Casey's basketball team finished up their season on Friday. He's had a rough second half to his season with injuries, illnesses, and girls that have been flaking out and making things hard. The number of girls he's had for practices have been sporadic in attendance, and he even had to cancel a game because only 3 girls were available. He still has districts and possibly state to go with JV and Varsity so a few weeks more.
I've had to do a lot of extra work at the school library. Camille got Covid and was out a few days one week and this past week I took over for a day because she didn't feel well. It's a lot to handle, but I get by and do my best. Casey and I got to go on a date last Saturday and listen to a guest speaker on marriage and family that our Stake put on. It was such a good presentation, and gave us good things to talk about and work on. I'm so lucky to have Casey by my side in this crazy journey we call life. We are nowhere near perfect, but we are perfect for each other. (You don't find your soul mate you help create them.)
Kendal earned a 4.0 for her semester! She's working hard in school and is doing her best! This semester she gets to have keyboarding and computer basics as her elective classes. She's so close to finishing her lesson books for piano. From there she'll be done with basic lessons and knowledge to special pieces, and learning / working through harder pieces. She's decided to take on two spring sports this spring. So her month of April is going to be packed / crazy!! We'll see how it goes. Kendal is getting into her roll as first counselor in young women's. They had a murder mystery night, and a goals / dream board planning night.
Peter's had a couple of more games the past two Saturday's. Grandma D came to watch him play on the 22nd. He played hard and got a couple of baskets. They barely lost but gave it a good try. Yesterday they were just outmatched in defense and lost again. Peter's growing in skills and doing a good job, hopefully his team can pull out a win in the next week or so. Peter's parent teacher conf. was this past week. He's doing well in school with good grades and his test scores have improved! His teacher has only good things to say about him and he is doing well overall. Peter got to have his AR party last week! The fourth graders went to the CSI planetarium and watched an IMAX show. Peter had his first activity days meeting on Friday. He got to play games that taught cooperation and working together, then they talked about goals.
Alice had her 5 yr old well check this week. Aside from being a picky eater she's doing great! She's growing in mind and body. She's still our little ham that keeps us laughing and her imagination makes us smile constantly. (Like today. I told the girls to secure us a bench for church while I went to the primary room. She went to the chapel, found a bench, spread her arms out at it and said boo, thinking I had told them to scare the bench ; ). Alice is loving her new preschool and doing great with her new teacher and having boys in her group. She's her own person - as you can tell in the picture below. Boots on the wrong feet, hat backwards, marching confidently up the stairs like she's the boss of life.
Friday we had school off. Casey still had meetings and then away game so it was just the kids and I. We cleaned the house for most of the day. I rewarded their hard work with Fiesta Ole dinner in the living room while they watched a movie.
Since we accidentally got an extra set of bunks we offered them to David and Anica. So yesterday they came up to claim the beds and we got to spend some quality time with them. The kids loved having cousin time and playing the afternoon away! The kids had fun doing nerf wars and Lego's. We went to the little Herrett Center museum at CSI. It was a short visit, but so good to see them!
It's been very cold the last couple of weeks. Our ice and snow is sticking strong, we're all over it since our winters have been fairly mild the last couple of years, but I'm sure February will pack in some more weather for us to deal with.
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