Thanksgiving 2007

Things I am thankful for...

I am thankful for many things in my life...here are a few of the most important:

1. My husband: He loves me unconditionally and takes good care of our family. And he has a big heart!
2. My children: My girls are the reason I get up in the morning and the reason I do almost everything.
3. My health: I'm thankful I can walk again! I'm thankful that I'm generally healthy and able to work.
4. I'm thankful I live in this beautiful country and the beautiful state of Utah. I've lived in other states and I can honestly say that Utah is unique in the world, and I'm glad I live here.

The End of the Football Season

Jason, Austin Laws, and Mele

Mele, Saia, Phil, Bubba, and Jason

Tonight was the end of the year banquet for the Kearns Gold Gremlin Team. The team had a great time at Sky High Entertainment. In addition to their trophies from the league, the kids each got a special medal with their name and number on it, the medals from the Jag Bowl, and a set of sweats. Jason had a great team this year. They did a great job, and even though they didn't make it to the playoffs, the kids had fun and won 3 games this year. Jason and his coaches are all looking forward to next football season. It promises to be even better than this year!

What a way to wake up!

In the wee morning hours of November 10, 2007, Jason was awakened by a tremendous crash outside our window. The crash didn't wake me up, but the turmoil outside did. Almost immediately after the crash there was a lot of yelling, and that's what got my attention (mostly because our dog wouldn't stop barking!) The crash was so loud that it woke up our neighbors from the street behind us and they came over to investigate.

The guy driving the truck went through our light and was only stopped because of the concrete barrier where the box that controls the traffic lights is located. He had two people riding in the back of the truck as well. One of the people from the back of the truck was hurt pretty badly. He was hurt too, but decided to take off instead of hang around for the police. They called in the dogs to find him. He didn't make it very far though. Maybe 100 yards. They found him in the field in front of the charter school down the street.

Everyone in the truck was drunk, and the one guy that wasn't really hurt kept coming over and trying to talk to me and my neighbor. Jason and her husband did a good job of keeping him otherwise occupied so we only had to deal with his drunken diatribes a couple of times. :)

The ambulances all left about an hour after the initial accident happened, but the truck wasn't towed until almost 4 in the morning. We didn't get much sleep, considering we had to be up early for Jason's football game. (Jason was up earlier than the rest of us, :D)

We are going to be taking these pictures to the county to see if they will put a barrier up. If the guy had actually been in the right lane we would have had some unwelcome visitors right in our living room!

Grandpa Bud's Special Day

From the Deseret Morning News Article:
Each year around Veterans Day, the University of Utah selects nominated military veterans to be honored during a special ceremony. This year the University Veterans Day committee chose to honor World War II veterans because of their "advancing" years and "enormous" contributions they made to their country.
Luman P. Slagle went into the Army in 1942. He served in the 60th Artillery of the 9th Infantry Division. Slagle landed on Normandy two days after D-Day. He was given the duties of radio operator on an artillery forward observation team. Slagle and company advanced through France and captured the Remagen Bridge, which was the only one over the Rhine left standing. Slagle was awarded the Silver Star.

This is Grandpa Bud next to his sign that explained what he did in the War.

And this is when he received the award, while they told about Grandpa Bud's service.

Grandpa Bud kissing his blushing bride.

Working from home

I've now been working from home for a total of 6 days. It's weird. I thought I'd like it, and I can definitely see the benefits, but I'm not sure I'll do it for very long. It doesn't feel like I'm really working. It doesn't really help that they keep offering VTO. I didn't take it every time it was offered this week, but I did take it on Monday and Thursday. Part of the reason I took the VTO was because my foot has been hurting a lot. Jason thinks my foot might actually be broken....we'll find out more on Monday.

I have also applied for a job with the school and if that comes through I would have to quit working for Galileo. Actually, I'm hoping that if the school job comes through that I'd be able to work for Galileo during the summer, and possibly during other school breaks.

Investiture/Rededication Ceremony

On November 2, 2007 Junior Troop 702 offically rededicated themselves to another great Girl Scout year. We did a ceremony where we made a trail mix with a lot of different ingredients that symbolized different aspects of being a Girl Scout, and when all the girls put their ingredients in it created the trail mix.