Sealing

These people are such good people.  Kind and smart. I'm so happy for their family and for being included in their temple sealing.  Jer and I got to sit by Alan and Rochelle.  That was nice to catch up with them as well.

 

Jer's hobbies

Ada was trying to make sure that she knew how to use my camera before leaving for her competition.  I thought this one was a cute one that she caught.

Our friends, the Komens, were over for a minute on Sunday.  I love chatting with them.  It was 9pm, which is when their radio check in happens.... so they grabbed their radios to do their check-ins.  I said, "I need a picture of this."  Ada said, "That's Dad and his friend nerding out."

 

Found them!

 

I knew that there were pictures of Ada after her competition and I found them after checking a few random SD cards.  Here's this cutie patootie.

Steve, her advisor for the club.

sledding

He finally did it! Seth has been wanting to go sledding all winter.  Too bad that the times that it's snowed has been while he's in school, asleep or it never stuck on the ground.  We were at Grandma and Grandpa Robertson's house for Josie's baby blessing when it started snowing.  Seth was "sledding" on his feet down the hill and Grandpa noticed and got him some sleds.  He took Peter and Rosie out with him and they had a fun time.  After they were done the snow melted and was gone.  I'm so glad he got to do it! 

I got to hold Josie after all the craziness calmed a bit.  As soon as I picked her up, Seth asked if he could hold her.  So he did and she was happy with that arrangement.

 

St Patrick's Weekend

A couple of Saturday's ago, the Brasher's were in town.  I always get a picture of the Samuels.  This time they did a selfie.... Hello Samuels.

Sam heard about Josie getting adopted and immediately started work on this crocheted blanket. He finished it at the baby blessing.  Proud of your work Sam and even more proud of your sweet and serving heart.

My parents dropped off St Patrick's Day donuts while we were out and about.  The kids loved them and I loved that they still think about me even as a middle aged momma.

This is my burn.... We were late for Evelyn's ballroom performance and I'm supposed to eat before 7pm.  I tried to open the pressure cooker before it was done venting.  It's only a first degree and I have an aloe plant for just such occassions.  It hurt horribly the first night but it's been fine since then. Now it's about a third of the size and is a brown color instead of red.

Sam's new soccer season.  Their team won and Sam played hard.  Enzo joined his team and I'm pretty excited.  Enzo is Sam's friend, Ian's, cousin that's here for a year or two to learn English.  They've been getting to know each other at church and school.... now they're on the same team.  That will be fun.

Seth also had his first game.  He was stoked that their team also won. He likes to play defense and accidentally blocked the ball with his face this time.  He exclaimed, "I blocked the ball with my face!  Like Scott Sterling!"

We cleaned out our game/puzzle closet.  In one day, Evelyn did three 500 piece puzzles and Seth did a 100 piece one that he'd forgotten that he had.  They got stuck on a more challenging one that's still sitting on the kitchen table a couple days later.  Maybe I'll help out on that one.

 

Last couple of weeks

Ada left for State FBLA competitions. She's worked so hard all year on it.  She and Alexx prepared the Chapter competition presentation and they won a trophy for first place for Chapter of the year.  They did amazing!  Ada said that they had the whole chapter in the hallway cheering and making noise.  She also got two 2nd places and a 4th place... which means that she's going to be getting $100/2nd place for her trip to Nationals.  And she's been working in the school store and will be able to pay the rest of the fees out of the credit she's accrued there.  I'm very proud of her for working towards the experiences that she wants to have.

Sam finished his drivers ed courses and his test.... now he just has to pass the driving test with the DMV before his birthday and he's golden.  To celebrate, I took him to Red Maple... this is how much our kids like this restaurant... He had a D&D session with his friends scheduled for right after his test.  I told him that I took Ada to Red Maple when she finished hers.  He immediately called and told his group that he wasn't going to make it and asked if we could go to Red Maple too.

While Ada was at her competition I had just these two cuties on a day off of school.  They wanted to go to Nickle mania.  We went and I played pinball and they played mostly Minecraft Dungeons.  Evelyn likes to collect the cards.  Seth played games to collect tickets.  He and Ada have a goal to save up 6000 tickets before they spend them.  We only go about 1-2 times a year so it will take a while.

We also took an afternoon bike ride to see how the temple's getting along.

 

Evelyn's last ballroom show

Her last ballroom show was fun.  She did a great job and I love that she got to try ballroom dancing this year.  I had burned my wrist literally on the way out of the door to watch her, so we got this one fuzzy picture and Jeremy took videos of her dance.

 

Painting

Some of the watercolors I'm working on....

this one is messy, but I really liked how the pear colors are coming out.