A foggy night and seeing the 129th temple

On Friday we took Sam in for his teeth cleaning. They have to put him to sleep to do this so they shaved a part of his front leg to put an IV in. Katina had a work conference to attend so she picked up Sam afterwards. As she was driving across the valley, the fog kept getting worse and worse. Sam was not a happy cat. He had not been fed all day and did not want to ride in the car at all. Normally he just meows like he is dying. Not on Friday! I could barely see the road for all the fog and at one point wondered if I was even on the road. At this moment Sam decides that he is not going to stay in his carrier any longer. He puts his head to the top and poked his whole head out of the zipper. I shove it back in there. The rest of the ride home he turns over and nearly knocks the carrier off the seat. The last thing I needed was a loose cat in the car during the fog. We got home in one piece.

You can see the incision from

the IV. We hope his hair grows

back soon!!

On Saturday we went to the Draper Temple Open House. Lani, our good friend from our old ward, went with us. She is handicapped so we were able to park at the temple. The only problem was that we couldn't find the temple. We have been up three times before, but all in the daytime. With it being night and raining really hard we totally got lost. We should have brought the GPS with us. After using a 1/4 tank of gas and driving all around, we finally found it. The temple was gorgeous! This open house was unlike any other. They didn't do the white booties and had no tour guide. We can't wait to go to this temple after it is dedicated!

I did not get any good pictures of the temple due to the weather. Don't worry I dd not take pictures inside the temple. These are copied from the newspaper. Isn't it beautiful!

the outside

a sealing room. I believe this is

the biggest sealing of any of the

temples. Can seat up to 60 people.

the celestial room

So Thankful for the Gospel

Yesterday Katina had a gang presentation at her school. She learned about the different gangs in the area and the characteristics of each one. It is really sad that Utah has gangs. It made Katina really glad for the gospel. The gospel is what gives families guidance. I don't understand how parents raise their kids without the gospel. It sounds impossible. Right before this presentation, a high school student was shot on his lunch break near a Salt Lake valley high school. He was in a gang and was shot by a rival gang member. Katina is pretty sure that she does not want to go into education. They present us with a lot of information, but no solutions on how to solve the moral problems we face.

Chris found out last night that he received an A in his last class. Good job!!!!

Finally Off-track and heroism in the world

On Thursday, Katina recieved some burst of humanity from the events in New York City. She had had a horrible day at work and hurt her back on Wednesday. She had been shopping and was on the verge of tears all day. When she got home on Thursday, Chris called her and told her to turn on CNN. As Katina watched this miracle, she realized that there were still good people left on this earth. What an incredible story!
Friday was Katina's last day of work. It was quite an exciting day. She had recess duty that morning and was yelling at the third graders to stop jumping off the jungle gym. A third grade teacher told Katina that they needed to take that set out because a kid was going to get hurt really bad. It happened at lunch. As we were sitting in the teacher's lounge on Friday, the recess aide come over a walkie talkie stating that a kid fell off the firemen's pole and paramedics needed to be called. An ambulance pulled in few minutes later, checked in at the office, and then pulled around the south playground in front of my relo. When I was walking back to my class, they were working on the 9-year old boy. Apparently, he jumped off the jungle gym and got a compound fracture to his femur. The kids were higher than a kite after that. Good thing it was a short day!

One Class Down and 7 to go

Chris is glad to be done with his advanced web design class (DHTML, XML, AJAX, HTML, XHTML, etc.). Chris was getting a 100% leading up to the final exam which is worth 41 out of 100 point. A very drooling test, but it was nice to have had the answers given to the class by the professor the week before the test. We will let you all know how he has done next week once he has his final grade for the class.  

Scary Recess Moment

Katina had an interesting thing happen at work today. She was out at recess duty. She normally hates to have duty, but with the weather really nice it isn't too bad. She was standing about 10 feet away from the tetherball pole and was talking to some of the her students. One of those students started to swing on the chain and the whole pole fell over! It landed about 3 feet in front of Katina. She thought she was going to die. The student was okay and laughing about the whole thing. They ended up taking the pole out and and hammering the metal that was sticking out of the hole in the cement. What a crazy thing to have happen!

Wish Katina luck on Thursday. The teacher she is subbing for is going to be absent and the sub covering for her has to be gone for an hour. Katina is subbing for that substitute. It is her 6th grade class, so things could get very ugly. Two more days till she goes off track again!!!

Birthday dinner

It was Katina's birthday on Tuesday. Chris took her to the Roof restaurant on the top floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It overlooks the temple and valley. We had a seat next to the window where we could see the details of the Salt Lake Temple. The Roof is a formal buffet style restaurant. It is quite expensive,but well worth every penny. The desserts are fabulous. They also had this fabulous tomato and archichoke soup. It you ever have a special event to celebrate and are in the SL area, I highly recommend this restaurant. I would only recommend this restaurant once a year. Otherwise you could go into debt ($36 a person).

New Calling

On Saturday Katina got a call from the executive secretary from their ward. She met with the bishop yesterday at 10:30. Katina is the new Relief Society secretary. She is excited for this calling.
Chris and Katina are trying to get used to afternoon church. This year they have church from 1-4. Uhgg!

How do some people get a drivers license?

When Katina was on her way home from work today (work today was in itself a long story), she had the rudest guy hit her car. It was snowing a whole bunch when I left. I was debating about either taking the freeway (my usual route) or another main road. I decided on the freeway. As I took my exit to get on the freeway, there was a car that had slid on the ice, went backwards, hit a cement barrier, and almost went over the bridge. People had stopped to see if they could help push him. The car ahead of my got very impatient and started to back up toward my car! I honked at him. He then pulled forward, turned his wheels, and started to back up so that he was backing up along the side of me. I knew he was going to hit my car, so I honked at him. His side mirror hit my side mirror, but didn't knock it off. As he went by he flipped me off! All the time he had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Seriously, how did that moron get a license to drive?

Prayers Needed

Would anybody and everybody please pray for our niece Ariana. We recieved word this morning that she is in the hospital with severe RSV. If you look at our favorite blogs on this page, more info and pictures can be found on the Cynthia and Pablo blog page. We will keep you updated on her condition.

A movie recommendation

Yesterday we went to a wonderful movie. Valkarie is the true story of a group of German soldiers who try to assasinate Adolf Hitler. As a bonus, it also stars Tom Cruise in all his greatness. It is rated PG-13 and done very tastefully. I would recommend this movie to anyone.
This was our only big New Year's plan. We did stay up till midnight on Wednesday to watch the ball drop. We were not big party animals this year.