Catch Up

Jessi and Kenzie are both in their last semester of this school year. This summer Jessi is planning some more trips. Kenzie is counting down the days till she is a senior. I'm working on my first semester of college; going great so far. Dad is as ornery as ever. Mom is just keeping busy keeping everyone in check.

Island Park and Henry's Lake

This past weekend was really great. We went fishing on Henry's Lake and joy riding on Island Park Reservoir. On Saturday evening we went out Island Park and it was beautiful. Mom took tons of pictures of the sunset, this cute barn and the trees that were turning.

Saturday evening we had the perfect fire. You couldn't smell any of the smoke.

On Sunday morning we went fishing and caught five fish.

The fish in the cooler, we didn't have the bucket.

All the fish in for show.

Kenzie's fish (I claimed the small one).

Dad's fish, though they discolored with out any water.

On Monday morning we caught five more fish.

Dad's one, mine and Kenzie's two each!

Rough Waters

While on the reservoir we saw the cutest blue helicopter!

Here Comes Thursday

So a lot has happened over the last little while, I have now become the Neighborhood babysitter. I am babysitting 3 days this week so far that I know of. Then there is Thursday, Jessi gets her wisdom teeth out, 3 of them. So Sam and I have been teasing her that on Thursday there is going to be pulling, twisting, cutting, yanking, prodding, and last of all horrible bruising, and pain!!! SO we are both super excited since this is her first big surgery. She seems to not be horribly nervous but then it is not Thursday yet. I hope all goes well so she won't be super scared of surgery. Oh wait, just a second there it comes what is that I see? HA HA it's her nerves they finally just shot!!! But still it will all be fine, I wish her luck along with the rest of the family!! :O)

Jessi's Latest Happenings

It has been a while since I have put anything out on the family blogs. Halloween to be exact. Well where to start? There are only 23 school days left..... just over a month if you count weekends. The end is in sight. My students and I can't wait for summer vacation to start! We just had our final dance of the school year last night and I was a chaperon. No let me rephrase that I was the chaperon and there was a mom there watching her two boys. And no there wasn't only 10 kids there, there was 40 which is half the school. I have been to more dances as a chaperon than I ever went to in high school.

The main reason I can't wait for school to be out is cause I have two fabulous trips planned for this summer one to Washington DC and the other is to Boston!! And the best part is I don't have to pay for the one to DC and only have to pay a portion of the one to Boston. I am so excited to go back to Washington DC in June for 5 days and this time I get to take two students with me. I must apologize to them ahead of time cause when in DC I turn into a REAL NERD! (They seem to think I am already a Nerd.) I am still not sure what we are going to be doing while we are there, but they should be fun. I heard a rumor that we are going to go to Colonial Williamsburg and I am excited cause I haven't been there before. I don't get to go to Boston until the middle part of July, but I am super excited to go, I have always dreamed of going and so now I am! I get to stay in a historic hotel in Concord.... the starting place of the Revolutionary War. (I guess I am maybe just a little bit of a Nerd!) The only scary part of this trip is I get to ride Boston's subway all by myself..... and then switch to a train to get to Concord. The only reason this is scary is cause I hate doing it with luggage, otherwise I am fine.

Now you are all caught up on what I have been doing with my time since Halloween minus all the boring details like hitting a deer, taking students on two different field trips to SLC and not killing them all! The last one is a feat in and of itself...... three hours each direction with a bus full of kids. Each time I take students in to the city I am amazed at the fact how little they know about SLC. The first time they had to play in the revolving door and slid down the banister at the Capitol Building and then the second time they screamed out quote " There are taxis in SLC". We have to get the kids out more!

New Blog

I have started my own personal blog. Those interested please feel free to visit.

COLLEGE!!

On April 1st I was accepted to BYU-Idaho. Today I recieved my track assigment and declared my major. I will be starting classes in January on the Winter/Summer track and will be majoring in Accounting. I haven't fully decided on a minor but I'm thinking Computer Information Technology.

Update

On Monday Dad went in for his 6 month CT scan. It came back, drum roll please; CLEAR! Dr. Tall cleared him for a year instead of another 6 months.