Pizza Day

I like Thursdays at school.  It's pizza day.  I don't have to make any home lunches.  My favorite thing about Thursdays and pizza day is that I go to school to have lunch with Krista.  I pick up Alex from Kindergarten, we wait around for about 20 minutes and then pizza.  I don't actually get any, but Krista and Alex do.  Alex loves pizza day as well.  He gets mad at me if we can't go for some reason.  They are rebuilding part of the school, so all of the kids eat lunch in their classrooms.  It is fun because I get to know some of the other kids in Krista's class as well, some of her friends.  It's fun to see my sometimes shy girl not be shy at all!

Writing My Talk

I have known that I have to give a talk on January 20th for about a month.  I didn't start working on it right away because I had to do Sharing Time in December.  I have been working on it since then.  I have decided that I just like to have a week to prepare, not a few weeks.  I feel like I have been working on it forever.  I am not getting as much other stuff done because I am spending too much time on this.  I need to just finish it up, so that I don't have to worry about it anymore.  Oh, Grant and I both have to speak on the 20th.  Since we both speak and Brandon is in Young Men's now, I figured that he should speak with us, as the youth speaker.  Grant talked to the Bishop.  The Bishop thought that it was a great idea!  He is super excited!  (Just kidding!)

Basketball

The kids all had basketball games.  It was Brandon's first game after Christmas break.  This was Daniela's and Ethan's first game of the season.  They all did great.  It is fun to watch their games.

Beware of Falling Ice

You should see all of the huge icicles around town!  We had one of these fall today and it stuck in the ground.  It could have hurt somebody.  This picture was taken a few days ago, we have some really long ones right now.

Cinnamon Rolls

A few days ago, Daniela wanted me to make some Rhodes cinnamon rolls, she said they were sooo good.  I told her that if she thought those were good she should try homemade ones.  We made some tonight.  We used a recipe from Our Best Bites.  This recipe...http://www.ourbestbites.com/2010/06/everyday-cinnamon-rolls/

They were really good.  I don't think that she will be asking for those Rhodes ones anymore!

Cleaning Day

I spent most of the day cleaning and organizing.  As I sit in bed, about ready to go to sleep, it feels so good to have gotten so much done.  I even wrote out a menu for the whole month of January.  I haven't done this in a long time.  I really don't mind cooking as much when I know ahead of time what I am doing.  I don't like to cook when I am always trying to think of something an hour before I need to have it ready.  I am looking forward to being more organized this year.

Congratulations to Holly and Bert!  They went in to have their ultrasound today to find out if they were having a boy or a girl.  Surprise, surprise, they are having TWO girls! TWINS!

Happy New Year!

Today was just a relaxing day, it was really nice.  Grant and I took some time to go over our calendar for the month, we looked at our budget, we printed new job charts for the kids, and we even took time to make a Doctrine and Covenants reading chart for the older kids.  They are studying Doctrine and Covenants in Sunday School and Primary this year.  I'll post it here if anyone is interested.  We had Book of Mormon charts for the older kids this year and they all did it, they read it this year.  I am really proud of them.  Krista and Alex use a different chart.  They read the Friend each month, the Book of Mormon, New Testament, Old Testament, and Doctrine and Covenants Stories.  They did great!

I was going to post the charts, but I guess that I don't know how to post a file.  If anyone is interested in them, let me know, and I'll email them to you.