The Keyes!

 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