Is It the End of Ski Season?

 Kim helped in primary a couple of weeks ago so she got to see Mr. Henry helping with singing time

I did some puzzles with Henry that afternoon

Kim got to go skiing with some friends the next day

Kim was courageous and tried this black diamond for the first time

Henry discovered naval oranges recently and really likes them (you will notice Mason does too)

Lyza helped me capture a cool sunset on the way to her youth activity (it looked at least 20x better in person)

Kim and I had a temple night recently

With warm weather comes some chalk art (he was actually grinding up the chalk and putting it in a bag because it felt cool to squish it)

I got to take all three boys to their teacher conferences and hear what great students they are. Henry was especially happy to show off what he has been doing and learning.

We celebrated pi day with...pie

That Friday we took the boys skiing while Lyza was in school. It was a beautiful day!

The weather was really nice in the morning. After lunch it got a little too warm and the snow got sticky.

It was fun to ski together

Henry tried several new runs including his first ever black diamond!

I had the GoPro with a harness on Nixon so we got some fun footage of him doing what he does best

Then it was back to the warmth of the sun and spring

Henry enjoyed making this crazy train

Henry helped me make French toast last weekend for breakfast

We sized Henry up to Mason's last bike and he caught on to it pretty quickly

We tried out the pressure washer we got as a Christmas gift and cleaned up the vehicles

Nixon and Kim went on a date to Red Robin and Nixon got a giant burger

Pretty cool pyramid

Our stake youth had a swimming activity and Lyza brought her friend

Once again the leprechaun evaded the kids' trap but at least he left some gold coins

And some cereal

He also left his mark on the kids

Yummy green smoothie and muffins for lunch

I took the boys to the skate park to play on their bikes

Playing Jenga with Henry is very stressful

But playing outside on the swing set is much more relaxing

Henry tried a hard boiled egg this last week and liked the white part

He also helped Kim make a breakfast casserole and he enjoyed it

The warm weather has been nice but it also leaves us wondering if skiing is over for the season. Hopefully we can make it out again.

Take care

 A few Sundays ago we watched our stake conference meeting from home and Henry had fun with his own version of Candy Land

The kids set some goals that day and one of Henry's goals was to get ready for soccer. So the kids practiced soccer in the back yard

Lyza won two awards for academic achievement for the school year so far. One for her overall GPA and another for reading (language arts) 

We couldn't stay for the whole awards ceremony so she got this second one the next day at school

Henry had his 100th day of school and they had fun celebrating

He got to help make this tower

And he also got to accidentally knock it over

He got some treats of course

We got to attend Lyza's spring concert and it was awesome

Nixon doing what he does best

Skiing two weekends ago was crazy. It snowed 7 inches that morning and the highway was really bad. Traffic was completely stopped 20 minutes from the mountain because there was so much uncleared snow on the road and vehicles were sliding off. Eventually a couple of plows got around everyone and cleared the rest of the way for us.

It was snowing hard that morning on the mountain

That didn't stop us

Eventually the snow stopped and the sun peeked through

The kids had their last day of ski lessons

While Lyza and Henry had their lesson the sun came out and it was beautiful

Here's Kim and Henry on a lift together

It was an exhausting day skiing through so much fresh powder. Nixon fell asleep on the drive home.

Henry got himself dressed for church the next day

Mason doing Mason things

I hung out in the tipi with Henry and Mason and listened to a couple of audio books with them

After one of Lyza's long showers she decided to leave some art on the mirror

We added another car to our pinewood derby collection. Mason has #29 and Nixon's #23 from last year raced again.

Unfortunately, Mason was too sick to go to the activity so Nixon raced his car for him

Nixon's car got third place

Mason's car almost advanced to the final round but got a style award

Here are a couple of pictures of Mason at challenge (where they go to another school one day a week for a more challenging curriculum)

And Nixon at challenge

Mason likes to curl up on the heat register in the morning

Henry was admiring his blanket this week and the patterns it has

On a warm day this week Kim took the boys to the park and the river to get some energy out

And playing a game together

Lyza got to go on a date with Kim this weekend to the library and then out for frozen yogurt

We went skiing together yesterday and it was beautiful!

It was ski school graduation so the kids got to hang out with friends

The kids got certificates and medals

Nixon and I tried out a couple of new black runs

The kids got a bbq lunch

I will choose to remember Mason being this happy all day

Lyza, Henry, and Kim

Henry had so much fun skiing and "jumping"

Our fingers are crossed for a few more good weeks of skiing

Take care