what's new with us?!

Well, I have a car now, in addition to the van and truck. It's a nissan altima. It's for the commute to Provo that I do EVERY DAY to teach part time at Independence High School. Apparently some people didn't know I had a new job

Chris has a blood sugar issue so we are changing our diet ever so slowly to accomodate this. What a terrible time to have no sugar--the holidays!!

Derek is getting braces right after Thanksgiving.

Tyler took 5th place in the science fair for the 6th graders. He discovered which household magnets are the best to use.

Jeremy and Cameron are the same as always -- Hunters and cowboys and sports players, all depending on the day.

Since when are we bowlin' fools?

The name change was due to the fact that this blog was supposed to be for the Gabrish family siblings. Unfortunately, I am the only one that contributes and even reads it.

Actually I joined a bowling league for women this year. I started out bowling one of my best games during the first two weeks, a 236 and I still hold the high game and high series after 11 weeks of bowling. However the excitement of it all is waning and I am back down to bowling more what I used to 150-160. I'm still using my old purple ball that I got in high school... I forgot to put my stuff in the car last week and had to use a house ball, which is too big for my fingers. I bowled my worst game all year!!! (126) I dropped my average again!

What is really kind of funny is that a bunch of people who work at the bowling alley have now joined the league, mostly college students,and it's become a mixed league --men and women. I'm not sure if everyone really likes it, but I don't care.

It's been fun to do something different. I guess I'm having a midlife "something", because I've been doing things I have never done or things I haven't in quite a while.

skydive Utah

I really did go skydiving with Fish, my brother in law at Skydive Utah in Tooele on October 1, 2009. It now feels surreal, like it didn’t really happen. I watched the video that was made of the whole thing and still can’t believe I did this. It was freezing cold, 50 degrees on the ground, since it had snowed the day before. The day was clear and blue and we could see for miles. We landed farther away than we were supposed to, but apparently it happens sometimes. We did land in the airport, though…

I had a hard time breathing when we first jumped. I don’t know if it was because of the cold or because I was hyperventilating that I just jumped. Both Fish and Katie and everyone else said it’s more enjoyable when it’s warmer. I think I want to find out if that’ really true. The whole experience from the time I arrived until I drove away took an hour and a half. I expect we were only in the air for 20 minutes and most of that was on the plane. We took off at a steep incline and were at 13000 feet above the ground in no time at all. Fish kept reassuring me that I was going to be fine, despite the jokes that the parachute should open. I kept thinking on the plane what have I done?? I really don’t remember much of the freefall except that it wasn’t my favorite part. Once the parachute opened, I was better. I honestly wasn’t sure if I could walk after we landed. Shaky legs and all, but I did.

I really was exhilarating and I think I want to try again. Just to see if I pay attention to anything else around me. I apparently didn’t notice another diver next to us during part of the freefall. I saw that during the video. The camera guy, Jeff, tried to spin us, but that was not to my liking. We did a back flip off the airplane as we jumped out. I don’t even remember that. I just saw it on the video. I must have closed my eyes or something.

Amazing, exciting, terrifying and I’m crazy enough that I might want to do it again…

Dare Devils

Cameron finally learned how to ride his bike without training wheels today. While I was at work, Jeremy took the training wheels off Cameron's bike and held him up; the next thing you know, Cameron's riding all over the place.

Jeremy is such a crazy boy; he loved riding Jared's dirt bike... A complete natural and has no fear. He doe the same thing on his bike as well. Some day I'll upload pictures...

Boys will be boys

The boys are at this moment doing everything they can to avoid sorting the clothes and taking out the trash. we just got home from a little trip to SLC and there is much work to be done. In the last two weeks we've played at Seven Peaks water park, had Jim's family visit before they moved, visited with Wayne's family who is in UTAH for a visit, stayed at Jared's before we went to Lagoon, played at Discovery Gateway, Hogle Zoo, bowling at Ritz Classic in SLC... Many late nights and fun-filled days. I'll post pictures of all the fun when I put the pictures on the computer. School starts in 15 days.

Welcome

I thought since we are all even more spread out than ever before, we could start blogging. I'm not a fan of facebook or myspace or anything like that. (Yes, I've tried it). Hope you will join in. It's not too hard especially if your pictures are digital already. I've made it so only people I invite can read this, so it should be safe. I'll add your names to be authors as I get responses back.
Jennifer