Updated some of the pictures. Moved a few things around. Checked on all the blogs my friends used to post on but it looks like everyone has moved to Instagram and other even newer and fancier things. Anyway, just passing through for a minute. Thought I'd say hi and tidy up a bit. :)
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Saturday, March 6, 2021
4 Mar 2021
I got my second COVID shot.
I'm hoping that means there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It's been a crazy year for sure!
Everyone is doing pretty well.
Jared is still liking his job out in Roy,UT at Stone and Company doing taxes and accounting.
I'm still working for Weber School District.
Krista is at the University of Utah and living in Salt Lake and dating Ben.
Kylie is a Junior at Weber High and an assistant manager at Burger King.
April is in the 8th grade at North Ogden Junior High and is doing great.
Andrew is in the 6th grade and is doing awesome in Chinese and dance and piano.
Jessica is in the 5th grade and is also doing awesome in Chinese and dance and piano.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Do people even blog anymore?
I haven't posted for a long time so I thought I'd update a little bit.
Jared- Just bought a small CPA/tax firm in Roy,UT. Look for their page on facebook: Stone & Company (formerly K R Colby & Associates). He is still doing some consulting work for Meridian (the Burger King people) but was pretty unhappy there with all the changes and problems they were having and is excited for this new adventure. He's been putting some time into the lawn now that we've got the sprinkler system all fixed and I have to say, I'm really happy with his efforts there to get out of his comfort zone a little. I know he hates yard work but I'm hoping as it starts to look a lot better he'll be able to enjoy it. He already bought a small grill for the back patio and has made us some delicious hamburgers and hotdogs along with tasty s'mores. The kids wanted a fire pit so it's a compromise, this grill doubles as a portable fire pit if you switch the top parts out.
Amy (that's me!)- I'm working for Two Rivers High School in Ogden. I started looking for a part-time job when Jessica turned seven and it took me a while and a whole lot of job applications to find something. This job has been perfect for me. I work with the teen parent program and for most of the school day I help run a small daycare for the babies of the teenage parents. Our goal is to help the teens to get their high school diploma and find resources to help them achieve better things for themselves and their family. We had a lot of graduates this year and I'm seriously going to miss those babies and their moms and dads.
I've also been working on the yard. I've removed a few bushes, cleaned up flowerbeds, pulled a million weeds out of the lawn and replanted some bits of sod from here to there, dug up sprinkler heads, and generally tried to figure out what the heck I'm doing. I've got a whole bunch of how to videos saved to my Pinterest board which I've name R U a Weed? For a city kid who grew up in apartments and seems to have a black thumb with indoor plants I feel like I'm making progress with the yard.
I still read a lot. Check out my Goodreads for where I'm at with that.
I play Roblox with my kids sometimes. I've gotten really good at Work at a Pizza Place and this weekend they talked me into playing Battle Royale Simulator which seems to have very little point but there are piñata llamas, it doesn't seem to be fair, and everyone dies, so it's pretty much like life.
Krista- Just finished her second year at the University of Utah. She made the dean's list. She's got a couple of really good scholarships. She's still majoring in Business. She just moved to a little studio apartment in Salt Lake, this time with no roommates. She works at the PF Changs in Salt Lake. She's dating Ben. She's into running these days and still does some dancing but you would have to ask her about her thoughts and plans in that area.
Kylie- She'll be a Junior at Weber High in the fall. She keeps a solid 4.0 while working two jobs and dancing five or six days a week. She's got plans and goals and is doing awesome. She works as an assistant dance teacher at Julie Moffit Ballet School and was just promoted at the Burger King where she's worked for a couple of years now. She's in the future educators program at Weber High and is planning on going into teaching. I think currently she's thinking elementary school. She's got a great group of friends and lots of opinions on everything.
April- 8th grade in the fall. She's still my quiet one unless she's yelling at her younger siblings who interfere with her quiet time. She's been the best at social distancing during Covid 19. She spent most of her time in her room watching TV and chatting with her friends online. She would come up for food and drinks and to do her laundry. She's the first of my children to pass me in height. She enjoys basketball and has played with the Young Women in the basketball games at church. She'd like to play on the Junior High team. She's started a couple of murals on the walls in her bedroom and got a henna tattoo on her arm this weekend. She's very creative.
Andrew- 6th grade in the fall. Still learning Chinese. Loves to dance. He's into ocean things and currently wants to be a marine biologist when he grows up. We redid his room with some ocean decor. He loves playing games online with his friends. He's super skinny and he's growing like a weed.
Jessica- 5th grade in the fall. She's still my cheerful chatterbox. She's funny and smart and snarky with overflowing amounts of energy. She dances and did Nutcracker for the first time this last December and did really well. She likes to play games online and watch random Youtube channels about people with quintuplets and people who take strange food test challenges. She's interested in everything and bounces through life with a spark of happy enthusiasm. She's also learning Chinese.
Okay people, there's the update for now.
Jared- Just bought a small CPA/tax firm in Roy,UT. Look for their page on facebook: Stone & Company (formerly K R Colby & Associates). He is still doing some consulting work for Meridian (the Burger King people) but was pretty unhappy there with all the changes and problems they were having and is excited for this new adventure. He's been putting some time into the lawn now that we've got the sprinkler system all fixed and I have to say, I'm really happy with his efforts there to get out of his comfort zone a little. I know he hates yard work but I'm hoping as it starts to look a lot better he'll be able to enjoy it. He already bought a small grill for the back patio and has made us some delicious hamburgers and hotdogs along with tasty s'mores. The kids wanted a fire pit so it's a compromise, this grill doubles as a portable fire pit if you switch the top parts out.
Amy (that's me!)- I'm working for Two Rivers High School in Ogden. I started looking for a part-time job when Jessica turned seven and it took me a while and a whole lot of job applications to find something. This job has been perfect for me. I work with the teen parent program and for most of the school day I help run a small daycare for the babies of the teenage parents. Our goal is to help the teens to get their high school diploma and find resources to help them achieve better things for themselves and their family. We had a lot of graduates this year and I'm seriously going to miss those babies and their moms and dads.
I've also been working on the yard. I've removed a few bushes, cleaned up flowerbeds, pulled a million weeds out of the lawn and replanted some bits of sod from here to there, dug up sprinkler heads, and generally tried to figure out what the heck I'm doing. I've got a whole bunch of how to videos saved to my Pinterest board which I've name R U a Weed? For a city kid who grew up in apartments and seems to have a black thumb with indoor plants I feel like I'm making progress with the yard.
I still read a lot. Check out my Goodreads for where I'm at with that.
I play Roblox with my kids sometimes. I've gotten really good at Work at a Pizza Place and this weekend they talked me into playing Battle Royale Simulator which seems to have very little point but there are piñata llamas, it doesn't seem to be fair, and everyone dies, so it's pretty much like life.
Krista- Just finished her second year at the University of Utah. She made the dean's list. She's got a couple of really good scholarships. She's still majoring in Business. She just moved to a little studio apartment in Salt Lake, this time with no roommates. She works at the PF Changs in Salt Lake. She's dating Ben. She's into running these days and still does some dancing but you would have to ask her about her thoughts and plans in that area.
Kylie- She'll be a Junior at Weber High in the fall. She keeps a solid 4.0 while working two jobs and dancing five or six days a week. She's got plans and goals and is doing awesome. She works as an assistant dance teacher at Julie Moffit Ballet School and was just promoted at the Burger King where she's worked for a couple of years now. She's in the future educators program at Weber High and is planning on going into teaching. I think currently she's thinking elementary school. She's got a great group of friends and lots of opinions on everything.
April- 8th grade in the fall. She's still my quiet one unless she's yelling at her younger siblings who interfere with her quiet time. She's been the best at social distancing during Covid 19. She spent most of her time in her room watching TV and chatting with her friends online. She would come up for food and drinks and to do her laundry. She's the first of my children to pass me in height. She enjoys basketball and has played with the Young Women in the basketball games at church. She'd like to play on the Junior High team. She's started a couple of murals on the walls in her bedroom and got a henna tattoo on her arm this weekend. She's very creative.
Andrew- 6th grade in the fall. Still learning Chinese. Loves to dance. He's into ocean things and currently wants to be a marine biologist when he grows up. We redid his room with some ocean decor. He loves playing games online with his friends. He's super skinny and he's growing like a weed.
Jessica- 5th grade in the fall. She's still my cheerful chatterbox. She's funny and smart and snarky with overflowing amounts of energy. She dances and did Nutcracker for the first time this last December and did really well. She likes to play games online and watch random Youtube channels about people with quintuplets and people who take strange food test challenges. She's interested in everything and bounces through life with a spark of happy enthusiasm. She's also learning Chinese.
Okay people, there's the update for now.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
May 2020
I had to swipe this picture out of the Standard Examiner. So stinkin' proud of this young woman. I'm really going to miss seeing her little guy every day.
Same goes for this young woman and her little darling and also the dad who isn't pictured.
This little guy was another of my favorites. Such a sweetheart. So proud of his mom for graduating.
I've got such an amazing job. I'm just going to miss them so much!
Friday, March 13, 2020
Monday, April 30, 2018
Grad Announcements - KRS
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
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.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
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.
Here are mine.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
First Day of School 2017
Jessica 2nd, Andrew 3rd, April 5th
Krista 12th (Senior Year, Woot!)
Kylie 8th
Saturday, March 18, 2017
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.
Friday, March 10, 2017
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.
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.
Friday, February 17, 2017
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.Saturday, February 11, 2017
Friday, February 3, 2017
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.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
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.
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.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Dear 2017 Deer
There's a small herd of maybe 8 - 12 dear showing up to hang out in my backyard most nights.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
SNOW this year is getting serious
One of the neighbor's driveway piles. Height on the lawns is somewhere above my knees.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Eugene, OR ice storm picture
I shamelessly stole this picture from a friend (wow, Nikole) I've known since back in the day. She lives in Oregon and posted a few pics on facebook. I couldn't stop staring at them so I made a blog post as it lasts longer.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
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