April Stuff

Life is moving along, and it's going pretty well. I'm really looking forward to summer. I'm not feeling too sad about having a few months off of work.

Spring Break was pretty good for me because I got a lot of things done that I have a hard time doing when I'm working. Ran errands, made doctor appointments, made phone calls, got estimates, cleaned stuff. We didn't go anywhere, and that makes the break feel longer, too. My kids were probably really bored, though. I felt like I got a lot accomplished, but then when work started the next Monday I wished I had spent time just resting and hanging out, because it's been really busy ever since. I wish I had taken a break. Oh well.

Josh and Lexi have been taking swimming lessons, and they really like it. Thank goodness. Josh is really funny about stuff like that... you never can tell if he'll like it or refuse to do it. Lexi cried when it was time to go with her teachers, but now she loves it. Kaden and Spencer have swimming lessons at the same time, so I get to hang out with Mindi or Steve, too, so even better.

I took last Tuesday off to take Lexi in to the Clinic out in Salt Lake. By the time I get out and back it ends up being more than half a work day, so I'm not going to pay for a full-day sub and still teach part of the day myself, so I just took the day off. Lexi's HbA1c was good... it was in the zone for good sugar control and her doctor was happy with it, but I'd like to see it a bit lower. She's been higher than I'd like lately, but hopefully that's worked out a little better now. The first day of swim lessons she was 581 right before (she said she ate 3 pieces of pizza for lunch, which I didn't know about), so I gave her a bunch of insulin, and then I checked her after her lesson before we left the pool and she was 44. Huge drop. Freaked me right the hell out. The next 2 lesson days were much better, thankfully.

Last Thursday we took the kids-minus-Courtney to family bowling night put on by the American Diabetes Association and Family Link. My friend runs Family Link for Utah, and she's really awesome. The littles had a good time... Brittney tolerated it.

We drove up to the cabin to see how it's getting along with all the water coming down the canyon. The retaining wall is holding up well, but it was high enough during the week at some point to come up over the steps and through the yard a little, from what we can tell. It's lapping over the top step right now, but not coming all the way over. We threw a few sand bags down. There are tons of dead fish this year. Should be nice and stinky once the water recedes and we start finding them stuck in the rocks and grass at the edges of the yard.







I had hoped to get a bunch of yard work done today, but it's too rainy and wet outside. So the girls and I are going shopping when Courtney gets off work. I hope I can find something that I even like. I have zero clothes, but I don't like the way anything looks on me. Blah.

I've got estimates for new flooring and an awning... now we have to decide what we can afford to do. There is so much demolition work and painting and tile we are going to be doing ourselves anyway before we do the rest of the floor... we might as well just do the wood ourselves while we're at it. So my house may be torn apart for quite a while. So fun.

Brittney started running track this week, and she went to the Language Fair at BYU on Friday and it wasn't as horrible as she thought it would be. Hallelujah. Courtney is finishing up the semester next week and then taking a trip before summer semester starts. Josh is off-track. Lexi is... Lexi. Sean tore apart the whole front end of the truck and replaced ball joints, a tie rod end, brakes and rotors, maybe a pitman arm? Got it all back together, and that's a relief. Saved us a ton of money. So for now, that is all.