Merrit's Track Meets

For those of you who might be interested in going to one of Merrit's track meets, here are when they are happening. May 3 at home May 7 at home May 10 at Fenton High School May 14 at Linden High School May 17 at home May 21 at home May 23 at Davison High school May 30 is a meet by invite only at Davison high school All meets begin at 4:15 p.m. He is running the mile and doing the long jump or sometimes the high jump. He'd love the support if you could make it. I'm not sure if there will be a cost.

So...

Should be studying for my final exam on Thursday right now, but I am really not in the mood. I can't wait for this semester to be over! After Thursday at 1 pm I'll be free for the summer. Wahooo!!!

A Good Early Morning Laugh

This morning the Bishop picked us up at 5:50am for a trip to the Washington D.C. Temple. The Bishop teaches astronomy at Fairmont State University and he was talking about how he uses frozen nitrogen to launch his rocket for class. Dad mentioned that he had also used frozen nitrogen before. Here is the rest of the conversation...

Bishop: "What did you use frozen nitrogen for?"
Dad: "We used it to freeze semen."
Bishop: (turns his head to look at dad and says in an uncomfortable voice) "I don't think I want to hear about this."
Dad: (calmly replies) "On the farm we would freeze semen to use for in vitro fertilization."
Bishop: (with great relief in his voice) "Oh! I didn't even think about a farm when you said that"

That's right, Bishop Hansen thought dad was talking about freezing his own semen. Mom and I couldn't help but crack up. This was the funniest conversation I have heard in a long time.

Spring Break Fun!

We've been trying to do more fun, family things during spring break this year. Monday we went bowling (we forgot to take pictures) and had a blast! Today we went to a local frisbee golf course and had a blast too! We are really enjoying having extra time together. Although, our together time tomorrow is going to be mowing the lawn. I don't know that that will be quite as fun for the kids as some of the other things we've been doing. Oh well. Can't win them all.

Pinewood Derby

Jaxson won 3rd place at the annual pinewood derby this year. Granted it was 3rd out of 4, but still it was third and he got a trophy (which was all that mattered to him.) We love the derby. It's quite a family affair for us. We all made cars. I'll have to post a picture of those soon too.

More House Work

I'm behind in posting also. But I just didn't have that much to say. When Karen and Jack were here in February Jack did some things around the house for me. My dishwasher is now hooked up and it really works to. I don't use it much but it sure is nice when I just don't feel like doing anything. He also put a new switch in the lamp in the livingroom. I hardly ever used the lamp so it didn't bother me. But they would stay up at night and read and when it wouldn't stay on he figured he could fix it.

Here are couple of pictures of the windows. We had the old crank out windows, not very energy efficient.

Before

After a few thousands of dollars we have 8 new windows.

All of the windows in the house now are double hung, tilt out for easy cleaning, and energy efficient. The only bad thing is that we had to put up the ugly shutters back up. When I decide how I want to decorate the room I will figure out what I will do with the windows. Right now I think I will go with the same type of blinds that I bought for the livingroom.

My job is going ok. It's a lot more than what I did at LCC. I get to decide if the student gets to go to the university or not. Thank goodness I have good guide lines to follow. I enjoy the work and I like it that it so close to home.

I have been asked to go out to Colorado again. The Lindseys have another daughter getting married in late July. I haven't talked it over with dad yet, but I do know by July I will be working part time so I think that I can work it out there. They have never had a part time processor (that's what they call my job) so they are not sure how they will work me. I will at least get 40 hours a month in. During their busy times I will be working full time, which are the first couple of weeks in January, May, and August. I'm not sure about the other months. All that I'm sure about is that I can only work 1000 hours for July 1st to June 30th. So that averages works out to about 20 hours a week. I just hope that when I'm working part time I don't have to work just 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. I would like to have a steady day off so I can work at my other part time job at the Sew Chic (teaching sewing). This is just rattling on so I will end now.

By the way I'm down 28 pounds but I had a little icecream tonigh and it will all go right back on.

Our new baby goats

This is Izzy and Deli standing next to Mom, Candy.

This is Izzy.

This is Delicious (Deli for short)

Our ONE good snow day

Happy Birthday, Jaxson (really late

Happy Birthday, Merrit (really late!)

Happy Birthday, Alexis (really late!)