Tyler's Choir Concert

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Murphy’s Law and how we proved it this week!

Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". I started out this week with a bang:

And Kris came tumbling after

After choir on Sunday, as we headed to the car, I took a trip. A trip into a hole, down a hill, and ended in a not so graceful face plant! It’s been years since I tripped like that. Thank goodness only Tyler saw me. It would have been worse if other choir members had seen me or if I had broken something. The only thing that was damaged was my pride.

ER

On Sunday, Alayna started complaining that her ear really hurt. I figured it was part of a cold she seemed to have and that it would be ok. She kept complaining and by dinner she was tears. We couldn’t get her to stop crying, so I chose to take her to the ER and I’m glad we did. We were there for quite a while Sunday evening and they said she had a really bad ear infection. They gave her some ear drops that numbed her ear and finally relieved the pain and gave her antibiotics. Why can’t we keep this kid well?

You had a what?

Tyler had a band concert on Monday night. I decided to stay home with Alayna since we had spent the night before at the ER. I received a text from Bob shortly after they left saying that Tyler had 2 solos!! We had no idea and even forgot the video camera. He did a great job! When I asked him why he didn’t tell me he had solos, he said that he knew I needed to be home with Alayna since she was sick and he didn’t want me to feel bad about missing it. Bless his heart!

(Alayna’s playdough caterpillar that she made at activity days)

Squishy Fingers

At basketball practice this week, Tyler totally jammed his finger. It was very swollen and turned black and blue. We had to wrap it up for several days and he had to play a game with it all bruised. His team lost one game this week and won one.

Again?

The night of the band concert Tyler wasn’t feeling well and ended up staying home sick the next two days. He is doing much better.

(Tyler with his new glasses)

Accident

On Wednesday, the girls had Young Women In Excellence. We picked up their friend, Justine, on the way so we went a different way to church. We saw an accident that looked like it had just happened (with no police yet). As we passed it, I noticed that one of the cars had Jessica and Lauren (girls from our ward) in it. So, we stopped to make sure they were ok. I was shocked they weren’t injured because the entire front of their car was bashed in. I think they were scared more than anything. I was so happy they were ok!

The YWIE was beautiful. The talks were great, the décor was beautiful, and the dessert topped it all off.

Great way to spend a day off

So, we didn’t have school Friday for a teacher comp day (But the high school did haha) Anyway, I took Tyler and Alayna to go Christmas shopping and have lunch with Bob. Tyler used some of his birthday money to buy a new tennis racquet, balls, grips, and wristbands. He was so excited! Then I spent the most of the afternoon at the walk-in clinic for me. Oh joy!

Whose idea was that anyway?

So, Kayla was given a huge project this week. They were assigned a battle during WWII, had to make it into an allegory, then create a book by making the story into Dr. Suess rhyme. It had to be at least 16 pages long. She started at noon Saturday and by 8:00 she was in tears because she was so frustrated and tired. I sat down with her at 8:00 and we worked our butts off and finally finished the book at 1AM. I need to have a chat with that teacher who assigned it…

To top it all off

We woke up to snow flurries this morning. I guess winter is officially here  AND this newsletter is late because my computer crashed…

Events that defied Murphy’s law

●Alayna did such a fantastic job at her musical!! She had two speaking parts and memorized them and did a wonderful job on them. She even got an acting part in the school “food fight”. Bob taped the program if anyone wants to see it.

●So Kayla has started “accompanying” our lives with the clarinet. She plays whatever you are doing or the mood. I swear she plays “Jaws” for me….

●Kayla ran the mile run in 7:58 at school. I realized that we must have been holding her back at the Growl Prowl, because she could have easily run it in ½ the time Marisa and I did. I think next year she will leave us in the dust.

●Tyler passed the sacrament for the 1^st time today. He was so nervous but he did great!

●Bob got a new calling today! He is the Teacher’s Quorum Advisor in the YM. I think he will be awesome.

●We opened an email for Alayna. She was feeling left out because she wasn’t getting email. So, in case anyone would like to say hi her new email is: cattygirl@mediacombb.net

●The best part of the week was that the boys in my family must have known it has been a bad week, so yesterday, while I was asleep, they went and bought me flowers and chocolate. I thought that was the sweetest thing ever!

I guess the lesson learned this week for me is to have gratitude for those things in our lives that we sometimes take for granted.

PS- The flour game

Top Ten Cool Happenings This Week

Top Ten Cool Happenings This Week

10. This is more like an “interesting” detail than a cool happening but one of my students asked me a question this week which I have never been asked. “Would you rather be chewed to death by a crocodile or eaten by a kangaroo?”

9. Marisa got contacts this week! She likes them but is still trying to get used to putting them in.

8. Tyler had 2 basketball games this week AND he made a basket!! Whoo hoo!

7. Kayla made the high school bowling team! Go Kayla! Go Kayla! Practices and meets begin this coming week.

6. Tyler began showchoir this week! He is very excited about it because showchoir is very big here and he is just dramatic enough to be awesome at it!

4. Alayna auditioned for and got two speaking parts in her upcoming musical!!

3. Tyler gets new glasses this week. I will take a picture when they arrive.

2. The girls sang in the youth choir for stake conference today!

1. Tyler got to fly a real plane yesterday!!! His scout group went to the Marion airport to work on their aviation badge. A guy from our ward is a pilot and he took them up in the air. Tyler was in the front seat and he let Tyler steer the plane left, right, up, and down. He thought that was incredibly awesome!

Eggs, Ghostbusters, Eskimos, and angels

A freezing trunk or treat

Ok so it is definitely winter! It has been cold and windy (had wind warnings 2 days this week including the day of the trunk or treat.) So, Bob and I said it was way too cold to go trunk-r-treat in the freezing cold weather, so the kids went without us. Crazy kids! The things they will do for candy…anyway, they said it was fun but freezing! I dropped the ball again (Ive been doing that a lot lately!) on Halloween. Alayna was happy to be an egg again (which was great). Tyler wore his “ghostbusters” shirt as his “costume”. He wanted to sit in the back of the car and hand out the candy. He was in Marisa’s car- I wish I could have gotten a picture. Marisa was still trying to come up with something the last minute- I think she ended up being an Eskimo? Kayla just threw on a pair of wings- when people asked her if she was an angel, she said “sure”. If they asked her if she was a fairy, she said, “Sure!” We got a picture of her “flying” in the windstorm.

(Alaynas gold sparkly “egg” hair)

Jibjab

For those of you who haven’t seen this yet, this is our family living it up for Halloween! I was the, um, director…yeah that’s it…

Harts (JibJab)

Concerts

We had two concerts this week. I didn’t get pics but we did videotape. Marisa had her orchestra concert on Tuesday and it was so awesome. (I have to add that they were way better at the William Tell Overture than the summer BYU group). Anyway, it was a fantastic concert and Marisa looked great!

On Thursday, we went to Kayla’s band concert. They played some very fun numbers and she looked so beautiful up there. She is getting so good on that clarinet. I cant wait for her to be a part of the marching band next year! Speaking of which, the marching band had their extravaganza at Kaylas band concert. It was awesome!! They have over 200 members and they played full strength in the small auditorium-Wow! They were VERY entertaining and I think Kayla will just love it!

Red Ribbon Week

The schools always have fun dress up days for Red Ribbon week. So, I took some pics of Alayna.

(Sports Day)

(Crazy Day)

(Hair 1/2 pink and 1/2 gold glitter!)

Temple trip

Tyler had his 1^st temple trip with the girls today. He said he really enjoyed it.

All-state picture

Here is the picture of all the kids from Linn Mar that made all-state. Marisa is in the middle. Btw- they were FREEZING outside!

How to train a dragon on your birthday when your skin is peeling

Happy Birthday Tyler!

Tyler’s official 12^th birthday is tomorrow, but we had the big party Friday night. He had 6 friends over and they played football, had pizza for dinner, watched How to train a dragon (best kids movie ever!), opened presents, ate ice cream cake, and finished off the night playing kick the can. He gave me huge thumbs up at the end so I assume it was successful. They all seemed to all have a great time.

(I officially suck as a mom- been so busy I completely forgot to put his name and Happy Birthday on the cake.  I ALSO forgot to get candles and matches!  What the heck??)

Tyler was sustained today in church, will be ordained tomorrow, and will be able to attend his 1^st ever temple trip on Saturday!

All you really need is skin

There’s a song I remember that says:

You gotta have skin,

All you really need is skin

Skin's the thing that if you've got it outside

It helps keep your insides in

Skin is what you feel at home in

And without it, furthermore

Both your liver and abdomen

Would keep falling on the floor

(And you'd be dressed in your intestine)

(Alan Sherman)

That reminded me a lot of Alayna this week. Her dead skin continued falling off. It was pretty painful for a while as the new tender skin emerged. We had to wrap her hands in ace bandages with heavy duty skin cream each night. One day, she had to wake up Kayla because she couldn’t open the door with her “mitts” to go to the bathroom. It was so sad. She is back up to full strength now with slightly chapped hands, and me….well, I sure am glad for skin!

Football FHE

Our really good friends came up with a fun idea for family home evening. We played football! Well, the husbands and kids played while us moms got to sit back and relax. Then we had fun Halloween sugar cookies. It was such a fun evening- especially watching all 6 kids try to take down Tyler for a tackle!

Mics:

~Yesterday, Marisa auditioned for and MADE ALL STATE ORCHESTRA!!!! Congrats Marisa!

~We girls got haircuts this week. Nothing too drastic, but it was nice to have a girls night out.

Growl Prowl Pics from Yearbook Staff