With the first signs of spring, I decided to go and get some flowers for my kids and I to plant.
After, I asked the kids to clean up a few things while I watered the plants.
I looked on our front yard with such admiration for a job-well-done for all involved….it was almost too good to be true!
After getting the mail the next day, I waled toward our yard, once again admiring our spring flowers.
Just as I almost passed our neighbor’s yard….I spotted what I almost didn’t even expect.
Clearly, the sweaty work and beauty fogged up my brain!
Obviously, my kids didn’t clean the way they should have.
Obviously there containers were in our neighbor’s yard — just out of sight of ours.
Obviously my kids were slammed with our “lazy kids are working kids” rule, and were all assigned another job, on top of this one done properly.
Jokers.
This is Scout’s first time being in a professional’s chair for a haircut.
Nonnie has been the barber until now.
(She has been awesome, and we will return to her, but she is currently out of town.)
Scout’s only comment was, “Wow…that was so fast.”
What do you expect from Jade — the highest ranked table tennis player in Vietnam of her age division!?
Scout is doing a project about entrepreneurship. He needed to find a small business owner, and interview them. He picked Auggie — Founder of “So Jam Good”, and told me we needed to drive down that day, because the interview needed to be face to face. I followed directions, and he got his interview — and 30 mini sample cups to give out when he gives his presentation on her. (He is hitting up Nonnie for freshly made rolls to go with the jam!)
I was thrilled with his enthusiasm over the project. I was also glad that we could get it all in when he needed to. then about four days later, I asked when he was going to need the sample jams because they were taking up a lot of room in the fridge. That’s when he told me his presentation was three weeks away.
HUH?
He said that when we went down, that was the first day they got it, but he just wanted to make sure we didn’t wait until the last minute.
What a con man.
Good thing the jam is freezer jam…cause back in the freezer it went.
I wasn’t quite sure what to say when I saw what Scout had completed with his pocket knife.
So I went with the obvious — “Nice work…if you are ever in prison, you are going to be just fine.”
I love it when I see Micah get completely enthralled in the kid’s toys.
This was an engineering project that Dash needed help with, and Micah came to his rescue and got the fan blowing.
Navy introduced us to Go Noodle. It’s a YouTube channel that puts simple dances to popular songs. When she showed us “Fight Song” (my kids favorite song…introduced to us by Scout), my kids wanted to dance to it over and over! I was a little surprised that she was watching YouTube at school, so I asked her when they watch it. She told us it is what they do for P.E.! WHAT!?!
What about go out and run a few laps?
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The only silver lining to finding out how pathetic my kid’s school P.E. is, is watching Dash teach Grey the ropes and moves of Go Noodle!
Dad came home to this sweet homemade gift.
Navy had blended up peanuts to make him his very own homemade peanut butter!
I saw him snacking on apples and peanut butter, toast and peanut butter, and anything else that goes with peanut butter for three days because of Navy’s sweet gift!
Each night, as we hunker down to watch the Olympics, Pippi comes out in whatever garb she can drum up, to mimic what we are watching. Tonight was ice skating. I think the whole family agrees, that Pippi’s performances are better than the real thing. Because she got perfect tens from all of us on the couch.
Dash is skiing for the first time! He is such a stud, and didn’t even seem nervous — especially with all of the gear you need to wear, that was completely weighing him down.
We headed to Sundance for his first day…and we would all call it a success!
Micah and I had to rent all of our stuff half way up the mountain, so we opted out of the bunny hill for Dash — and headed straight to the good stuff.
There were plenty of falls, and getting off the lift was a little tricky, but after his first run — he was an old pro!
He was awesome…and totally fast!
It was an absolute blast to ski with him…and the best part was watching the other kids encourage him, and want to ski alongside him.
One perk of skiing Sundance (by way of passes from Chris Clifford) was that we got free zip line runs.
Scout and Navy both did it, and they both loved it!
Navy actually had to wear her ski boots to be heavy enough to take the run.
It ended up being the funnest day — and it reminded me of how fun my little family all together is!
Day two of skiing was at Snowbasin.
Although Dash looked bummed to go, he was totally excited to ski again — and this time with his favorite cousin — Christian!
The first run up, we took the gondola up and got out to freezing cold wind and pretty decent terrain to get down. As I looked back at Dash, he was just trying to get down, but he was in pretty miserable conditions for a new skier who is just a little 5 year old boy. As I waited for him to inch up to me, he had tears coming out his eyes, and looked so sad. But when he got to me, he looked up and said, “Mom, LUCKY ME that I get to go skiing.”
Is there ever a more perfect boy?
NO!
Lucky ME!
It was the best “lucky me” I have ever heard from one of my kids!
The skiing was really fun that day too — and was especially fun to do alongside Seth’s family.
The rest of the trip was filled with cousins, Tristen’s house, Nonnie’s cooking, and good old Utah fun!
After the “Lucky Me” story from Dash, my second favorite story was when Micah found some rock hounding outside of Park City. When we got to it, there was a hike into it in three feet of snow. It was pretty fun to try to find cool rocks, but it got cold and wet on us. When we were walking back, Pippi was having a rough one. She didn’t want to walk, and I was almost all the way to the car. Right as I was going to turn back, I turned around to see Scout walking with Pippi on his shoulders. He carried her the whole way back that was quite far. He kept sinking in the snow…but he never dropped her once. It was a sweet site to see….and an awesome Hero Story from Scout!
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I love the quick trip to Utah that has become one of our traditions. I especially love that Tristen lives there and gives us a great place to stay. And I fell in love with Dash all over again, as I watched him triumph and become a great little skier!
Navy’s heritage project in school this year ended with her making a personal heritage paper doll.
I thought her karate-kicking/kilt-wearing paper doll was spot on!
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