LOVE THIS PICTURE

Logan went with the Westlake basketball team to cheer on the Varsity team in the state playoffs.  It was held at Weber State in Ogden.  My sisters' daughter attends school there.  She met him at the game with Popeye's Chicken. She is such a dear.  Logan loves Popeye's Chicken and we can't get it here in Utah.  The only Popeye's Chicken is on the military base up north.  Look how absolutely cute they both are.  I smile ever time look at this picture.

A funny thing happened at work

 

 

Basketball season is over and Logan is starting track and field.  He had the paperwork filled out and I took it up to my friend Sharon's office to get him cleared to try out.  This was to avoid the line after school, plus she is my really good friend.  While I was in her office waiting for her to get off the phone I sat down on a chair like this at the side of her desk.  Mike, the student council adviser was standing also in her office and he was facing me as he was standing there waiting. 
I spied a Butterfinger candy wrapper on the floor so I said to myself I will roll my chair forward and lean down and pick that up and put it in the trash.  As I went to roll the chair forward it tipped and I crashed to the floor.  The chair fell on top of me.  I looked up and Mike was trying not to laugh.  I burst out laughing got up and got back on my chair and Sharon was cracking up while still on the phone.  It was hilarious. 

Jake + UVU track team = not so good

This was the last year for UVU to compete in the Great West Conference.  They have won the first place title 2 years and a row and was heading for a 3-peat.

Many things went wrong at this track meet.  I will list them as follows:

1. A good runner that would have scored points would not go because he would have to compete on Sunday and he has strong beliefs that that is wrong.

2. A whole team did not show up, like a whole school, and then that meant that the first 6 runners in scored not the first 8. 

3. On Premlims on Saturday for the 400, Jakes best race, he was pushed out on the curve and was not able to compete Sunday in the finals.

4. The 4 x 400 team that Jake is always run on and medaled the past 3 years did not finish.

5.  Because the 4 x 400 team did not finish the UVU track team lost the meat by 3 points to Houston Baptist.

Kim gently reminded us that many a meet is won or lost on the last race, the 4 x 400.  In fact it was won on that same race winning last year.  

The details of the 4 x 400 race are so sad.  Jake had the first leg and ran his 400 so well, passed off the baton and the second boy took off also running well.  He passed the baton to runner number 3 and on the back curve as he was heading around his ankle dislocated and he went down.  That my friends results in a DNF.  It breaks my heart.

Jake is in Houston

Today Jake is in Houston with the UVU track team.

We wish them and him good luck.

Overheard in the copy center

Preamble:  Next year our area is opening a second junior high that will feed into our high school.  As a result we are losing about 15 teachers because we are changing into a high school that will only be 10-12 grade.  Several teachers have had meetings with the new admin there to express interest in working at the new Jr high school, but there can be no jobs given or promises made until a certain date or it is against the law (school law).



Someone asks Mr B, "Are you going to be here next year?"  (Mr B is a math teacher who is also a retired principal.)

Mr B says, " I don't know yet."

The man teacher, "Why not?  Are you going to the Jr high?"

Mr B answers, "No, I am waiting to see if Mr G gets a job here next year or at the Jr high.  If he does not I will give him my job because he has a wife and kids and is building a house out here.  I don't need it.  He has a family."

As I was listening to this tears sprung in my eyes.


This is why I love my job, who I work with and where I work.

27 years waiting........

27 years ago I got married and copied several of my mothers recipes.  

Today I made one for the first time.

 Why oh why, did I wait so long.

Clam Chowder that tasted like Ivers in Seattle.

So warm, so thick, so tasty.

(made with fat free half and half, who knew?) 

Today certainly was a soup day today.  The high today was 9 degrees and

 the temperature when I left for work was -3.  

I felt bad for my delivery drivers today, the UPS man, FED X and the Office Depot delivery men were so cold and so bundled.  And the freight they dropped off.......so very cold.

Welcome 2013

Today as I took my old calendar off the wall and put up a new one I looked through it and I was reminded of so many good memories. 

• We attended basketball games for Kelsi and Logan and track meets for Jake. Then track meets for Logan and then in the winter started more basketball games for Logan.

•  I team taught a Primary class for a whole year and loved those girls. 

• I perfected trifle.  

• Both Kelsi and Logan took drivers ed.  One in the spring, one in the fall. 

•  Family dinners with Faith and Kyle and lots of friendly visits. 

•  We had a fire in our mountain and were evacuated to my sisters house for a few days.

•  Utah is a meeting spot it seems and my sisters' cute twins came to see their grandma and I was able to see them one day.

•  I learned that I love playing BINGO.

• I started my second year at Westlake and it was alot easier knowing what I was doing and what was coming up next.  

• My sister's daughter attends Weber State so we have gotten to know her through visits.

•  This year Thanksgiving was such a special time as I got to have my parents and brother and sister here and have extended family gathered for the first time in years.  

 As I look over last years calendar I see that we worked long hours at our jobs but we still  cleaned, mowed, washed, and shoveled.  I kept track of Saturday fun and we did alot.  For this I am grateful.

•  I also met friends for dinner, met friends for yogurt and took meals to friends who needed service,

•  I visit taught and Kim and Logan home taught.  

• How grateful I was that Kim and Logan home taught the way they were supposed to as a lady who they visit passed away and they were able to be of service to the family because they knew them and had visited them regularly.  

As I look over the calendar of last year I realize that I have been so blessed with a job, my health and to be surrounded by those I love and who love me.

BRRRRRR ! This morning when I took Logan to basketball practice the temperature was -3. When I walked out the front door to my car, the air hit me and it was something I have not felt in a long time. It actually took my breath away. We had a beautiful snow storm hit right at Christmas with over 10 inches of snow. Now because it has been so cold it is all still here. Luckily it melts off the roads. I am reminded of growing up in Alaska and having the snow plows push the snow so high that I could walk along the top of them and wave at my mom in the house.

So what will 2013 bring?  One big change is that Colby is living with us and has a job here in Utah.  Alida is with us too looking for a job and hopefully all will work for them.  Jake is running for his last year at UVU now with indoor track and later as his last year in outdoor.   I hope work won't be too much work for me!  Kelsi will finish up 11 grade and Logan will finish 10th.  Jake will graduate UVU.  Spring will come with warmer weather and track meets I can attend.  Then summer, my favorite.  The whole year is ahead of me and I hope to greet it with optimism.