SUMMER at last

lots went on during the last few weeks of school.
Cameron turned 11 years old. Tyler competed in Region track for 800m. Cameron had his last pack night... hes a boy scout now.Jeremy is competing in nephi city track club.

Cameron with his 5th grade teacher.  He earned the EAGLE award., one of top student in 5th grade class

USU birthday cake

Legos for birthday

Hersheys Track Meet second place in softball throw and standing long jump

softball throw 117'9"

Cameron crossed over to boy scouts. Tyler greeted him.

Earned webelos and arrow of light.

Jeremy long jump

Jeremy 4x100m

Thank goodness School is out for another year.  Its a busy summer, but a nice break from school.

Another school year over...almost

It's amazing to think that in august I thought school would never end. Now it's May already and there are just a few days left.   It's been good and bad. I've  loved working where my kids are, no commuting to Provo. I've been able to attend more activities with my kids.
But working at the same school where I was let go four years ago was more difficult than I imagined. I kinda felt like an outsider. Lots of new faces since I left and lots of changes too. There's are still people in this community that don't want me to teach..and i don't know why. They are too chicken to say it to my face.   I've been under a microscope all year and there were times I was in tears.   The math teachers I work with are amazing and supportive. They were key to my rehiring. My principal has been upfront with everything and I appreciate that very much, even if some of the stuff he had to say was difficult to hear. I didn't pass my evaluation as well as I'd hoped so I'm still on provisional status, which means no guaranteed job after next year.  Disappointing to say the least.


Lots of other things happened this year as well. Derek attended the university of Utah and learned a lot about life. He's now in Austin, Texas working for the summer. He left as soon as final were over and won't be back until  school starts in august. It's hard not seeing my oldest boy very much. I miss him.

Tyler is driving now, been very busy with soccer and track this spring. He ran in region and did his best run all season today to take 10th place in the 800m. He's also leaving for most of the summer to work at a Scout camp in Mt pleasant. He starts just 3 days after school gets out. He's  excited but sad to miss all the camps his football and basketball teams go to without him. I hope he won't be denied playing time because of his job. He earned his Eagle Scout rank and was ordained a priest  along with getting his drivers license all in one week.

So it's just Jeremy and Cameron and me and Chris this summer.
Jeremy and Cameron will keep busy with me. Scout camps and redecorating bedrooms. Chris will work and continue putting up the fence in the yard. I'd love for him to finish the hallway to repaint the house and then get something going with the bathroom downstairs.
I will be busy working in between going to girls camp, youth conference, and conferences  and workshops for work.  I can't wait to go to Oregon with Jeremy and Cameron. Somehow I'm going to squeeze that in, in addition to helping at family odessey camp the end of July. I also need to get a job as a very part time CNA to keep my license current. it expires in august. yikes.

What is up with the extra writing on my blog?

If only I could answer that question. I  don't know how it got there or how to get rid of it.  WEIRD. I've tried deleting the post that its over and it shifts to another one. Its hidden somewhere, but  I have no idea where.

Coming and Goings of the Evans boys

Tyler will be working at a Tifie all summer.  He's excited, so am I but nervous too, since i don't know what to expect. other than seeing him weekends.  He's playing both soccer and doing track. One of the coaches saw him throw a softball and said he should try throwing javelin. His soccer team is headed down to st george tomorrow for a tournament..in the rain.  His JV basketball team did well, the Varsity did great this year, but couldn't quite make it past Juan Diego in the play in game. a sad loss of 2 points. Tyler was able to suit up for Varsity, even had his name in the program. 

Derek has now asked us to cosign on a car loan (this summer)...for a nice 2010 crossover type vehicle.  with a payment almost twice ours.  He thinks we don't want him to have a nicer car than him..HAHA.  He's worse than ever.  I can't talk to him about it or anything else because I will get mad. Spring break ought be interesting, that is if he even comes home, but he might if he wants his taxes done. 

Jeremy is playing another round of basketball that starts saturday, he just finished up on Monday with the other leagues. He still hates school, his "Life history" paper is done. I think he had fun making stuff up.  We put the appendix thing for a childhood problem and the big scar on his leg turned into nearly cutting it off in a motorcycle accident.  FYI he dies at 83 in Juno, Alaska and had 5 kids.

Cameron is doing a wax museum project on the wright brothers.  He has to dress up and give a speech, i don't know how many people he has to talk in front of, but it should be fun. He decided to be Orville. Basketball season ended on yet another loss, though the team improved. Instead of losing by 10-20, we were only losing by 2-3. He did really well. At least there's next year.


PS since I wrote this a few weeks ago. more fun things have happened.
Tyler sprained his ankle in the Saturday morning game in ST. George. It was so bad he couldn't put weight on it to come off the field. It has since gone down and he is maybe ready to start working out again. I took him to the ER when he got home just to make sure he didn't break anything. Tyler has finally met with the Eagle guy and we are waiting on signatures to application and letters of recommendation. If he didn'y have  soccer game, he could have his Eagle board in March, but it should be in April!!  Also he got a job working at Tifie, the scout camp in Mt. Pleasant. guess I won't' see him this summer either.

Derek is frustrated with school, teachers, us, and probably work too.He's planning on going to Austin, TX to work selling pest control plans.  it's supposed to be great money.  (MMM...)   Its hard to be a parent to an adult child and we are just getting started. I've heard some things this week that give me pause. He is a good kid. He's trying to be independent, His new roommate is...something else from what i hear. I really do hope he comes home for a long overdue break from college life.

Jeremy's basketball team finally won another game yesterday, with only 6 of the 9 players there. He has also decided to try out for soccer.

Cameron gives his Wright brothers speech and program this week. I hope he doesn't freeze up.
Chris is playing with his alumni buddies in Murray this week.
Me, Im just praying to get through the last quarter and keep my job for next year. (evaluations are here again)

Soccer, Track, and Basketball schedules

Juab soccer(Tyler) He plays on the Varsity TEAM. This is Juab's first year as a sanctioned team. Varsity plays at 330, JV at 5. He plays midfielder

Feb 28-March 1 Tournament St. George
 Loss Huuricane 0-8
Draw Delta 0-0 Tyler sprained his ankle pretty bad and had to get helped off the field. When he finally got home, he could barely walk and his ankle was swollen nearly double its size. A trip to the ER said nothing was broken.
March 4 @ Granstville LOSS 0-8 (mercy rule)
March 7 @ home WIN 3-1 ALA
March 11@ Richfield 0-0 draw in overtime, first game back since sprained ankle.
March 18 @ North Sanpete 1-3 loss
March 20 @ Payson 0-7 loss
March 25 Carbon
March 28 @ ALA
April2 @ carbon
April 4 @ delta
April 15 north Sanpete
april 23 @ payson
April 25 richfield
May 1 playoffs begin

captains meet at center field

sprained ankle during second game of the season

Juab Track (Tyler)
March 5 Juab Ice breaker (cancelled)
March 12 @ Richfield 400m in 59s and long jump 14ft
March 18 @Salem Hills 400m in 1:00  and longjump 15ft
March  25 @Mtn View Invite
March 29 @UVU invite
April 1 Juab JV meet
April 4 Juab Invite
April 11-12 Manti Invite
April 19 @ fillmore
April 26 @ orem
April 29 @ Manti JV
May 2-3 @ BYU invite
May 7-8 region @ Juab
May 15-16 State @ BYU

REGION results

Basketball (Jeremy) again... spring league
March 1
March 3@ Salem Hills 7pm
March 8 @ spfk @ 10am
March 10@ salem hills @7pm loss 7 points
March 13@ spanish fork 9pm win 3 points
March 17@ salem hills 8p loss
March 18@spfk 9pm loss
March 22@ spanish fork 11a win 2 points
March 27@spfk 6pm
March 29@6pm
March 31@8pm salem hills
April 3@7pm
April 5@ 9am, noon

RIP Shadow

One of our cats died Feb 6. She was in the garage and when Chris came home from playing ball she was run over. He thinks she was already dead. He felt so bad. She usually gets right out of the way.

She was 15 years old. I always though Oreo would go first since she was the one who only has one kidney.  (we found that out when we had both cats fixed. she had one of everything on the right side of her body... one ovary, one kidney, one whatever else..)

car trouble

It seems we have had quite a bit of car work done this year. The truck (1998) went in for major repairs. ball joints u joints and other exciting stuff on the front end.

Now its the Pacifica's (2003) turn. It needed tires too. The brakes all of the sudden felt squishy right before Christmas. So we took it in early Monday Dec 29. Come to find out the entire brake system is shot. The mechanic said it looked like the wrong fluid wad put and now its the consistency of honey.  This in turn blew all the hoses. Even worse dodge doesn't make a part we need to fix the brake system so it's been sitting there for the last three weeks while they try find the part in junk yards. If we didn't still owe money on it, it could stay there and die. Who knows what will happen now.


Best of all the Nissan (2004) passed the 200, 000 mile mark this week. The Pacifica is close and the truck is over 230,000.

Isn't owning vehicles such fun?

1/21/14: update Finally found a part for Pacifica.  $1900 to fix and get two new tires.
2/3/14: finally got our car fixed and returned.  Really closer to $2000 to fix it. BOO.