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Hailstorm from Heck

Well, it's that time of year where the semester is wrapping up. As usual, that means I only have a few things left to grade and so I'm updating my blog instead. :) This is a picture of me and one of my students. It doesn't seem obvious in this picture, but we look a lot alike. In fact, one day after class, we were chatting and I said, "Do you feel like we look alike" and she said, "Yes!" I told a couple of my friends who have her in other classes and they said, "oh my goodness, yes you do look alike." So we joke around that I'm her birth mom, because she said she doesn't look like anyone else in her family. 

 Caleb had a great run at the Madison Track Meet. He was placed in the slower heat for the mile, but after the first lap, he just pulled into the lead and stayed there. At one point he was way ahead of everyone else, kind of like Isaac in the good old days. I think it shocked his coaches, so he will be running in the faster heats from now on. I talked to his cross country coach and she said, "You never know what you're going to get with Caleb." I think he liked the feeling of being out front, so maybe he'll kick it into gear more often. It was fun to see my niece Ainsley run for Madison. She was second in the mile by about half a second, so she did great!






On Saturday night we had a tornado warning, and we were right near the edge of the bad storm. Chloe was hyperventilating, but Kory, who loves weather, had all the blinds up and a chair sitting in front of the window to watch. Then, a hail storm with quarter sized hail blew through and pretty much trashed the vinyl siding of everyone in our ward. We got it on one side of our house.

The house insurance companies are being flooded with calls. 
Sunday, Andy came for a visit--with her parents, ;). 




 We've been helping Lakyn get all of the stuff out of her apartment into her house, so here's Morgan shooting a selfie.


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  1. AmyApril 15, 2018 at 8:02 PM

    Wow! Andy has A LOT of hair!! It was so good to see you guys!!

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