Spring Soccer Season 2022

Wahoo!! Spring Soccer has begun! Bring on the sunburns and Saturdays at the fields! We love soccer and I love watching my kids play! Cavin and Ragnar are reffing again which is great for Cavin to earn money. He is doing track season right now and then will start soccer in a month for the school. Ragnar is coaching Channing's U12-14 girls team again and 16 of the 18 players returned so that is fun. Deacon is also returning to his team where 10 of the 12 are returning. They have loved their teams. Deacon is the black bombs and Channing team is still undecided :) We are looking forward to a great season and personal progression!

" A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Performance

On February 18th &19th Ella and Cavin participated in a performance of Shakespeares "A Mid Summer Nights Dream." Ella had done a mini Shakespeare camp over the summer and they did a few mini plays, but this one was the full length play. They changed it to be set in the 1940's during the First World War. Ella was cast as Petra Quince the nurse and very bad director. Cavin was asked to be part of the stage crew behind the scenes and he enjoyed being a part of it all and was their best cheerleader and supporter. 

Three amazing women from our ward, Jeri Wyn Mumford, Sharlene Hatch, and Eva Armendariz put together the whole performance and the set and costumes were awesome! They did flyers and shirts and made it a real production. Both nights had a great showing and the second night was packed. 

Ella really has enjoyed having this outlet to do some acting as she doesn't have it in her schedule to do at school and here this is a safe, clean environment for them to do it in whereas the plays at school have gotten pretty racy with a lot of inappropriate dialogue and material.

Ella and Cavin ready for the second performance. 

Ella's part had a lot of death stares and eye roll, which she has down pat! :)

The big cast and crew!

Cavin's orchestra teacher from school came to support them!

The after performance hot tub pool party :) Such great kids! They did an awesome job! I am amazed by all their talent!

Curling Fun!

For my dad's birthday, each year I try and find an activity we can do together. I got him a "learn to curl" class in July and it took months for us to find one that worked for his temple schedule and was on a Saturday! We finally found one!

With the Olympics on there are more classes and it was fun to see how they do curling. It definitely takes more skill than it looks like. 

It was a little sketchy standing on the ice at first but then your feet got used to it. 

We had to first learn how to slide on the ice and the how to release the rock and then how hard to push it and finally how to sweep it!

I made the game shot to win for our team, right near the center... now only if it was on purpose ;)

I'm glad I got to spend the time with my dad. It was a nice outing and I wish it happened more often!

February Break to Great Wolf Lodge!

For Christmas we gave the kids a trip to Great Wolf Lodge near Dallas, Texas for a present. We booked a hotel for 3 days and two nights and went to see what all the hype was about. It wasn't too busy because our school district has so many random breaks, so it was nice to not have to deal with too many crowds! We drove up Monday and went shopping for a bit and then spent the next two days trying out all the slides at the indoor water park!

The kids are at great ages where they could do everything and stay in pairs and were off having fun. 

The hurricane was the scariest ride, but also the most fun. 

The boys enjoyed the basketball hoops. 

We watched the Olympics and a movie.

We played Bingo and most of us won. Ragnar got the very first two bingos!

They met Willey the wolf. 

We got ice cream and ate yummy food. 

Channing had on her wolf ears almost the whole time :)

We finished off the trip at Red Robin where we got together with Ragnar's cousin Stephanie Yost and Aunt Brigette and Uncle Kent. It was a nice, short getaway and I enjoy all the time we get to spend with our family!