Week 10 - March 1st thru March 6th

Wow our lives are so uneventful!   I guess that can be a good thing though.  This week we continued with the same theme.  Mom worked every morning, kids went to school, and Dad went to work.  This was Eddie's first week at his new job. He had training all week, so he did not really get to experience  what it is going to be like.  But he did say  the new place looks like a park  it is very well cared for.

Tuesday was  New Beginnings.  It was lots of fun! our Young Women's leaders did a lot of work putting together a little program and  making  treats, putting together decorations and even sewing a apron for each girl.  This was a perfect time to have New Beginnings because it got Claira very excited  to go into YW.  She has worn her necklace everyday.


Friday Grandma and Grandpa dove up.  They took FOREVER to get here.  I ended up laying down and trying to go to sleep but the kids were too excited.  They finally arrived  sometime after 11 PM.  We stayed up for a while and then I had to go to bed  cause I had to work the next morning.

Saturday we played lots of Wii  and apples to apples  and ate lots and lots of food.  We made Claira's Birthday cake, Peanut Butter Fudge.   We had Holly come over to help celebrate Claira's birthday.  Holly always makes things interesting in our house.  She is a wonderful friend for Claira.  We of course opened presents. 

                                                                      Claira and Holly

Week 9 - Feb 21st thru 27th

 I am still trying to catch up, but i do not remember what happened  and it was only last week.   I think it was pretty boring.   Eddie  had his last week of work and the old joint. ( He is at the other one this week.)  I worked, oh and I was given my own set of keys to the building.  The kids went to school.   SO fun huh. 

     The only thing we did different last week that I can think of was that Claira  had her country report due.  Eddie and I made trifle for her to share with the class.  It turned out pretty good.  The kids liked it. 

     Saturday I took the kids to Reno to do some shopping.  We did not go over at all in Feb so we sure needed food.   We did not buy anything exciting just food and  household supplies.  I did get a book though.

   

Digital Photography - Volume 2 by Scott Kelby

I already have volume 3, so now I just need volume 1 

It is all starting to come back to me now.  I got a new phone last week too.  Eddie broke his phone and after a week of not being able to get a hold of him, I went in to get him a new one. Of course his phone was not  eligible for a free upgrade.  Mine was though! ( Which is weird cause we bought the phones on the same day and started our contracts on the same day.)   So I gave him my phoen and got a new one.  I learned that if you have a "smart phone"  you have to have  the 30 dollar a month  media plan with it.   That is 30 per hone  on top of what we already pay for phone service.  So I made sure I did not get a "smartphone"  so no iphone and  no more blackberry for me.  I got a phone that has a touch screen.  Man it drove me crazy the first couple of days.  It still does a little but I am liking it a little more now.   It did freeze up on me Friday night. So I took it back  this week. I tried to see if I could switch it for another phone but that would cost me 35 bucks  - NO THANKS    I stuck with it and just got a new phone of the same type.  I am not going to have a phone that freezes up.  They say that is the first time they heard of that happening with that particular phone.  So we will see.  This is the one I got -  samsung flight

 

Week 8 - February 14th thru 20th

I am way bad at this blogging once a week thing.  At first I thought it was because we had a wrestling tournament every Sunday but  now that they are on Saturdays,  I know that is not the reason.

I do not remember much about this week.  Eddie was off.  It was nice outside so he was able to clean up the backyard,  we no longer look like total white trash. I worked a lot.  I put together a couple photo albums, through artscow.  They have specials all the time and if I ordered by the 16th I could get up to 10 free 20 page 8x8 albums.  So I did as many as I could.  Of course most of them were larger than 20 pages so I had to pay for the extra pages , and shipping ( their shipping is kinda high).  I did 5 albums for 63 bucks  when all was said and done.   Which even with the high shipping was a really good deal.   They are shipped from Hong Kong  so it takes a while to get them.  When they get here I will post about the quality of the albums. 

     Dallen of course had wrestling practice.  He had a tournament he could have gone to but we decided not to go  because it was Freestyle and we normally just wrestle Folk style.  The two styles are very similar but, there are a few things you can do in Freestyle that you can not in Folk.  Like locking hands and throwing.  We  do not really want him learning that because it can create bad habits for when you wrestle Folk.


     Claira had her first cooking meeting this week.  They  made dump cake and pizza bread sticks.  The food was pretty good and the kids had a lot of fun.