Starting Off the New Year Right

 It was a wonderful sight to see Nixon teaching Mason how to play chess

Occasionally Mason will get up and set the table for breakfast

I made this for my lunch one day and thought it looked so good it deserved a picture

While school was still out the kids got together with friends and played in the gym at the church

The kids also got to go to flying squirrel

They played a lot of dodge ball

And this new climbing game

To finish off the Christmas break we did fondue corn dogs

We were having fun reading Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel before the paparazzi interrupted

Our WHOLE family went skiing last weekend, which also meant is was Henry's FIRST TIME SKIING!

I skied with Mason quite a bit at the start while Kim was teaching Henry. Mason ROCKED it and was so good.

He made it down the big hill on his second run without falling. This is what that looked like

It was fun skiing with Henry. For his first time he did so good. 

Mason's books bring smiles to everyone's faces

Henry helped make waffles last Sunday

We finally pulled Mason's tooth

We had friends over and played games

Henry is so cute when he is listening to an audio book

Here he is at preschool this week

All seven elementary schools in the Post Falls School District had a combined assembly with their 5th grade students on the importance of kindness. Each school picked a single 5th grade student to present an essay they wrote on kindness. Lyza was chosen as her school's representative.

There were roughly 500 people in attendance. That is quite an audience for someone who just turned 11!

Lyza did such a good job and made us so proud!

Kim took Henry and I out for lunch on Friday and it was delicious fun

I got to take Lyza on a date that evening. We started at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library followed by frozen yogurt

We had some delightful conversation together

Yesterday Nixon got to go to the roller skating arena with a friend

They had races based on age groups

Nixon did quite well

Here is the group of kids Nixon was there with (complete with some Korean exchange students ;)

That's it for now.

Take care