President's Day Weekend!

Thursday night after interpreting at SUU I brought Jaiden back home with me. Then Jase and Ellen came down later that night. Jase had a presentation at Utah Tech University on Friday and also on Tuesday. Friday I worked all day. Saturday Jase and Ellen went with Rick to the Parade of Homes while I watched the boys. We enjoyed a nice walk to the park. That night we had a nice family dinner and Jared came over and joined us. Sunday we all went to church. Jaiden was supposed to sing Sunday, but I bumped her a week since another college student was in town and it worked out for her to sing this week. Monday Jenna and I brought the boys back to the park for a walk. Monday night Jase and Ellen went to Sakura while Rick and I watched the boys. I was glad that we had nice weather for their weekend because the next week brought cold and snow! 

President's Day Weekend

Shane and Adria came down over President's Day weekend for Adria's soccer tournament. It was fun to have them! Thankfully the weather was lovely! I was especially grateful that it wasn't too cold this weekend because our furnace totally quit on us! We had it checked out on Friday because it had been making a loud awful noise the past few days. They told us that it was really old and torn apart and that we would need a new one -- for $2200.00!! So that was a major bummer, but thankfully we have an emergency fund! It is the original furnace since we purchased the house, so it is 33 years old. It is time for a new one! But with it being a weekend they were not able to come replace in until the next Tuesday -- just in time for the dips in temperature!  

Janika and Brandon also came down for the long weekend and so we enjoyed spending time with them also. Shane and Adria went straight to Adria's soccer game at Sullivan on Friday night. They said that the traffic coming down here was horrible and it took them an extra hour to get here, causing them to be ten minutes late for the game. Janika and Brandon were late also. We put Janika and Brandon up in Jenna's room and Shane in the studio and Adria and Jenna on the floor in the basement.

Saturday Janika and Brandon went out to lunch with some friends. The kids pretty much just hung out that day. That night we all had yummy Hawaiian Haystacks and then Jenna, me, Janika, and Brandon went to cheer Adria on at her soccer game at Little Valley. It was at night and so it was chilly!

Sunday we all went to church (Jaiden had been suffering from a bad cold for over a week and woke up with pink eye, so she stayed home). We had a nice meal of hamburgers and hotdogs and then Jaiden taught the Come Follow Me lesson. Shane and Adria and Jenna and I went on a hike on the temple quarry trail. It was so beautiful out! Unfortunately Jenna fell on the way back, hitting her leg really hard on a rock. She lost Jaiden's sunglasses somewhere on the hike and felt really bad about that. Other than that, it was a really nice hike! 

After we got back the gang played some Jackbox games and watched a family movie called Luca (not our typical Sunday kind of activities, but we let it go since we had company.) 

Monday morning Jaiden and I went to Adria's game. I thought it would be cold, since it was at 8:30 a.m., but it was really pleasant. In fact I had to take off my coat because I started getting too warm! This was her fourth game and the only won that their team won. At least they were able to win one of them! After we got back Shane and Adria packed up and headed home. The rest of us were able to join in on Janelle's P-Day call and Janika and Brandon headed home soon after! I just realized that besides this hiking picture (which Shane took) I didn't even get any! That isn't like me! (But I will add a few more from Jenna's daily selfie shoot, ha ha!) It was fun to spend time with family this weekend!