back to family history recording!

We got new couches! We had a goal not to buy new furniture until 2015, and on January 2nd 2015 these were in our living room. We found a great deal and love them. Jared has always wanted a man chair, so we got a great deal on two recliners, so our bay window is no its our relax an recline center. 

Here is an update by family member: 

Jared: My husband is enrolled in a “small business entrepreneurs” educational program funded by Goldman Sacs, he qualified because his business is growing and he is getting educated on how to make his business continue to proliferate and expand. Its at the SLC community college campus twice a week and he has a cohort, work group, homework and it lasts a few months.  I support him completely in educational pursuits and hope he manages the extra stress ok, because he is still very busy running his Real Estate/Property management business full time. He is currently in competition with Gabe Carpenter to see who can get the most defined abs first, so he still takes time to work out in the morning and he tries to eat healthy.

Heather: I am feeling somewhat better some days with my functional bowel disease, and my current theory is my dramatic change in diet last year threw off my stomach acid production (or maybe its always been off) causing bacterial overgrowth and ulcers and a plethora of other unpleasant symptoms, one of which being I couldn’t absorb large food molecules and proteins.  My body is slowly but surely still trying to find a balance of good bacteria, acid supplements to help absorb proteins and produce minerals that help produce sufficient acid, and regulating blood sugar so I can heal and stay healed. I have lots of hope that this year won’t be as unpleasant health-wise as last. I have made a goal to work 4 hours a day towards my LCSW hours to speed up my licensure date. I’m currently at 1941 of my 4000 required field hours, and I hope to have acquired 1000 hours by the end of the year. I’m still cooking a lot but have become more efficient and savvy about it and I’ve simplified some so it doesn’t take up all my time.  

Savanna: She just started a new semester in junior high and has a new schedule she is excited about. She did fail math completely last term, but with a new teacher and tutoring and math labs she hopes to get that grade up. All her other grades were A and A-‘s.  She has a good friend named Aislyn she hangs around a lot, she still loves nail art, makeup and hair doing, and she helps around the house earning money for rides to school.   She is considering dropping orchestra and taking choir and trying to find a private teacher for violin because the orchestra teacher at Oak Canyon is not teaching her much. She watches way too much Miranda Sings and likes to dress Fiora up like her because Fi kind of resembles her and they both can do some pretty good Miranda impersonations.

 

Fiora: This girl is in the middle of a huge behavioral science project for her 6^th grade science fair, she made a mouse maze and bought 2 female mice (Chocolate and Marshmallow, Chocho and Marshy for short) that she hopes to train to go through the maze perfectly by shaping their behavior through reinforcements. She is also doing a non-silent movie project, doing battle of the books, and is taking on extra math work every day to boost her math skills.  She has some tummy sensitiveness but we aren’t sure what the cause is yet, she is also having a growth spurt so she is hungry all the time and it s tricky to find lots of food she likes that she can eat. She is taller than me now 5’2” and still has braces, she also still has her CRT contact lenses she has to put in every night and she is doing a fantastic job at keeping that up even though its uncomfortable sometimes.

Weston: We are in the middle of heavy gym meet competition season. He had his first gym meet last Saturday and has another one this Saturday.  He did pretty good for his first meet, 56.4 overall score, but his goal is to get a 62 at one of his meets this season which would be pretty awesome! You would have to get perfect scores on every event plus bonus points to get that.  He is loving his mushroom at home to practice on and impresses us daily with his press handstands and splits. He is doing well in school and still practices the piano consistently, and is back in orchestra accompanying them on the piano. You can view his meet at this LINK.  Also he loves puzzles about as much as I do and completed this one.

In other news our pet gerbil of 4 years is dead, he had a stroke or something and he kept falling over on his left side, he was making funny noises, and his left ear started to deteriorate, so I drowned him and put him out of his misery. The mice are helping the kids with their grief over Fred. On a funner note, my sister Krystal got engaged to this guy, Kollin Williams, and they are looking at May 16th ish for a wedding. Exciting stuff!