April 2019

We decided to go to St George for Spring Break.  This should probably just be a post itself but I'll just include it all here.  The kids were so excited to go on a trip that they all sat in the back seat squished together.  We had lots of fun.  The kids went from hiking to swimming, to a park and repeat.  They love to go climb on the rocks above St. George Blvd and their favorite thing to do there is play hide and seek.  They could play that for hours...and we practically did.  A few times it made me nervous because we couldn't find Jaron and he would not come out until he was found. We went to Snow Canyon one day and had fun doing some hikes there and seeing different things that we hadn't seen before.

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Grandma Glover came to visit, always fun when she's here.



We had another soccer season.  The girls got to play on an all girl team and they loved the change that brought to their game.  Siena scored her first goal during the season.



We attempted to go to this Unicorn Festival at the outlets and oh boy was it the craziest thing we had ever done.  It was sooo crowded and just crazy amount of people.  In fact they were supposed to have this balloon drop and had to shut it down because of the amount of people. We did get to see a few things and pet a unicorn.  Aria is still very obsessed with Unicorns so I was glad we went even though the crowds were crazy.



I got to go with the girls on their 1st grade field trip to the Bean Museum.  This was the first chance I have had to go on a field trip with them so it was lots of fun and they were excited to have me along.



We had a few fun Easter activities.  We had a neighborhood Easter egg hunt up at the park which was fun and easy as everyone just brought eggs and we threw them out on the grass.



The kids were super disappointed that they had a soccer game right when the Highland City Easter egg hunt was this year so I looked up and realized the Cedar Hills Easter egg hunt was right in between the girls and Jaron's game that day so after one game ended we raced to the other park, got there literally as the horn sounds, gathered Easter eggs and jumped in the car and went back for our 2nd game of the day.  We lucked out on the timing and the kids were happy to do another egg hunt.



Easter egg dying and other Easter pictures from the holiday.



The kids had their Ridgeline fun run.  It was cold and rainy this year and in fact they moved the time up and had them run at an earlier time which was a bummer for a lot of parents that missed out.  I was lucky I was there doing take home reading book exchanges when they announced the change so I got to go out and watch just in time.



The girls were so excited that their first grade teacher, Mrs. Correa, decided to do a class Battle of the Books for them.  They read all the books, formed teams and did a great job.  Siena's team ended up winning for the class and it was fun to watch all the kids get so excited about reading.

Kid's Interview Answers

Siena's Answers:
What is your favorite food - pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Pokemon
What is your favorite movie – Dolphin Tale
Who is your best friend – Aria and Sorena
What do you want to be when you grow up – Gymnastics Teacher
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Disneyland and Lagoon
What is your favorite holiday – All of them
What is your moms job – To work
What is your favorite book – Chapter Books
What is your favorite color - Pink and rainbow
What makes you laugh – When people tell me something funny
What is your favorite thing to play with – Electronics
What makes you happy – When I get what I want
What is your dads job – To work
What is your favorite song - A Child's Prayer
What makes you sad – When people are mean to me
If you had a wish what would it be - To fly
What is the meaning of life - To test you
Why do you love mom - She is really nice
Why do you love dad - He is fun when he's not working

Aria'a Answers:
What is your favorite food - Pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Spirit
What is your favorite movie – Benji
Who is your best friend – Siena
What do you want to be when you grow up – Cowgirl
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Disneyland and Lagoon
What is your favorite holiday – Easter
What is your moms job – Work at 3M
What is your favorite book – Uni the Unicorn and Sky Unicorn
What is your favorite color - Violet
What makes you laugh – When someone says 'Ahhhhh'
What is your favorite thing to play with – Everything that's mine
What makes you happy – My family
What is your dads job – Work
What is your favorite song - Old MacDonald had a Farm
What makes you sad – When I'm scared and alone
If you had a wish what would it be - to have a magical Alicorn
What is the meaning of life - To follow Jesus
Why do you love mom - because she loves me
Why do you love dad - because he loves me

Jaron's Answers:
What is your favorite food - Pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Power Rangers
What is your favorite movie – White Fang
Who is your best friend – Graham
What do you want to be when you grow up – Drummer and Soccer Player
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Dinosaur museum
What is your favorite holiday – 4th of July because you get all the candy from the parade
What is your moms job – to work for 3M
What is your favorite book – The Blue Truck
What is your favorite color - Blue, Red and Green
What makes you laugh – When someone tickles me
What is your favorite thing to play with – My stuffed animals
What makes you happy – When someone does something nice for me
What is your dads job – to work
What is your favorite song - The Books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John...)
What makes you sad – When someone takes something away from me that I like
If you had a wish what would it be - To have everything I want
What is the meaning of life - To be happy
Why do you love mom  - because she lets me snuggle with her
Why do you love dad  - because he gives me rides

March 2019

The kids have finally learned how to build a Snowman by themselves.  And they are much better at it than I am.  I was impressed they built this all by themselves and that it's as tall as them.  They lucked out with the perfect type of snow that day.



Aria got new glasses.  I love these cute new purple ones. When she picked out the 2nd pair, little did we know she had picked out a pair that was called Aria.



The kids are getting much better and more elaborate in building their Leprechaun Traps.



The Secret Leprechaun never disappoints and the kids count down the days until he comes.  On the day of they check the door non-stop hoping to catch him in the act.  This year St Patrick's day fell on a Sunday and they were sure he was going to come while we were at church.  But he waited and they were so excited.



For St Patrick's day I served a Green dinner with Corn Beef hash, which the kids actually liked, green jello, pickles and green onion pringles in a green can.  We had green Popsicles for dessert.



I had to take a trip to St Paul for work one week.  Shane did a great job being super dad while I was gone and I had a good trip.  I got to tour 3M's innovation center there and sat in a real bobsled used in the Olympics.  3M also has these vending machines that you can get a new laptop, mouse pad, earphones, etc. all for work.  Rose and I were pretty excited to try it out.



 

We used our reading pass to get into the zoo one day. We hadn't been there in a couple years so it was super fun to walk around and see all the animals.  And we were happy it wasn't too cold either.  I think the highlight is still the carousel though.

February 2019

The Girls room needed a pick me up so we ordered and put these cute pink polka dot decals on their wall and got them new bookcases.  I think it turned out super cute and even if they still don't keep their room as clean as I'd like, it looks cute.



Jaron was so excited about Ground Hogs Day.  He had learned all about it in Kindergarten and he was so sure the ground hog would say 6 more weeks of winter so he could go skiing.  We got online and watched the whole video.  Well...the ground hog called for an early spring.  I was so excited because I love spring and warmth.  Well Jaron was not impressed.  In fact he was in tears talking about it for the next 20 minutes.



And just to show how wrong the Ground Hog was, we got snow, snow and more snow.  We got so much snow one day that although the district didn't call a snow day, they should have.  Most people just stayed home but Shane took the girls and Jaron and his friend Graham to school because we live so close and they thought it would be fun to be in school when not many people were there.  Well soon I got a text that Jaron and Graham were the only 2 kids in their whole class that showed up.  haha...so I went and picked them up and got the girls as well only to get stuck in a snowbank on the way home.  Shane had to run over a few streets to come dig me out.  Ugh, not a fun day but we all survived.  Thankfully Shane works at home and could come get me.



Jaron celebrated the 100th day of school by putting 100 stickers on his cape.  Always a fun day to celebrate at school.



Both Siena and Aria decided to participate in the Story Telling Festival this year.  Aria told her own version of Uni the Unicorn and Siena told The Best Nest story.  I was proud of both of them for doing it.  Both are pretty quiet when they get in front of people, but they practiced and practiced so much.  After doing it in front of the whole first grade they were chosen to tell their stories in front of the school for the school assembly.  They were so nervous but did great and I love that they will do things that are hard and out of their comfort zone.  We of course had to celebrate with ice cream after it was over.



We get a lot of deer walking through our backyard all year long but in February we had this deer just take up residence in our yard one week.  She would come and just sleep in our yard for hours at a time.  It was fun to see her a few days in a row.



We had the school annual Rocky Reading Contest.  The kids love this contest and are constantly reading to earn tickets which in turn gets them prizes.  They even went to a friends house for a 'reading party' one afternoon which was so fun.  All 3 of them were in the top 3 finishers in their class.  And Aria was the top reader for all of 1st grade.  It helped that she was sick the last week of the contest and read a lot while she laid on the couch in between her fever spiking.  She won a big gumball machine and a nice art kit.





We went to the Dinosaur Museum with our reading pass and the kids love digging for bones and playing in the sand.



Jaron has been wanting to get a booster seat for a while.  I told him he had to be 40 lbs, which is the law.  So for the last month he has been eating and then weighing himself and then eating and weighing over and over again.  He even went over to Lori's and was using her scale as well...haha.  So he finally hit 40 lbs consistently enough that we went and bought him a booster seat.  He was so excited to finally feel old and big enough to be in a booster seat.

January 2019

We started the year going down and seeing the Pace's and going sledding in Elk Ridge on New Year's Day.  Always fun to see the Pace's whenever we get a chance to play.

Santa gave us tickets in our stockings to go see The Wizard of Oz at The Hale Centre Theatre.  I had read the book to the kids over the summer so it was perfect timing.  They loved it and were totally enthralled watching all the special effects.

We went the Children's Museum with our KUTV reading pass we got again this year.  The kids could spend a really long time here and never get bored.  I always kind of think as they get older that it won't be as fun and yet every year we spend way more time here than I think we will.

Jaron got to have his free skiing lesson like his sisters did last year.  Because of how full the classes were, he had to miss a day of school which only made him more excited. He of course loved it and is now asking every day when Dad will take him skiing again.  

And I only have video's of this but we went sledding a lot in January.  The kids got new sleds for Christmas and we found the best sledding hill one neighborhood over.  And the kids are old enough I can let them out and they can go up and down the hill while I sit in the warm car and watch.  I wish I had a good picture of the fun big sledding hill that they love.