Our week:)

hello

this week has been a great one. i got glasses! i am now a four eyed dork! haha. they are very cute though. ill have to put a picture on here of them. this week was also a tuff week in school. i was gone most of last week because i had a flu kind of a thingy so getting caught up in my chemistry class was a little bit of a challenge. but i finally did it. in psychology we just finished studying beauty and now we are moving on to study relationships. so far it has been interesting. then in precalculus it has been pretty easy. in home ec we are sewing and im making this cow pillow. its so cute! i just finished my heating bag, then im also making a flece hat.

in young womens today we talked about homemaking and its importance. i found it quite interesting that alot of the girls dont do very much around there houses. but i guess it all depends on how we are raised.

yesterday i cleaned the bathroom. and i unclogged the shower drain! it wasnt all that hard. and i was so proud of myself because no one has been able to get it done. mom and i laughed because none of the guys could do it. then i went out and split and stacked more wood, and then i weeded half of the flower bed infront of the house.

last week i went out with nathan and i split and chopped wood. i got to use a chain saw :D it was great! i was so sore though. haha. it was a lot of fun. i want to go out again!

anyways thats me.

how have you been?

hope you have a great week

alice

Hey people was up well I'll tall you guys what up with me.It was fine at school.At school in P.E. class there is this thing called the Blow Out and the hole 4th grade is doing a dance called the potda potda my P.E. teacher said it is from Africa cool right! Well if you don't I'll won't teach it to you and that is final! Well tell me about your week hope you had a great one!

Zacary Masterson

HELLO IM DOING GOOD JUST HANGGING OUT WITH FRIENDS WENT TO MY NEW FRIENDS HOUSE ON FIRDAY AND HIS FAMILY WAS SOOOOOOOO NICE TO ME ... THEY SAID THEY DONT CARE WHAT TIME I COME OVER {BUT CALL}

{LOLZZZ} THEY INVITED ME TO COME BACK AFTER THE WEEK END THAT IS WAY AWESOME HIS NAME IS ROBET AND HE IS COOL ... WELLL MY B-DAY IS IN MARCH WICH IS NEXT MONTH IM GOING TO BE 13 AND IF YOUR WONDERING WHAT I WANT IM ALWAYS SAYING I WANT ONE THING OR THE OTHER SO RIGHT NOW IM ON A BIG "I DONT KNOW!" SOOOO IF ITS NOT BAD MANNERS..." JUST SEND MONEY?!?">>>... PLEASE???!!!>>>... THANK YOU!!! IM STILL ON A SPACE CRAZE TOO... SOO IF ITS NOT TOO WEARD FOR A TEEN TO ASK FOR SPACE TOYS ...SCHOOL IS O.K.... I WATCH NASA TV AND THEY JUST SAID THAT WE ARE GOING TO SEND MORE PEOPLE TO THE MOON IN MY LIFE TIME!!! THAT MEANS I CAN GO TO THE MOON!!!! AWESOMENESS... JUST PURE AWESOMENESS... AND THATS ALL FOR NOW...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CHRISTIAN MASTERSON....

Justin got back on Tuesday from being in AZ. He had a great time in the sunshine. He was watching his nephew, JD, in the state wrestling tournament in Prescott. He got to see Brenda, Derrill, Dad, Helen, Aaron, Amanda, Eddie, and Spencer. He enjoyed the nice blue skies, even though it was a little cold in Prescott. Now he has to go back to work. And give Melanie lots of hugs and kisses, as she missed him so much when he was gone. He worked hard in the yard yesterday, in the 3 hours of sun we had, cleaning up the yard etc.

I really missed Justin while he was gone. I didn't realize how much until he got back. It was so nice to have someone to talk to and share all the stuff that had been going on. It has been a busy week for me. Dr Claypool has been gone, so I was the only one in the office. Although it sounds nice and quiet, I was quiet busy, catching up on all the things I needed to catch up on. It was nice to get everything done. Dr. Thompson had a problem with his dictation machine so I am doing his dictation for one of the days this week. The little extra money will be nice, we are trying to save our pennies for all the trips we have coming up in June.

Primary as always has been challenging. I had to do sharing time today, for both sr. and jr. primary. I didn't know I would be doing it until we were ready for the first one. Our wonderful singing lady, did singing time first so I could get something together. I was so grateful for that. I think that sharing time went well but would have liked a little bit more time to get ready. I'm also needing to fill to places in Primary, which is never easy, but in our branch, which feels like it is shrinking, it is even harder. I heard that there was only 3-5 people in relief society so if I take two of them:( for them. Next month there are 5 Sunday's, and as I was looking at it I realized that I may be doing 3 Sharing times. So I'm starting to work on them now.

This week it is the Blue and Gold for cub scouts. I don't know what I was thinking but I said I would make the rolls. So I get to make 3 batches of rolls on Tuesday evening. That was the same week that I said yes to being the secretary at cub scout day camp. I must have been like in the "sure I can do anything" mode.

Alice has Trek coming up in Aug. and is excited. I think it will be a good experience for her. She is also excited about going to Kenya next year, so we are going to get her passport and she is going to start saving all her pennies. One of the Dr. I work with does travel shots so I will be talking to him about when we can start all the shots she needs and the cost involved there. She will be going with a family from the branch, that has goes several times a year and works in an orphanage there. I wish I was going with her, perhaps I'll go later after she does.

I wish Nathan was home to tell you about his week but he is in Sedro-Woolley. He lost his truck keys and is now starting his truck with a screwdriver. And looking hard for his keys. Nate is learning the hard lesson of the money never stretches far enough, and Mom can't always bale you out. It is hard, but good for him. I have noticed that he has been happier as of late, and a great help around the house which I really appreciate.

Many busy things

not much happend with me...at school I got my electives changed from wood shop to art P E is a manditory class so I went to the temple on saturday and it was fun and I learned a trick to do with a soda straw roll up both ends and then flick the middel and boom!! --- Christian

Not much happend to me and my bro Christian got a new video game.School was SO BORING not much happend at school but P.E. was fun.
Zachary Materson

It has been a busy week. Justin is trying to get ready to go to his brothers this coming week. His nephew is going to compete at state wrestling and he is going to watch. He is very excited about going to see everyone. He also went yesterday to get some wood. He thought he was going to be getting rounds to split, ended up they were rounds, just a lot bigger than he thought they were going to be. They were so big he could barely pick them up. I'm glad he didn't hurt himself.

We got a family membership at the YMCA this week and Alice and I made it 3 days this week, which was good for us, we are shooting for 5 days this coming week. Nathan joined us for two of the days. We left early one day as both Alice and I felt that we needed to go home. We still don't know why we needed to go home, but we did.

Work has been keeping me quiet busy, I am settling in I think finally, trying to do enough to help keep peace in the office, without doing other peoples job. I have found that I am very emotional lately and it is frustrating to me as I seem to be mad or sad a lot. I'm working on not letting my frustration from work spill over into how I feel at home, and it is hard at times.

Alice has been great. It was the 4th anniversary of the office this week. I called her on Wednesday and she made a cake for me to take the next day. I was so grateful. I also got 4 balloons for Dr. C chair and then a lucky bamboo plant for him. It was a hard day at work that day as some people were a little upset that day, but I think the cake, etc helped and most of the people were in good moods when they left.

I've been frustrated with primary and church in general as of late,which frustrates me. I have always said that I would not let my feelings being hurt or the way I was feeling about anything keep me from gong to church. This has been being put to the test as of late. I hate the struggle. It frustrates me, and makes me sad. I have a testimony of the gospel, I am just struggling with the people who don't always think before they say something. I have be butting heads with Alice off and on lately about different things lately also mostly about church things. I know what I need to do. Get on my knees more, read my scriptures more, and have a more open, and forgiving heart. I am hoping I am up to this challenge.

Alice and I have decided to do Valentines for a friend who doesn't usually get one. We know that she loves chocolate, so we are going to get some from the local store here where they make yummy hand dipped chocolates right there. One of the ladies in my primary presidency is a massage therapist, and when I talked to her about getting a gift certificate, she said she would donate it. I also found out her favorite flower is tulips so we will be getting her some of those also.

Alice and I both had our eyes checked last Friday. Alice needs glasses, we will be getting them next weekend. I need to get new ones also, but will wait for a few months as I can see, and Alice can't see the board at school. Her and I will do that and then go to the movies. We are hoping to find a good deal on some running shoes for her and then do dinner. I am thinking of either getting Chinese food or steak and cooking it at home. I'm thinking of sweat pants for Nathan, as there was a small incident when he showed up at the gym in cut of pj pants and embarrassed Alice. but she finally settled down and we got to work out. The next time she let him borrow a pair of hers. So I thought I'd get him some of his own.

Yesterday Alice and I were at the mall, looking for glasses, and I started looking for something for Justin for Valentines Day, I ended up getting him a nice money clip. I'm going to put it in his suitcase so he will get it while he is gone. When he gets home I'm going to get it engraved, but it wouldn't be back if I tried to get it done before he left. I do need to come up with something good to get him for the 24th as he has had to put up with a lot this year. He is such a good man.