Cousins and weather

We got to play games with our NC cousins.  It was fun and the kids stayed to chat for a while when they were done with games. 

Ada's all registered for High School.  It's surreal and exciting.  I hope she loves her classes.  We have an appointment for her to take her drivers written test when we get back after Spring Break. 

We've had an amazing amount of snow.  It's great because we need moisture.  A little frustrating when it gets warm and then cold and warm and cold... but I'm glad for the water.

We inherited a plastic trombone.  Seth's excited for it, but I need to buy a new mouthpiece.   Jer knows how to blow into the mouthpiece too so that will be fun to learn.

 

This last week

The Young Women had a SPA day in preparation for General Conference.  "Scriptures, Prayer, Attitude".  We talked about spiritually preparing ourselves for listening to the prophet.

Cristina's daughter needed a nap apparently.... right there.

The Brashers came down for the week.  We got to play with them and they were kind enough to move our wood pile for us.  It looks very nice. They only have 2 at home, but Jacob came down and Robert-Hava came down earlier.  I didn't get to see those two, but I'm glad to see Jacob.  I'm so proud of him!  He's the manager of the pizza place he introduced us to.  Yum and I bet he's doing an amazing job.

 

sleep talking

 Ada came out of her room giggling.  She said that Evelyn was talking in her sleep. "Tickle the back of her throat and maybe it will work."

The rest of the week

My Dad's book is on the shelves!  It's so exciting!

Ada went to a glow in the dark multi-stake dance. Neither of us knew that it wasn't a dress up thing... we got there and she didn't want to be the only one dressed up, so we put her hair in a bun and took out the flowers.  She went and had a blast.

Evelyn's sweet 1st grade reading buddy was taken home on hospice this week.  It's been sad, but I'm glad that Evelyn got to be part of her life.

Ada had two choir concerts last week.  One was during Evelyn's play, so I went to the other... which took place at Mountain View where I graduated from. I haven't been back for a while.   The chairs are nicer now, but the acoustics are still spectacular.

Young Women's was Hungry Hungry hippos.  It was so fun!

And Ada did a thing.  She chopped off her hair.  It's super cute on her and she likes not having to brush it as much because her hair is so thick.  She had so many people ask to cut her hair for her.  I definitely like taking her to my high school bestie, Mesh.  She does amazingly.

With Jer down, we had a very happy visit from Jacob.  He came to distract Jer for a little while.  It was fun to see him.  I haven't seen him for a few years.  He's now a manager at the pizza place that he introduced us to.  I'm so proud of him!

 

Sam's pictures

I already posted about his performance, but here are the pictures from my camera.

 

Evelyn's school play

 

Jer's first out of the house excursion was to see Evelyn's play.   She loved doing it and has asked if she can do it again. She was a Brave girl from Peter Pan Jr.  It was very cute and I got to take as many pictures as I could because they asked me to sit in front and take pictures for the school.

All the stuff

Jer still can't walk but has been given permission to work as much as he can without getting his full 40 hours in because he can't fully sit up either.  So that's a relief.  This week I took the girls shopping.  Evelyn needed pants that weren't so worn that you could see her underwear through them, and Ada needed another pair of work pants.  Of course that meant that we had to try on a bunch of different things as well.  Evelyn fell in love with this jacket.  It's an adult size medium so I didn't let her get it.  She said she didn't care if it didn't fit, she liked how it felt.  It was very fluffy.

Sam was asked by the band teacher if he would try out for Jazz band for next year.  Problem is that he plays the flute and piccolo which they don't use in band.  They gave him a saxophone to try out and he had so much fun.  Milo came over to help him learn how to put it together and tune it.

I don't know how many people would fall asleep at a band concert, but this kid did.  Sam did a great job and we were able to record it for Jer. 

Sam band concert selfies.

All three of my babies at daycare are teething, one is wearing a helmet full time and all three of them had pink eye and a cold in the last two weeks.  That doesn't always happen, but they had a rough week for sure.