Beautiful

I love where we live. It is so beautiful. A woman in our ward took this pic the other day. 

Snow Canyon vs Desert Hills

Once again, JV won but Varsity lost. This has been the theme for the year so far. The JV girls have been playing well and Courtney has been great. The temperature has been awful (104-105 degrees at game time) but I shouldn’t complain because I sit in the shade while they run all over turf. But it’s fun to watch her play.

New mask

The District decided that we could wear face shields without masks (they found some loop hole in the governors latest order) so we all filled out paperwork saying that we needed to wear face shields instead of masks because of mental reasons 😂 and because our jobs require communication with students. I bought some cheap face shields and it has been so much nicer than masks!! But I can’t wait u til all this is over.

Storm

We had a huge thunder storm and brought a lot of rain last Sunday night. We didn’t get flooding at our house but a lot of parts of St George flooded. I didn’t realize that the wind was blowing so hard until I drove to work Monday morning. Three huge trees by the tennis court were blown down.

Two giant sink holes developed at a local hotel. A man claims his car is in one but that hasn’t been verified. It was a crazy storm.

Canyon View vs Snow Canyon

Courtney has an SCHS game against Canyon View, a team inCedar City. We drove there to watch her play. Varsity lost but the JV team won...and Courtney made a goal!!!! A girl flat tired her on the way to the goal so Courtney lost her shoe in the process but she scored!! We were so excited for her but she acted cool, like she does it every game. She told me not to tell Ethan because she wanted to. It was fun!

The team always gets pizza at the game in Cedar. It’s a tradition.

There was a semi that was on fire in the southbound lanes of I-15 when we drove to Cedar City. So we all went the long way - through Enterprise - to avoid the traffic and get home. There are a lot of fires in the area so it made for a gorgeous sunset as we drove home. I had to try and capture it.




This was the view after we passed Pine Valley. It was so pretty.

Donating blood & Bryan’s bruise

Bryan and I went to give blood. Bryan has type O blood so they ask him to donate all the time. I’m boring A positive so I go once in a while to donate. We both had appointments the same day so Bryan changed his time so we would be there together.

I got there a few minutes early and got started on the intake process. Bryan showed up and started the process as well. I was ready to give blood so they had me sit down on a table and after a quick poke, my blood started filling the bag...really fast. The lady was kind of surprised and told me I would finish in a few minutes (it usually takes 8-10). 

Meanwhile, Bryan is taken to a bed to start his donation and, as I watch, I can tell that it isn’t going well. The lady is going in at a weird angle and I could tell that she couldn’t find his vein. This continued as I watched and I didn’t like seeing Bryan in pain.

My bag finished filling in 3 minutes and 42 seconds. The lady told me that was super fast. She took the needle out and had me put my arm over my head while she finished labeling everything. I kept watching them as the third lady tried to find Bryan’s vein. It was then that I started feeling light headed. I told her and she had me take my mask off and wiggle my feet. I haven’t passed out a lot but I could tell there was no going back. So I laid my head back and told her I was going to pass out...and I did. 🤣

I had a crazy dream that had a lot of colors in it and a river. I woke up to two ladies yelling my name in my face. I said “I passed out didn’t I? I had a crazy dream.” They were really surprised that 1) I came to so coherent and 2) that I had a dream. 

They had an ice bag behind my neck, the table was laid down, my right shoe was off, and kept me there for a while while they finally decided that they couldn’t find Bryan’s vein. He came over to sit with me until they cleared me to leave. The woman said I passed out because my blood came out too fast. Bryan thinks I passed out because I was upset with how he was in pain. I think it was probably a combination of both. I don’t think I’ll donate again for a while. But I have a good story.

Bryan ended up with a HUGE bruise. The first picture is the day after and the second is 5-7 days after. It was huge!

Pack #14

The soccer swag came in and Courtney’s warm up has her name and number on it! Here is to another fun year of soccer.