Back to school this week and piles and piles of snow in the way!  We've had arctic weather all week and three major snowstorms.  We have one car we haven't even tried to dig out and another that we didn't dig out until the end of the week.  School resumed on Tuesday, but the snow was so bad that we were given a 2-hour delay to the start time.  Getting stuck in the snow mortifies me, so I would have stayed in the house all week and doomed my children to the same incarceration, if it hadn't been for the lucky happenstance that we have Grandpa Skinner's Jeep with snow tires!  He sent Kevin home in it to bring Sarah home from Rexburg and we haven't had a chance to bring it back.  It's been a godsend!  That car can go anywhere!  Love that car!  Love that Grandpa!



Kevin up before dawn shoveling and pushing neighbor's cars.

Inside my new favorite car.

I took this picture for Savannah.  The icicles always remind me of her!

Sarah found a job!  She is nannying for newborn twins!  How fun is that?  She worked 16 hours this week and her hours will go up as the mom increases her hours at work.  Sarah is perfectly suited for such work and loves her time with the babies!

Megan got called to be a primary teacher last week!  It's a brand new adventure to have this responsibility and she is feeling good about it.  I think she will do great.  She is co-teaching CTR 5 which is Ben's class!  She also managed to get herself to work at Funfinity through the snow and have some fun with her friends this week, too!

Mariah's driver's license came in the mail this week!  She is a legit driver now!  (If only the snow didn't make it so scary to do so!)  She had basketball games twice this week and played in JV and Varsity games.  We're so happy she gets this opportunity to participate in the basketball program.

 

Cheyenne and Calianne had their first Springville basketball game this week.  The final score was 43-31, which is a high-scoring city-rec game, let me tell you!  They played great.  They also had a bantam game and bantam practice.  With no Springville practices, no tennis, and no piano lessons this week, they were feeling a bit at loose ends about what to do with themselves!

Bethany had her first basketball game EVER this week and she made three baskets!  She loved it!  AND she got three dollars from Grandpa Gazdik!  Fun times!  I enjoyed picking her up from school each day this week and watching her and every other school-age child avoid the shoveled sidewalks and instead walk through snow well past their knees just for the sheer joy of it!  Crazy kids!

Benjamin went to Karate on Tuesday and came home complaining that his ear hurt really badly.  Somehow we made it through the night though he woke up multiple times weeping from pain.  I took him to the doctor first thing in the morning where we discovered that one eardrum had already burst and that the infection was from Strep!  With heavy-duty painkillers and antibiotics, he started feeling better almost right away.  Thursday he stayed home from school but was disinfected enough to return to Karate that afternoon.  It's important to not miss Karate, you know--according to him!  By Friday he was trailing through the deepest snow drifts with the rest of the elementary schoolers of Springville.