catching up

I feel like I have been in the house for weeks. I'm pretty sure I have. After we got home from CA, my dad and sister drove into town. They made it across the country in 3 days and only hit snow in the GA/TN/KY area. We were able to spend some time with them before Stephen started vomiting and Bennett came down with strep. My mother-in-law will not be going to Egypt this year (always goes in February to dig), so she was able to watch the boys for me last Monday so I could go with my dad and sister, Lisa, to move my sister, Kathy, into her new home! She is now a resident of UT and living in a care facility in Sandy. We are exited to have her close and she really seems to like it. We were all a little worried about how she would react to this change. (Even though her home ward threw a little party for her that she kept calling her "Farewell") We are all very pleased with how well she is doing.

The day after that, I decided to start potty training Stephen, since we were stuck in the house anyway because Bennett couldn't go anywhere. Stephen has done really well with no diapers! The first day he was screaming for diapers. Then he started to get really excited about getting a sticker every time he went to the bathroom. He is having trouble at night, but I expected that. During the day we have success! I can't believe how few diapers we go though now!

Well, we had a babysitter over on Saturday and Scott and I went to a BYU basketball game with my family on Saturday. I got home that evening and started working on my lesson for YW (having realized that I had been reading the wrong lesson all week...). I stayed up late working on while my throat started to hurt. "It's late, that is all, it will be fine in the morning". Nope. My throat really hurt that morning, but I couldn't not teach YW. I was suppose to teach last month, but I lost my voice, so I couldn't. I didn't want to do it again! I got through my lesson that was ok, then we went to PC for Superbowl Sunday! I felt more and more crummy as the day went on and left just after halftime. Then we asked our neighbor to come over and hang out at our house while Scott took my to a clinic. (Same one I went to with Bennett last week). The Dr. did the strep test and was surprised when he said, "The test isn't over and it is positive!" Yup. Stuck in the house, again... but I feel better today than I did Sunday or Monday!

Hopefully we are done with sicknesses and we can have fun and leave the house over the next few weeks while dad is in town!