STUPID ICE MAKER!

Normally "stupid" is not a word that we use in our house, but in this case I think it is justified. So our ice maker broke a few weeks ago. We called a few repair places to see how much it would cost to have someone come out and look at it. The range was between 70 and 90 dollars. That doesn't include parts. After waiting a few weeks (and a lot of nudging from Scott), we finally called the place that would actually come all the way out here to take a look. Their price was $84.50. We figured that at most it would cost maybe $30 or $40 for parts. The guy came this morning. He opened it up, said the motor was broken and needed to be replaced. He went out to his truck and got a new motor. He then replaced it. All of this took less than 15 minutes. He never said how much the new motor cost. I should have thought to ask, but I figured if it was a crazy high number he would tell me. Then we sat down and he started filling out the receipt, this took longer than the actual repair. I didn't get the grand total until he had finished adding everything up. $195.30! Just to fix the stupid ice maker! If I had known that the motor was $99 I would have said, no thanks, we'll go buy some trays. I know Scott wouldn't have been too happy with that, he really loves the ice maker. But, man alive! That is a LOT of money for a freaking ice maker! If that thing breaks again any time soon, like in the next five years, Scott is just going to have to go without an ice maker.

Steef, if you need us to do the math for you please let us know....we realize this is probably confusing you.

Spring is in the air!

I'm gonna have to be honest. I was really excited about my bulbs starting to push their way through. I really felt like spring is finally coming. Then I read the blog of one of my friends, right before I was ready to post this. She lives in San Diego and was talking about how she was getting to lay out in her backyard with her swimsuit on and how she was getting her garden ready to plant her veggies. Now I'm just jealous! Here's the picture of the bulbs sprouting anyway.

New Hair Cut

Well, I did it! I took the plunge. I've always wanted to try a really short haircut. Just to see what it would look like. I finally decided that even if it looked horrible it would grow out eventually. Here is the end result. The trick will be being able to repeat the styling that the stylist did, or at least to make it look good. What do you think?

First Talk

Annicka gave her first talk in Primary on Sunday. She did an awesome job! I thought she might get a little nervous and not want to talk once she got up to the pulpit, but that was not the case! She talked about how Heavenly Father and Jesus talk to the prophets and then the prophets talk to us through the scriptures and through General Conference. We were so proud!This is a picture of Heavenly Father and Jesus (it got a little wet) that Annie drew. The things sticking out of Jesus' head with dots on it are supposed to be His hands with "owies".
And this one is of President Monson and the scriptures. It kind of looks like him, right?

Hallelujah!

Well, today I took the final for my History of the Family in Europe class. I feel pretty good about it too. I mostly feel good because it is DONE! If you heard me talk about it, you'll understand why. For those of you who didn't, it was a hard class with LOTS of extremely academic reading. It had 13 lessons and each lesson was made up of five or six questions that I had to write at least half a page single space answer to. So essentially I was writing a five to six page paper every week or two, as well as reading 50-80 pages of the most boring stuff you've ever read. Normally I'm a reader, I love to read, but this reading was really hard to get through. But it is done! Now on to bigger and better classes! Hallelujah!

Happy Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day Scott and our neighbor Adam got together and cohorted on a plan. Scott's mom came to watch all of our kids at their house while they cooked us some delicious homemade pizza, heartshaped obviously, at our house. We then put all the kids to bed around 7:45 and then watched a great chick flick that just came out called "Becoming Jane", along with mom. We played some canasta while we watched. What more can you ask for on Valentine's day than to have your husband cook you dinner and watch a movie with you that under no other circumstances he would otherwise watch?

Battle Wound

Well, I've been playing Church Basketball for the last month or so and this last week I took a really good hit.