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A birthday on ice

After 9 hours of freezing rain, I am home with a houseful of kids on an ice day from school. Up down down up down up up down down...... Oh well, they are all happy!

Celebrated Eric's birthday early with a night out last night for seafood. The kids did well finding something on the menu and not complaining. Although Brady was quietly unimpressed with his "chewy" shrimp that were not at all like the ones out of a box. And he was a bit suprised not to find fish sticks on the menu. Guess we had better get them out a bit more. Time to bake a cake and spread more ice melt!

Our Mexico trip!

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Quiet weekend

Well, it was a quiet weekend here in Salt Lake City...where all the women are strong, the men have bad knees, and the children have whiplash. Dave was sitting at his desk Thursday, started up to go to a meeting, and tore something in his knee. He calls it a freak typing accident. It was very painful--and even more painful watching him try to cook dinner that night hopping around. He got in to see a great doctor the next day (it pays to work for a healthcare company for 32 years) who drained the fluid off his knee. He is doing much better.

In the meantime, Hannah went to her Winter Sports program Friday and was skiing at her usual breakneck (not literally, please God) when she hit some wicked bumps and took a ride on her face for who knows how far. She ended up curled in a ball hoping the feeling would return to her entire body. Quite a scary fall. I know when this kid calls me crying that it was a doosey. She skied down the hill and went into the lodge, just as the mother of a close friend was walking in. Bless her heart, the mom packed Hannah up and drove her straight home. We had a quick trip to InstaCare, and the doctor was relieved Hannah landed on her face, not the back of her head. She was wearing a helmet fortunately. End result is whiplash to her neck and her back is a little out of whack, but we packed her in (ahem, Sherry, pay attention) bags of FROZEN PEAS, the best icing option around, and she was better than expected the next morning. We will have a quick trip to a physical therapist tomorrow to make sure everything is in place. Love to all. Dave just rang the dinner bell!

Brrr....it's a mighty cold day here in Quincy. Dale has gone off to drive the high school swim team to a meet in Springfield (swimming just doesn't sound fun to me with this cold) and I am on my own for the day. It's been quite a week for me...I returned to school on Monday finding more than half of our school COLD....our heating system broke and the majority of the students spent the day with space heaters. I was one of the lucky rooms!! I had heat!! My room uses both the old and new system and so my students and I were warm. School was called off both Tuesday and Wednesday so that repairs could be made. The snow hit Wednesday night and what do you know...school was called off for Dale and I BOTH Thursday and Friday!! I've had a three week vacation!! One would think I would have time to get lots of housework done.....WRONG!!! I've managed to read a whole book (and it wasn't a teacher's manual), do report cards that are due on Monday, redo lesson plans, and work on two VERY large Board of Ed projects that I had agreed to do. Housework, well....maybe today....
I've loved viewing the pictures of Christmas on our new computer. Keep posting!!! We will, too, as soon as we get everything transferred over. Dale purchased it this week and oh my, how fast it is! We now are capable of seeing others as we talk via the camera that it has...we're due to try it out next week with Grace and Hope way up in North Dakota. Hopefully, Grandma can read books to Grace again as she is requesting...it's something I've done since she was born. Anybody else out there have this feature?
Christmas was one of the best. It was so great to have everyone home for a while!!! I realized today that we didn't even get to have everyone over to see Dale's beautiful tree!!! Time just got away from us. Let's do it again, soon!! For those of you who weren't here in body, you certainly weren't forgotten..you were here in spirit and we could feel your presence.
Tomorrow, we're off to see Mackenize in her tumbling meet. It's a first for us. Tuesday, we celebrate Dad's 79th birthday....haven't asked him whether we're having cake (his favorite is white with chocolate icing or pie or something else). I'll have to ask this weekend.
Hope you are all staying warm. Let's try writing and posting pictures to each other more often!! We know we haven't done a good job, but we're going to try to do better this year!!
Have a great week! Love you all!!!

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