Grey hair and this and that......

I know it is hard to believe but I have decided to join some friends(many more than I knew, as it turns out) who dye our hair because it might be a bit better than being really grey. And for me, it isn't the color grey that is the problem, but the weird way grey hair grows in--frizzy and uncontrollable. Dyeing it was really the only way to help that short of removing each and every grey hair which won't leave me with much hair...

That is what I did the first of the week in addition to the usual things like cleaning, working, cooking, and running everyone around ....and the incident of the dogs who got into the other side of our back yard (we have a fence with a gate between two halves of our backyard) and played happily in the mud under the trampoline. They were two happy dogs but a big mess (and we were not happy dog owners).
Here is Mowgli.

Thursday (the day that BYU barely beat Wofford), I was in charge of Pack Meeting on Everyone Can: Understanding Disabilities. It was my fourth out of five goals for my Wood Badge ticket. It went fine. A friend of mine did a class on visual impairments and I did some activities on physical differences. Our Cub theme was compassion so it fit right in.

The Cubs are trying to frost cookies with their non dominant hand without using their other hand at all.



Jena did another long run in skiing on Friday and then did several short runs. What used to take her 15 minutes she is now doing in 7-8 minutes. She is skiing right into the ski lift area like a "pro". It is amazing how much better she is doing expecially in the last few weeks.

On Saturday (the day BYU beat Gonzaga)Jena started track with Special Olympics despite a freezing wind. Jena is going to do some short runs and also the softball throw and the Turbo javalin.

Afterwards, we headed up to Snow Basin to join in a fundraising event for the Adaptive Ski program. We have been so grateful for the great experience that Jena has had skiing this year that we felt it was good to get involved even though the weather was very cold as well. We snow bowled, winter bean toss, and snow golf (which involves green snow for the "greens".

We rode up on a gondola and enjoyed hot chocolate at the Neetles Lodge. It was fun for Gary and I who don't ski to watch the skiers heading down the mountain as we rode the gondola. It was amazing to see them weave in and out of trees and up and down slopes. We had fun despite the cold. Jena has her last day of skiing for the year on Friday. However, she will be back next year.

And we actually didn't get to watch much of either of the BYU games this past week. Pack Meeting on Thursday and our Stake Conference Adult Meeting on Saturday only allowed us to watch a part of the first halves of each game and then a delay until we knew who actually won. Hopefully we will have a few more games to watch this year.