't appear to work that way. It is either too slow or too busy. But, anyhow, I do okay.
Well, it is time to go to work so I will leave for now.

Celeste just had her first concert of the year in the women's choir at school. They sang beautifully! Sterling had his first concert last night and they sounded good as well. It is still hard to believe that they are growing up as fast as they are. One of the choirs sang a song about children leaving and hoping that they come back home. I know that in a couple of years that I will be in the same position. As crazy as it gets, I hope that I can enjoy it more thoroughly for the next couple of years.

The morning that it snowed, I felt that we should put up the Christmas tree. I knew that it was too early to do that, so I compromised. We put up a Halloween tree complete with orange lights. We did it as part of family home evening. By the time we did it, the snow was gone but the idea sounded fun so we went ahead. The boys had a little bit TOO much fun. They took apart the skeletons and rearranged them in different manners so it looked a little morbid. We had fun though and then had rice crispie treats with candy corns in them.

Today was the day that Alec was ordained a teacher. His quoruum leader ordained him and Sterling was able to stand in the circle. Alec also earned his Duty to God award for the Deacon's. He barely made the requirements in time (within half an hour before his interview) but he made it nonetheless.

We had snow today! It is the 12th of October! This has been such a strange year. First, a long rainy spring, two months of summer and two weeks of Indian Summer. What happened to fall? We hardly got to see the leaves fall! When I woke up with snow, I put in a Christmas CD and we danced around the kitchen! Happy holidays - (only which one? Christmas or Halloween?

Sami's baptism in July, 08

This is Sterling and Alec going "out into the wild, blue yonder".

This is a picture of a storm when I was at Tara and Bret's. I spent time there on the weekend that Sami was being baptized.

today was a good day

Today, I went to work and all went well. It was a long day - over nine hours but it went pretty quickly. Celeste and I watched a beautiful purple-pink sunset after dinner. The family got "booed". Someone in the neighborhood left a treat for halloween and now we have to leave two treats on people's doorsteps tomorrow. They gave us a paper with a ghost to put in our window so that others know that we already got a treat. I took Alec to have his interview to become a teacher. After, he and I went to the store and bought candy corns to put into orange rice crispie treats. They are really good! Sterling and I then went on to youtube (that can be addicting!) and watched arcing electricity and explosions. It was interesting! Well, that's it tonight!

My first entry into the world of blogging

I went to work today and was very tired. The new furnace system that is in place has enough dust to make my sinuses feel pretty bad and make me tired. I enjoyed working with the kids today though. Sterling, Celeste and Alec went to mutual and collected pennies by the inch. Afterwards, my kids and I made an impromptu and quick drive to the dollar store across town tonight. Afterwards, we bought cookie dough from Papa Murphy's and made it to the door just before closing. We ate raw cookie dough on the way home and it was GOOD! Now I am working late at night trying to figure out this blog. I hope that it works. Well, that's it for now. Hopefully, I can buy a connection for my camera and get some pictures up!