Park Fun

Cute Kiddos

These are the cute kiddos I get to spend my day with. Logan loves having so many little ones at our house everyday. It is good for Logan to experience  what it is like having a baby around. We love them all so much. The nice thing is that they are all school teacher children so Joseph, the kids, and me get all summer and vacations off together. It is sure nice only working 180 days a year!  

Science Fair

Avery did an awesome job on his science fair and was awarded the Superior Award this year. Avery learned a lot from the mistakes that he made along the way. Joseph was there to show Avery how to make graphs in excel and to highlight mistakes that Avery had made in his writing but Joseph and I let Avery figure things out for himself. Each year we try to do less and less so that Avery can continue to grow and learn. We are so very proud of this boy of ours.

Valentines Day

We celebrated Valentines Day the week after my birthday since Brady was in town the week before. We went out and had some of the goodness above. I could eat sushi every day!

34th Birthday

My birthday weekend was laid back and easy. My brother in-law was in town for the weekend visiting. We all went to Salt Lake for a 3DS meetup and then out to eat at one of our favorite hole in the wall places, The Philadelphian. Joseph made a cheesecake that we all enjoyed later that evening. 

Aurora gave me a card. She wrote a poem in it. It is as follows: "I love you more than ice cream and cake, your better than an ice cream shake. And your smoothies are good and flattering too. You helped me learn to tie my shoe. Happy Birthday Mom. You are the best mom ever."

I loved this card and will treasure it always.

Free Skate 1 Competition

We are so proud of this girl. She placed first in her group. She has worked so hard and has put in a lot of  time practicing. Aurora was so confident going into this competition and was determined to get first. She even told her coach before stepping on the ice that she was going to take first and she did. This was a bigger competition and there were a total of 12 skaters in Aurora's level but they split them up into groups of 4 because they wanted more kids to get a medal so they will continue in the sport. Aurora wishes that they hadn't because she really wanted to compete against everyone. However, if we compare the scores of all three groups Aurora was first overall.

We love watching her skate and are so happy that we have been blessed with such a wonderful coach. Her coach loves skating and loves to teach it and she is a pretty fabulous teacher. We also feel blessed to to have had Joseph's mom sew her pirate costume. Most importantly Aurora loves to skate and could spend every waking moment at the rink if we let her.

Lastly, I have to document a moment I witnessed as Aurora was on the podium more for me since this is as close to a journal as I get. But as each girl joined her she bent down and told them what a great job they had done. It was a sweet moment to witness her being so kind to those she skated against.

Rubik's Pyramid

Logan is following in his dad's footsteps and loves to solve different cubes. Here is a picture of the  rubik's pyramid.