February Recap

In February, some of us played in boxes:

One of us went to Wisconsin on a recruiting trip for Micron during the blizzard of the decade, coming home in time to go to the Klondike Derby with the Boy Scouts.

One of us sang 10 Singing Valentines with a quartet.
One of us took some tests (college ACT included) for admission to Treasure Valley Math and Science Center.
Some of us ripped holes in jeans that then needed to be patched.


All of us celebrated Valentine's Day with heart-shaped pancakes.

All of us got sick: colds (no voice Feb 9-12), conjunctivitis (Feb 12-15, 21-27), stomach flu (Feb 20-22).

And now for things we did that didn't have pictures taken. We attended Junior High orientation, TVMSC orientation and Environmental Field Trip orientation. Sabrina babysat all of her brothers while Ryan and I went to Ballet Idaho's "The Piano" - it was really cool! Hyrum discovered that the place he likes to go on Wednesday mornings to play is not "Bodies and Lotion" but "Bodies in Motion". Leo was given the push car for 1 year olds and likes to push and be pushed on it (it's a toy Sabrina got for her 1st birthday). Roderic freely admits his favorite thing about learning to play the violin is playing with the Legos at his teacher's house while waiting for Sabrina's lesson to finish. I finished the finishing touches of our 2010 Christmas pjs (the elastic had been safety pinned, and the appliqué was only attached with wunderunder). Soccer practice started for Sabrina. We bought more wheat for our food storage and Ryan put the containers in the crawl space, doing a little reorganization at the same time. I took Roderic, Hyrum and Leo to the Jim Gill concert at the Egyptian Theatre. Roderic was impressed with the 'artifacts' of ancient Egypt. [Speaking of Egypt, during the last week of January, Trail Wind Elementary had an art exhibit on display to teach the students about ancient Egyptian art and the whole school did art projects on that subject. Since Egypt was someplace they now knew something about, when they heard mention of Egyptian protests, they asked me all sorts of questions. It was good for our family conversations.]