March 2018

Somehow Jen and Sherri and I were able to sneak away to snowboard at Targhee without any kids!  It was pretty darn awesome.  When we first got off the lift at the top, we could see the whole view.  Amazing!  But that was the last we saw of it.  Because the clouds and snow came and it was basically a white out the rest of the day.  It was mighty cold.  But as long as there was no skin showing, we were ok, lol.  It was really foggy and we couldn't see 10 feet in front of us.  Luckily, Jen kind of knew the mountain so we just followed her.  We only almost fell off a cliff once.  The fresh snow was really nice, but it made it impossible to see anything!  We couldn't even see the snow we were riding on.  I tried with and without my goggles and it didn't matter.  There were times I thought the ground was pretty flat, but then I went flying.  One time I was slowly inching backwards looking up at my friends, on what I thought was open mountain, when I slid off a two foot drop.  Luckily it was only two feet!  It was surprising.  You literally couldn't see the shadows telling you depth.  More than once, I thought I was standing still, only to catch and edge and fall because I was actually gliding along slowly.  You could not see the ground moving under you.  This weird phenomenon is what had me laughing so hard I was crying.  Sherri was standing up straight and then laying on the steep mountain with no clue how she got there, like an penguin with its arms down.  She thought she was on flat ground.  I'm telling you, it was disorienting and kind of dangerous.  But they never shut down the lift so we just kept going.  It was a really great day and I hope to do it again soon!

 I don't get many pictures of my kids playing indoor soccer because you just can't get any good pictures.  Besides the net in the way, the lighting is so bad.  But they both played two sessions of indoor this winter and both love it.  Both teams were pretty much undefeated if I remember correctly.

 I took my Webelo scouts to the Webelos WOW.  It was an all day Saturday even where they passed off multiple badges.  It was a long day but my co-leader really wanted to do it because it saves us the work.  The engineering one was cool and I'm glad they had someone to do that for them.  They made paper airplanes and a catapult.  They also did some cool science stuff, and learned all about rocks, which sounds boring, but was kinda cool and the boys seemed to like it.  The lady that did it was quite impressive.

I mentioned Kylee working on her Festival songs.  She made it to Festival and performed her songs and did really well from what I could tell.  She got a score of 99!  I have her paper with the judges notes somewhere I will have to add in some time.  The day following Festival was the piano recital and she was going to play one of her songs, but she ended up getting really sick so she stayed at home.  Sadie got to go play her song, though.  She is so cute and does so good when she works hard at it!

Kylee getting sick was just the start.  It proceeded to pass through our whole family.  The stressful part was that it was the week before Spring Break and we needed everyone to be healthy!!  This was Kaden cuddling with me when he was sick.  Thankfully it did pass just in time.  It would've been a long plane ride with a sick child!

 The school held their carnival in the Spring this year.  I have a love/hate for the carnival.  It's fun for the kids.  But they get a bunch of treats and junk toys.  I always have to do work for my kids' classes to get these raffle baskets made, especially if I'm the room mom.  And it ends up costing quite a bit of money for the raffle tickets and game punch card, etc.  I'm glad the school makes money.  But it stresses me out.  This year I ended up staying home.  I think it was when Kaden was sick.  So Ryan went with the other kids and Dylan ended up winning this raffle basket!  First time in 7 years that we've won anything, so that was fun.

 We went to Florida for Spring Break, which I will post about later.  But after we got home it was almost Easter so we went to the annual egg hunt at the Country Club.  Always a good time.  I remember egg hunts being actual 'hunts' when I was younger.  Now they just toss them onto the grass and see who can pick them up fastest.  Boring.  Good thing we still do 'hunts' at home.  The kids are sure cute though.  And happy.