Weekly Review January 13 '12

Alas, no sunrise photos this week! I don't know if it was the weather or my timing or what, but I didn't see any spectacular sunrises like last week. A few pink skies, which is always pretty, but that's it.

We continue to have very unusual weather for winter. Saturday was beautiful--got into the 60's--and yesterday was pretty decent, too--up into the 50's. It rained most of the night Wednesday night. The rest of the week was mostly in the 40's and cloudy, so kind of gloomy but not too bad. Today, however, it is down in the low 30's and very windy so it feels even colder than it is. Definitely more like winter! Still no snow, though. I think it may have snowed a little bit in the night, but nothing stuck. At least the sun has come back out again. My mood really suffers when I don't see the sun for days.

Last Friday Frank and I got our eyes checked so we can get more contact lenses--our prescriptions expired and we were out (Frank), or almost out (me). After we were done with our exams we went to Red Robin for some burgers, so it was a fun little "date".

Saturday was busy--I'm not sure where the day went. I worked on the FAFSA and got it mostly done. Frank and I have a goal to go on a walk once a week, so we took Snickers with us and did that. As I mentioned above, it was a beautiful day so it was a nice day for a walk--we didn't even need to wear jackets! Tanner took Seth to the park for a while too. Frank took the boys to their basketball games that evening while I gave Seth a bath and made dinner. As usual, Jared's team won and Scott's team lost--but Scott said he had a lot of fun. I'm glad he is a good sport about it!

Sunday was mostly relaxing. I missed most of YW because I needed to get my temple recommend interviews--there was a fairly long line to see the stake president. Frank and I both got both of our interviews done though. The temple is closed right now but re-opens on Tuesday.

My lists of things to do each day this week were pretty long, but most of it is not particularly noteworthy. We are keeping busy with the usual stuff. The goals I've set for myself are keeping me busy too! Nothing major, but even little things can add up. It feels good to be doing some things like exercising and reading to Seth more, though.

I spent two mornings at the school--on Tuesday I did pledge drive accounting stuff and on Wednesday I helped with Seth's class. It's always fun to see what kind of things they are doing at school!

Choir practices started again Tuesday evening; I always really enjoy choir although the songs run through my head for two days afterwards.

Wednesday evening we did a family history activity for the YW. One sister in our ward came and told a few stories from her family history--they were pretty amazing! Then we helped the girls get set up in family search. Frank went over ahead of time with the boys (they had basketball practice) to get all the computers set up for that.

Illness is still rearing its ugly head around here. I don't think anyone it the family is feeling 100%. Seth has a runny nose, Frank is still coughing (although not nearly so much), Jared is still coughing a bit and is having a hard time hearing (we've cleaned his ears a couple of times; doesn't seem to help much), Tanner stayed home from school Tuesday through Thursday with the same coughing / congestion / fatigue (although he did go to Seminary all three days--he still has perfect attendance for this year!), Scott has been feeling lousy with the same thing the last two days but dragged himself to school and seminary anyway since he needed to be there, and I have been feeling less and less healthy as the week has gone on. Wednesday was the day I really started to feel sick and now my nose is red and sore from wiping and the coughing is starting. Lots of fun! I've been trying to take it easy a little bit the last two days but that is hard to do when the kids still need to get to seminary, school, and back. Besides, with the boys not feeling well either I don't like to ask them to help out as much. But at least it is Friday and we have a three day week end ahead! Not that I expect to be lying around all week end...but hopefully it will be a little more relaxing.

Frank had a busy week--he had work for clients, work at the stake center, and work for a friend to do (all computer stuff), besides his regular job. Scott did the sound for a program at the high school last night, even though he wasn't feeling well.

Rachelle asked what Scott's plans are--he has applied to both BYU-Provo and BYU-Idaho, but we are still waiting to hear back from them. We don't expect that he will be accepted to BYU-Provo, but decided it was worth applying anyway. We will hopefully hear back soon so that we can start making plans. (We're hoping that the whole family will be able to visit Utah / Idaho this summer.) He thinks he will probably focus his studies on technical theater or architecture.

Well, everyone will be home from school soon so before it gets too crazy around here I will sign off. We are looking forward to celebrating Frank's birthday tomorrow!