Kendal and Pete ended their basketball camp on the 14th of this month. It was a good way for them to keep up with some skills and learn new skills while they waited for track to start. Track started on the 18th. After having a wet / snowy week their first week of track practice was warm and beautiful! Both launched themselves into long distance stuff so Pete hasn't had much time to train in other things to see what he'll do this season. They had one week of track before we started spring break, but Casey still had them training and running during our break. Alice took advantage of the warm week to get a kite flying session in as well as learning to ride the bigger bike!
We ended 3rd quarter at the middle school on the 15th, and started the new quarter on the 18th. I have Kendal for my library aid this last quarter. I indulged her and she's in there with two of her friends (Becca, and Alicyn). Kendal is also in GI to finish her school year. Pete got put in AG, and then PE for his last quarter. All three kids received good grades for this past quarter. Alice continues to blow numbers out of the water. (She topped her reading score at a 5th grade reading level.) Kendal got all A's and Pete got A's and one B! Below is Alice's current obsession when she's at the middle school - doodling on my Promethean. The other pictures are of art pieces that Kendal did in class 3rd quarter, and were displayed in the art show on the 18th.
St. Patrick's day was on a Sunday. We all wore green to school on the 15th, but didn't do more than wear green to church for the actual day.
The middle school had a ro-sham-bo day the Friday before spring break. All of the students had a competition for beads playing rock, paper, scissors with each other at the end of and in between classes. It was a fun way to usher in spring break. That night we had an ice cream taste off to start off our own spring break! Mint won thanks to all three girls choosing it as #1 with fluffy peanut butter / chocolate as second which is what the boys chose. We also ushered in March madness by making brackets and going head to head to see who will win! Alice was taking her cheering very seriously last week as we watched games over the weekend. Currently our standings are. . .
Monday of spring break had us doing a spring cleaning around the house and Casey started on the cabinet doors for my book case. (He had started them last summer and I didn't love how the door sat so he scrapped it for a time.) I love how they look, just need to find handles. We ended our night with some family Wii time.
Tuesday I did a de-clutter day while the kids finished cleaning the basement toy area. We dyed Easter eggs and had everyone had a movie night after dinner while I studied.
Wednesday we headed to Logan to finish out our spring break with family! We got to see cousins at dinner and played at my parents that afternoon. Thursday morning I went to take my first ABCTE test up at the USU testing center. This was the content test (all of the subjects and their sub subjects). I have been studying since September and cramming this past month trying to learn and retain all of the things for Math, Science, History, and English. It's been overwhelming trying to learn all of this content with only having evenings and weekends to fit in study time. I felt ready, but nervous about the amount I needed to remember. I also thought there was an essay portion to this test and have been working hard writing practice essays in preparation. I said thought because I was wrong and found out at the testing center. After working on my test for 2 and a half hours I clicked end test (thinking an essay portion would pop up next for my last hour) only to have the system stop. I went into to the test proctor room and a TA told me I was done and I got a printout saying I passed. I was so confused about missing out on part of the test and was instructed that if I left the test was considered done - meaning I would have to re-do the whole test if I left. So I sat there an hour longer with 4 phone calls to ABCTE / test people only to have the USU test guy come back and say it's the second test (that I still have to take) that has the essay (not both tests like I originally thought). I was overwhelmed and stressed for that hour and it took some of the joy out of passing my test, but I did it! I passed test one and I'm ahead of the curve with all of my essay prep for the second test! Casey and the Kids played risk at my parents that morning after Kendal did a driving session with Grandpa, and when he got my first nervous text and came up to get me not knowing I was stuck in the building till things were figured out so he drove around campus for a bit. Everyone waited to celebrate with me and we all went to Chick Fill A for a very late lunch to celebrate. Casey and Grandpa took Kendal and Pete to do baptisms for the dead that afternoon while Alice and I went for a visit with Nana. We got to spend the evening with cousin time as well!
Saturday morning we followed David and Anica to the Lee's around the valley so the kids could do a simple Easter treat walk through each store. Nothing epic, but the kids got some goodies and cousin time in. Casey and I took the girls to see Nana before lunch while Pete got some play time at David and Anica's house. Andy and Kim came up for an early Easter lunch and we all had a nice afternoon together eating, hanging out, and playing Farkle and Apples to Apples. It's my Mom's birthday this coming week and we got to sing to her yesterday as well! We got talked into eating at Culvers before we left and got home late last night.
Easter Sunday! The kids were up early to find their baskets, and goodies. They knew they couldn't collect eggs until their baskets were found, and they had no luck finding them; however, they did a scavenger hunt that the bunny put together and found some hobby rockets that we've spent part of this afternoon putting together. We went to church and had a beautiful sacrament meeting full of the spirit and messages of our Savior. I love all that was shared! Before we came back home we did a mini testimony session together sharing our testimonies of Christ together. The kids came in and ended up finding their baskets and eggs (with a lot of direction from Casey on how to thoroughly look for things, because heaven help them they were being very casual with their efforts). We're now having a casual afternoon together to finish out our Easter Sunday / Spring break.
(The palm leaves we made last Sunday and have had them up all week. We wrote on them what we would say to Christ if we saw him today.)
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