Other February happenings

We went to Evan's music program. 

It was so cute.  He did a great job!  

We made a Valentine's box.  We had fun with it.

We had a little Valentine's day party with the little ones.

They had a great time.

Michael and I went on tennis date for Valentine's day. We had a great time!

Now that we are caught up.  We are excited for March.  We start Spring break!

I got a tulip to bloom.  I have a hard time getting plants to bloom and live.  We will enjoy it while it lasts.

I have been running early in the mornings.  I have a race coming up in April I am prepping for.  

I love the quiet and to be alone with my thoughts on a long easy run.  The scenery isn't too bad either.

Evan's Birthday

I am in charge of Primary Activities for church.  We made freezer meals for someone who just had a baby.  It has been a new challenge for me to come up with ideas.  :)

Evan turned 7!  He wanted a volcano cake.

He is so fun and loving.  He got a fish tank for his Birthday.  He loves it.  Michael and Evan bond over taking care of their fish tanks.  Evan is such a little Michael to me.  

Evan's other request was to play at the rocketship park.  We had a great time with family.

It turned out to be 70 degrees and windy.  It is so great to have so much family around.

Kira had her baby blessed on Sunday.  There is just so much joy in having so much family at church at the same time.  I loved it!  

Happy Birthday Leah!

We celebrated Leah's Birthday this week.  She wanted a poop emoji cake.  I guess it is ok if my cake looks like poop.  lol

She requested a spaghetti dinner.  She went to the dance with her Dad and brought treats to school to share with her classmates.

She is such a delight.  She is so kind a loving.  She loves to craft.  Lately she has been running with her Aunt and really enjoying it.  Leah is gearing up for soccer season as well.  She loves to turn cartwheels and is working on her back bends.  

We played at the park this week a couple of times.  We enjoy getting out in the sunshine.

Joshua had  robotics competition and I did the Hot Chocolate race.  It was a fun race with yummy chocolate as a reward.  14000 runners at the race, which is crazy.  I placed 18 out of 865 in my age group so not too bad and had a great time with my sister and friends.

Dentist and Dance

The procedure I have been dreading for over a year came.  Aaron got his teeth taken out.  He did great.  I loved how the dentist allowed me to wait until he could sit through the procedure rather than going to the hospital.  If he wouldn't have fallen and fractured a tooth we could have put it off a little longer.  

Leah says he is like Fudge now.  Fudge is character from a book.  He recovered quickly and was asking to eat shortly after the procedure.

Michael and Leah went to the father daughter dance.  They had a great time!  Leah loves the dance and asks to go every year for her Birthday.  They get their picture taken, eat dinner, and dance.

My older boys went to a church function where they were taught about dancing.  I had to sneak a picture from far away or the boys would stop dancing.  lol  I was never a huge fan of these types of events as a kid.  Michael loved them.  It is fun to watch them grow and figure things out.

The boys spent their Christmas money from Grandma and Grandpa West on models.  They have been having a great time building them.

A little snow

I forgot to take many pictures but I did get one of a few of the kids eating their ice cream sundaes and playing.  Dallin received the Priesthood last Sunday.  Joshua advanced to a teacher.  I am so impressed with my boys and how they have grown.  I am grateful that family came to witness it and it is fun to enjoy ice cream with them. 

I am in charge of activities for primary now.  We get to have it at our house so it will be a new adventure going from nursery to 8 to 10 year olds.

We got some flurries on Saturday.  We hardly ever see any snow.  The kids loved playing in it.

You can see it didn't stick or build up much but we had fun.

New Year

New Years Eve we played games and had some family over.  I forgot to take pictures, but we had a good time.  We each made our goals for the year and tried to come up with good plans to achieve them.  It is always fun to see the growth of a year.

Dallin and I ran the frigid 5k.  He took first in his age group.

I took second in my age group.  

I think it is so fun to run with my kids.

Mr. Peanut was there so we had to get a picture.

I have been doing lots more speed work to try and finally cut my 5k time down.  I was excited to actually see results! 

We love our medals

Christmas!

Dallin talked during church before Christmas.  He did a great job! We ate with family afterwards and had a great time hanging out.

We went to friends home Christmas Eve and ate yummy food! 

We played games and enjoyed the company.

We changed into our jammies.

We read the Christmas story.

We sent the kids off to bed.

We had a great Christmas!

We love Christmas and time with family.

We were up early and unwrapping presents.

We played with out new toys the rest of the day.

Michael got me a medal display board.  It looks like I need to run more races!  :)

Michael performed his first wedding.  He did a great job.

He has also preformed a second wedding already too.