Snowboarding!!

Here's some Targhee pictures:

Rik, Quinn, Matt and Kawiti

Helamen, Malia and Taisha

KJ and Kayden

McKay (looks like he was talking or laughing... haha!)

Rik and the "Yak-Hat"

Let the Romance Begin.... or not

So Valentine' Day was kind of a bust this year for us. My tooth broke over the weekend, so Monday morning (Valentine's Day) I went in to have it fixed, only it fell apart, so WooHoo I got a new crown... bummer! While I was waiting for them to make the crown, I got a call from the elementary school saying that Anaya was sick, and someone needed to go get her. I called Rik (who answered the phone hoarse and stuffy sounding), and I said something like: "Tan you doe det Anaya from thschool? Thee's thick." Dumb double round of mouth numbing shots! Rik got Anaya and ended up working from home until the other kids got home, I went to work as soon as I got done at the dentist. After some weird events at my school (it took one student's grandma almost 2 hours to find the school, and I may or may not have locked myself out of the school....), I finally got home and whipped out the fasted "red, pink and heart" dinner on record! Too bad Anaya, Rik, Taisha, and Kayden weren't feeling 100%. Unfortunately, the rest of the week didn't get much better. By Wednesday I was just as sick as everyone else, and so, so tired! Needless to say, I am so very happy that we have a nice, long 4 day weekend to get everyone healthy!

Here's some pictures of Anaya's Valentine's Day hair and nails:



Everyone (except Anaya and I) got up this morning and went snowboarding at Targhee. I'm hoping I can round up some pictures from everyone's phones and such, but for now, here's a picture of Rik when he went up to Targhee with Matt to celebrate their birthdays.

Sweethearts Dance 2011

Here's a picture of Mariah and Kayden before Sweethearts:

(Sorry the picture isn't the greatest... Rik went on a pizza run with the camera in his pocket, so I had to take one with my iPod. I'll scan the professional one in when we get it back.)

Good-bye January!!

So I've decided I'm not a huge fan of January. It's long. It's cold. It's dark. It's gray. It sounds SO far from spring and the end of school and longer days. So I just don't like it. But now we're in February, and for whatever reason, it just sounds better.

Kayden had his first track meet of the year (indoors in Pocatello), and just hearing the words "track meet," made me think SPRING!! But then I asked Kayden why my snow shovels are always in the back of his car, and he said that they have to shovel off the track just about every time they go to run.... My happy spring thoughts went right out the window. He's running in the Simplot games next weekend (also indoors.) He and his friend run almost everyday outside, and they tie bandannas around their faces, I guess so their lungs don't freeze.

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The other day I was taking the car-pool girls to dance, and they were talking about how much they miss their bikes, and shorts, and short-sleeved shirts.... then they got giggling (or in Anaya's case, laughing uncontrollably.) Anaya told her friends that her teacher says that she is supposed to laugh like this: "Hee hee hee," and then STOP! Such a good teacher... but clearly not the best fit for Anaya. And apparently she is not aware of Anaya's New Year's resolution.

Speaking of New Year's resolutions, McKay still falls asleep to Christmas music every night. =)

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A couple Sunday's ago Anaya and McKay were feeling cute before church, and asked to have their picture taken:

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Yesterday (February the 10th) was the 100th day of school, or what I like to call, "67 DAYS UNTIL THE END OF SCHOOL!!!!" Anaya had to bring a poster board displaying 100 things. Anaya decided on 100 googly eyes. Just like I'm not too fond of January, Anaya is not too fond of me helping her do anything... this project included. Here's how it went down:

Me: Here's some poster board and the eyes. You should start-
Anaya: I know! I know! My teacher told me. Don't help me!
Me: *sighs* and waits until she has the eyes all counted out in groups of ten, then plugs the glue gun in.
Anaya: I can glue them on myself! Don't help me!!
Me: Unplugs the glue gun and gets the Elmer's glue out. Do you want me to put the glue on and then you put the eyes on?
Anaya: No!! Don't help me!
Me: *sighs* I'll go type up the numbers while you glue on the eyes, then you can glue the numbers by the groups of ten.
Anaya: NO!! I'm going to write the numbers on!!
Me: It will look better printed on the computer, and you'll be able to see them better, because the poster board is black.
Anaya: I can do it myself.
Me: ........
Anaya: Glues eyes on, and writes the numbers with a white crayon.
Me: Let's print up a paper that says "100 Silly Eyes Looking at YOU!"
Anaya: I can type it myself!!
She then types up the page, but asks me how to make exclamation points, so I show her on her page, which makes her mad because I was just supposed to TELL her, not SHOW her...
Me: Write your name right here along the bottom edge.
Anaya: I KNOW! I can do it myself. And them writes her name on a different edge of the paper than I suggested.... *sigh*