February & March

Joe and I went on some fun double dates with the Allreds. We're sure going to miss them when they move this summer. They took us to this spicy Chinese place. Check out all those red peppers:

A quick picture I took of our YW for one who moved to Utah:

I love those girls.

Date night at Fenton's:

I was volunteering in Eli's kindergarten class one day and noticed this scene during their snack:

He has always gotten along so well with girls. 

Speaking of Eli, one night he was working so hard to read a Magic Treehouse book. He has improved so much in his reading!

We had YW at our friends' the Weston's and got to meet their adorable new lab puppy Jogger that they are training to be a guide dog.  Natalie loves him so much.

Eli got to bring home his class stuffed bear and I loved this picture we took of him playing Wii with him:

Nate did his science project on Misty (testing whether she would eat more food if there was more food available) and took this pictures of her:

Sadly, she died only about a week after that. We're hoping we didn't put any stress on her. She was almost 2 which is pretty old for a hamster.

We got the kids a new hamster that they named Hazelnut, or Hazel for short.

She is a lot more active but does make a really weird hissing sound sometimes when she doesn't like something.

I think Eli took these pictures of the neighborhood kids playing:

I did a lesson on origami for my math class and thought this tower of truncated cubes was cool and fun to make:

We had a pi day activity and tested Buffon's needles experiment and sure enough--it worked!

Ann and I taught yoga at the multi-stake youth conference and then treated ourselves to hot pot after. The conference was fun and we got tons of kids to come to our classes. Mark Rober was even there giving a talk! 

After the shootings at mosques in New Zealand, we found out about a candlelight vigil at Lake Elizabeth and decided to go. It was a beautiful meeting and I loved seeing them pray at sunset. It was powerful to watch.

The girls and I went on a youth temple trip to Sacramento.

Natalie and Joe had a fun one-on-one date to go watch the BYU women's basketball team play Stanford in the tournament. They even got on TV! They also sat right by Steve Young and Tom Holmoe.

(That was where Steve Young was sitting :)

At the end of March, we drove up to Greenwood for one last chance to see the snow. We'd planned on taking the kids skiing but when Chris and Regina had some free time open up we invited them and they came! We surprised the kids and I think they were OK skipping skiing to spend time with cousins. We had a blast playing with them all weekend.

The older kids were outside building snow tunnels and playing.

We went up above Donner Lake:

We loved playing games, doing puzzles and just hanging out. We also took them out for their first time to an Indian restaurant and they all seemed to like it! It was a great weekend.