Ahoy matey

Ashley joined honor choir in January and has been working hard on a fun little musical. Ashley was a pirate that did some sword fitting. When she tried out she put that she didn't want a speaking part. I was a bit surprised by this but I guess she has some shyness in her. It was fun watching the play and these fifth graders did such a great job.

Ashley sure loves to sing. I need to get her into some sort of choir she sure loved being apart of this musical.

Piano

Since Kira moved back east the girls haven't had piano lessons. I have had a few leads to teachers in the area but non of them felt right. Then this cute couple moved into our ward and I found out she offered piano lessons. I was going to put Allison and Ashley in lessons but Allison felt with her school schedule that it would be too much. We were going to start the first of the year but with all the snow and Nicole house not being finished we put it off till they moved into their house. Today was Ashley first lesson. She was so excited.

Nicole was willing to do the lessons at our house or hers and Ashley picked our house. After Nicole left Ashley sat and practiced what she gave her for about an hour. I love seeing her excitement. Sister Lyons (Nicole) is also so sweet and Ashley really likes her.

Roadtrip

Since the girls don't get a three day weekend because of the snow days we decided to make today fun for them. We were going to go to a local hot springs but they were booked so we decided to head down to one that we had tried by Twin Falls. Grandpa decided to meet us there with Lexie and Kylie. Allison ask if she could drive down there so we let her.

She did an ok job but there were some interesting times on the drive. I sure am glad that they are required to drive with a permit for 6 months before they get their license. All this practice definitely is nice for them to be supervised. I think she will be ready to be set free in August. Grandpa had suggested that we try a differnt hot springs down the road from the other one that we had tried. It was nice and had a little more fun things for the kids to do. It was a great afternoon. I am glad we had this little road trip

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Valentines Day

The girls didn't get their normal Krispy Kreme donuts for breakfast becasue they were out when I went to go pick them up yesterday. I was surprised that they didn't have any but Albertsons thankfully had something.

They were ok with the change. Kevin was especially happy since he got a maple bar. It hit me that this would be Madison's last Valentines before she goes off to college. I was kind of sad. I am going to have to send her care packages so she won't miss out on our little traditions. One thing last that I did not get sad about was my last elementary school year on Valentines day. I used to think that it was fun to make Valentines and Valentines boxes but since I have been doing it for thirteen years it has gotten kind of old. It was nice to be able to be at Ashleys last elementary school party though.

For the evening we got the girls thier normal heart pizza and then Kevin and I went out. We went to the nice buffet and Kevin surprised me again and tried crab legs.

After twenty years Kevin has definitely found how to really shock me. It was a great year and I can't believe that 21 years has passed since I said yes to Kevin when he ask me to marry him.

Utah trip

Today Kevin and I got home from a short weekend in Salt Lake. It was the spouses trip for Kevin's work so we went down to be there for he company meeting. We left early Saturday morning and got back late afternoon today. It was a nice little get away to have some alone time with each other. We did some shopping and scored some nice throw pillows for the new couches. We also did a lot of eating. Oh my goodness I had some good Eggs Benedict one morning. It was on a crescent and had bacon on it with the Canadian bacon. Why hadn't I ever thought of putting bacon on Eggs Benedict?

I need to make this at home with a better hollandaise sauce. Theirs wasn't the best. Kevin shocked me and tried sushi at a breakfast buffet we went too.

He didn't end up liking it but he tried it and I never thought that he would do that. We also stopped in and saw the Maxwells. I with I lived closer to these guys I just love these little boys and wish that we saw them more.

It was a fun weekend.

Lexie's baptism.

While Kevin and I were in Utah the girls were able to go to Pocatello to be with Lexie on her baptism day. Kevin and I were sad to miss it but we are glad that the girls got to go. It was kind of up in the air if we were going to let them drive down to Twin Falls so they could ride with the grandparents the rest of the way but the weather cooperated so they were able to go.

Kind of scary

Madison had a mole removed in December and the biopsy came back questionable so they told us if it grew back that we needed to come back in to have it removed. Well it grew back so we went in yesterday to have it looked at he wanted to remove it again but go deeper then he went last time. This morning after all the other girls went to school I took her in and it was removed. I was a bit surprised at how much he took out. OUCH

He told us that he got it all and will should be called in the next few days with the biopsy results. It is always scary when cancer and your child is in the same sentence. I am glad that we got it taken care of.