New Cold Year!!!

1-4-09

Happy New Year!

We enjoyed moving to the 11:00 Sunday schedule today! Marie took advantage of the new schedule by sleeping in! It was a bitter night last night, this morning the temperature was below 10 degrees! The high today will be less than 20 degrees!!! In spite of the cold temperatures it is a beautiful day outside; clear blue skies, snow-covered mountains, and snow-covered lawns!

Our week was relaxing and exciting! Ron is still cherishing the fact that the Utes won the Sugar Bowl. He wore his Ute tie to church today to celebrate the victory.

Each of us have been able to enjoy our time off from school the past two weeks, tomorrow our vacation will come to an end! Ron will be back in the classroom and then doing extra activities during the evening at Bingham. Since is it high school basketball season most of his activities will be basketball games! Thursday night Ron will begin his last semester of classes at the “U”. He is looking forward to graduating in May!

Savanna began a new job this week. She is the assistant to the activity coordinator at a care center for the elderly. Her personality will be a benefit to this job; she knows how to plan a “fun time”! This center will be opening near our home in the next few weeks so she has been working at another facility in Sandy area these past few days. Tomorrow she will begin student teaching at Draper Elementary. This will be an exciting time for her!

Marie will miss sleeping in, but she will enjoy going back to school and seeing her friends. She has remained busy with activities during the break. Yesterday she had a lacrosse game and then she went ice skating with her friends. It was bitter outside so we were glad that she dressed warm!

I am looking forward to returning to work, it will be nice to get back on schedule, but it will be hard to get up early tomorrow morning. Tomorrow I will also be taking a break from my chemo treatments!!! I get one week off and then I will have my 3rd treatment on January 12th. I remain grateful that my side effects have been minimal; I am just really tired on the 3rd day after the chemo.

The football bowl games are almost over, what will I do in my spare time?

We hope that everyone is enjoying a new year!!!

Love ya,
Jolene