2016 December Photos

Musical Performance

Yesterday the parents of the students at Learning Zoo Preschool were invited to watch a performance of their students.  The first 15 minutes of the school day was a musical performance from the students.  They were so cute I loved it!!  Every song had motions and movements to help the students know the words and musical patterns.  I was super impressed with Marsha and her mom (Saetrum) that are the teachers, known as Mrs. S and Mrs. J.  Sam did really well too.  I stood right up there and sang and did the actions.  I really loved the interpretive song that they had cut outs of a ship and waves and storms and sun.  They interpreted Beethoven's 5th Symphony (a few seconds of it).

Earlier this week I was able to accompany the 3rd graders to the Museum of Natural Curiosity field trip.  It was lots of fun though tiring.  I had fun with the other parents and Rubie and her group.

Rubie and Eric have been doing great in karate.  Rubie has earned 2 trophies for her performances in class.  Maybe I should start awarding trophies for good performance at home?

I'm trying to endure the gray weather.  Getting outside if there is even a bit of blue ski helps, but I am having serious issues with the gray skies and inversion pollution.  Carlee and I have snowshoeing planned tomorrow.  That will help me.  I have her 3 youngest here today.

Scott was out of town just the first 3 days of this week.  But he is home for the weekend.  He was gone all last week and then had drill on the weekend.  He was vaccinated with the small pox vaccine.  His arm is off limits to anyone.  He has strict instructions to not let anyone touch the spot and to keep it covered and to wash his clothing separately from the rest of the families.  Gee that is comforting to me.

Snow Shoe Yeah!

This past week we got lots of snow here.  Then it rained and ruined it.  But then we got snow again.  I have really been feeling the pull of the mountains to get out there.  So after a long morning of chores and cleaning on Saturday we got the family to the mountains for some snow shoeing.  It was late enough in the day and snowing that we needed to just go to a close spot so we went to Tibble Fork.  Tibble Fork is under construction for building a new damn.  But they have still left space so that recreation-ers can get around the construction to enough the small part of the canyon.  Sam insisted on wearing snow shoes, so I let Eric wear mine and Sam wore the little blue ones.  I was amazed but Eric did totally great in my snow shoes.  So I decided it was time for me to get a new pair and Eric can wear those.  Next year I can get another new pair and hand off the other set to Rubie.  Then they won't need new snow shoes for years.  Great!

We have all been battling chest congestion with a nagging cough.  It zaps some energy and we felt tired yesterday.  We have early church this year and when we got home, we were super lazy and indulgent in laying around and not doing much.  Well, after a scout meeting for me and Scott and Eric moving lots of wet snow out of gutters.  It had snowed so much and then began to rain that there was water everywhere.  The streets and yards were just flowing.