Well as I was looking over past posts, I thought that I need to get my act together and start posting about our lives again. I don't have any pictures yet. Let's face the fact that I hardly take any photos at all. I am going to rectify that situation in the next couple of months. But probably more like years.
Quick update:
Jeff is still working at Spillman and is loving that. I love how hard he works for us. This weekend we are going on an extended holiday vacation and my parents have been kind enough to watch our kids so it will be just us.
Last summer Jeff and I went to a basketball officiating camp where we both had a wonderful time. Half way through the camp the evaluators were telling Jeff that I should become a high school official. So after a couple of months of deciding if I could do it. I made the jump and became a high school official. So the last couple of months have been extremely busy for my family. There are some weeks where I am gone 5-6 days of the week officiating. I do love it and the money has been a nice little bonus. My chapter of the UHSAA officials voted me Rookie of the Year for this season. I was shocked and it made me feel that all of my hard work was not for nothing.
Another change that has come is that Jeff and I are no longer in the Primary. We got released when I got put in as the Relief Society Secretary. I am busier during the week, but I love organizing and making little handout so I am having a lot of fun. I am still in the stake and TCC Young Women sports, but I will be released at the end of the basketball season in the next couple of weeks from the Stake. Which will be nice because I am way to busy for it.
Dallin is now in the fourth grade and he is doing wonderfully. The first term he actually only got 1 C and the rest were As. This last term he pulled up the C to an A. He is really excited that he got all As. He finally doesn't fight us whenever he has to read for homework. The school signed them up for something Razkids and that has helped him read books.
Isaac is in first grade and he loves it as well. He isn't as social as Dallin, but he does have his moments when he bothers the kids next to him. He is a wonderful learner and can do math at a drop of a hat. He is a wonderful boy and will turn 8 this year. We hope that he chooses to be baptized. In the summer and the fall both of the boys chose to play soccer. In last spring both of them loved playing. Isaac more than Dallin. In fact Isaac scored a couple of goals. In the fall Isaac moved up to where he actually had to play positions and it wasn't as fun for him. We also didn't like that it took up all of the Saturdays in the Spring so that we couldn't go hiking.
Kaden is a joy. We still have a hard time not referring to him as a baby. In fact he calls himself baby. We are trying to break him of that, but it is just so cute when he calls himself a baby. He loves to play with balls and thinks that every ball is a soccer ball. He really liked to watch his older brothers play soccer. We got him his own tiny soccer ball and we would take it to the games and watch him kick it around on the side line.
The Sunday before Thanksgiving while we were visiting Jeff's parents, Kaden decided to play on the couch and he ended up breaking his collar bone. It was quite an adventure to get it diagnosed. It took 1 emergency room visit and an instacare visit to finally get it diagnosed. We then took him to a specialist after Thanksgiving and Kaden had to wear a brace for about a month. He was such a trooper. It was really sad to see him so miserable. There were a couple of days where Jeff and I just held him. We love that little man. He is all healed and back to his tricks of falling off the arm of the couch to the middle of couch. That boy will never learn.
Well I think I highlighted a couple of the best points. I know this was suppose to be quick but who can really make almost a year's worth of stuff into a paragraph. I will be back with more pictures and more explanations.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Basketball
This year Dallin participated in Jr. Jazz again. It took a little motivation but he finally agreed. I am so happy that he did. This year he had a blast. Dallin was put on a team that was made up mostly of people from our ward so he knew a lot of the people on the team. Dallin has always been a little on the short side and being on a 1st/2nd grade team it was no exception. So Jeff and I decided that we would focus most of our training at home on how he handles the ball.
At the first of the year Dallin would use two hands most of the time that he dribbled the ball. We kept telling Dallin that you are suppose to only use one hand at a time and he practised a lot in our basement and he got better. He will still use two hands every once in awhile, but he is still doing wonderful. The next thing that we worked on is that when you are moving you need to dribble that ball. In 1st/2nd grade they don't call travels or double dribbles, but they will tell someone that they have to dribble the ball. That concept was really easy for Dallin to pick up on. We started noticing in his games that Dallin was one of the best dribblers of the ball. He doesn't run when he dribbles, but he is doing it correctly for the most part and we could not be more proud. Jeff and I are thinking about saving up and buying an adjustable basketball hoop for outside for either the summer or next fall to help Dallin with his shooting.
I kept forgeting to take my camera when we would go to his games, so I just have the picture that we paid for from the program so here they are:
Also, this year I helped out with scorkeeping a couple of games. That is also one of the reasons that I forgot to bring the camera is because I would either have games right before or after the games. It was hard to try and get the games that I wanted to scorekeep and go to Dallin's games at the same time. But I had a lot of fun and did 22 games over 9 weeks. Another bad thing is that it got me thinking about the times that I would help out at Utah State with their basketball and I miss it. But at least I get to do a little bit of what I love to do.
At the first of the year Dallin would use two hands most of the time that he dribbled the ball. We kept telling Dallin that you are suppose to only use one hand at a time and he practised a lot in our basement and he got better. He will still use two hands every once in awhile, but he is still doing wonderful. The next thing that we worked on is that when you are moving you need to dribble that ball. In 1st/2nd grade they don't call travels or double dribbles, but they will tell someone that they have to dribble the ball. That concept was really easy for Dallin to pick up on. We started noticing in his games that Dallin was one of the best dribblers of the ball. He doesn't run when he dribbles, but he is doing it correctly for the most part and we could not be more proud. Jeff and I are thinking about saving up and buying an adjustable basketball hoop for outside for either the summer or next fall to help Dallin with his shooting.
I kept forgeting to take my camera when we would go to his games, so I just have the picture that we paid for from the program so here they are:
Also, this year I helped out with scorkeeping a couple of games. That is also one of the reasons that I forgot to bring the camera is because I would either have games right before or after the games. It was hard to try and get the games that I wanted to scorekeep and go to Dallin's games at the same time. But I had a lot of fun and did 22 games over 9 weeks. Another bad thing is that it got me thinking about the times that I would help out at Utah State with their basketball and I miss it. But at least I get to do a little bit of what I love to do.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Biometric Testing
Jeff's work started last year by promoting healthy living. Last yeat they just wanted their employees to participate. I guess they didn't get as big as turn out as they did last year, because they have decided to include the spouses and to give away a cruise. What they are doing is that once a month they are going to have something that you can do i.e. count calories, exercise, biometric testing. If the employee does that item he gets so many points, if the spouse does it they get more points. If you collect enough points you get entered into a drawing for a cruise at the end of this. I love this idea mostly because it will help me with my goals to become a healthier individual and a free cruise where everything will be paid for including airfare.
So they started out the year with having people sign up to do a biometric test. This test tests your blood pressure, body weight, body Mass index, cholestrol, and gluclose. I was a little nervous as what my results would be going into this, because I have never had one of these test done and didn't know if I was going to be on the high side. Before this test you have to fast for 12 hours, which isn't so bad considering that we did the test at 9:15. I took the test and everything was normal. My glucose was under what is should have been and the medical person who gave me the results really liked that I had the excellent result with my good cholestrol. I was really happy with the results and it made me think that all the times that I don't put salt or try to eat better in the last couple of weeks has been paying off.
The only thing that was not in the normal range, was my BMI. It should be anywhere between 20-29, and mine is at 31. So I guess I still have some work cut out for me to be able to get into a healthier range of fat. But so far so good and I will continue to eat healty and get in some workouts so that I can keep being as healthy as I am and hopefully lose some weight. (Just so you know Jeff's wasn't as good as mine, but we are working on getting it to a better result)
So they started out the year with having people sign up to do a biometric test. This test tests your blood pressure, body weight, body Mass index, cholestrol, and gluclose. I was a little nervous as what my results would be going into this, because I have never had one of these test done and didn't know if I was going to be on the high side. Before this test you have to fast for 12 hours, which isn't so bad considering that we did the test at 9:15. I took the test and everything was normal. My glucose was under what is should have been and the medical person who gave me the results really liked that I had the excellent result with my good cholestrol. I was really happy with the results and it made me think that all the times that I don't put salt or try to eat better in the last couple of weeks has been paying off.
The only thing that was not in the normal range, was my BMI. It should be anywhere between 20-29, and mine is at 31. So I guess I still have some work cut out for me to be able to get into a healthier range of fat. But so far so good and I will continue to eat healty and get in some workouts so that I can keep being as healthy as I am and hopefully lose some weight. (Just so you know Jeff's wasn't as good as mine, but we are working on getting it to a better result)
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