This week has been full of different activities for our family. From the History Fair, to Valentines Day, to a breast cancer awareness basketball game at USU. That is just to name a few things.
First lets start with the History Fair at the elementary school. This year's theme for the History fair was "Leaders in History." Rather than put together a poster board or report on the person or event in history, the school decided to do a Wax Museum. All the participants dressed up like their historical figure and put together a one minute speech about that person. During the History Fair, the students stood as still as they could until someone stepped on the button in front of them. Then they came to life as their historical figure and gave their speech. It was really fun to her all of the speeches from the kids and learn about their historical heroes.
Emily wanted to do the History Fair really badly this year. In fact she had been planning her project ever since the beginning of the year. The person she decided to portray in the Wax Museum was none other than her favorite author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Emily absolutely loves the whole Little House on the Prairie series and has read them all as well as many of the biographies on Laura. She did an amazing job writing her own speech as well as memorizing it and performing it that night.
Here is Emily (or Laura) with her friend Ayzleigh. Ayzleigh was one of her heroes, a famous barrel racer that was paralyzed in a car accident and then retrained herself to ride horses and barrel race again even being paralyzed. This was a fun night.
Right after the History Night, we raced right over to the Mountain Crest High School to watch Emily sing with her choir in the high school's choir concert. The elementary school kids sang with the high school kids in two songs. It was a good concert.
They next day was Valentine's Day. This was a very busy day for us. Russell and I helped with two classroom parties this afternoon. First we had a blast with Logan's preschool party.
I didn't get any pictures of the party games only of them eating snacks. We played "Don't Eat Cupid" and then we shot Cupid's arrows into a bowl. (This was the kids shooting Q-Tips through straws.) They also read a love bug story and drew and colored their own Love Bugs. It was a fun party and even Charlotte got in on the action and got her own cupcake.
Here we are with those cute preschoolers and all of Logan's best friends.
Next we rushed over to the elementary to help with Colby's first grade Valentine Tea. During the Tea, the kids learned how important manners are and how to treat each other with the proper respect. Each boy was paired up with a girl and they had to use proper etiquette and manners for the Tea. It was fun to watch.
Colby was not excited to have to be paired up with a girl but he was even more upset because I made him wear his church pants and nice clothes to school. We went the rounds and I finally told Russell to talk to him and teach him how he is supposed to dress when he is going to something nice with girl. After the little 'Man-to-Man' chat, Colby still wasn't too excited but at lest didn't fight me anymore. He was partnered with his friend, Sunny, and the two of them had good time at the Valentine Tea. They were cute together. The only problem was that anytime I tried to take their picture, both of them made funny faces at me. Finally after what seemed like a million tries, I got one good picture of them.
After school all the kids wanted to do was look through all of the Valentines they received from their classmates. Mostly they just wanted to eat all of the candy. We had them hurry through their homework and then we were off on our family Valentine date.
We went out to eat at Chili's and had a great time. The food was really good. The kids ordered these funny drinks that were blue and had Swedish Fish in them. They were called something like Deep Blue Sea or Under the Sea or something like that. They loved them and the drinks were pretty good until later on the Swedish Fish started to disintegrate in the carbonation of the blue Sprite. Then they turned really gross. After we were done eating, we headed to the USU Spectrum Stadium to see the Girls' Basketball game.
It was a pretty fun game to watch and everyone played really well. During the first quarter break, Emily got to be part of the entertainment on the court. She got to participate in the "Dress like an Aggie" game.
She had to put on a full sized Men's basketball jersey as well as these huge basketball shoes and run down the court and back before the other contestant in order to win. Well of course Emily won. She won a signed poster of all of the Girls' Basketball team. She was pretty excited. So now here is the funny story. The boy she was competing against had a sort of wardrobe malfunction. He thought that he had to take off all of his clothes and then put on the basketball jersey rather than just put the jersey over his clothes. When the announcer said, "Go" the boy started pulling down his pants and almost had them completely off before his dad ran out and stopped him. Meantime, Emily is in shock and not knowing if she should keep going or wait for this boy to get dressed again. We all were yelling for her to keep going so she took off running in the huge clothes. She fell once at half court but got right back up and raced to the finish. We were all just laughing so hard at the little boy but cheering Emily on the whole way too. It was funny.
The main reason we went to the basketball game this night was because it was their annual "Pink" basketball game where they honor breast cancer survivors and raise awareness for breast cancer. During the halftime, I was one of the six breast cancer survivors that was recognized that night.
While we were on the court being recognized, they announced our names and how long we had been in remission. I was the most recent with 4 months in remission all the way up to the last lady that was 15 years in remission. It was definitely a touching experience and I felt very inadequate.
I am always in awe with these other breast cancer survivors. They are so awesome and seem so put together and I am still struggling with anxiety over the whole thing. They are also so friendly and supportive. I don't know what it is about them but we instantly became friends and I love them all.
After the game, Emily got to meet some of the basketball players and even got her picture taken with one of them. She was in heaven. This was a really fun night.
Here are a few random pictures from this week:
For some reason, all of the kids like to gather in our room in the morning while I get ready. Emily does her funny poses for the camera. Colby shows off his latest Lego creation. Logan does the Dab, and Charlotte does her own thing rolling on the bed or begging me to give her some "Pretty" (lotion). These are some crazy kids.
Here are the many faces of Charlotte. She learned to ride a motorcycle this week. She thinks it is pretty fun but the bike is still slightly too big for her so she has a hard time getting off. She would much rather be pulled in the wagon. Charlotte has also discovered that she would rather feed herself than be fed which usually results in very messy eating. But she loves it.
Finally, this smart boy passed off another reading level. He has now passed off the Reading for all Learners levels 1 and 2 and is now moving on to the Yellow books in level 3. He was so excited to receive his certificate and book. He has read this new book multiple times already. He always reminds me that he needs to do his reading like the other kids. Good job kids.
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