kid update

Monday night, Glen and I went and watched the NCAA Championship on the big screen at the old movie theater. It was a blast. Everyone in the beginning was rooting for Gonzaga except for one guy. It turns out his brother was #25 on UNC's team. He had the last laugh as UNC pulled ahead and beat Gonzaga. It really was a fun night.

Alex spent 3 nights in Reno this past week with the Skills USA group. He participated in the digital movie category. One night he and his partner got about 1 1/2 hours of sleep because they were editing their film. They did not place in the competition, but had a wonderful time. At some point, I should be able to post his video to my blog.

There wasn't a track meet for CCHS on Saturday as the track meet was in California and there was a big snow storm going on, so we stayed home.

We got the car to the body shop. The man is pretty sure the insurance company is going to considered it totaled since it's a 2000 Camry with 270,000 miles on it. The most it is worth is maybe $1000. He said it would cost over $2,000 to fix it. Meanwhile, Hannah is driving a very nice electric blue Hyundai Elantra rental car, courtesy of Geico.

Speaking of Hannah, she is one week into her 10 week sub job. She's teaching math at Swope Middle School in Reno for the rest of the school year. Good luck, Hannah, with the rest of the semester. They go 2 weeks past Churchill county.

Eric and Ryan just finished up winter semester. Eric is in Rexburg with plans to practice with his new silk screen press. Ryan is currently in Colorado where he will attend a friend's wedding on Tuesday. Then he will pass through Provo and Andrew and Henry will take him back to Rexburg (Heather has a field trip to southern Utah this week and so Andrew and Henry are able to travel). I'm guessing a giant game marathon is planned once the boys are all together.

We still have another week of school before we have our Spring Break. We are counting the days.

It's April...

...so that means track is still going on, today is Andrew's birthday, March Madness is almost over, and this was General Conference weekend (it was amazing, of course). Plus, Eric has a new enterprise (just call me Charity).

Eric is the farthest face on the left. He and some friends watched Conference together.

 Having nothing to do with the month of April...actually this happened in March...poor Hannah and her friend Becky were rear-ended on Thursday. A trip to the ER tells us that they are OK (and we are praying the whiplash doesn't rear it's ugly head).

Our car is needing repairs. We think it's not totaled, but then again, it's 17 years old, so the repairs might cost more than the car is worth. We'll see what the insurance company says. The guy who caused the accident has Geico insurance. We'll see if saving 15% on car insurance is worth it or not.

the muffler is hanging down, the trunk is taped shut. :(

Alex's track meet this week was a 2-day event at Reed High School in Reno. Instead of coming home on the bus and going back the next morning, Hannah picked Alex up and he spent the night in Reno. She was able to cheer him on. The local newspaper posted a bunch of photos of the meet online, 3 of which had Alex in them.

I love that you can tell they are really giving it their all

4 x 100 relay with Alex getting ready to pass the baton to William

the hand off!

Hannah sent me some photos, too.

Alex and Rusty

Speaking of the local paper, in Wednesday's paper they printed some photos from the previous week's track meet. One picture was of Alex, but they mislabeled it and his caption reads, "Jacob Perazzo banks around a curve in Churchill County High School's track during the Elks Invitational."

Well, my dreams of winning the family's March Madness contest ended yesterday when South Carolina lost. We are down to 2  possible winners. If UNC beats Gonzaga, then Tyler wins. If it goes the other way around, Mom Perazzo wins. Good luck!

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!!! He's 27 today. How blessed we are to have him as part of our family. He is a great example to his siblings and just a joy to us.

Eric's new enterprise is explained in this video: