Random fun

 March was full of exciting things for our family.  Here are just a few.

First Emily started playing Young Women basketball with our ward.  Since there were only a few girls in our ward that wanted to play, we combine with the 12 ward.  This was a good experience for Emily.  She loves playing sports and she was able to meet new girls on her team as well.

These games were fun to watch because everyone was so friendly.  Yes there were some competitive girls but, for the most part, everyone was just there to have fun.  No one really cared whether they won or lost.  It was also so fun to see the look on some of the girls' faces when they made a basket. They were so proud of themselves.

Emily also had another Band Concert.  She is getting so good at her instruments.  

She plays percussion and she is not scared at all to play loudly especially when she has a solo.  This really makes me feel good when I listen to her play.  I was always really shy and afraid to play loudly so I am glad she's not that way.

Another exciting thing that happened to Emily is that she was selected to participate in the Young Writer's Fest at USU.  She wrote an awesome story and was able to read 5 minutes of it in front of the judges.  The judges loved her story and gave her some great feedback on her strengths and pointers on how to keep writing and getting better.

Emily also learned to sew a pillowcase.  Her friend Hahna loves Harry Potter so, for her birthday, Emily made her a Harry Potter pillow case.  It turned out really cute and her friend loved it.

Colby has also been doing some fun academic things.  During Literacy Night at the elementary, he was part of a Readers' Theater play.  His story was a silly poem about riding the bus and stepping in something stinky.  It was pretty funny.

During Literacy week, Colby and Logan dressed up as their favorite book characters.  Colby dressed up as Brian Robeson from the book Hatchet.  Logan dressed up as Starflight a dragon from the Wings of Fire series.  

Colby's artwork was selected to be displayed at the district's Night of Arts.

I didn't even know his art work was going to be on display until his art teacher text me and asked me if it would be okay.  She said she had sent home a note about a week ago but hadn't gotten it back yet. Colby never even told me about it!  When I asked him, he just said "Oh yeah..."  Well we thought it was pretty important that, of all his grade, his was the one selected so we went to the art show to see it on display.  Crazy kid.

Over Christmas break we binge watched a show on Netflix called "Blown Away."  It is a show where these 10 amazing glassblowers compete in challenges to create things made completely out of glass in hopes of winning $60,000.  The show was amazing and the sculptures these people created were awesome.  But the coolest part was watching the process of how glass is made and blown.  It is mind-blowing.  Anyway, the other night, Charlotte and Logan started pretending they were on that show and were working together to blow this pretend glass and make things out of glass.

They were blowing and rolling glass, they were rushing it to the furnace and annealing oven.  Then they would use other toys and things to create a display and then describe their creations to Russell and me for judging.  It was so funny to watch them do the exact moves and use the terminology the glass blowers used in the show.  

Another great thing Charlotte was able to do this month is learn how to ride her bike without training wheels!

This was a struggle for her because she was so afraid of crashing.  She finally did it though.  Charlotte is still a little leery about riding without someone there to help her but she is getting it.  When she can ride from our house to the stop sign without falling, she is so happy and proud of herself. Way to go Char!

I have also been riding my bike a lot.

I am training for a 50 mile bike ride on June 4th.  It has been kind of hard to train for so far though because it has been so cold.  I hate riding inside on the trainer though so I brave the cold as much as I dare.  Hopefully it gets warmer soon.

We are so busy but we still have a lot of fun.