What's New This Week?

How come every week is the same and new at the same time? At least I always know it'll be busy. :)

Kylie was the narrator in her drama class play. And, when her friend was sick on performance day, Ky stepped in to take her part in the other play when it was performed. What a pal! Kylie is so at ease with speaking and such a great help she was able to help out at the last minute. Kylie also had to cook a new dish for her final grade in her CTE class. She made yummy cheesy breadsticks that turned out soooo good, that she's making them for dinner on Sunday. yay for us!

Alyssa had a busy week in the friend department. She went to a friend's house to play on Monday, a different friend's house on Wednesday and had her twin friends over for a late night on Thursday! She had so much fun. She also has a lot of really good friends. It's nice to see her enjoying her friendships so much. Lyssa also moved out - of her upstairs room. We made a temporary room in the basement and Lyssa has been sleeping down there - and loving it! We are working on getting the basement finished this spring/summer so we can move both girls down there.

Treyson has been earning money in Kindergarten instead of points for being good (it's their money unit) and on Thursday they had a "store" where they could buy some items. His teacher said he had so much fun watching the movie that was playing in the "theater" that they had to keep asking him to buy some stuff. She said she felt bad that he wouldn't come home with much, but that just helps his room stay neater. He also "broke my neck" on Friday. He came home from playing with some friends and wouldn't put his head up straight. He kept saying how much it hurt, so we took him into the chiropractor and he said that Trey had pinched something in his neck. After a while the doc was able to relieve the pain and Trey was happy to be feeling better.

TJay played doubles and singles in a racquetball tournament this week. So he was busy on a couple of nights, then he also had to work until 2 in the morning a couple of times. Crazy! He wanted to go to a movie - we saw Alice in Wonderland (very good flick). Then he took the girls skiing today and me bowling with the Elders Quorum. He's been a very busy man. Tomorrow (Sunday) he won't slow down with meetings before & after church.

I got a new boss this week. Last week I had parent/teacher conferences one night and did a little introduction of the new principal the next night (in a parent meeting). Change is always a little unsettling, especially when you will be working for the change. But, so far, so good. Utah is kind of running out of money, so the state isn't giving as much money to the schools as they were planning on. So, to make up for it, our school gave 3 furlough days to the teachers (all employees) this spring (among other changes). Friday was one of those days, so we had a day off. It was great! It snowed about 6 inches of thick, heavy, wet snow and we played in the snow all morning with all of the neighbor kids. It was great! Today while Dad & the girls went skiing, I went to the temple in the morning (Trey played with a friend) and then Trey & I went on a date to "pirate island". Picture Chuck-E-Cheese with a pirate theme. My boy was in heaven! He LOVES pirates and thought the whole thing was fabulous. My day ended with a bowling date (see above) and watching fun TV shows with the hubby while waiting for the teenager to return from babysitting.

Tomorrow we rest.

Next week we have school play dress rehersals (T & K), band practice (L), activity days (L), racquetball tournament for 3 (dad & both girls), school board meeting (mom), job shadow for school (ky) and an all day social studies class (mom). Yup, just another week . . .