HighMark Charter School

Jessika, Lisa, Royce and Dallin all go to the same school. Isn't that cool? I really like it. It's a brand new school and our kids started there the first year it opened. This is our 3rd year there. Jessika is upstairs in the Jr High this year and the other 3 are downstairs in the Elementary School. 

We visited the school on Tuesday for Dallin's President's Day report. He is in first grade and it was their very first report. The grade had a walk through where parents and the students from other grades could walk through and see their posters and ask them questions about their president. Dallin was assigned to report on Ronald Reagan. We had fun doing his poster. 

While at the school I saw Royce's picture up in the commons room for being on of the Students of the Month. That was a fun surprise! He had previously mentioned calmly that he was Student of the Month in his class but I didn't know it was such a school wide honor. 

Jessika's class was meeting in the library and they were split up in groups with a little free time so the teacher said I could send Ryan and Lillian in to briefly say Hi to her, it was really cute. I think Jess liked it, I hope it didn't embarrass her too much. She had me come in her room last night to talk about life. "Mom, can we talk about Life" she asked me while I was washing my face. Luckily, I had the energy at the end of this day and said yes. I will write the details of what we talked about in my private journal instead of here.  I love her. I love all our kids so much and an grateful for them. 

Valentine's Day 2015

This year for Valentine's day Erik took me out to Texas Roadhouse for a yummy steak and shrimp lunch, then we ran in to Tinseltown in Layton to switch our movie ticket time because Lisa had a Valentine's party to go to at 1 (Olivia's) and Dallin had a Birthday party to go to at 2 (Bryson Hone's). True love to switch our date around for our kids :) We got them home after their parties and went to our movie. It was called Jupiter Ascending, it was a Sci-fi love story. Ha! So romantic. The movie turned out to be pretty ok though. It was nice spending some time together. 

Here is a picture below of my pretty Valentine flowers from Erik. I sent him to the store for some milk and he came back with these, too! So fun! Below that is a picture of our cute mantle for Valentine's Day. It's a big sappy picture of Erik and I. The picture is usually hidden more privately up on our bedroom wall but I bring it down to the TV room for two weeks or so during Valentines to be a little sappy and to celebrate us! I thought I'd take a picture of how it looked today before I take it down and get ready to redecorate for Easter. 

Cub Scouts: Royce's Blue and Gold Banquet

This month's Family Home Evening lessons are on Journals. I am so behind in my journaling but I'm trying to block out the temptation to try to catch up (because then I would get overwhelmed and not start at all) So I'm starting where I am and hope to be better from here on out. 

Yesterday was Royce's Blue and Gold Banquet for cub scouts. They were supposed to bring a creative cake. So we went to Pinterest for some ideas and found this cake. It was funny because when we got to the cake table there for about 10 cakes there and 3 of them were versions of these campfire cakes :) I guess I'm not the only one who goes to Pinterest for ideas. We had a good time and were happy that our kids stayed in their seats. Going to these things where there is a sit down dinner with 6 kids age 12 and and under is sometimes a bit much for Erik and me. But last night the kids were awesome and stayed in their seats. The only thing that went wrong was a spilled cup of water, We can take that. We were proud of them. Royce didn't pass off anything to qualify for any awards last night, we have been scout slackers. They moved it to Friday recently and we usually have "Friends over Friday" so we need to adjust that to a different day so Royce can get to scouts instead of having friends over.

We love this boy!

Lillie sat pulling on me and ended up crying while I wrote up this post. Why is journaling such a challenge? I'll have to figure something out so it's easier. I will prevail!! :)