January 2016

January 2016

We had lots of very cold weather this month.  We are very ready for spring.  I started working at the elementary school in the afternoons in the office.  I really enjoy using my secretarial skills and working with the parents, faculty and kids.  I love learning new things as well.  Asher now has a shorter cast and his arm seems to be healing well.  

Lance and I took Asher on a fun little one on one date to the dino museum.  He really loves one on one time with us.  He is getting a bit too big for the dino museum but he still loves it.  I was surprised when he wanted to do the sand and water area - he usually wants to bypass it but this day he wanted to play for a while.  

Update on Asher's Arm

Yay! Asher got his cast taken off.  He still has to be careful but he has healed really well. The hair on his broken arm grew tons and tons inside the cast!  He has one really hairy arm! He also lost a lot of muscle on that arm that he will have to build back up over time.

Hannah's Sleepover Birthday Party

Hannah decided to have a sleepover for her 12th birthday friend party.  There was a lot of high pitched shrieking and giggling.  She has some wonderful friends that made her birthday party so memorable and fun.  

Krazy Karaoke!

Pets

Recess Duty

I was asked to sub for one of our recess ladies so I got to be there the day we had super cold awful weather and when Asher's glasses got broken AGAIN!

Science Fair

Hannah participated in the science fair this year.  She worked really hard on her project which was whether soaking a jack o lantern in bleach helped prevent it from molding (as pinterest says it will) and the answer is NO it makes pumpkins mold quicker!

Hannah with her friends Brandon Saavedra and Abbie Price

Hannah also had quite a few baby teeth pulled to make room for adult teeth that are already coming screwy.  It wasn't very fun especially since she didn't have teeth to chew on for a long time.

Hannah also tried out out for our school play Shrek.  The following video is of her call back audition.  She killed it! She didn't get the part she wanted but she did get a great part and did so well in it.

We are constantly trying to find ways to help JJ figure out and understand the behavior that we expect from him.  After having a major struggle with him we resorted to this consequence:

Basketball

Hannah and JJ both had Jr. Jazz basketball this month.  It was fun, frustrating, exciting and exhausting to watch them participate.  Please don't judge us too harshly for whatever you might hear on the videos.  Better yet watch them without the sound?!?!

Hannah's Games

JJ's Games

JJ's team was Guest!

We got JJ an Ikea book shelf for his room.  Lance had JJ put it together!

 BYU Basketball Games

Lance's season BYU basketball tickets are always a favorite for the kids!

 Pack Meeting

Asher really loved this month's pack meeting.  The dens made box cars and raced them in the gym!

 Hannah and JJ both had plans elsewhere so Lance and I took Asher to Cabelas for a hour.  He loves the shooting gallery and looking at the fish and taxidermied animals.