April 2025

Spring break was the first week of April.  I always have good intentions of planning a family vacation and then it sneaks up on us and we don't.  But we did a few fun activities.  We went and saw the live action remake of Snow White that I really liked and thought it was cute. I bought the kids an all day pass to Airborne/Labrynth.  They went all day, took a break for dinner and then I dropped them off again and they stayed until almost closing.  We also got tickets from Brigitte last minute to go to Saturday evening general conference.  The kids weren't too thrilled to get into Sunday clothes and not sit on the couch and watch but they had never been and I think they liked it more than they thought they would.  One day we also went to the Nikelcade and the kids had so much fun there.  Jaron randomly won 500 tickets at this spin game and they said they want to go back sometime soon.

Jaron started flag football.  He was on a team with his friends from school, Hank, JJ, Luke and others.  They lost every single game but it was the first time all these boys had played football (they are almost all soccer players) so they just liked learning a new game.

Siena and Aria went to their first stake dance.  They not only had dancing but games in other rooms, JDawgs and smores so it was a fun night to just hang out with friends.

Our stake put on an Easter walk at our stake center which was cool to walk through and read different quotes about Jesus and his Atonement for us.

We celebrated Doug winning the basketball trophy this year and he donated a chest full of quarters ($25 worth) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of doing these trophies in the family.  Everyone played a huge game of left, right, center and Siena ended up winning the big pot!

Easter was fun.  The kids still like dying easter eggs and the easter egg hunt for candy is a lot harder and takes a lot longer.  In fact this year one egg wasn't found until the next day.  We always have Easter dinner at my parents and it was fun Christy was in town this year so we had to get a sibling picture.

Jaron had to do a wax museum and he did his report on Guy Fawkes...who I had never even heard of until Jaron came home with that name for his assignment.  haha.

Siena has been doing a ton of crocheting.  She basically taught herself with some help from Shane and has made so many animals that are so cute.

March 2025

Siena and Aria had career day at their middle school this year.  It was kind of last minute and we scrambled a bit but they both ended up having a great day.  Siena went to my sister Michelle's school where she is a reading aide and helped her and then helped out with the STEM teacher labs.  Aria wanted to do something animal related so we got her paired up with Lori's dog groomer and she went and helped out there, washing and blow drying dogs.  She loved it as well and it was a perfect fit for both of them.

Jaron went on his first young men's overnight camp.  They went down to Goblin Valley, spent one night and did a really cool hike the next morning and came home that afternoon.  It was super fun for them, even if they made a huge scene as they pulled into camp.

Siena finished up her basketball season. She did Jr. Jazz this year and it was fun that she was friends with  couple girls on the team.

Aria and Siena both had their 3rd quarter Orchestra and Band concerts as well as Aria's choir concert.  They always fall close together so it makes for a busy week but always fun to hear their songs come together.

Shane got me tickets to Les Mis that was here on tour.  Our seats were really high up but it was so good and the talent is always amazing.

Shane got me a TV for my birthday last year and so I was super excited when March Madness started that I could work and watch the games at the same time.  Go BYU, who had a great year!

Jaron had his last year of Battle of the Books.  His team did great but unfortunately didn't quite make it to the finals.  It's always been harder for his team to advance but I thought he did great and was proud that all 3 of my kids read all 20 books all 4 years of Battle of the Books!

February 2025

Apparently this month was almost all about Jaron, sorry Siena and Aria, not sure what you were up to but I'm sure you had an amazing month too!  :) 

February was a month Jaron had been dreading or a couple years.  He knew in 6th grade he was going to have to participate in the 6th grade Valentine's dance at Westfield.  He kept hoping his soccer tournament would allow him to miss it but his soccer team went to a different tournament this year and so he was there.  It actually turned out so fun and I think he liked it more than he thought he would.

We did go to a tournament with Jaron's soccer team.  We had a fun weekend hiking, swimming, playing raquetball, mini golf, pickleball and the girls even went go karting.  Jaron's team won one game of the 3 but it was a fun weekend.

Jaron gave his first talk in sacrament meeting and did a great job and has had some fun Young Men activities along with a camp out in Goblin Valley.

I also became a great aunt with Kali and Mason had cute little Stettler.