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I read Chad's e-mail to his sister and thought it was lots of good info, so I copied it for you..... We are surviving. It was hard for the kids to adjust to getting up for school again. We had some tired kids. But we are back into the swing of things. We had the pinewood derby on Thursday night. Reid got second place overall, he was really excited. Mom , Dad, and Melissa came. Tanner had winter ball last night. There were 5 couples in his group. They did all kinds of activities during the day. They ended it by coming to our house to watch a movie and have ice cream pie. They watched Kung Fu Panda. They only spent about 30 minutes at the dance. But it was too loud, so they went over to the Stake dance. He said he had a good time. He spoke in sacrament meeting today. By the time he took his date home it was 1:00. Then he worked on his talk until 2:00 (even though his Dad told him to work on it Saturday morning). So he went to bed at 2:00 and woke up at 5:00 to do his paper route. We thought he was going to fall asleep on the stand today. It was an adjustment today to go from 3:00 to 8:00 church today. We still made it there by 7:40. Jacob started basketball this week. He has 5 of his friends on the team, so he is really excited. Usually in soccer he ends up on another team than his friends. The other night was my turn to pick up him and 3 of his friends after practice. I went to pick them up and they were not there. His coach said another dad had picked them up. So I called Tarilynn and told her that someone else had picked them up, I was kind of mad. Then I went to lock up the store. Tarilynn called me about a ½ hour later and said Jacob was not home yet. While she was talking to me Jacob called her on another phone and said they were at the school and needed picked up. They had gone to another side of the school and had gotten locked out. They had been outside for over 30 minutes. Finally they had gotten in the building and found someone with a phone. I felt bad that I had left them.

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So, it's after 11:00. I'm tired. BUT, I can't go to sleep yet because there are 10 teenagers in my basement watching a movie. I guess that means I'm chaperoning. I paid all the bills, I guess this is the next on my list. It's Winter Ball tonight for Tanner. I'm sure he's having a great time. I can't ask yet. He claims he got pictures so I can't wait to post them. Blake went to work at the restaurant tonight with Chad. We put the restaurant on Craig's List a couple weeks ago, and are going to list it with a realtor on Monday. We'll see what happens there. Jacob wanted to stay up really bad to torment Tanner and his friends, but we wouldn't let him. Reid thought it would be fun too. Jacob and Reid spent hours cleaning their room today, THEY FOUND CARPET! Shocking! The boys have all been saving their money for months and saved enough for a Wii. We got one last week and the younger ones have been spending all their free time on it. I was able to beat Blake in Boxing, but then he beat me. Jacob has been bugging me all day to play him, so I did, and he knocked me out in about a minute. Sad, really. Rylee really likes it too. We start our 8:00 am church tomorrow. What a switch....we went from 3pm to 8 am. Yuck...I think I will like it better, though. Well, I don't know what to say but, good night.