Ward Ski Night

Saturday night was our annual ski night up at Brighton Ski Resort. We had over 60 kids come which is fantastic. It was such a great night. The weather was good and so was the food and company. We did end up with one mishap - one of the girls broke her hand.

Smoke Alarm.......False Alarm

Last night we went to bed and I was hoping for a good nights sleep since I haven't slept well at all because of the strep throat....and at 2:09 our smoke alarms went off--the ones that were put in when our house was built....I even felt our door before I went out....SO we went around not really knowng what to do there definitely wasn't a fire or smoke just COLD -- I turn the heat down quite a bit during the night. So about 8 minutes later they stopped. We went back to bed trying to get back to sleep when at 2:50 the alarms went off again. SO this time AJ went around and disconnected 7 alarms -- and the last one was in our room. It would not stop ringing after he had pulled it out so I took it into our laundry room and put towels over it and shut the door. I slept right through AJ getting up and getting ready for work and I finally woke up at 7:20. So I went into the laundry room and it was still ringing that shrill ring and I noticed that our washing machine and been unplugged -- I knew I hadn't done that well it turns out that when AJ was leaving for work he heard that noise and thought it was the machine I guess he didn't realize that I had put the alarm in there and put towels over to muffle the sound....Anyway I took out the battery out and it stopped...but now should I put them all back in and wait to see what happens tonight....We actually have 4 other alarms that aren't connected to them. So maybe I'll wait a few days.

Happy New Year........Goodbye...... Countdown.......Strep Throat

Everyone came over for New Year's Eve. I made a dinner for those that could come for that. We watched the Utes basketball game and then played Rock Band. I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve....It was also time for all of us to say goodbye to Meg, Ty and Judson. They left New Years day morning.... It's also my countdown of when they will be done with school in Virginia. Only 16 months to go....I started getting a sore throat that night and all day yesterday - then last night it was really bad so I went to Instacare this morning and sure enough I have strep throat. I just hope nobody else gets it, especially Carter.