I wanted to add a few more pictures of the party.

We have had a busy week. Last Sunday we had a birthday party for the September birthdays. It is Daniel's birthday today. So, Happy Birthday Daniel. Hopefully I can get some pictures to upload of the party.

We had something about everynight. I had ESL class on Monday, Larry had class on Tuesday, I have IDET class on Wednesday and we went to the temple on Thursday. Friday after I got my midterm grades in we went to see the movie "Cars"

I forgot to go get one of my medicines for my fibromyalgia on Wednesday and by the time I got home it was too late to get it from the pharmacy so I went without it on Thursday also. By Thursday afternoon I was aware that it was helping me to feel better so I went and got it before we went to the temple and by the time we got out I was feeling much better.

John's Uncle Thorpe Waddingham died this week and they are having the funeral tomorrow so I spent most of Saturday afternoon at school getting ready for a sub so we can go to the funeral tomorrow. Kirsten is going with us. She is Uncle Thorpe's daughter Dana's visiting teacher so she wanted to go for her. There was an article in the newspaper about Uncle Thorpe where he was a state senator and there was the obituary. http://www.desnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_dialin/@dialin.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=UWUDUNAHNCKE&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=2&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES

We went to Michelle and Daniel's ward this morning and saw Ethan and Hailee in the children's sacrament presentation. They both did a good job on their part. Yesterday I was able to go to Ethan's soccer game and watch him play and hold Kalisse. She is wanting to stand up a lot lately.

Maren and Landon came over tonight for awhile. Brinlie was tired and flushed so I hope she is okay. They celebrated their anniversary last night and went to the Hampton Inn in Salt Lake and spent the night. They said it was really weird not to have Brinlie with them. Landon's mom and dad tended Brinlie for them. Landon bought Maren an Anniversary ring and Maren made him a scrapbook.

Kirsten has had strep this week. I suppose she got it from Jon who had it last week and also Brooke and Kennedy. She got some antibiotic but her tongue was swollen today. She had Larry and BJ come and give her a blessing. I hope she feels good enough to go tomorrow. She is hoping that Kyle doesn't get it.

Erick has been busy with work and school. He often is not home until after 10:00 p.m. trying to juggle both. He had a date Friday that he brought to the house and made real Italian lasagna for.

BJ came down for the weekend and went to the BYU/USU game with Whitney Rose. He cheered for BYU. It was fun to have him here for a few hours and talk and see him. He decided to just be friends with his friend Julie that he likes so much but he wasn't lonely for girls. He had three girls texting him all evening at different times.

Nathan emailed and said he wanted us to come for Thanksgiving or Christmas but he didn't say if he would be in Brownsville or Houston.

Jeff and Misty are busy working nights and days at something.

I talked to Grandma Jenkins and she said that there is a possiblity that Uncle Craig will be coming home for some R&R and that we can see him on the 3rd of October if we wanted to go to Molly's play that hse is in at her school in Orem. The kids don't know though so don't call the house about it. It is still iffy but hopfully.

Grandma also said that Jenny and Wade are moving to Virginia. Wade has accepted a job at a school back there. She also said that Amber and Nate have decided to stay in Georgia for at least 4 more years instead of moving to Vernal.

Larry and I just got home from the temple and I sat down to the computer and it started to downpour outside. I couldn't believe it. It was perfectly dry when we walked in the house and now it is really storming.

I just wanted to mention that Erick could have walked with the Davis Applied Technology College Graduation today because he has earned his Associates of Applied Computer Aided Drafting. He chose not to make a big deal out of it and did not walk mainly because he had a class at the University of Utah at the same time as the Graduation. We are proud of Erick and his accomplishment.

We just finished a birthday party with the family for the September birthdays. Everyone was here except the Texas bunch and we all had a good time comparing babies and having dinner and brownies with ice cream. It was Ashton's birthday on the 7th of September and Daniel's birthday will be on the 24th. It was fun to have everyone here and everyone seemed to have a good time.

Landon has a new job framing houses and seems to like it really well. They are doubly excited because it has benefits coming soon. Maren has been learning more about doing acrylic nails at school and Kirsten was her model yesterday for learning how to do forms, I think she said. Brinlie has been getting teeth and not sleeping very well. She has been congested in her throat. I tried to tend her on Friday but after about an hour I had to call Maren because she just didn't quit crying.

Ethan and Hailee had several perfromances for the Layton commemeration of 9-11 with their choir. They performed Monday night at the Kenley Ampitheatre and Saturday night at a program at Layton High. Larry and I were able to go see them on Monday. Hailee has started dance. Michelle and Daniel were not to excited about the rain we got on Thursday and Friday because their basement flooded again. They have a leak in the window well, but hopefully it is fixed now.

Jon has been sick for about a week. He has also be working on a lot of different cars for people plus working a lot of overtime. He thought he had their truck fixed and then something else had to be done that is costing more money so they were disappointed with that. Kirsten got her shoe boot off this week so she is walking normally again. Kyle and Kennedy and Brooke came over yesterday and played at our house while Kirsten had her nails done.

We all went to Jake and Nikki's house last weekend for a birthday party for Ashton. He is one year old. Nikki says that sometimes he holds up his finger and says a sound like one. He went in for his year checkup and got his shots this week. He has a bruise from the shots to prove it. He is in the 75-100 percentile for height. His hair is really growing lately and it is curly brown locks. So cute. Lexie played soccer yesterday in the cold. It really cooled off this weekend in Utah it was down in the 40's in the morning. Nikki may start babysitting for a girls that works with Jake. She is going to try it and see how it works.

Jeff and Misty have mostly been working this week with their hectic schedule. Leah started pre-school and says that they have a playground like at McDonald's. Misty said that she is learning her letters.

Erick found new respect for Daniel this week when he had to write a computer program for one of his classes and it took him seven hours. He was a frustrated man that day. He went out with one of the single teachers at my school last week and seemed to have a good time but he has been swamped with work this week. His best friend from the mission, Jason Merrell got married this last Saturday.

BJ is finding out that life can be hectic at school when you are working full time and going to school full time. His starter cylinder gave him a lot of grief two weeks ago but he was finally able to get a locksmith to look at it and he just lubricated it and it has run ever since. He didn't even charge him for the service call. He has also had a couple of girls competing for his attention. He has had them both put their pictures on his phone and he went out with one girl and the other one showed up at 2:00 a.m. and woke him up that night to tease him about the date.

Nikki said that Sara emailed her and she is out of the hospital and feeling somewhat better. She got dehydrated from throwing up too much from her pregancy. I wasn't able to get them tonight on the phone I will try again tomorrow.

Larry has been feeling better lately. His brother Tony called for his birthday last week. He has started a new postion at Discover that should pay him a little more so he is feeling good about that. He has found a lot of genealogy on one line lately when he works at the family history center. He spent all of Friday evening a week ago recording papers for me so I could get things organized for the Clothing class I am teaching this year. He is really good to help me. I know he is the reason I am more sane lately.

I started my ESL class last Monday. It wasn't too bad. I am also taking Introduction to Instructional Design at the U. They tell me by the end of the semester I should be able to explain to my family and friends what Instructional Design and Educational Technology is. I am teaching a Clothing class this year which is diffent for me. Usually I just have the TLC and Food and Nutrition that I teach. It requires that I trade rooms seventh period which is not making the girl I teach with happy.

Friday we wanted to go to the State Fair but it rained so much that day that we decided that we didn't care if we went. It snowed a skiff in our yard on Saturday morning and snowed in the mountains also so fall is on it's way.

Last night we went to a High Priest's party at the church. It was supposed to be an outside barbecue but was moved indoors due to inclement weather.

Today in church Brad Caldwell gave a very dynamic talk on the importance of prayer in combating the temptations of Satan. He pointed out that when Joseph Smith was confronted by Satan in the grove while he has praying he continued to pray to overcome the power and was helped by God the father and Jesus Christ to overcome the power that bound him. He related that to our lives and reminded us that the best way to overcome the power of Satan is to continue praying. I have found lately that what he says is true.

I got some good pictures of Ashton's party and the party tonight but I will post them later as it is getting late. I am editing this post and adding the pictures

Well for Labor Day weekend Larry and I slept in yesterday. It was nice but you don't get as much done in the day if you sleep late. Jeff and Misty and the kids stopped by in the morning on the way to see his friend Clay. After we went shopping for food and then worked on cleaning the house and homework.

Kirsten got to put her crutches away this week but she is still in the big boot. She says that her foot feels good most of the time when she walks on it. Jon is looking like he will get an apprenticeship in Ogden but they haven't heard yet. This would be a promotion with more benefits. Kyle got a 100% on his first spelling test this week so he didn't have to retake it. All the kids are doing good in school and liking their teachers.

Erick dropped his Physics class this quarter to save his sanity. He was trying to work full time and go to school full time and was getting very stressed out and very little sleep. He is enjoying the other classes but stressing over the debt he is creating with his loans for school. He is still talking to all his girlfriends but dating them is another thing he says. He agreed to participate in a Psychology department study of dating so he is going to get paid for dating, he says. He also applied for a committe for ASUU and he has joined the Latter-Day Saints Student Engineers Association.

BJ is down for the labor day weekend. He was stressing last night because he was talking to a girl on the way down about what they could do for the weekend and then two girls texted him asking him what he was doing for the weekend. I told him to enjoy it. It never lasts until you get married. He also signed up for institute with a girl that he likes in his dorm and found out that a girl that he likes from Kaysville is in the same class. He had a confusing week getting his schedule lined up at USU because he didn't understand that he had to have his tuition paid before class began and they dropped him from all his classes. He did have a good week at work though and made several bonuses. And he finally has his schedule finalized.

Maren and Landon went to Roosevelt this weekend with Landon's family for the Labor Day weekend. They were going to a cousins baptism. I don't know what else they had planned. Michelle babysat for her one day this week because Shirley didn't get back from Nevada in time and all the other babysitters Maren has called could not take Brinlie. I bet that was fun with two babies.

Lexie had soccer practice this week. Ashton cut a tooth this week and has been a grumpy blankety blank, according to Jake, this week. Jake is trying to get together some materials to build their detached garage they are putting in the back. Then they just need to save money for the stucco. Nikki worked on things for a Relief Society Super Saturday that is this coming Saturday. Jake has guard this weekend and it is Governor's day on Saturday. Lexie also has a soccer game on Saturday. So they are having a busy weekend. Jake says that he doesn't know what he is doing on his job because they keep changing it. Sunday they are having a party for Ashton's birthday with the family, but his birthday is Thursday.

Michelle and Daniel have Ethan and Hailee in a charter school in Syracuse. They like their teachers. Michelle is a room mother. Right now she has a lot of work to do with that but they said it should lighten up. Michelle has found people to car pool with at the school so she only has to go once a day. She thought she was going to have to go twice a day because Hailee is in kindergarten but she saw a license plate that she thought she recognized so she followed it home and it was her neighbor that lives behind them. They were able to invite the kids over and Michelle was able to work things out with her for kindergarten. Ethan is starting soccer next Saturday but they haven't heard from the coach. Michelle is starting joy school, which is a co-op preschool between mothers, on the 11 of Sept. for Jaron. Kalisse rolled over from her back to her stomach this week but Michelle was in the other room and missed it. Ethan has a concert coming up on the 11th of Sept.

Larry had our home teacher and Erick give him a blessing and he got feeling better almost immediately. I have been amazed at how much better he has felt. He is starting a new job at work and should get a raise. He also applied for a job where he would be doing research that would be a step up. Larry is taking classes on Tuesdays and so I usually work late at school on that night.

I start a class about English as a Second Lanugage Training or ESL on the 11th of September that should last every Monday night until February. It will give me an ESL endorsement and help me in techniques to teach students who have problems with English. I have started my class at the U which is an Introduction to Instructional Design. So far it has been good. That is on Wednesdays.

We are working at the Family History Center on the 2nd and 4th Thursday's and on the First Saturday of the month starting in November. So I put all the things on the calendar for September and we only had two nights that we did not have something to do. But according to Reader's Digest that is how you keep your mind active.