Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Valentine's Day

Ava was so excited to get Valentines from all the kids in her class.


This was Alex's Valentine box. I love it so much!


And Blake's. Amazing!

I got to help out in both parties this year. Cammie Pratt is the room mom for all of her kids classes every year and she goes all out for parties.





We took the kids to Golden Corral for dinner on Valentine's Day and had so much fun!

Tyler dipping his cotton candy in his orange fanta. Lol. Talk about sweet.

It's no small thing to take our big family out to eat, but it's so much fun now that the kids are getting older and more independent.



Seems like no blog post is complete without a picture of Jackson sleeping.

Mckinley decided to try out for student council for next year. She made the cutest poster! We found the idea online but she did it completely alone!

I'm so glad my boys each have a brother!!

More sleeping pictures.

These guys got really into snake.io for a while, ha ha.

On President's Day when there was no work or school we tried going to Ross and Karen's, only to find an empty house. Happens way too often, ha ha.

Tyler painted this picture of a venus flytrap. He has been obsessed with these for quite a while!

Tyler and I often see deer on the way home from Maximus's house.

Kallie comes home from school with Addie and Scarlette most days. And she and Scarlette have like 3 matching shirts from Shein.

We got to celebrate Leslie's 60th birthday with her.

I took Ava and Jackson outside to play in the snow one day while the big kids were at school. I have enjoyed the snow more this year than any other. Life is just getting better and better with no more babies to take care of!


Ava and I made a heart in John and Sally's yard to show them we love them. I've been helping Sally with her mail and garbage can now that John can't do much. He had a stroke back in October and hasn't been the same since. They are both turning 91 this year.

Tyler's last couple of basketball games were incredible. He worked so hard and did amazing! His coach made the whole team these jersey's with their last name on the back. So nice of him!

Ross and Karen came to every basketball game except one that they were out of town for. They are so incredibly supportive!


Our neighbors gave us their fish that wasn't doing too well. It is breaking my heart watching this fish because it won't eat any food and seems like it is just dying. Hopefully we can get another one after it dies and get better equipment for it to keep it alive. :)

Mckinley has been absolutely thriving in 7th grade. She loves it so much and loves all her fun classes! She made this adorable bedroom out of a shoe box in her home ec class (they call that class CTE). It is beyond cute and reminds me so much of our Look Alike books that the kids love.





 

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Frozen Utah Lake!

Ava LOVES shoveling snow!

Doesn't take long to come across Jackson sleeping.

I have wanted to go down to Utah Lake in the winter for a few years now and we finally made it. So much fun and just a few minutes from our house!


I had taken the kids to the lake over Christmas break and there weren't any cool chunks at all but by February it was awesome!




I'm normally so scared to walk out on a frozen lake and we strictly forbid the kids to go walk out on the frozen pond on the golf course, but this felt safe and was so much fun!





I planned a trip to the BYU dinosaur museum and the bean museum for joy school and we had a great time together!




Tyler got to go to a UVU basketball game with his team again this year. So thankful for his coach who makes extra effort for these boys to have fun!


They go their shirts signed by the players.

Kallie wasn't with us the first time we went out to the lake so we went again to show it to her and had a ton of fun. There was a part that was melted so we had fun throwing big chunks of ice into the water.



Chinese New Year dinner at my parents house is always so much fun! This year my mom shared a cool story about how the Hong Kong Temple came to be where it is, which was where the mission home used to be and my mom lived in the mission home for a big portion of her mission. She also had a guy there who she found when he was a young boy.