Ham radio class, our first fitbit reward, and RootsTech

Last Sunday at church there was a notice in the bulletin that a ham radio class was starting up that Wednesday. After the meeting, I told Glen I was interested in attending. He said he wanted to, too, so Wednesday evening found us attending our first class. We knew several of the people there. I don't know that we will spend time just chatting with others once we have our licenses (and radios), but it's an emergency preparation kind of thing and it might be fun just to listen on the world.

And in other news, we had our first drawing for our family fitbit challenge. Each person was represented by one color die and we held a drawing for nominal cash prizes. Andrew had 4 dice since he had the highest number of average daily steps for the last 28 days, Ryan came in 2nd so had 3 dice, I was 3rd so I had 2 dice, and everyone else had 1 dice in the bag.

Alex drew my dice first, so I get the $5 (and I feel a bit guilty about that, but it was fair and square).

Alex drew his own die next. He gets the $3.

He drew Andrew's last. Andrew will get the $2.

Alex and I swear the drawing wasn't rigged.

The breakdown:

1st place: Andrew (blue dice) had 15,085 average steps/day over the last 28 days
2nd place: Ryan (orange) had 11,854
3rd place: I (purple) had 11,582

Rusty (yellow) was next with 9,597

Heather (pink) with 8,717

Eric (white) with 8,100

Alex (red)with 7,582

Glen (black) with 7,306

Hannah (green) with 1,372 (she forgot her fitbit in Fallon when she went to Reno)

So, we will see if our rules change for the month of February, but good luck everyone on getting your steps in this month.

I've been working on family history again. The RootsTech Conference will be going on this week in Salt Lake from the 8th-11th. I'm excited to listen in to some of the lectures that will be streamed live. Go to RootsTech.org to check it out.

The special guests this year are:
The Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott will speak Thursday at 7:30 am Nevada time.

LeVar Burton (of Roots fame) will be speaking Friday morning at 7:30.

Buddy "Cake Boss' Valastro, and CeCe Moore (from "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.") will speak Saturday morning at 7:30.

Pres. Russell M. Nelson and his wife Wendy are speaking at 12:00 noon on Saturday at the Family Discovery Day session.

Can't wait!

Live stream schedule can be found at https://www.rootstech.org/live-stream-schedule?__prclt=pJLj7SCr

Henry's video, Hannah's subbing, Alex is a math whiz, and my new adventure

Last week Andrew posted this video of Henry talking to his blog. He used his new editing program to make it. Love it. So precious!
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Hannah has now subbed twice in the Washoe county school district, once was a 1/2 day kindergarten job and the other was a 1/2 day in a middle school music class. There's a chance she'll have a 4-5 week long term sub job in that music class since the teacher was in the hospital. The kids weren't too well behaved, but since the teacher hadn't had time to made lesson plans before being admitted, we're hoping things will go better if she does get that job. Good luck Hannah!

In other news, Alex and Thomas went with other students to Reno on Saturday to participate in the Northern Nevada Secondary Mathematics Contest. Alex went for Algebra II and Thomas was there for the Comprehensive (pre-calculus or higher) contest. The contests are based on individual and team efforts.

There were 3 tests (two individual and 1 team) divided by breaks. First there was a 10 question free response exam. Alex said no one thought that they did well there. Then there was a 30 question multiple choice exam (Alex beat the next highest score by 3 correct answers). Following that, there were 5 questions for the teams to answer.

Alex came in first place in the individual contest, which earned him a $50 gift card! And his team also came in first so that was a bit more money. Alex had just mentioned to me last week that his math class was too easy. I guess he has the math gene and math just comes natural for him.

Thomas's team wound up coming in second in their category. They had tied for first, but they lost the tie breaker. Way to go boys!!!

And as for me, I signed up to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator yesterday.  My stamping group, which has now been meeting for about 10 or more years, lost its demonstrator (the person who handled our orders) and I decided I might as well fill the spot. I am not planning on actively looking for orders other than for my group, but if anyone wants to order anything from Stampin' Up, let me know!