Yes, I’m taking a sign language class.  I originally took it to see if I want to go into interpreting, but now I’m enjoying it so much, that I don’t want to stop going.  It nice having a few hours for me twice a week.  We are starting to have study groups too.  Plus I’m advancing my signing skills.  I love it!

Jason picked her up from school and brought her home.  She threw up one more time.  She slept from 7pm until 3am.  When I couldn’t get her comfortable again even after Tylenol I put her in the tub.  She liked that and fell back to sleep pretty quickly after the bath.  When I looked at the clock again after she fell back to sleep it was 5:30am.  Lucky me…I got to go to work tired.

Jason took care of Elizabeth while I went to work.  I called him after work and he informed me that she had a temp of 103.  I talked to the school nurse and she said as long as she is keeping fluids down she should be okay.  I came home and shortly after I got home her fever broke.  I guess it was a 24 hour bug after all.

Elizabeth is feeling much better and even went outside for a few minutes this evening.  She’s playing on the X-box and hopefully she will feel even better tomorrow.

Welcome Home Em and Jaylee

I waited all day long for Emily, Jaylee, and Kevin to arrive.  I spent the day keeping myself busy so I didn’t go stir crazy waiting.  We talked to Kevin when they arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona.  They were heading to Kevin’s house.  Flagstaff is an hour to an hour and a half from Kevin’s house.  We waited around for about 15 minutes and then headed over to Kevin’s.  He lives about 15-20 minutes from my house.

One of the things we did to pass time was to make a Welcome Home sign.  I told the girls it was for when Grammy and Papa came back.  I knew we needed to get there early so we could hang it up.  We got to Kevin’s and immediately Brian told Nikki that Auntie Em was coming.  I was so mad.  We had talked to him earlier in the day about not telling them, because they didn’t know she was coming.   Needless to say I was very unhappy that he spilled the beans.

Some of us played cards to pass the time.  Jason and I hung up the welcome home sign.  I got tired of waiting inside for them to come so I went outside to wait and watch the lightning storm.  I thought I heard the truck and told them to come out.  I didn’t realize it wasn’t them.  I was much more careful the next time I told them they were there.  I waited until I saw the truck.

We were all dancing around in the driveway.  We were so excited to see them all.  Nikki and Elizabeth were so excited they climbed up on the truck to see Auntie Em and Jaylee.  I had to get them out of the way to help Em get down.  She handed Jaylee over to me.  Jaylee immediately started screaming.  Kevin came and took her so she would stop crying.

We went inside the house and Em, Kev, and Jaylee had dinner.  We just visited with them while they ate.  To get Jaylee to like me I danced with her in the kitchen at Kevin’s.  Jaylee finally decided that Aunt Steph wasn’t so bad.  We had to go home so they could get some rest.  It was great seeing them.

On Sunday we went over to Prescott, Arizona.  Which is where Emily and Jaylee are staying.  They are staying with Eric and his family.  We went over to help them move their stuff out of the truck and to have a family dinner together.  It was a nice day.  I took Jaylee with me to the store so she would be out of the way while they were moving furniture.

When we got back I helped Em arrange the room.  We had to move things around a little to get it where she was happy with it.  We had dinner.  Jeff and Erin came for a little while with the baby.  She’s a cutie.  She wasn’t happy so they had to leave early.  When they were leaving Jason saw a rainbow over the mountain.  It was really cool because it looked like the suns rays were coming up from the mountain.  The day was very nice and it was good to get Emily and Jaylee a little more settled in.

Adventurers on Poly Dome

Here are a few more pictures from the adventurer hike in Yosemite 1991.  I hope you find yourself in at least one!!!   

Adventurer hike in the Yosemite back country. This was taken at May Lake in 1991. We had a ball! Our fearless leaders were Adam Sessions, Cindy Sessions, Debbie ?, and Alan Banner.  Perhaps someone can help me with naming everyone in this shot.  I (Stephanie) am the third one over on the top row from the left.  Shelly McAndrews is two over from me.  Is that Debi Fife between us?

I guess I need to make the picture bigger if possible…

I will see what I can do.