Wednesday fun...

We're feelin' some Jazz blues...(Get it, Jazz, Blues... :) However our family is still pulling for 'em! Anyway... meanwhile back at the ranch...

• Tanner made a penny hockey board at school (keeps the knuckles in, or it kinda turns into bloody knuckles). He is also sporting a dashing bright orange striped shirt, and a pair of khakis. Our little brother is growing up!
• Shorty made some Jazz rhymes at school. My personal favorite was "Kyle while you're Korver, You will never be won over!" and "Carlos Boozer rocks the house (5 claps)."
• Whitty came home from school today, but was able to spend 3 hours trying to help mom send her personal history.
• Dad is sporting a new look... a chunk of his upper lip is missing. I guess even after years of practice, some of the most experienced still cut themselves shaving! It looks so painful!
• Joe and Jamie are going to the Real Salt Lake game... hopefully there will be a few more wins than last season...
• Dad got a call from Fesenko! The newer Jazz player from Ukraine... toothache... guess I'll be visiting Dad's office soon!

Family history blues

For the past couple of days, all our family has seen has been family history. It's way cool that we are doing this, and once it is done, it will be amazing but for right now, it is just kind of a pain in the butt!
Shortie had a violin Monster Concert. She performed 10 songs that she has been working on for the past year.
Tanner has been sporting a new wardrobe which includes a pair of plaid (yes that's right I said plaid) shorts! The girls at school have been all over him I hear...
Whitty has a severe case for the "tardiness blues." (Yes I might have this problem too, but she is a sophomore, and I was NEVER tardy as a sophomore...) Too bad she has an anal teacher who has deducted her grade major! She was tardy everyday to first for the first 2 weeks of the tri. However she is on a record of not being tardy (umm, I think that means she hasn't been tardy once so far...).
Mom and Dad have been stressing over family history MAJOR! Last night at 1:00 in the morning when I couldn't sleep, I heard the little type of the computer. Sure enough Dad was working, hard and long.

Cheney craziness!

Sundays are days for well... random-ness @ the Cheney home, and funny stories from the weekend:

• I was able to go to the Jazz game with Dad on Sat. We got home at 12 and they were re-playing the game on TV, so the dork that I am, I sat down, and re-watched the Jazz game, AGAIN... Tanner was asleep on the chair, next to me. He kept hitting me with his hand, so I kept moving it. One time I moved him a little to forcefully, and he sorta opened his eyes, but he was still asleep. "Stop touching me you fart-head!" He said through his groggy slurred, barely recognisable words. I started to laugh so hard, I couldn't breathe. "Stop laughing it's not funny." But trust me, it was! In the morning, he had no recollection of the incident.
• Dad was asking if us if we can recycle Domino pizza boxes. Whit said, "well, yeah probably because it is "cod-bord" (cod- like a fish, and bord, like a bore, with a little short d at the end...). She sounded just like an old lady from Brooklyn. It was so funny! For the rest of the day, we all referred to cardboard, as "cod-bord" Good times, good times!
• Shortie and Whitty had another dance comp. Whit took first, first first and third. For her solo, she took third. This was Nationals too! Shortie got first, second, and second.
• Mom did the flowers for Kristie Soffe's ward meeting, and they looked fabulous as usual!
• Dad got to go to the Rocket's locker room. He was paged over the intercom in the Energy Solutions Arena, and they talked about him on KJZZ! Too bad he was gettin' nachos and couldn't hear it!
• T had a soccer game, that turned out pretty ugly... but it was still good none the less. He has also been working on his jump shot on the b-ball hoop.

the rundown...

So lately...

• Tanner, JP and Dad put up a basketball hoop in the backyard, and I do have to say it looks pretty good!
• Dad and Joe went to the most depressing Jazz game yesterday (it's because I wasn't there I think).
• Whit and Dad went shopping to get T some new clothes. Whit got some preppy clothes that actually look really good on him, but of course he hates them all and wants to return them.
• Shortie and Whitty have yet another dance competition today and tomorrow, good luck girls!
• Steph had her very last day of school, EVER! Party! Needless to say, she is STOKED!

It's always exciting, or at least busy... you can always count on that! :)

Oh dad...

We were all sittin' in the kitchen just talking when we heard some noises (grunting and some oohs and aahs...). We all turned around to see Dad with his arms stretched above his head. They were straight up in the air, but you could tell it was really stretching his arms. Whit and I started to laugh at him. He said "you know when you get older, this will really stretch you too..." His arms were just in the air... Anyway so Whit told Dad to link his arms behind his back, he did and she lifted both his arms up. "OOOH, AAAAAH!" I thought he was going to die! "Do it again, and harder." So this time I grabbed his arms. He said harder... I lifted his arms up, and the moans that he produced, I had never heard before! Whit and I couldn't but laugh as Dad layed out on the top of the kitchen counter in obvious pain, moaning.
Try Dad's stretch for yourself, lift your arms straight up in the air... Can you feel it? Ahh holding your hands up against gravity, what a workout. :)

Exciting times...

On Saturday...

• Steph took her final board.
• Joe and Jamie rode the bike race in the Salt Lake Marathon Saturday morning at 6 am... I know I didn't know Joe knew there was a morning either...
• Court and Whit had a dance competition in which Court took third in hip hop, 2nd in Company, and 1st in Jazz! Whit took 2nd in Company, 2nd in her solo, and 1st in Jazz. Good job girls!
• I made banana bread, which if I do say so myself, turned out pretty dang good! PS if you don't have sour milk, skim milk works just as good. :)
• Mom & Dad have been in Denver for a Dental Convention.
• Joe came up to the house at dinner, and made a "make shift" dinner, which if I do say so myself turned out pretty dang good... He replied "If only I could have thickened up the sauce a little bit..." To which Whitney and I both added "You could have just added corn starch." "Well sorry... I don't have boobs!" Me-"It's not the boobs, it's the uterus." Joe-"Well I don't have a U-whatever either!" Thanks for clarifying Joe.

Since church doesn't start until 1, we get kind of bored, which allows for our imaginations to run wild... No parents and no older siblings were home, so what were we to do... but play hide-and-go-seek of course! The three girls nominated T to be it (he had to get in the shower because he had a meeting with the Bishop). When we heard the shower turn off, we paged and let Tanner in on our little game. 10 minutes in Mom's and Dad's closet in the dark gets a little boring. Whitney started making sparks by rubbing a towel and Court's robe together, "You're going to catch me on FIRE!" Courtie screamed. "My eyes are so dilated, I can see like everything" Whitty said as she reached for my face but missed... We started to scream T's name over and over, to which he didn't reply. We finally gave in, and walked down the stairs. When T saw us, he asked "Where have you been? I've been looking for you all over!" So the game did work... Nope. Apparently he hadn't heard the page, and was just sittin' around, kind of confused.

JAZZ WON THE ROCKETS! WOO HOO GO JAZZ!

Ouch!

Sad day... so Fantasy B-Ball... Yep you guessed it, Jess won, 16584.64 me, 16550.12. That makes a difference of 34.52 points. In case anyone was wondering, I am not talking to him, or anyone else that traded with him, I'm not saying any names, WHITNEY... Just Kidding!
His Little Engine that could, did... but no worries, next year my F-16 fighter jet is gonna blow his little engine right off the tracks! He'll never even know what hit him!
It is also a sad day because our beloved Jazz lost yesterday (creamed is a better word...). This means no home court and the Lakers... not good things for us.

• Tanner is growin' up. He came into my room this morning with a bottle of cologne. "How do you use this?" No spray top... I have no idea! He got it though, and looked really sharp, I think there might be a girl... who knows!
• I didn't have a bomb threat, however Whit had the lights at her school go out. We aren't havin' great luck.
• Mom had a YW camp meeting today. She stocked the house full of bizarre drinks, shrimp chips and my favorite, milky candies!