NEWSLETTER FOR FEBRUARY 2011

March 3, 2011
NEWS FROM THE DAYS:
Most of the kids came over for the super bowl and we enjoyed the game and eats. Throughout the month, even though I’m a Ute fan, it’s been fun seeing the state and even the country get Jimmered up about BYU basketball. Too bad about their big man getting booted off the team a few days ago – hopefully BYU’s performance against New Mexico is not what this team is all about and they go on to do well in March Madness.
Big news of the month is Katie and Bill’s little Sofie who arrived on Feb. 13th at 8:59 AM, 7 lbs 7 oz. Katie was able to have her naturally this time, and it went pretty fast – left for the hospital at 5 AM and had her 4 hours later. She’s a doll, and Jack, her almost two yr. old big brother has taken pretty good to her. Linda and I took over dinner one night and thoroughly enjoyed playing with Jack and holding little Sofie. You should see Jack’s new bedroom – a blackboard wall on one side, hanging airplanes, Katie and Bill really know how to decorate cute!
Later that week, the whole family met at a local McDonalds to celebrate Sarah’s 5th birthday (this would be Stephanie’s second oldest). She is really growing up, and we enjoyed watching the kids do the play land thing before doing cake and ice cream and presents.
Our dryer started destroying some of our clothes, and upon hearing the repair cost of this plus the repairs also needed on the washer, it was time for a trip to RC Willey for new ones. Our new dryer has a steam cycle, so perhaps we can stop ironing all together.
Linda saw some new crochet patterns she liked one day, and has started doing some real neat stuff that is fancier and different from what she’s done for years and years. We attended a play at the U of U called “In” – I thought it was OK – Linda wasn’t so sure. But we agreed that our week long trip to St. George at the end of the month was great. Not a lot of doing stuff, but great relaxing, reading, seeing some movies and enjoying eating out every day. And we did make it down to Mesquite, Nev. One night and enjoyed that as well. Speaking of movies, we saw one that you probably shouldn’t attend called “Drive Angry” with Nicholas Cage. Let’s just say that if you do go to see it and sit all the way through the movie, you probably won’t be eligible to enter the celestial kingdom anymore. We went on a Monday night at 7PM and we were the only two people in the theatre?
I finished reading the book I got from Annette’s condo called Anna Karenina by Tolstoy – pretty good. But then I picked up a book by a fellow Swede, Stieg Larsson, called “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. This was perhaps the best fiction book I have even read! Wow! So I picked the second one in the series, “The Girl who Played with Fire”. Again, Wow! These wouldn’t sell in Deseret Book likely, but Wow!
Our legislative session in full swing, and I’ll give you a full report on the comedy next month. Our legislators are kind of like the TV series “All in the Family” – each year gets better and better, that is if you like humor, real life prejudice, hypocrisy, down home sincerity, drama – in other words, an All in the Family episode. Until next month, Love, Tom & Linda