On a good note...

Last week the High School performed their annual Spring Music Recital. Doug's dedication and hard work has shown throughout the past few years through his student's success. This year was no exception. Although these students still have a long ways to go, they have improved remarkably since Doug first started teaching them. The audience gave a standing ovation to the Jazz Band and the choirs have done an exceptional job this year. The kids and I attended the first 45 minutes of the concert and then we had to leave before I tore my hair out. (Handling 4 children 8 and under in a concert setting can prove to be difficult at times). I'm looking forward to the day I can watch an entire music concert of Doug's without the stress of enforcing good behavior (so pretty much when my kids are grown and out of the house).



10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....BLAST OFF!

Jordan participated in his first Space Derby in cub scouts last Friday. His rocket never did make it to the end of the rope, but he did come in 2nd place during one of the races. I learned a lot about making the rocket. There are several improvements that I will make to next year's rocket.

Darn Economy!

As many of you know, about 3 years ago I started my own business...an S-corporation. The name of my business is Quality Cleaning, Inc. I specialize in commercial cleaning, rental cleaning, and construction cleaning. (I don't do residential cleaning though because then I would have to deal with people and a lot of people are dumb). It's been great because I was able to employ about 6 workers and send them out to do the cleaning while I stayed at home doing inventory, payroll, accounting, invoicing, picking up supplies, going to the bank, post office, etc., etc., etc. This allowed me to be a stay at home mom and bring in the money as well. (Don't get me wrong, it isn't as glorious as it sounds...there is quite a bit of stress that can be involved in owning a business.) Well...you know when things are going just great and you are just waiting for something to go wrong because you can't have that good of luck for a long time? It happened. One of my major commercial accounts (that was pretty much holding my business together) cancelled on me. I had a few smaller accounts cancel too...saying, "You're doing a great job cleaning, but the economy is doing so poorly right now we just can't afford a cleaning crew. Once we start doing better, we'll call you to come back". So to say the least...I had to let all of my workers go and I am cleaning the remaining accounts myself. Hopefully the economy will start to get better and I will get some more accounts. Meanwhile.....back to scrubbin' toilets!

Bike Riding

Kaylee's Accomplishment/Lexi's Accident
This last weekend Kaylee learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. She is very excited and has been outside riding her bike every chance she gets. We went to a road called Betty Loop on Saturday morning. This is a paved loop in the middle of nowhere. We like to go there so the kids can ride their bikes without cars coming along. A lot of people go there to walk or ride bikes for exercise. While we were there, Lexi crashed on her bike while going down the big hill. Her pretty little face has scrapes all over it. She was very brave.

April Events

Spring Fever! The temperature in Pahrump is very pleasant during this time of the year. We certainly have been taking advantage of the weather by doing as many outdoor activities as our schedule allows.

Mason's First Birthday!

Mason turned 1 on April 9th. We celebrated his birthday with Grandpa and Grandma Farr who came to visit us during conference weekend. Mason LOVED his birthday cake. I've never seen a kid eat cake so fast (he had two cupcakes).




Scrapbooking

I enjoyed a fun-filled scrapbook weekend in Cedar City, UT with family. I am very far behind on scrapbooking and could use one of these "weekends" every month. I was privileged to use the "Cricket" that Aunt Yvonne gave us girls for Christmas. I loved it and wish that I could have one at my house all of the time. (I tried talking the girls into letting me take it home to NV, but since there are 6 women in Utah and only me in NV...they wouldn't budge.)

Visitors
Doug's Mom and Dad came for a visit over conference weekend. Doug and I spent a night in Las Vegas to celebrate our wedding anniversary. (We had our 12th wedding anniversary last November, but due to our hectic schedules this is the first chance we've had to go on a date since then). We spent all day Saturday shopping, but not before I won Doug in a quick game of boggle. We enjoyed visiting with Doug's parents and hated to see them leave.