In other "Rachel news", she was at girls' camp the first week of June and had such a fun time. She was asked to be a YCL--Youth Camp Leader--which means she helped the stake leaders with activities, songs and skits. She loved it. She is also actively seeking a summer job...she's filled out multiple applications and had her first job interview yesterday. Stay tuned... Stefanie has a love/hate relationship with softball. She loves her coaches and the girls on her team, and she really likes going to practice. But when it comes to the actual games she gets so scared and worried that she nearly gets sick to her stomach. Every game. The irony about it is that she's really a good little softball player. At yesterday's tournament game she had the best hit on her team...the ball went past second base, she made it easily to first base and brought two runners in. Yet, she said on the way home that she didn't think she wanted to play in the rest of the tournament. Silly girl!
Braden has had a crazy month. All this week he's been at a UVU basketball camp with his middle school team. I've taken him to the school at 7:00 a.m., they carpool to UVU where they've played up to six games each day, and arrived home exhausted at about 10:30 each night. He's loved every minute, including eating at Golden Corral (an all-you-can-eat buffet) twice each day. Next week he's going with the Young Men group in our ward on a "high adventure" scout activity to Flaming Gorge. He's excited to go waterskiing and wake boarding all day long for four days. Then the week after that he's going with his Dad's basketball team to St. George for a 5-day camp. Kent will actually put him on a team this year for the first time. They'll get home on Friday afternoon and leave minutes later for a "Fathers & Sons" overnight campout with the ward. And that wraps up June for him. I don't think he could get any busier.
And now an update on Kent, my poor husband. He has been sicker than I've ever seen him. Ever! For six days last week he did nothing but lay around and moan. It came on very quick. Friday was his last day of school, he was fine when he left, but at lunchtime he called to say he felt awful. He came home early and could barely drive home. He staggered to bed and didn't move much for the next six days. Here were his symptoms...
* high fever
*head ache
*body aches
*chills
*extreme fatigue
*sore throat
*severe cough
*no appetite whatsoever
*other "digestive issues"
Does any of this sound familiar?? If you've watched the news in the last month, you know that those are the symptoms of SWINE FLU! Last week there were four confirmed cases at Copper Hills High School. I tried to convince him to let me take him to the doctor but he's a tough guy and didn't want to hear about it. But I know that's what it was. He's much better now, although not quite 100%. Now I can only pray that nobody else in the family will come down with it. I've been a tyrant about hand washing. I've sanitized every surface in this house over and over. I've done loads and loads of laundry...so far so good. Please, everyone cross all your fingers and toes for us!