February 6, 2005

February 6, 2005
It’s raining outside and almost all our snow has melted. It’s exciting to see grass again! The temp was up in the 40-50 range this week which was a welcome change. We even went grocery shopping without coats yesterday!
Well, we had a very busy week this week. Monday started out early when I got a call from someone in the ward that said a lady in our ward had been in the ER all morning and her new baby was sick. I was the only one available to help. When I got to the hospital they admitted the baby for RSV- it was like dejavu. So, I took her 2 year old son and then me and another friend cleaned her house. The baby was released the next day and is well. It brought back lots of memories of when Alayna was in the hospital...
On Tuesday, Tyler and Alayna got sick with the yucky cold that has been going around. So, Tyler stayed home from school on Wednesday. Kayla ended up getting sick as well and stayed home on Friday. The funny thing was that we hooked up the nasal aspirator so when Alayna’s nose gets stuffed, she just runs into the laundry room and vacuums it out herself. I think they are all feeling better today.
On Thursday we were supposed to have the missionaries over, but cancelled because of sick kids. We still took them dinner though- I went with pizza to be safe!
Saturday was a very busy day. They had an Activity Day Recognition breakfast at 9:00am. People here do everything so early and don’t get that we don’t do mornings. In fact, our family should have t-shirts that say "We don’t do mornings!" But we had to go since it was for the girls. We even played a fun game with them- kinda like the newlywed game, but for parents and daughters. It was fun. Then Bob and I went and did all the grocery shopping and a trip to Sam’s. We should never go on Saturdays- way too busy! We spent the day cleaning the house, doing loads of laundry, cleaning out and washing the cars, etc. That evening, Kayla’s friend, Olivia, was baptized so we went to that. I took the kids so Bob could stay home alone for once. He made us teriyaki shish kabobs that were awesome!
Today the kids were so sweet and were giving me massages. Marisa was doing my feet, Tyler my legs, Alayna my back, and Kayla my shoulders. It was heavenly. The only things that could have made it better would be a machine that dropped kitkat bites into my mouth every 30 seconds!!
We had our share of disasters this week. Alayna dumped ALL of Bob’s new body wash into the bath. It was the only lid I didn’t check. It turned the water blue and then when I turned on the jacuzzi we had bubbles through the roof! Tyler used his "karate moves" to punch all the bubbles down. She also decorated the walls with a red crayon she happened to find (we have all writing utensils locked up). We found that goo-gone is the best thing to take it off! But the award for "worst disaster for the week", can only be blamed on me and Bob. While eating dinner I saw a billowing cloud of smoke coming off the stove. I ran over to find that he had put the 2 (count them, 2) plastic lids for microwave on the burner that I had accidently left on. It made a huge mess. There were strings of plastic everywhere and it smelt awful!!! Now we have to get new lids.
This week Marisa has an orchestra concert and at the end of this month, she will be doing a recital where she gets to play her own piece as a solo. Pretty exciting! Tyler’s class gets to take a trip to Petco to get fish for their new aquarium. Always lots of fun things going on. We hope all of you have a great week and stay in touch- hint hint!!
Love-Kris