I always wondered about this...

Cash Advance Loans

I saw this little thingy on Em's blog and had it test mine too. I really have wondered about this! I have often thought to myself, "I could write this article (or letter or book...) better than this!" It makes me nuts when I see typos and poor grammar. In fact, Todd used to have me edit his papers in school because I could find mistakes. I know I don't always have the best English when I'm speaking and my excuse for that is that my brain is just working way too fast for my mouth to keep up. But when you are writing, you have so many chances to get it right, how can you get it wrong? Ergh. Now that I've started to rant, I need to calm down.

Brrrrr! Ice Storm Hits!

It is really cold! We got the second stage of the huge ice storm that landed in the middle of the country last night. We were lucky to not lose power. It was actually very cool to see - instead of the rain getting everything wet, it literally froze when it fell onto the already freezing cold ground, trees, deck, etc. Everything was so pretty! It looks like the whole world was turned upside down and dipped in melted glass. School was cancelled so today the boys and I stayed home and warm. Except Ryan - he loves to play outside no matter what the weather, so he got wet and cold from sledding and sliding on the ice. But it wasn't anything some soup and hot cocoa for lunch didn't fix. Justin picked out a recipe for Jam Thumprints and we made those for the first time. They are really tasty! Tyler took the camera out and got some great pictures of grass and bushes coated in ice. We also started reading The Candy Shop War together. We are now waiting for a decision about school for tomorrow - we would all love to have another day off!

Robots!

Tyler participated in a robot building and programming competition last week. The newspaper covered the story and Tyler was quoted! They also took tons of pictures but none of Tyler made it into the paper. Good thing I was there with my camera! Tyler & his friend Jeremy got second place in a double elimination tournament called SumoBot. The teams just had to put their bots face to face and start pushing the other one out of the circle. It got down to Tyler's bot and another one. Tyler's won 2 times, but then the other team realized their gear had fallen off, some adult said Tyler & Jeremy should be good sports and let them fix their bot and redo the match! So the boys did (I was so ticked) and after the enemy bot was fixed, of course it won. It didn't seem very fair to me. The other kids should have checked their bot before the match! Oh well, Tyler seems really happy to have gotten 2nd place and I'm proud of him for being a good smart kid. Check it out! http://cjonline.com/stories/120307/loc_222349892.shtml
I haven't posted anything in over a month! There just hasn't been anything new worth writing about. We had a good Thanksgiving here at home with some families in our ward. The boys are still doing very well in school. Todd is actually travelling to China right now. He is tired of going back and forth but hopefully the problems there are getting solved and Todd won't have to be there so much someday. I was great yesterday and then within 1 hour, BOOM! I got sick! I hate being sick! So today I never even got dressed and I just slept. I might do the same thing tomorrow! Amy tagged me awhile ago, but I'm still trying to think of 6 things my readers don't know about me. I'm just not that interesting! But I am missing you all!