Life Today

It is a beautiful day outside today. I think it’s around 60 degrees but since we have been so used to the cold it feels like it’s 75. We’re all out in the back yard enjoying the weather. Aubree found a ladybug and was so excited. She’s at such a fun age of discovering everything and being fascinated by it all. Today is another landmark; Aubree had enough hair (barely) to put it up into 2 little pig tails. She’s so cute and most likely no longer considered a baby, but a toddler, but I just don’t want to admit it yet. Today Makenna’s class performed their program of songs and dances they have been working on for the past few weeks. I was impressed, their music teacher is so great. Makenna had to “try out” to be one of the dancers and was excited to be chosen.

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s day so we made our traditional green pancakes and eggs and the kids took charge of making sure the milk was green too. We have been using spinach puree to make our pancakes green and have even tried it in our breadsticks and breakfast cakes too. We can’t taste the difference but I like feeling a little healthier.

Jarom’s Basketball season ended and now we are gearing up for soccer practices that start next week. I’m excited! And the kids are looking forward to it too 

A couple of weeks ago we had most of Boyd’s family in town for the High School State Championship. I’m bummed I forgot to take any photos! It was tons of fun to see everyone and chat a bit, but even more fun was that Boyd’s youngest brother’s team (Madison) kept winning and ended up in the championship game! They were exciting, close games and Trent played great. They were defeated in the end but well worth the journey.

Boyd has been doing some PRN work for a company in the area and has traveled to Boise, Emmett and soon Payette to help them out. He enjoys his job and seeing the progress people make in recovering from their surgeries, accidents, etc. Last night while helping out the assisted living center in Emmett, he discovered they had a Wii. Perfect physical/occupational therapy for those, 80 and 90 year old patients who need to do something but not too much. So they all got to go bowling last night. Boyd said his 97 year old patient was excited and said, “I haven’t bowled in years!”

I had to laugh today at our bank’s new promo. I was depositing a check and noticed a little jar (maybe 10 oz. size) that had a few of those hershey’s chocolate nuggets inside. I asked, “Are these for the taking?” thinking it was the new free candy they were handing out now, in place of suckers. The teller said, “No, those are for people who get a new mortgage with us.” I started laughing, “Oh! Is that all you have to do? An entire piece of chocolate for just a mortgage!” She was laughing too and replied, “Actually, you get the entire jar!” “Ohhhhhh! Even better! But I think I’d rather go to Walgreens and just pay $3 for an entire bag of my own.” These marketing strategies are beyond desperate, they are just flat out dumb founded, out of ideas, and probably out of money. If any one was hoping the “freebie” was going to get better, they held out too long! It still makes me laugh!

Well I have been trying to re-think my schedule again. Something I frequently have to do whenever a nap time changes, a nap time is grown out of, school schedule changes, work schedule changes, etc. So this time it is due to Aubree no longer taking a morning nap which means my morning time to exercise and get ready for the day was being moved back until noon which wasn’t working. So now I’ve been waking up at 6am and exercising first and showering before Boyd leaves. It works great even though my eyes still feel very heavy even while my legs are running on the treadmill. I definitely have to hold on to the railings those first 5 minutes!

I’m sooooooooooooooooo ready for spring!