greetings from alabama

we were lucky enough to get our first letter from the mission field from elder hamilton.  he sounds so happy and says he's working really hard.  he has been assigned to mobile, alabama, but his companion is from right here in davis county (wxhs).  it's so good to hear from him!

today was a day off school for teachers to get their grades in.  caroline and jake pulled off 4.0s again this term--not without a lot of hard work.  sam was almost there and then he missed the last two days of the term last week and with missing work in algebra that brought him down a tiny bit.  i'm pretty proud of all three of them.

we got in from st. george late saturday night (sunday morning at 2:00 a.m.).  as luck would have it, craig had to turn around today and head back to st. george for a court hearing tomorrow.  he does get to fly though, which makes it a little more enjoyable. 

a happy thing happened today.  i made crock pot chili because i was going to go to sam's baseball games in ogden tonight and i wanted to leave a hot dinner.  i mised up all the ingredients and thought it was just an ordinary looking pot--i wasn't even that excited about the recipe i had used.  later in the afternoon, jake came up and showed me some fun things he got at the valley forge souenier swop.  some of the kids who went to the conference were from ohio and they swopped cincinnati chili seasoning packets.  cincinnati chili is my very favorite and i had just had some when we went to a reds game in phoenix a few weeks ago.  so i told jake to dump it right in the crock pot.  it was a huge hit!

i had a short-lived dream today to go to new orleans to see the jimmer and co. play their sweet sixteen game.  spent a little time looking for flights, but they were too pricey, so i guess i'm ready to let that go.  we'll hae a fun time watching here together on tv.  go cougs!