Ten Happenings of the Past Week

I know Jenny will want to post about her trip home,, but here are some I can share........

1. We had the aunts over for dinner Sunday night. We ate Cafe Rio and had a good visit. Unfortunately it was cut short by freezing rain and we got the news of President Hinckleys passing.
2. Jenny brought us this beautiful nativity from Mexico from her and Logan:)3. Richard and I went to see "Riverdance" (Irish dancing) on Friday night. Jenny and the boys had a Harry Potter movie night while we were gone, and they all fell asleep early.
4.Jenny and I had a chick flick night.....but I fell asleep this time. We finished the movie the next day.
5.We went clothes shopping for Jennys birthday and we had a great time!! Now that she's an old married lady it's much more fun going shopping together:)
6. It was wonderful having Jennys beautiful voice join ours in singing hymns before scripture and prayer.....it sounded much prettier and we actually had piano accompaniment for a change.
7. Happy 22nd birthday Jennifer.....I shared my labor story with her today. She loves to hear it.
8. Jenny finally made it home tonight after missing her plane on Tuesday because she was in the emergency room at the hospital. Southwest Airlines is an absolutely wonderful airline. They not only changed her flight but didn't charge her the fare difference:)
9. Jon testified before the House via telephone on Monday as his AP Government class submitted a bill on Washington State History. As soon as I figure out what to do I will post the link where you can listen to him.
10. Jon got his acceptance into BYU Idaho today!!!

Married One Returns for Visit.....

Jenny arrived safely Wednesday morning. We are enjoying a nice visit. Last night we played games with the boys.....tonight Jenny and I went to the movies with Jessell, her sister Hayley and mom Jill...my friend of many years. Tommorrow we're going to lunch with Richards Sisters and family and will surprise the grandparents. Richard and I are going to see Riverdance (Irish dancing) tomorrow night so Jenny and the boys will spend some time together. Will keep you posted.....(I know Jenny's blogging too)!!

Josh the Genius.......

Well...at least I think he's a genius!! Here is a picture of Josh at the Honor Roll assembly a few weeks ago. It is his very first Honor Roll assembly in Middle school. He's made the honor roll 2 other times, but it was on the last tri mester so they didn't have an assembly. He has worked very hard this year and we're very pleased with his efforts!!
Here are a few of his Lego creations. He's been building a whole city and I just noticed he snapped these pictures while I was resting yesterday (I'm sick with a cold)
He's added so much detail inside his buildings....here you can see the little chairs and tables, etc....!!

TORNADO IN VANCOUVER!!!

We had a bit of excitment here at 12:30PM this afternoon. As I got in my car about 12:15 to go back to work after lunch, I heard thunderstorms overhead. At first I thought it was a plane, because our house has a flight path over it. I got to work and the thunder was getting louder and there was a huge grayish cloud with black all around it. The lights in our classroom flickered and we went out to get the kids off the busses. I had 2 kids with me and one of the bus drivers said she had just had a report over her radio that were were under tornado watch. Well, we've had them before, and after having lived in Texas I knew it could last awhile. I handed off my kids to Audrey, the other staff assistant, as the secretary came over the intercom telling us to get all the kids into the main building into the hallway. I helped check the other buses to make sure all the kids were off. My last bus #24 pulled into the drive and we all hurried to get our kids as the secretary kept coming over the intercom....each time more adamant that we get in NOW.
We were inside the hallway for about 30 minutes until we got the clear to go to our classes. It was a bit interesting because we are in a cluster of schools...4 schools altogether. The intercoms were saying to get all kids out of portables immediatley. Well the trouble you see is that our entire school is portables. Our secretary was asking the district on the phone what they expected us to do since we were all portables. As we sat there they were getting reports that the tornado had touched down in 3 places. We were sitting ducks! We were safe though, but it has been an exciting day!!
Josh came home and was so excited about it all. Vancouver had a tornado touch down in 1972 that was much worse and 8 or 9 people died. There have been no reported injuries from this one.

JON....THE GUY ON THE GO

Well, Jenny has been waiting for me to blog about her family. I tell her we are boring, but she doesn't care. So I am posting about her brother JON.....Here's what he's been up to....Jon came home on New Years Eve after being with friends and before we went to bed we were locking up and lo and behold, his car was once again papered. They must have followed him home. He asks me WHY do I keep taking pictures of everything??? BECAUSE I CAN!!!
Jon is a guy on the go....When he's not with one group of friends, he's usually with the young men in his quorum, or with the kids in his government class preparing speeches. This Friday he is hoping to get the first signatures for his Eagle Project signed off. He is currently up in Olympia Washington, our Capital, to compete in the State "We the People" competition. It something he is involved in through his AP Government and Politics class. The competition is Wednesday, then Thursday he will be meeting with some of our state representatives and senators and will tour the Supreme Court with one of the Wash. State Justices. His teacher, Patti McMaster, has taught for many years and these are some of her colleagues and previous students They will have a picture taken on the Senate floor. I wish I could have gone to see him give his speeches, but I needed to be home to see Josh get an award for honor roll (his first). The story behind this picture is the reason they wrote Happy Birthday isn't because it's his birthday, but because he's taking after his Dad, always telling people it's his birthday (even though it's not)....so it's a joke:) GOOD LUCK JON!!!