February Happenings

Just a few more random photos from this month...

I went with Bree to a Joy School field trip to a local movie theater.  They showed us the projection room with the old film.  (It's kind of funny that the field trip with the equipment they have now would be pretty boring...the only interesting thing they can show us up there in the booth is the old stuff, the giant reels of film.  Ha!)  And they showed us the concessions and the big popcorn maker then we got to have some popcorn and watch some trailers in the theater.  We even saw a few 3D trailers; Bree thought the glasses were pretty cool.

We have had the craziest weather this month!  It has been warm and dry and gorgeous for February, with several days in the 60s.  So one afternoon we wanted to walk to the park and here's Bree's get-up for our walk.  (Maybe she's hoping she'll need those warm winter gloves?  As for me, I'm loving the warmth!)

Tess got a Jenga game for Christmas and she and Miles have enjoyed playing it together.  One day they got every single middle block out so you could see all the way down to the floor through the top.  They asked me to take a photo of it. :)

Miles's class made these really cute snow globe pictures that I wanted to remember, so I snapped a photo.  They decorated a winter scene and added little sparkly confetti and then glued a clear plastic plate over the top to be the globe.  His caption says, "If I lived in a snow globe I would have an ultimate snowball fight."  (Everything to Miles right now is "ultimate!"  It's cute.)

The Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet was this month.  Miles won't be 8 until December, but they invited him since he will be joining scouts this year.  The theme was space (if you're wondering about the cubmaster dressed as an astronaut) and they got these cute favors that looked like rockets, and they were filled with bite-size Milky Way candy bars.

Miles has been playing Jr. Jazz for the past several weeks.  He has improved so much since last year!  We were so proud of him.  It was lots of fun to see the kids get better and better; there were still the occasional times that a player would just pick up the ball and run all the way down the court (dribbling is so hard for these Kindergarten & 1st grade kids!), but for the most part they are really starting to get the hang of the game.  Miles even got several "hoops" this season.  I love how he calls getting a basket "making a hoop!"

After his last game we had no plans and since it was Saturday we decided to take a drive and do something fun.  We drove up to Logan and drove past our old apartments and our condo where we lived when Tess was born and then ate at a favorite restaurant (we wanted to go to LaBeau's but sadly it's closed!  But Papa Kelsey's moved into the old LaBeau's and we like their food too, so it worked out ok.)  After that we went to Gossner's for milk and cheese (always have to stock up!) and then up to Richmond to Casper's Ice Cream.  Yum!  Their shake sizes are funny...instead of small-medium-large, they call them "not enough," "almost," and "just right!"  

Bryan loves Richmond.  He would love to live in Richmond or Lewiston, which are both teeny tiny farm towns.  He would want to live with all the cows and no neighbors.  Ha!

Here we are chowing down on our yummy treats.  

Time Out

I was lucky enough to attend Time Out for Women again this month.  This time I was with 2 of my best best friends, Leslie Webb and Jennie Moore (but it'll always be Peterson and Reese to me!)  I met Leslie in 5th grade and we became best friends quickly.  We were joined at the hip all through junior high and high school, which as we all know, can be a tough time!  I'm so grateful that I had a best friend to go through rough times together!  And I met Jennie as a freshman at Utah State.  We were assigned to be roommates in my first apartment and we are just soul sisters.  We bonded so fast and we always said if we never got married we would be roommates forever, that's how well we get along!  It was fabulous to be there together!  Time Out for Women is put on by Deseret Book and it has speakers and singers with uplifting, spiritual, and sometimes hilarious messages!  It is a great boost for me.  I love the sisterhood, the time away from home responsibilities, and the inspiring messages.  I learned a lot this weekend!

And my sweet hubby always takes the kids on fun adventures when I'm off at TOFW.  I love to receive text messages with pictures like these while I'm gone.  I am so lucky that my kiddos have such a wonderful daddy!

These 4 are my world...

Ice Skating

Tess's class was preparing for a field trip to the Ogden Ice Sheet and I knew Bryan would be perfect to go with her!  He loves ice skating (and is better at it than I am) so I was happy that he could take a few hours off work and spend it with Tess.  They had a great time.  

Tess is such an athletic, coordinated girl!  She can do all sorts of physical things very easily...things that have always been hard for me.  I was just a little bookworm/couch potato as a child.  I'm so glad that she takes after Bryan in this respect.  She never gives up until she masters something.  She's my spunky gal!    -- (That's how Ramona Quimby was always described in the Beverly Cleary books and it fits Tess perfectly.  She's actually like Ramona in lots of ways.  Those books are some of my very favorites and I loved reading them with Tess, my very own spunky gal.)