PRESIDENT'S DAY
It snowed like crazy the day of and the day before President's Day, so we had lots of snow to play in all day! It was not as fun as we could have imagined since most of the kids are not fully equipped with snow gear as we have not had almost ANY snow this winter. So that was a little bit of a bummer for Erika, but everyone that could made their way over to the park to sled. The highlight of the day was bumming around not doing much at all. I kind of loved it. There were no complaints and no ideas of anything better either, so I think it was well accepted by most of us :). 2-19-18
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LUKE'S SHOTS
Took Luke to get his Junior High shots this week! That was exciting :). He was super nervous. Even admitted it. But totally toughed it out when the time came. He looked sad and in pain, but didn't cry at all. He was quite the comedian to the doctor too, which was very entertaining for me. He didn't love how the shots felt even a week later. Not fun, but at least it's done. 2-20-18
7TH GRADE ORIENTATION
Nate and I both attended orientation with Luke. It was exactly the same as it always is :). Fourth time's the charm... or maybe the 7th or 8th time will be?? Just kidding. In Luke's words, when I asked him how he felt about that, "I made this!" as he held up his little paper monster mouth that he made out of the program. He is hilarious. I think he mostly felt like it was boring, but also, I think it was a good thing for him to get him pointed in that direction. He doesn't love school, so I'm hoping he will be able to survive Jr. High. We'll see. It was pretty cool to see the choir sing "Thunder" 2-21-18
PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
I've decided that there are some signs of crappy teachers at the Jr. High. And they are mostly noticeable during conferences. Some of the crappy teachers are only crappy for certain kids, and I realize that, but some of them, as we have witnessed first hand, are just crappy teachers. I don't doubt that they are wonderful people. I just can't suggest that my kids sign up for certain classes knowing that they will end up with a certain teacher. I've made some suggestions to Luke that I had to change after parent teacher conferences. We did have a nice time talking with a couple of Brad's teachers. He's starting to get the hang of the junior high scene. 2-22-18
TEACHER INSERVICE
We had an awesome Teacher Inservice on Thursday night. We had a good turn out, lots of pizza and great words of advice from of few of the teachers and Barbara. I felt a little dumb that Barbara asked everyone in the Presidency to say something except me, but I volunteered to say the prayer to make up for it :). Hopefully that was okay. I can't help but feel like the weak link in our presidency. I am trying to step it up, but I don't feel like I'm ever going to be enough. I realize this is my own problem and probably not really the case, but I guess any reason to try to be better is a good thing. It was a nice night though. 2-22-18
BASKETBALL
So I went to Women's basketball for the second time (unfortunately, this was the last time, the season is over). It's tough, I really love the idea of playing basketball with everyone and have fun doing it, but at the same time- there are a few people that make me feel like I don't belong there. I guess I don't really care, that's why I kept going, but I don't see myself showing up to the tournament nights. Who knows. Anyway. I wish it could be different. 2-22-18
JAZZ GAME
Nate and I got to spend our Friday night together at the Jazz game! It's always so much fun to go watch the games there. This was his tickets from my dad, so they were lower bowl which is always awesome. It's fun to see Nate get way into it, even when we're losing, and it's a lot of fun to just be in the arena, with the Jazz Bear and all the fun excitement. I love people watching too :). We unfortunately, had to sit by some Portland fans, which was funny and annoying at the same time, but they weren't too bad. Really they were kind of funny. But anyway. The game was somewhat painful to watch- the refs were horrible even though it was one of their birthdays- and we lost by a lot, but still a fun night with my sweetie!! 2-23-18
BASKETBALL
The boys are having a really great season this year! It's been a lot of fun to watch them play. Noah's team struggles a little since a lot of them it's their first time playing. I feel like Noah has to carry them a little. He works SO HARD the ENTIRE time, getting all the steals and lots of their points... it's fun to watch him play, but they haven't had a really winning season so far. Luke just keeps getting better and better and has a lot of fun playing. He really has become quite the star. Especially this week. He made a lot of his team's points and plenty of steals, as well as some stellar defense. His team won by a lot and that was fun. Bradley is doing great as well! We had a super fun game this week, playing against Hedquist- I can't express how fun it is to beat him- Grandpa Hatch and Dawn were there, video taping several of Brad's awesome plays, lots of fun to show him off :). Chet told Brad that he was key in winning that game because he knew where to be and what to do. Pretty cool considering Chet doesn't offer a whole lot of compliments. You know he means it :). It's been fun though. We've got two games left for each of the boys. I'm always sad when basketball season is over. I need to remember to bring my camera one of these times though. 2-24-18
NANA'S CAR
Nate couldn't start the car Saturday morning. Always a little stressful. He looked at it for quite a while and then since my dad was coming to Brad's game that afternoon, I asked if he would come a little early to look at it. They determined it was the starter and then Bro. Floisand came over and said that the starter was on crooked. He ended up tightening it later in the day and sure enough- it started right up and worked great! We were pretty lucky to have dodged that issue. It was nice of Nate's friend from work, Alan, to let him borrow his car when he thought we were going to have to do some major repairs. We have so many good people around us to help and lift burdens. I feel so grateful for that. 2-24-18
FERDINAND
I took the kids to go see Ferdinand. It was funny to bribe them with it, or I mean, use it as a reward since I knew full well that I was the only one who was anxious to see that movie :). Ever since the trailers, I've been dying to see it. I was so excited to see it at the dollar theater. So the kids got their jobs done and rooms cleaned so that we could go :). (win/win- see how I did that :).) I'm pretty sure they all loved it. Jack's giggles gave that away. I think I even heard Luke and Noah laugh a few times. Bradley was super fun/sweet with Molly the entire time, even helped her get a "new one" booster seat in the middle of the movie. She actually sat there and watched the entire thing with only a couple interruptions! Pretty remarkable really. I was glad. It was such a cute show! I loved it :). I love the part when he's in the China shop. Cracks me up. I like the message, but mostly the fun characters and funny jokes. Good stuff. Charity didn't get to come with us because she was at Walker's surprise party that she helped his mom pull off :). She had a blast though, so I doubt she felt left out :). We stopped to get hot chocolate on the way home- it was snowing like a blizzard when we got out of the movie and almost none of them had coats on!!! Good times. 2-24-18
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