February

We have been having lots of fun, but I haven't been taking the time to blog so I am a bit behind. For the super bowl this year, Jayson and Kassi, and Ryan, Kristen, Carter, and Kamdyn all came to party with us. It was great having them all here. We missed Dave, Kris, Madison, and Kenzie, but Dave and Kris had to work. Jayson made out pages that had questions on it that we all had to guess (who would win, who would get the first penalty, who would win the coin toss, what songs Madonna would sing at half-time, what the first score would be...etc.). The funny part is that I won...and I probably have the least knowledge of anyone who filled out a paper. We were able to give the kids all their Valentines and I got the Archer family's in the mail. This past week was the 100th day of school. The school was having a mini- Marid Gras party. The kids could make a parade float out of a shoebox and attach 100 of something to it. I tried to talk Tyson in to making one over the weekend, but he was not interested. On Monday when we went to school, a bunch of kids had made one. After school they announced to the kids that they were extending the deadline one more day. So, of course, Tyson then decided he wanted one. I was on my way to a meeting in Brigham after school, and Tyson had two basketball practices that night (one in Tremonton, and then one in Logan). I knew we didn't have any shoe boxes, so I had to take one for the team and buy a pair of shoes for myself before heading home (what a great mom I am!). Here is Tyson with the finished product. Tyson has had lots of basketball games this past couple of weeks along with baseball practices. His baseball team is gearing up to head to Las Vegas this weekend for a tournament. On Saturday the team came to Tremonton for a change. It was nice not being the ones driving! They came and had a scrimmage at the Bear Center against the Cubs and then everyone went out to Mack's for dinner. It was nice. Kaden has been keeping busy. He had to do a cell model project for school. He had to take a 3-D object and then explain what parts of it modeled a plant cell. He ended up with a HUGE model of his school that he made. It was pretty awesome but very time-consuming. I kept trying to talk him into doing something easier. He made all the floors have the tile patterns that his school has. He had lockers that actually jutted out into the hallways and everything. The office was the nucleus, the gym was the mitochondrion, the lunchroom was the chloroplast, etc. In seventh grade they start learning a lot about different careers and what their own strengths in the job market might be. They then can job-shadow a person who has a career that they might be interested in. Kaden spent today at my school job-shadowing our principal. He even got to go into a teacher's room and do an observation and rate her! Whew! Glad it wasn't me!