Internet buzzing with concern after reporter slurs her words - ksl.com

Internet buzzing with concern after reporter slurs her words - ksl.com

This reminds me of another young beautiful woman that had a stroke almost a year ago.

Therapy

Yesterday Naomee received her first visit from the physical therapist.  She said there is nothing physically holding her back and gave Britnee lots of things to work on.  She suggested some tips on teaching her sign language words one at a time, pushing her to try backing down the stairs, playing with things that she wants to play with and saying the word for the object over and over and over again as you play.

She will be visited by two other therapists in the next week.  Each of them will come to our house monthly to train us, work with her and make evaluations on her progress.

We are grateful for the instruction and excited to see her progress.  Her initial testing results said she was about 15 months behind in movement and speech.  I have already noticed a difference in her willingness to try new actions/movements, signs and speech.

Anniversary

I've already had a lapse.  I guess I was shooting for at least once a week, but I got excited in my first week and almost posted daily.  Well, you get what you get, right?
Yesterday was Britnee and my 7 year anniversary.  We didn't do anything special together, besides have Family Home Evening.  Of course, after a fantastic family dinner, seven of us all at the table no less, it degraded into a family balloon fight.
After writing an extremely touching and beautifully worded poem and sneaking an expressive card into my planner for me to find when I got to work, my sweetheart filled my car (which was at the park-n-ride lot a mile from home because I take the train to work) almost to the roof with huge pink, purple and white balloons and drew hearts and wrote sweet things on the windows.
Everyone was at the door to greet me and see my reaction to their handiwork when I arrived home.  It was a great night.  We all had fun celebrating 7 wonderful years.
Don't worry; we are still planning a night out alone this Saturday.  We usually lump our anniversary and Valentine's Day celebrations together.  Thanks to Uncle Cameron for agreeing to watch the little ones!

Just in Time

I just made today's post with 40 minutes to spare.
I'm always busier on days I don't go to work.  I am working Nine 9s, which means in a pay period I work one 5 day week at 9 hours a day, the second is a 4 day 9 hour week with that Friday off.
Anyway, Cooper moved out of the house.  He's finished with high school a semester early and wanted to move in with his uncle.
After she biked and ran this morning, Britnee and I went shopping for a race swim suit for her mini-triathlon next Saturday (2/11).  Tomorrow she's going to swim and run I think.
Well, I better go join her in bed.  I have a basketball game at 8:30 in the morning.

Chinese New Year

It is now the year of the rabbit.  Britnee was born in the year of the rabbit as well.  Let's see, they cycle every 12 years, so that means she'll be 24 this year, right?
We have our anniversary, Valentines day, Kira's and Britnee's birthdays this month.  The month of love is expensive every year for us.
Those events, plus the record freezing cold, will definitely bring us closer together in February.
I hope everyone is safe and warm this week.
Happy New Year! (read that in Chinese)

Flashback

A second day of freezing wind from Canada.  We might just hit 20 degrees in the sun.

In preparation for Kira's Sweet 16 birthday party, I was looking over old photos.  Doesn't this one just sum her up?

Everyone is invited to her party at the Wasatch chapel gym Feb. 19, 4 to 9 pm.  We're doing family stuff for the first two hours and then her friends are invited to join us at 6:00.

History

Another resolution of mine this year is to work on our Family History.  Did they have to dumb it down (from Genealogy) for the recent generation?  That was my favorite song in primary for quite a while.
Anyway, our Stake Presidency has challenged us to have 5 generations recorded, and all our temple work done for those that can be done, by our September Stake Conference.  We are to bring it to the conference so the President can put it in a binder and present it to our Area Presidency.  I don't know if we are requesting a temple or what exactly is going on.
It is a good motivator for us anyway.  I was working on the New.FamilySearch site last year and then Thanksgiving and Christmas derailed me.
So I will probably be asking my extended family, especially the elders out there, for information and help along the way.  It is good that I have a clear goal and a deadline.  I work better under pressure.
We had a nice short Family Home Evening last night.  I introduced the family blog, we watched a Mormon Message from YouTube and Benjamin provided us each with "Love One Another" posters he hand drew and we had to color them in.
Today Ben and Naomee are both sick in two differing ways (yuck), so steer clear.
Tonight the Young Men are playing basketball, which sounds like a cop-out, cliche YM activity, but we actually haven't played basketball on mutual night for about a year.  Then the Men's b-ball team is going to practice, so I will probably be supremely sore tomorrow.
Kira promised to show me how to post pictures to the blog this weekend, so watch out for them in the future!