One Minute

The primary in our ward held a talent show where each kid was to perform a one-minute talent. It was EXTREMELY last minute on our part with what our kids were going to do. Kali has been teaching herself piano, and played 'Book of Mormon Stories' that she memorized . . . Owen {all by himself} walked up each piece of gear one by one, plopped them on the table, and finally said . . . 'I like playing hockey with my dad' . . . and Meg decided to bring her xx skis from Jr Nordic. It turned out to be really cute & we came home with flavored popcorn balls!

Ice Fishing

I never knew that ice fishing could be a field trip! All year long 2nd graders are learning about the life cycle of Salmon. They are still Alevins growing into Frys at her school. And now they get to go catch them in the frozen lake! Each kid got their own hole and pole and whatever they caught they could take home to eat. Kali caught hers in the belly and barely got a picture with it before it jumped back into the water. I wasn't able to go because Meg woke up sick and couldn't go to school, so Kali called my brother to see if he wanted to go. She was so excited that Uncle Jeff went . . . and he even brought her Hot Cocoa for the bus ride home!

A Good Day

Jason thinks Kali has his blood of designing! She always comes upstairs from her room with clothes that she has altered . . . making dresses into skirts . . . long sleeve shirts into halters . . . I'm constantly telling her to stop messing with her clothes because she'll ruin them. Today she wanted to do even more. She came BEGGING me to teach her how to sew! We are making the girls a bunkbed for their American Girl Dolls similar to the girls'. Kali wanted them to have a similar quilt as the ones I made. So we grabbed all the scraps . . . I cut them . . . she laid them out how she wanted . . . I sewed two pieces together . . . then she INSISTED she do the rest!! All I did was quilt it together and bind it. I thought I would be dreading this LONG day of doing a project with my daughter, but instead it turned out to be so fun and a DANG cute quilt!!!