What’s happening?

Time is passing swiftly by. Mainly so I don’t forget … life is really hectic these days!!

Family

• Ward Temple Day – the temple is 1.5 hours away in Columbia. We all drove down & enjoyed spending time together as a family & with the ward. Scott, Chris, & Ryan went early & did baptisms. Jared & I came down later & stayed outside. I took pictures while Scott did an endowment session.
• We still enjoy our frog Pacman. He likes mice called “hoppers”. They are rather cute, but he is very satisfied after eating one.
• See the compost? We’re trying to enrich our garden. Lesson learned? Hamburger buns have so many preservatives in them that they do not break down, even after a full month! Yuck.
• White chocolate cupcakes – Jenna made cupcakes with a friend for EV’s baptism. These were not your ordinary cupcakes - they were delicious!
• I am totally in love with The Food Nanny Cookbook. Every single solitary recipe that we’ve ever tried has been wonderful. In fact, they are always best in class. I love the idea of sitting down to dinner with our family each night. We are not perfect but we are really trying.
• We hosted the semi-annual General Conference Sunday morning breakfast. I was delighted that Sunday came when I realized that I was never going to make curtains out of the fabric that I bought 7-8 years ago. Instead, I made tablecloths by cutting 6.5’ lengths of fabric! You cannot see the new tablecloths – just the round Christmas cloth. (We like giving every holiday an equal opportunity all year long.)

Scott

• Busy at work with the same project.
• Seemingly refreshed from a longggg weekend skiing in Utah with friends
• Traveling to Clemson a few times a month for church meetings
• Helping at Ryan’s & Jared’s baseball practices
• Preparing for the Nashville Marathon at the end of April
• Getting lost on a long run & ending up near the airport.

Jenna

• Trying to clean off the desk, finish taxes, & drowning in paperwork
• Exercising – step aerobics, spinning, Pilates reformer, running, whatever sounds good that day
• Contemplating the Nashville Half Marathon – swinging quickly towards not doing it because I haven’t gone much further than 6 miles since early March
• Running kids to school x 3, baseball practices & games x 2, piano lessons, Cub Scouts, young mens, etc. (Scott helps A LOT!)
• Jared’s team mom – concessions schedule, snack schedule, etc. Not hard, just one more thing.
• YSA Sunday school , family night, & dances.

Chris

• Homework, homework, homework.
• Multi-page paper for college psychology
• Running – mostly finished up physical therapy (except he didn’t get the t-shirt) – bruised meniscus – hip seems better too
• Taking the ACT – math was easy (lots of TRIG)
• Starting drivers training – doing much better. He drove to CLT with me during spring break. It was quite the adventure!

Ryan

• Baseball, baseball, baseball. He is playing on a travel ball team with his team from last summer.
• Piano lessons  (begrudgingly) – he plays well enough that sometimes Pacman (the frog) sings along.
• BASKETBALL – we bought a hoop from a neighbor & the kids play A LOT!
• Getting taller & filling out. He is getting very muscular.
• Running – not as much since we got the basketball hoop. However, he ran a 50 second 400-meter lap at school. The teachers were so surprised that they asked him if he had cut across the middle of the field. He is speedy.

Jared

• Injured his arm. He was vacuuming inside of Scott’s trunk the other day when he happened to get his arm smashed by the trunk. I was pretty sure it was broken – it just looked misshapen & even felt crooked. We went to the ER, got in a room right away, & watched Toy Story 2 & Happy Feet until we got the results. His arm is still bruised but he is much better.
• Playing baseball for the Rattlers. He likes to play 2nd base & catcher. His coach gives him drills to help him with his hitting.
• Totally into reading the Percy Jackson series. Currently on The Titan’s Curse. They are a little difficult but he really enjoys them.
• Teaching himself how to play chess & playing checkers & chess with his brothers whenever they are nice enough.
• Pinewood Derby – came in 2nd place to his best friend Cody. He was a great sport & was happy that Cody got an award too.
• Cub Scouts – his troop went hiking at a local lake. He has wonderful scout leaders.
• Sweet, happy, smiley – a joyful little boy.

Happy life!