March 10

Since my last post we have had some interesting weather. After it finally snowed a bunch the weather turned really windy. Rad and I were on our way to town one day and had to turn around because of a tree that had been blown down in the road. Now it’s feeling like spring. The high 50’s is just great if I do say so myself.

Derrick has been able to spend more time out in the shop. The rest of us enjoy spending time in there with him. Shayli has been helping him get his Mom’s car painted. Cade and Rad like to work on their own projects. Last week Cade spent some time out there painting his own truck.  Hopefully soon Derrick will have his 4runner running and that can be his daily driver. It’s been a project for so long that it will be so nice to have it done.

Our outside dog, Hitch, has been coming into the house during the evening wind down. He is such a pretty and well behaved dog. The kids just adore him. They wrestle him and love on him and he loves on them right back.

Shayli’s goal for the quarter is to have all A’s. She is well on her way with all A’s and 1 B+. We have her registered for the summer session of drivers ed. Her last class will be on her 15th birthday.

We have a couple of moose that we keep encountering during our drive to the bus stop in the morning and again on our way home. They are so big! Yesterday I had to stop in the road so that they could cross. I was so glad that they just walked on by. Cade asked, “When do we get to see 2 bears walking around?”

Rad had a big dental appointment on Wednesday. He couldn’t eat after midnight Tuesday. When we got to the appointment they had him drink a medicine cocktail that made him super duper relaxed. He was in and out of sleep and in the seldom moments that he was awake he jabbered about the funniest things until he would pass out again. They had a sit in the “bean bag room” until the cocktail did its trick and then he went into the dental room where they strapped him down like a burrito, arms at his sides, so that he wouldn’t roll off. Then they hooked him up to laughing gas, kicked us out (Derrick and I were able to check in via the window on the door) and they went to work. He ended up with 3 crowns. He woke up toward the end of the procedure just sobbing. The dentist and assistant were worried that he was in pain. When they asked what was wrong he sobbed “My belly is just SO hungry.” They were relieved. Evidently when Rad went in for his little kid root canals the other dentist failed to stop the bleeding before they filled in the tooth. That was in September. So for that last 5 months Rad has been dealing with bleeding in his gums. No wonder he was in so much pain. This new dentist was pretty ticked at the one that screwed it up. He said once they got into the teeth it was just a mess. But he is fixed now. Yay.