First half of March

March 1st

After getting back home from Mexico late the previous night, I told the kids they could stay home from school for a Hansen Holiday.  Maggie had her basketball award night at a laser tag place because after the awards, they were going to play a couple of games of laser tag.  

 The lady up front is their coach. 

While they played laser tag, Garrett and I went out to eat dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings

March 4th

Maggie got asked to Mormon Prom with her friend Nathan.  She was pretty excited!

So, this was her answer back (a couple of days later):  

I can't remember what the official message was, but she did say yes!

March 5th

Garrett surprised the kids with tickets to go see the Marvel Avengers show at the Rose Garden.  We are all big Marvel fans, so everyone was excited.  

 Noah was doing a guitar solo to some song on the radio that I thought was pretty funny.

 Captain America fans

 Waiting for the show to start

 Some of the pictures on the screen as it was starting

 Thor on earth with the tesseract...trying to hide it so the bad guys wouldn't get it.

 Loki

 Black Widow and Captain America

 Iron Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Black Widow,...I can't tell from the picture but there was also spiderman, Dr. Banner, shield agents and some other marvel characters I didn't know. 

 Intermission

 Hulk finally comes out

 Fighting the bad guys.  It was pretty entertaining with good special effects.  Pretty cheesy too.  It was fun though.

After the show...Maggie and Lydia saluting like Captain America.  Goofballs.  Noah is sad because we didn't buy him something.  Poor kid.

March 12th

Maggie and her friends Makaela, Emma and Spencer like to go to the Rose Gardens and look at the flowers and stuff.  I think they go once a month.  Here are a few pictures from that trip.  

When I went in to check on Bella and Noah before I went to bed, I found Bella sleeping with her head on the railing.  It looks so uncomfortable.  She really was asleep though.  

March 17th 

St. Patrick's Day

 Kids wearing their green clothes

 Our table setting for our green St. Patrick's day Dinner

 I'm not sure where Maggie was that night.  I can't remember.

The yummy food

January 2016

January wasn't a very busy month, so I'm going to include it all in one post.

January 2nd, we had a Primary activity where the kids could meet their new primary teachers.  It was an ice cream party held in the afternoon.  We had a great turn out!

Sunday January 3rd

Since it was a new year, our church time changed from 9 am to 1 pm.  It had snowed though, so they actually cancelled church!!

 Looking down on our street from Maggie and Paige's window.

 The kids went out immediately to check it out and then came in to get dressed in warmer clothes. 

 Playing on the trampoline and making snow angels.

 For some reason, Paige was sprinkling snow on Bella.  

 going out into the forest

 They were in and out all day.  In the evening, it started raining and they were trying to finish their snowman.  They only made a little baby one, but it was cute.  

It went below freezing during the night and of course all the wet snow froze on the roads and sidewalks, so they cancelled school the next day too.  :)

They went back on Tuesday though.  

Thursday January 7th

Today was Paige's 11th birthday!!  She begged me to bring in cupcakes for her class, so I gave in.

 in her class, before handing them out.

 We didn't go out to eat that night because Maggie had basketball practice, but I did make her favorite meal and we opened presents.  

 She got a couple of books, 

 She got a Harry Potter t-shirt and some chocolate frogs--she was really into Harry Potter at the moment

 and she also got this big Calico Critters house.  She and Bella got some other Calico Critters for Christmas, too.

For her cake, she wanted a strawberry cheesecake.  

Here's her birthday questionnaire:

1.  What is your favorite color?  light Easter colors

2.  What is your favorite toy?  Calico critters

3.  What is your favorite fruit?  raspberries

4.  What is your favorite TV show?  Liv and Maddie; Studio C

5.  What is your favorite movie?  Aladdin

6.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  pasta

7.  What is your favorite outfit?  dark jeans, snow boots, long sleeve shirt

8.  What is your favorite game?  Battleship or headbands

9.  What is your favorite animal?  horse, turtle, dog

10.  What is your favorite snack?  pretzels

11.  What is your favorite song?  Compass by Lady Antebellum

12.  Who is your best friend?  Hailey Jones, Ashley Noel, Brooke Nelson, Lilly Hunter, Ella Scharosch

13.  What is your favorite book?  Harry Potter

14.  What is your favorite cereal?  Reeces Puffs

15.  What is your favorite thing to do outside?  jump on the trampoline

16.  What is your favorite drink?  root beer

17.  What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas

18.  What do you like to sleep with at night?  Shelly the bear

19.  What is your favorite thing for dinner?  Sweet pork tacos

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up?  a teacher

21.  What food do I not like?  veggitables

22.  What is something that I do well?  math

23.  What is something I need to practice?  math

24.  My favorite place to go:  Mexico

25.  My favorite family activities:  Family home evening

26.  My favorite thing about home:  my room

27.  A place I want to visit:  Egypt

28:  My favorite part of the day:  Getting home from school

Friday January 8th

 At Maggie's basketball game...she gets to jump for the ball.

 getting some instruction from her coach

 looking good making a shot

Saturday January 9th

 Maggie and her friends Emma and Spencer at the Rose Gardens.  They've been going once a month and taking pictures.

 Maggie and Emma 'twinning' the next day at church

Wednesday January 13th

 Garrett got free tickets to a Blazers basketball game so he took Maggie.

 Saturday January 16th

 Garrett got tickets to go see the BYU boys basketball team play somewhere--I can't remember.  He took Maggie and his dad to this game.  

 Monday January 18th

Since it was MLK, Jr day, Garrett put up some of the extra wood boards from the kitchen island in our master bathroom.  I've been wanting him to do that for a long time and I really like it!  Now, we just need to paint the other walls.  

Here's the finished island in the kitchen.  I don't think I ever posted a picture when he was done.  He finished over Christmas break. 

Wednesday January 20th

 the kids have taken my preschool stuff and started playing school with it up in the playroom.  I love it!

Friday January 29th

 Since Garrett is now in Young Men's, he was able to go on the snow camp out with the scouts. He said it was fun, but that would not be my cup of tea!!

 Looks pretty cold and miserable!!

 He got there a bit later than everyone else because he couldn't take the whole day off of work, so instead of digging out a cave, he dug out a trench and put a door over the top (an extra shed door that he brought with him.  Totally looks like a grave to me.  I couldn't have stayed in there, but he said he was warm and cozy.  

This is what it looked like in the morning.  Yuck!  He did say that it had snowed in the night, so when he tried to get out in the morning, the door was harder to open with all the snow on top of it.  Sounds scary to me!