The Usual Routine

Nothing much new going on here. Just the usual activities - school, work, and spending time together as a family. We did have Tianna and Amery come visit for a night and my mom and Caleb for a day. It was nice to see them, but they were all here for other things (Amery moved to Utah and Caleb had a job fair up in Rexburg), so we didn't get to do much with them when they came.

Even though we do not have any major things to report, our days have been pretty busy. I have been getting home later on Mondays and Tuesdays, so we have been spreading Family Home Evening across those two days - lesson and everything on Monday, activity on Tuesday. On Thursdays we have been volunteering as a family at an assisted living facility. We basically just talk or play games with the people there. We also get in a trip to the library while we are out. On Fridays we get in an afternoon trip to the pool at my work. Even though it is free at that time, the pool is never crowded, so it has been nice. I usually do lessons with them all for about an hour and then they have 30 minutes to just play around.

Here are a few of the other fun things that we have been doing:

The museum on ISU campus had a free day. I wouldn't recommend this museum to anyone who visits - there really wasn't much to it. They did have one room with skeletons for four or five different animals. They also had a dinosaur section with this T-Rex head and then four game machines. In the game you got to pretend like you were a dinosaur and then hunt for your different type of food and water and everything. This was our children's favorite part. In total, I think we were in the museum for about 15-20 minutes is all. Nothing like our nice museum that we had in Anchorage or the amazing ones that they have in Washington DC.






We had our first parent-teacher conferences of the school year. Their teachers all had very positive things to say about the children and Rebecca and I are very proud of how hard they work, how they help others, and how they represent our family while they are at school.


Elliott's self-portrait


Christian's About Me owl. Check out what he wants to be when he grows up.


I didn't get a picture of Ethan's hallway work so he posed for a picture outside.


Julia's newspaper. Check out the story about her hero. It is hard to believe that this is her last year in elementary school!!!



Here is Agnes at Idaho Falls. This is just the walk that we do when Rebecca goes to the temple. We go on Fridays, and now that Elliott is in school it is pretty calm with just the four of us. Notice all of the different colored leaves!










We got our first real snow. It had snowed briefly twice before, but nothing that really stuck. On Saturday we woke up to just about 1/4 of an inch on the ground, but it did cover everything and there is still some of it around.






The children sold coupon books for their school. Because they (Julia, Ethan, Christian, and Elliott) each sold two, they all received a bunch of free coupons for various activities around town.

Here they are at a jump place. At this place they have 10 or so inflatable jump houses, slides, and obstacle courses. They also have a section with these foam pits. I think the children spent the most time in the foam pit section practicing their climbing and flips.















And a slow motion video of their flips.