Saturday, December 6, 2008

Babysitting

Friday was a day full of surprises for us. Matt works every other Friday, so yesterday was his day off. He had loads of homework to complete, and also wanted to put up our Christmas lights and finish painting the trim we repaired last week in our house. Anyway, our neighbor Mike works construction. He and Matt were at Home Depot yesterday getting some supplies and Mike asked Matt if he wanted to come help him finish up a job in American Fork. He said he would pay him an apprentice's wage. Who doesn't want a little extra cash, especially around the holidays? So...Matt went with him, and I think they had a lot of fun.

Anyway, on my way home from work Matt and Mike were busy putting up Christmas lights on Mike's house. I stopped to take a look at them and see how they were coming along. While I was there, Mike got a phone call from his wife, Andrea, saying she had been in a car accident. The accident happened pretty close to our house, so Mike hopped in his truck and we got in our car to go help. Unfortunately their 3 children had been in the car during the accident, so they were pretty scared. By the time we arrived on the scene a nurse had already come and taken them across the street to the hospital. Andrea was pretty shaken up. :( So, I stayed with her while she filled out paperwork and talked to the police while Mike and Matt went to check on the kids. Andrea's brother had also been in the car at the time and he was pretty cut up. Anyway...sorry about all the details...eventually Matt and I got to take the kids so the parents could get everything straightened out. So...we got to babysit 3 little girls- Lindsey (4), Holland (2), and Halle (6 weeks) for a few hours. They were so sweet and adorable! Lindsey walked into our house and said, "Oh my...your house is beautiful!" Ha ha ha! Isn't that cute? The girls had fun playing on Matt's banana chair while watching Cars and eating fruit roll-ups. It was a fun night for all of us! :)

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Exciting News!

Ah!!!!!! It's almost been a month since our last post!!!! YIKES! What can I say, we've been so busy!? I kept procrastinating posting because I have all these fun pictures of birthdays, Nutcracker, etc. that I want to post. BUT...of course, they haven't been uploaded to the computer quite yet. So...more updates are coming.

Anyway, I got some super exciting news this week! It is DEFINITELY "blog worthy". Ha ha ha. On Wednesday at 5:30 pm I got a call from my little sister Stephanie. She is a Senior right now and is super active on her high school track team-- mostly doing hurdles. Yeah, I know, she's pretty amazing. How ANYONE can "leap" over those things blows my mind! Anyway. The University of Utah has been "recruiting" her for the past little while for their track team. They even gave her 8th row tickets to the BYU vs Utah football game!!!!!! I KNOW!!!! Jealous yet? Ok, back to the story. So she called me on Wednesday and said this, "Guess what!? The University of Utah just called me and said, 'Well Stephanie, the next step in our recruiting process is to make you an offer. If you join our track team we will pay for your tuition, books, and fees.'" In other words, my sister got a FULL RIDE scholarship to the U of U!!!!!!!! :) We are so so so excited! Congrats Steph! We are sad she won't be down in Provo to hang out with us...but she will kick some serious butt on Utah's track team! :D