Congratulations to our niece Sarah! and other family news

Yesterday was the state-wide Poetry Out Loud Contest in Reno. Andrew went his junior and senior years to represent Churchill county, but didn't place at state.

Sarah came in 2nd place state-wide! She lost to a girl who has won the last 3 years in a row. At last week's family dinner she was practicing one of her poems and I thought she was really good, so I'm not surprised.

Our nephew's daughter, Tessa, was blessed in Utah today. What a great occasion. Too bad we don't live closer so we could attend.

Ryan has had 2 swim meets and Hannah has had 2 track meets. They are having a great time and we're really happy that they can participate in these sports where you are racing against your old scores. Hannah is really in some pain from shin splints but manage to "PR" she told me...I needed a translation. PR stands for Personal Record...so she beat her times from last week in discus, shot-put, and 100 meter dash. Can I just say it's rainy and cold and miserable today. I'm so glad the track meet was yesterday when it was just windy. Ryan PRed in 100 freestyle (1 min 7 sec).

Eric is on spring break from the community college this week. Of course everyone else still has a month before we have our spring break, but that's OK.

I managed to find housing at BYU for Andrew that is super-close to 2 of his cousins, so we are excited about that. Alicia was kind enough to do some footwork for us and we sure appreciate her help. Now, we have 2 weeks for Andrew to figure out what classes he wants to take so I can get him signed up for them.

I may have finally entered the 21st century

A few weeks ago when I couldn't get my genealogy files to save on my "floppy" disc I went and bought a jump drive and used it once with the kids' help. The next time I tried to use it, the kids weren't around and I couldn't get it to work. Maybe I'll try again today.

This weekend we bought a router and now have wireless in our home. We did it so we can watch netflix instant views on our TV. Now when friends come over to "scrapbook" they can use their laptops to go online at my house.

We also got the wireless because we are about to cancel our satellite subscription. *gasp* Yep. Don't know how soon. We've been discussing it for months. We might wait until after General Conference at the beginning of April, but we'll see. 

Glen and I watch Castle, Psych, and an occasional episode of The Mentalist. Why are we paying $47/month to do that? Psych we can get online and when we update our antennae get a converter box, we can still get the others on our TV.