Blatant Plagiarism - Family Update

I should work on keeping up this blog better, in the mean time, here is a chunk of an e-mail I wrote to a missionary. I have just copied and pasted two paragraphs for your reading enjoyment:

North Ogden is treating us pretty well. Jared has a new job working as a head accountant for a company that owns a bunch of restaurants all over the US (Burger King, Chilis, El Pollo Loco, etc.) He's having lots of fun with this new job and we're hoping that it will be a bit more steady and long-lasting than the ski resort/real estate job we moved up here for was. Jared is also teaching Elders Quorum. I'm still mostly doing the stay-at-home-mom thing but I volunteer at the schools and am able to go to the temple about once a week and do some genealogy projects when the kids are all gone for the day. I teach Gospel Doctrine, I'm the Wolf den leader for Cub Scouts, and I teach family history classes in the ward every few months.

Krista, Kylie, and Andrew all have parts in the big Nutcracker production in Ogden the first week of December. All five kids are taking dance and the three youngest are still taking piano lessons (we miss having your grandma for their teacher!)

Krista works at Cafe Rio as a cashier and just got an award for being the employee with the most excellent reviews online in the area, although most people referred to her as "the blonde cashier" ha ha. Kylie has a job as a teacher's aide at the dance school so she helps with the preschool age dance class, she's been enjoying their pint size antics.

We really enjoyed conference. We went down to Pleasant Grove for Sunday's sessions to spend the day with my family. We were very sad to hear about Elder Hales. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to the Priesthood session talks yet, I'll probably wait to read them in the Ensign. The talks from womens conference were really good and probably my favorite talks from this general conference. The mad, sad, glad talk Pres Uchtdorf gave was really good, your family has always been such an example of the glad and the best of what it means to live Christlike lives. Jared was able to go to Priesthood session in the conference center with some friends. He said he sat by the door where the general authorities come and go and so he got to see them all from just a few feet away so that was cool.

Black and White Photo Challenge

So there was a thing on facebook to put up seven black and white photos, one each day for a week, to show your life.
Here are mine.

First Day of School 2017

Jessica 2nd, Andrew 3rd, April 5th

Krista 12th (Senior Year, Woot!)

Kylie 8th

Krista and the junior prom

Aren't they cute? Her date is Nate, a friend she's known for years, he came up from Orem. He's a foot or so taller than when I last saw him. They had a great time.

Keeper of the Privy Purse

Jared just started a new job and it's sort of at Burger King.
Yup, I had that same reaction when he came home one day and said he needed his white shirt clean for the next day's interview at Burger King.
This is actually kind of a cool job.
Jared is working for a corporation that own hundreds of restaurants all over the US. Many of them are Burger Kings, a bunch of them are Chilis, Popeyes, and some other ones. He's one of their corporate accountants so he does audits, payroll, etc. for the company. The corporation has a head office here in Ogden.
Jared has been working for them for almost two weeks now and he's very happy with the job and the people there.
You may be asking 'what happened to the ski resorts?', well, one ski resort was unable to get the financing they had been planning on for their expansion so they gave up the plans and let the people involved go. Jared did a bit of bookkeeping for them but they no longer needed a CPA. He switched to another ski resort that was trying to straighten out some problems in their finances and spent a few months fixing them up at which point they thanked him very nicely and sent their nice tidy accounts to an accounting firm on the east coast somewhere.
Jared then got a job working tax support for Intuit (Turbotax) as a sort of dial-a-CPA that you get sent to if you've got issues with your taxes. It paid well and was interesting but they only keep people on for this job for a few months of the year.
I was just starting to look for a part-time job myself when the King came through for us.
This week Jared was able to go to the opening of a brand new Burger King in Heber City, UT and he got a kick out of it.
So, after moving up here to work at a ski resort, then staying to work at another ski resort, we are pretty much settled in for a job at Burger King and feeling pretty positive about it.

4th Grade Puppet Book Report - April

Went to Grandma for lessons on sewing and design. Look how cute they turned out!
 They look just like in the book.

Krista - Sweethearts Dance at WHS

I saw SLEEZE triangles and other 4th grade geometry

Thank You to April for this awesome piece of homework humor. I'm not sure how to spell isosceles triangle either.

The Turning Point - SNOW 2017

It's supposed to start warming up and we're getting some melting so here are some pictures to entertain us with memories of the snow this year.



The driveway pile was up to the top of the car, it's just starting to shrink. It will be nice to see what's coming as we back out.



The tall thing is the mailbox. The orange bucket is the approved substitute mailbox. To be approved it just has to be labeled "US MAIL" some of the things people are using are pretty entertaining. Delivering the mail at this point has got to be a struggle.



The mail carriers aren't the only ones struggling. This is what the fire department did so they can find the hydrants if they need to. Red paint on the 5 foot+ tall pile of snow. The hydrants here actually have little poles with flags sticking up from them so they are visible under a normal pile of snow but this is apparently Plan B.

Dear 2017 Deer

There's a small herd of maybe 8 - 12 dear showing up to hang out in my backyard most nights.

SNOW this year is getting serious

One of the neighbor's driveway piles. Height on the lawns is somewhere above my knees.

Sledding Weather

 

April lasted the longest