Mom's Surprise Party

Thanks to everyone for helping to celebrate Mom's birthday. It was a great success.

Happy Birthday Mom!

You've had a birthday shout hooray! We want to sing to you today! One year older & wiser too! Happy Birthday to YOU!

We hope you have a wonderful birthday! We love you & are so blessed to have you in our lives. You are a wonderful Mother & Grandmother and a great example for all of us. We love you!

Love,

Trent, Bonnie, Lainee, Olivia, & Rigby

I have really appreciated those who have written in the blog. It's good to know what you are doing.
I haven’t written for 1 whole month. Not a lot has happened. Mom is ecstatic about her new drapes. She took a week off school and had Rosalie Scholes come down and help her. They really do look nice. They match the new paint job on the fireplace too. I'm still trying to get used to that.
I have been going to physical therapy. They screwed up my appointment. I went in to physical therapy on the day they said to come and I wasn’t scheduled for another week. I wanted to get it going, so I went to Dr. Howard, a chiropractor. I had four session on the DRX with him and then the next week started at the doctors office. I also was advised to walk in a swimming pool, so I bought a membership for three months at Sand Hollow and try to be there 4 or 5 times a week. I have had 15 sessions on the DRX. Last week my legs started to hurt-hips, thighs, and calves. They were very painful to walk or even to just stand. I went in to Dr. Root yesterday and he took me off the DRX for now. He also gave me shots in my hips as they have been very sore for a month or so.
After successfully doing a reverse mortgage on our home, I have been advertising and trying to sell some reverse mortgages. I have only had appointments with 1 couple and they found another company that had less fees, so they went with them. I was sure I was going to get it and it was really disappointing.
My garden is in and doing well. We have been eating radishes and beet greens. Our peas are just about on.
We are looking forward to being in Vegas for Mom’s birthday and our anniversary, and seeing Kenzi’s play. We will be back for Braden’s baptism.
It was nice to have Jeff's kids here for a weekend and we have enjoyed Chase, Brayden, Olivia and Lainee's ball games.
We had Jeff's family and the locals over for dinner before Jeff went home. It was fun to be together.
That’s not very much for a month, but that’s all folks.

Yea!! Pajama Game is over. Pajama Game is the musical Kelsey's school did this year. She drove us all crazy. She already had a busy schedule and to add all the practices was just too much. We took the family Wednesday to the opening show and it was alright. Saturday Mom and Dad came down and went with Shawn and I for the closing show and wow what a difference. The Saturday show was so much better and a lot of fun. Kelsey really enjoyed it of course as this is totally her element. This week she is also super busy with all-state practices. She performs her solo on Thursday for competition and if she wins will sing at a concert that day. Just her school sent 10 girls so for the whole state there must be quite a lot of girls trying out. The allstate choir will be performing on saturday at 2pm. It is a great choir to listen to (at least last years was incredible).

Kenzie is very excited about her school musical. It will be at the end of this month. Shawn and I have been learning dances for Cinderella and I must say Shawn is getting to be quite the dancer. You may all want to come to this show just to see him in a male kick line. It is a sight to see. Kiki's arm is healing well and though she is tired of the cast she loves that it is pink. Everyone is doing well and loving life.

April Fool's Pranks

I love April Fools! I added Facutly Drug Testing to our faculty meeting agenda, which was so funny! Then I wrote fake announcements about various club meetings at lunch and fake birthday congratulations for the students to read. Some of them were: I invited everyone who needed tax help to see Mr. Duston at lunch; All of Mr. Hunsakers students, remember that today is absolutely the last day to turn in your Shakespeare report, etc. I pranked Megan by sneaking in her car and turning everything on, windshield wipers, radio full blast, emergency brake, blinkers, etc and rearranged her seat and mirrors. Of course, she pranked me by short-sheeting my bed! (Oh, and the announcement on our blog about the Jello contest is an April Fool's too.)

Coloring Easter Eggs!

had to eat pasta with strange utinsels for April Fools dinner