February 2022

All 3 kids have been playing basketball this winter.  Siena and Aria are on the same team with some of the same girls they've played with the last few years.  It's been a great season.  Jaron is on a team with all boys from the neighborhood and it's been fun to watch them progress as well.  They've started actually passing the ball and you can see quite a bit of improvement from the last year.  

With Covid numbers down it's been nice to have grandma and grandpa coming to see more games.  They've come to some outdoor things but I've been hesitant to invite them to other things but are grateful they can come more now and the kids love it when they come and watch them play.  They have a lot of grandkids and they always make time to come to at least one game each season.  That keeps them pretty busy.

Shane started working with a company and needed to take a picture for their website.  So I took some.  He insisted on not smiling in them but of course I got him to laugh in a few.  Just thought I'd share how cute he is and how hard he works to support our family along with keeping the house running, clean and doing all sorts of projects.  I love you Shane.

I was so excited during the olympics when a commercial on and showed I could get a Jazz debit card from my bank I'm already a member of.  I requested one immediately and seriously it puts a smile on my face every time I pull it out to use it.  Go Jazz. #TakeNote

The girls have been working so hard this year learning songs and dances to perform a 4th grade Utah Play.  It was so cute to watch.  They dressed up as pioneers, sang some fun songs and even had to do some square dancing and dance with a boy!  haha, they were not thrilled about that.  Aria tried out and got a part in the play.  Of course the day they were to perform it for the school Aria was sick with a fever.  Their teacher asked Siena to fill in for her since she already had it memorized from Aria practicing it so much.  Siena does not like speaking in front of people but I heard she did a great job.  The next day they performed for the parents and Aria was better and was able to perform her part perfectly.

Siena and Aria are into cooking and baking.  Almost every Sunday they ask if they can make a treat.  This particular Sunday they cooked up a batch of 'Siena's Cookies' which was chocolate chip cookie dough without chocolate chips in it and then they put different toppings on a few of them and had a little store for our family to sell them.  They even named each cookie.  Happy Smores, Twixy Earthquake and campfire chocolate.  It was cute and they were actually pretty good.