ALMOST TWO WEEKS!

WOW! It has been almost 2 weeks since I've updated...sorry. I think the old adage that time goes by faster the older you get is certainly true.

The last couple of weeks have been somewhat routine, although a bit eventful as well--if that make sense. The week before last Kerrie was really struggling with extreme pain and was up a few nights and in pain all day. This week I had a root canal on Monday, and Thursday they took out the packing, shaped the tooth and filled it. I have, unfortunately, had a few root canals in my day's, but this one was a little bit different. It has taken all week for me to get the feeling back in my jaw; it was almost as though I had a paralysis of sorts. All is well now, and the only thing remaining on that tooth is a crown--ouch $$$!, at some point.

The kids are all doing well and Kerrie and I are very proud of every one of them! We are very lucky parents to have such great children. They are truly blessings from heaven.

Doug has had a ruff time with his bulged disc's the last little while, and limps around most of the time. However, he seems to cope somehow with the pain. Doug and two of his friends went down to the cabin at Fish Lake for a few days this week, and will return home tomorrow. I spoke with him on the phone Friday evening and he said the weather and scenery were beautiful, and they were getting ready to go out on the boat fishing.

He sent me this picture taken from his cell phone--

I hope he has had a great time and will bring home more pictures that I can post.

Tyson continues to work hard and absolutely love his job with security for Target Stores. He is working full time +, and I'm sure is doing an outstanding job! He also has a girlfriend that takes up a lot of his time ;-) Tyson is also doing a great job of saving his money so that he can get back to school in the spring. Yeah!!! (Tyson, I need some pictures from you to add in the blog :O) )

Jamie is at Snow College. She is learning some ruff life lessons with some of her roommates that are not very Christ-like toward a fellow roommate, and she does not tolerate that behaviour very well. I'm glad she is such a good kid and does what is right. She will find that in the long-term she will be far better off for doing what she should and following the Lord than if she had choose to follow those who don't. She has also had some great experiences. She enjoys her bowling class and sends me a text about once a week to let me know that she has done very well. :0). Jamie has also made some friends, one of which has a bullet bike and takes her for an occasional ride. This is a picture that she took while on one of her rides last Wednesday evening. It is of the Manti LDS Template.

She also sent me these pictures of her "morning ride" with her cousin, Mandy, this morning. They took her uncle Mike' 4-wheeler up the canyon. The pictures are up Ephraim canyon. Fall is a pretty time of the year in the mountains of Utah!

One last event that has taken place this past week that I will share before heading off to bed... is our updated backyard. We have (had) 2 peach, 1 pear, 1 apple and 1 cherry tree. One of the peach tree's had 2 branches that were alive, and the other one was beginning to die. The pear tree produced small fruit, which we don't eat because nobody likes them. They end up falling to the ground and we have to clean them up. Kerrie and her dad cut down the 2 peach tree's and the pear tree, as well as an aspen that had died on the other side of the yard. It was a lot of work and I appreciate it very much!

One thing that they did, which was kind of funny, while cutting away at the tree was cut the phone line, which ran thru the tree branches--we had no phone or Internet service for 2 days. Qwest did come the next evening and replaced the line from the pole to the house so we are up and running again. They said the line was old and so they were going to write it up as a repair and not charge us anything, for which we were grateful. We'll have to give some thought as to what we are going to do in the place of the tree's; be it plant other trees, or do something else.

We'll, it is now after 11 o'clock so I'm off to bed. Take care!