Lately. . .

Casey wrapped up his teams basketball season at the end of January. They had 11 wins and 6 losses over the course of the season. It was a decent team of girls this year; they played their best and did a good job. Casey has still been with the JV team helping them out and doing district games last week and this week. The varsity is top in the conference so Casey will join them for state next week up in Boise. The kids and I went to Casey's last game and ended up staying for JV and part of Varsity's games too. Let's just say it's the last games we've attended for the season and I'm not sad about it. (4 hours on a hard bench and 2 active kids : / For the most part the kids do well in games; they watch and cheer for a while and then amuse themselves when bored.  (note the picture below ; )They love seeing Casey and being at the games; also basketball is one of the few sports I can follow and like to watch so we attend most home games during the season.

Last week we had a good snow fall one day so the kids and I finally got around to making a full fledged snowman. They were proud of themselves for rolling the parts and packing him together. They even rolled some stools to sit next to the snowman. We enjoyed looking at him for a few days till our neighbors went out and destroyed it.  They were initially upset, but it was a good lesson about how we can't control what others do and how we can we deal with it. Peter made it all good by turning the snow mounds that were left into a pretend snowmobile that they played with Friday afternoon.

We got to have David, Becca, and Thomas over a couple of times in the past couple of weeks. The kids are getting to the fun age of playing all on their own and have lots of fun pretending together. One night they were over I set up games for the kids to play with. They all had fun and each won at all or at least one of the games.

This past week was a bit rough with district games and parent teacher conferences for Casey. The kids saw him for an hour Monday then not till Thursday when we snuck over treats before his conferences started. I had Kendal's parent teachers conference and got good reports that she's doing very well in class and has top marks in all of her work. Kendal has nothing but praises for her teacher and her class! She is also getting into level two books.

School was out Friday so we got Daddy to ourselves for Friday and Saturday. We just stayed home and got to play and create. The kids made a valentines banner with me. We pulled out the dominoes and created mazes to knock down. Kendal and Casey made some cool mazes, and Peter ended up turning his dominoes into train tracks.

We rented minions for the kids to watch Saturday morning. Afterwards we made and decorated Valentines cookies. Kendal even helped me make soup noodles Saturday afternoon.