Family Fun

Without all of the obligations that we have with the kids' sports in the fall and spring, winter gives us time on Saturdays to just have some good old family fun time. 

One Saturday we spent the morning at our local library to check out books and play in their fun kids area. Jason and Nolan worked hard on this block castle.

It was even big enough to fit around Nolan!!

Later that evening we were all invited to a birthday party at Monkey Joes. This place is not one of my favorites but the kids love it so we usually go when there is a birthday party for someone we know.

Maylie had a grand old time in that crazy jumping place!!

Pinewood Derby 2018

On Friday, January 26th Landon had his second Pinewood Derby race. He had worked the previous two days on his car along with Jason and ended up with a pretty good one!

Here are the little kids ready to start watching the action!

After a while all the littles ended up over here instead!

All the Cub Scouts were up on the stage, watching and cheering their cars on...

All of the boys did a great job and there were some pretty impressive looking cars on the track that night. I think this is the most exciting event of the whole year for these boys!

They had four cars that dominated the whole night and Landon's was one of them. They had a race off among these four cars and Landon came in 2nd place. He almost came in 1st though (they actually didn't record one of the final races where he came in first and when they redid the race, his car came in last, pushing him from 1st place to 2nd place.) This was a bit disappointing in the moment, but he was super excited about earning a trophy and is even more motivated to earn the 1st place trophy next year!

Go Flaming Fury (that was the name of Landon's car!)

Little Baker!

We had the sister missionaries over for dinner on Sunday, January 14th and Abby tried her hand at making her first lemon meringue pie.

It looked beautiful and was so yummy. Abby loves to bake and try out new creations. She's got quite a talent for it too!

Our Little Elsa!

Almost every morning this little girl has to put on her Elsa dress while I workout in the basement.

She twirls around, dances on a stage (my gym step), and sings in front of the mirror.

It sure is fun to watch!!

Snow tubing!

On Thursday, January 11th, the whole family went snow tubing for the first time at Whitetail Ski Resort, located about 30 minutes from our house. We haven't had any snow so far this winter, but fake snow seemed to work just fine!!

Maylie wasn't allowed on the regular tubing hills but she enjoyed the toddler hills, especially since Jason, Abby and I took turns doing all the work to get her up the hill and then push her back down again.

Abby was so excited when some of her friends from her Paramount days showed up and she had fun tubing down those hills together.

This was Nolan's first time tubing and he LOVED it!!

Doesn't she make a cute little snow bunny?!?!?!

Here is the last run that Jason, Abby, Landon, and Nolan made together before it was time to leave.

On some of the runs, you were allowed to hook up to four tubes together to go down which made it a lot of fun.

Geography Bee

On Wednesday, January 10th, Landon participated in Paramount Elementary's Geography Bee. All the 4th and 5th grade students took a written test in early December and the top 10 scores from both grades were the contestants for the Geography Bee. Landon was one of only three 4th graders who made it in and was pretty nervous on the big day!!

He did really well and was the last 4th grader to get out. He almost made it into the top two which would have earned him a trophy but his answer was "South Korea" instead of "North Korea!"

He did tie for 3rd place overall and he was pretty happy about that!

Way to go Geography whiz!!

Landon's Projects

Landon worked on some chain reaction projects at Scouts on Tuesday night and then immediately set to work on creating some of his own designs at home. Some of them worked out pretty well, some of them didn't!

But he had fun exercising his brain powers and problem-solving skills in the process!