Coolest family ever

Today my family ran/walked a 5k.

UVU held a 5k today, they call it the No Snow 5k it is to support Habitat for Humanity in Utah County. It is held completely inside. there are 2 routes one (with stairs) is 3 laps of stairs and then 3 short laps around the courtyard (for those of you who are familiar with UVU this includes the hall of flags). the non stair route is 12 laps of the courtyard.

my family has times ranging from 41:31 to 68 min. Katie and I (Lillian) did extra laps before going to the finish line because we are a bit odd. (I wanted to finish with my husband and it took 2 extra laps to catch up to him and Katie half way through started walking with Grandpa Wilkinson.

We invited the Utah County Wilkinsons to go with us, and most of them did. Grandpa, John and Alicia, James and Tiffany, and James' kids and James neighbor Brad came.

Chandler and Janet did the stair route and ran most of it. Jim and Daniel ran most of the non stair route. I only ran while I was trying to catch my husband. I had told a friend I was not going to run, I was planning on taking a leisurely stroll and enjoy myself. apparently I did not stroll leisurely enough because all of my children that I started with found someone else to go with. as I was on part of the catch up to tom to finish part James was with me. He told me that I walk fast.

Any way I am very proud of myself and my whole famiy for our starting and completing of this race.

We are going to look for other races to go on and we are training for a 10K in July.

Test

Thomas went this morning, to take his Utah state psychological law test. he needed a 75 % to pass, he got a 82 %. On the way home he took his pass note to the dept. of licensing. now we are waiting to receive word of licensure. hopefully within the next week. It should go faster than usual, since he hand delivered the paperwork.

APPROVED!!!!!

Thomas got an email. In it he is told that he is now a candidate for licensure and needs to register for the Utah Psychology Law Exam. He will be doing this today.

this means that after lots of prayers (thanks!) they have approved his paperwork, and his supervision hours.

its been a busy while

its been busy around our house for the last couple of months.

the kids have been quite busy with school. Katie had a guitar concert in December,
Carolyn had a drama night in November.

I have been working full time hours although technically, I am only part time at walmart.

Thomas taught two classes at Salt Lake Community College during the fall semester and will be teaching two more this semester. He was hired at UVU to teach a class and as he was getting in the car today to go teach it, he got a phone call asking him to teach another one. that started today too.

He was given a choice of two books to use for the second class and chose the one that he is using for the classes at SLCC. so he doesn't have lots of extra prep that he will have to do.

He has also accepted a job working at a clinic with one of his friends from grad school. He will be the staff psychologist. He can start working as soon as his license comes through. so we are praying for speedy mail.

Care Packages by Janet

Me and my friend Ansley are putting together little packages to send to people who need some extra love. We would really like it if anyone new some people that need some extra love please post or talk to me. We would also appreciate any suggestions you have to what we could put in them.

September and a bit of October too.

In Sept. we had several birthdays at our house.

Mikey turned 7
CarieKay turned 14
Danny turned 5

they all enjoyed their day.

School seems to be going well for everyone, there is a lot of homework and I am proud of my kids for working so hard on it.

after going seriously over on our cell minutes for two months in a row, we decided to get a home phone.

801-691-0813

I have applied for a new position at work, it took them a month to get around to interviewing, which I finally did on weds. hopefully we will find out soon who got the position. (I'm hoping to find out when I go to work tomorrow (saturday))

Thomas is still looking for a job, he has applied for quite a few, but keeps not getting interviews and then getting an email telling him that they have chosen someone else.

Danny is enjoying being with his dad.

August

the kids are all in school. Jim and Echo are both in concurrent classes at Provo High. Jims is Auto, and Echo is doing both a govt, and a math. Carrie is finding that she is enjoying the honors classes they put her in in math. Katie and Janet are also doing well in school. Mikey likes the playground. the younger kids really enjoy walking back and forth to school.

I have been working quite a lot (2 days off in the last 14 days)( I do have tomorrow off so maybe thats 3 days off in 15 days). i was working every other day in deli and then bakery, but the schedule for the next 2 weeks has me in bakery. One day I was in the bakery and the cake decorator was complaining to the dept manager that there were too many orders and she wouldnt get them done, the dept manager turned to me and asked, did you say that you decorated cakes before? I got to spend the rest of my shift decorating cakes, and have a couple of times since.

Thomas is working on the paperwork to get licensed in Utah, and is getting to know Carries three boys as he babysits for her while she works and goes to school.