February

Warrior Award- 2/6/17

February is always a fun and busy month.  We started off the month with Kadence receiving the Character Counts award for the month of January.  Each month the teachers choose 2 students from their class who have shown exceptional behavior or academics.  Kadence's teacher said she is a hard working student who is a joy to be around, sounds like I'm raising them right, lol.

2/10/17

A few days later we celebrated Kadence's 11th birthday with a sleepover party, pizza, yummy treats, and a Coldstone ice cream cake.  Those girls giggled, were extremely loud, and stayed up all night, but it was worth it to see the smile on my little girls face.  She invited her 4 closest friend- Samantha, Bailee, December, and of course Kloe, her and Kloe have been pretty much inseparable since we moved in next door to her.

Kadee's 11th birthday party 2/10/17

The sheriff's office gave Rory some tickets to the Jazz game, so the next day we headed up north to eat some yummy food and go to the game.  Our tickets were at the very top of the stadium, but we had a blast.  We all wore our Jazz shirts since it was True Blue fan night and Rory caught a Jazz hat so the evening was a success.    

True Blue Jazz fan Night- 2/11/17

We didn't really celebrate Valentine's day, we had dinner at home, I got the kids caramel apples and little stuffed animals and Rory got me roses and my favorite, chocolate covered strawberries.  Connor finished up the basketball season and has loved playing ball for the middle school.  He is going to be doing a traveling team in March with some of the other 6th grade boys on the team.

MHMS 6th grade basketball team

Kinlee and Kadee have been rocking it at school, they both got Kudos club this month and Kinlee leveled up on her reading again.  I had parent teacher conferences, their teachers adore them, although Kinlee's teacher said she likes to talk a lot, I can't imagine where she gets that from. :) Kadence has had perfect attendance all year, then she got a fever and had to miss school on Tuesday.  She was so upset to break her 100% attendance streak, but I'm super proud of her for being so dedicated to not missing any school.

Salt Lake Temple 2/17/17

We were invited to attend my cousin Kelsi's wedding at the Salt Lake Temple this past weekend.  It was a beautiful ceremony and of course I had to get pictures of the kids on the temple steps.  I told them to stand still like a mannequin and these are the poses I got, man I love those crazy kids.

Finally, I quit my job at HeadStart.  It was super stressful and I was sick all the time, so I felt like it was a good decision to quit and be able to spend more time with my family.  Things are going to be a little tight financially, but I think it will be a blessing to not work full time so I can run the kids around, help them with their homework, and participate in their school activities.  I think when one door closes another one opens, so I feel a great opportunity is right around the corner.             

Kudos Club- 2/15/17

Valentine's day- 2/14/17

Kudos Club- 2/22/17