Transformers ROCK!!

October 25, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tyler and Jonathan!! Tyler is so excited he turned 11 today! We started off the celebration last night watching Transformers 2:Revenge of the Fallen and it TOTALLY rocked!! Tyler is my big movie buddy and we LOVED that movie. We have to watch it again this week because I just know we missed stuff- it was so jam packed full of action. We will have the actual birthday party on Saturday as a huge Halloween/Birthday bash. Should be fun. All are invited.

Well, we our week was full of all 4 kids being sick! I called the dr but they wouldn’t even let us come in. They said the kids had all the symptoms of H1N1 so just keep them at home and call if we couldn’t get their fevers down. Our school district had 10% of the kids absent this week, one school had 25%! We had over 13 teachers out sick this week. Its crazy.

We finally got Marisa to start feeling better, although she still has that rotten cough. She started a new quarter this week so it was really good she was feeling better. She had such a busy week. On Wednesday, the youth had a huge bonfire evening (poor Kayla was sick and missed it) Then Marisa had an all day clinic up at UNI (University of Northern Iowa) with her symphony orchestra. They had a huge concert that was webcast (hoping some of you were able to see it). She would love to hear any comments you had about it. Her conductor wrote an incredible piece. It was a fantastic concert and it brought tears to my eyes to see the progress she has made from 5th grade only 5 years ago to being in the top symphony orchestra. We are so proud! Then she left at 6:30 AM Saturday morning for All state which took all day. She was devastated she didn’t make it, but I just KNOW she will make it next year. She missed out on a whole week of rehearsals because she was so sick. She has another concert this Tuesday night. Very busy girl.

Kayla missed the ENTIRE week of school. She was so sick but it was much more a very severe cold than the flu. She missed out on the bonfire and stuff at school, so she was pretty bummed. But it came in handy for me because she was able to stay home with Alayna when she got sick so I could still go to work. Kayla spent lots of time making up homework. For science she had to create an animal and its habitat and she made a Wammoth and it rocks! If you wanna know more about it, you have to ask her! She even has a picture. She went on the ward temple trip yesterday to Nauvoo. She said they had a great trip and she even got a caramel apple at the Fudge shop. She made an awesome pillow in FCS. I will try and post a picture. She is really talented at sewing- wonder where she got that from? Not me!

Tyler turned 11- whoohoo! He is no longer the only 10 year old in the middle school! He missed 4 days of school from being sick. He was knocked out flat. I cant tell you how many hours of TV he must have watched! He had his last pack meeting for cub scouts this week. Unfortunately the cub master forgot so they didn’t have the bridge or any eagle scouts to welcome him. I am so sad that they made it a sad experience for Tyler. Oh well, 11 year old scouts, here he comes! Tyler starts intramural basketball at school next week and his regular basketball with the city. He will be another busy body. He loves to cook. For his birthday dinner he asked for crepes, bacon, and scrambled eggs and he can make them all. You’d be proud gma- he can actually cook the crepes too! We stuff them with nutella, strawberries, and bananas!

Alayna is finally feeling well too. She missed 3 days of school including Snazzy Snack day and gymnastics which REALLY made her sad. She is really looking forward to trick or treating. She is going to be an angel this year and we promise to take lots of pictures. We are going to make homemade root beer with dry ice for witches brew. Haven’t figured out the rest of the décor yet, but working on it.

Bob and I haven’t gotten sick yet, but we could very well be circling the drain. We have been downing the vitamins and airborne and keeping our fingers crossed we will survive. I am VERY much looking forward to New Moon coming out! I already have my “Team Jacob” t-shirt (yes, I am a HUGE werewolf fan!) and I am an “awesomely cool teacher” because I have a poster posted in my classroom (I still need to get the werewolf poster though). Some days I just rock! We go November 27!!