Whipple Family Blog

First, before I talk about all our eye problems, I just want to say how much I love my friends and their families who have been going through such a hard time right now. We have had an incident with a stranger in our church recently and it has affected so many wonderful people. My heart goes out to them and I am constantly praying for their sweet families. We sure love you and are slowing trying to pick up and move on. It's quite heart breaking to us all. Well, I thought I would tell about our crazy week. After our incident with Ashtyn last week with her black eye, we have had two more eye problems. The second one happened on Friday evening. I was quite excited because Bri was finally coming home early (after months of working late) and I was going to get a whole bunch of shopping and errands done. So, first I headed to the library. I got movie (for the babysitting group that we had that night) and got in my car ready to go to my next destination. My glasses were dirty so I took t...

We are having a few problems with church. Well not exactly with church, but with after church. This is the problem. It takes me a while to get my things together after primary. We have to wait for all the boxes and folders to come in, we straighten and put away all the chairs, we clean up from our sharing times etc. Well, while we are doing this, Bri rounds up our kids and drops them off in the primary room with me. Then he leaves and cleans the chapel and empties all the garbages, oh and usually finds someone to talk to. While he is doing this, and I am getting my things together, there is a party going on in the primary room with all the kids who are waiting for their parents. Kids are everywhere. Kids are on the podium, on the piano, on each other and especially in the cupboard with the secret treat that isn't really a secret anymore (does this remind you of a Curious George book or what?) Well, it doesn't help that they all pretty much missed their afternoon naps too. So,...

I went to a beautiful baptism yesterday for Alyssa Walburger and Darina Pierre-Louise. Alyssa has been such a great example to Darina and invited her to church for quite a long time. Now they both have testimonies and were able to get baptized on the same day. It was a wonderful baptism and I'm so proud of those little girls. It just goes to show that anyone can do missionary work. Okay so, I have been feeling a great push to get my years supply of food storage. Partly because when my mom came out she saw how piddly it was and started worrying about us. Then, my in laws came out in August and I guess they felt the same thing so they decided to send us some money to get a jump start on it. I guess I can't delay this any longer huh? In the past I have had about a two month supply, but definitely not a years supply, so here goes.... I have to admit that it scares me a little. I know that sounds weird, but for so long I have heard of getting years supply and in my mind I see bucket...

I just finished reading a book that Sarah Brown reccomended to me about hmmm... six months ago? She gave it to me right before Raegan was born and well, I just barely finished it. Mind you, I had a little bit going on in my life. Now that things are back to normal (at least sometimes) I find time to read again and I am loving it! Well, the book is called The Legend of Holly Claus. I have to say it was a little hard for me to get into because I just couldn't think about Christmas when it was ninety degrees outside. Well, turns out it wasn't really about Christmas and it was quite fun to read. The whole basis of the book was on faith and letting go of fear. At the same time it was entertaining and a book that I could read again (which I rarely do). Anyway, thank you Sarah for the book and for letting me keep it for so long! Oh, and Cami I still have your books and will return them.... next year or so. (:

So the other day I read or skimmed, rather, an article that said sixty something percent of people spend more time with their personal computers than their spouse. It made me laugh and I thought, "hmmm... we'll never be like that. I like my spouse too much". Well, I think it has happened. Since we got our new computer, we now have two computers up and running at our house, so that means we can both be on at the same time. Okay so, I am not really into the lastest and greatest of everything, but Bri has been wanting this computer for so long and I thought he deserved it (since everything we buy is usually for me). Of course, I didn't want a new computer, I mean who would want to spend my days blogging or checking email, or even shopping. (: Well, to be honest, it's been great, but I am not sure if it's improving my relationship with my spouse or not. Of course the obvious answer would be that it's not. Why would it be? I mean if I spend less time with hi...

Shay came home with a huge rip in her shorts. She said it happened on the playground today, poor girl. It was huge, right on her bottom. Then, when we got home, I was searching her backpack for papers and found a note from the school nurse. Apparently, she had gotten kicked in the head today, but no serious bruises (as stated by the nurse). So then, at dinner time we were talking and she said, "I was sad that a few people in my class didn't like my hair today." I asked her what she was talking about and she said that a few kids in her class told her they didn't like her braids. Well, after prodding it a little, I found out that her teacher said she liked her hair and asked the rest of the class if they liked it and most raised their hand, but some didn't. What a tough day! Well, despite everything that went wrong, I was surprised by her attitude. It made me laugh to see a huge hole in her shorts and we even walked today home from school, but she wasn't too emb...

This weekend was General conference. I love having Dish Network because we get to stay home as a family and watch it on television. It was wonderful, as it always is. We sustained Elder Eyring as our 2nd counselor in the first presidency and Elder Cook as the new apostle. I also have to say that it was great to have a little rest from all the Sunday activities. We all slept in (or at least I did) and we made our traditional chips and seven layer dip. Very relaxing and enjoyable weekend and now I have a million things that I need to work on too. (: Tonight I heard a funny conversation between my girls, I thought I would share. They were all in bed and I went up to put something away and heard them talking, so I had to stop and listen... Shay, "Tera, will you please go get dad?" Tera, "No Shay" Shay, "Why Tera? I need him!" Tera, "No, it's too scary." Shay, "Our closet isn't scary Tera, and our house isn't creepy." Tera, ...

When Brian first got his job at the APL he loved it! We couldn't have been happier with it. He was doing computer programming and working on interesting things (Tomahawk missile). It had great benefits and he never had to work longer than forty hours a week. He was very content. >Well, about three years later, they asked him to be project manager. At first he refused because he wanted to be doing technical work. They promised him that he would still have time for that, but just a few more responsibilities. Well, turns out he had a LOT more responsibilities and no time for programming. He really didn't enjoy it and to top it all off, there was no pay raise, but just a huge hike in responsibilities. As a result, he switched groups at the lab hoping to start over and work on some things that he enjoys. Things were going great again for about half a year. He was really enjoying work again and he was also learning some great stuff. After a while, his supervisor came to him and as...