Friday, December 18, 2015

Homeschool Days

WWI Class at commonwealth - Trench warfare simulation.

WWI class at commonwealth - attempted bombing simulation - we spent most of our time teaching the kids how to use the towels to launch their bombs (wet sponges).

Trying to do classwork

Hanging out while Austin & Nyah are at ballroom

At Utah Children's Theater's Heroes of WWII play


Horse club at commonwealth working on watercolor pictures

Girls working on making posters of themselves with pictures

We swim at the rec center a lot during the winter

Nyah's display at Night of Excellence

WWI class & Sophie at the Hutching's Museum


At a Nutcracker performance

Sewing

Sophie was trying to fix her bean stuffed doll who was chewed on by George

Making a nest after watching Animal Homes

Visiting Santa Carl at the Up House



Thursday, December 17, 2015

Kurt & Kelsey Trip: St. Thomas

The day after Peter'sBaptism & Halloween, we began travelling again! I drove the kids to Idaho and then Kurt & I flew to St. Thomas for a week of relaxation!

Semi-relaxation anyways. These are about half of the stairs we had to climb each day to get back to our bed & breakfast. 
 Our bed & breakfast room - it was a lovely little place.

There were iguanas and other lizards everywhere!

View from our island tour bus. The island is only about 5 miles x 6 miles, so we did a driving tour and walking tour and pretty much saw the whole thing!

Start of 99 steps up to Blackbeard's castle

Blackbeard's castle




View from our hotel- we went snorkeling and kayaking in the bay.

On a catamaran where we traveled to different locations to snorkel - we saw tons of sea turtles, sting rays, and of course tons of fish!


George excited to get picked up form the kennel. 

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Family Trip: St. George & Halloween

The weekend after PineValley & the LAs vegas NF Walk we made a speedy trip back to St. George so Kurt could baptize his brother, Peter.

Lots of time in the car makes silly kids

Then we raced home so the kids could be home for their Halloween plans. 

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Family Trip: Pine Valley & Las Vegas

Pine Valley is one of our favorite places and we don't get to visit there very much. The deer were there to welcome us when we arrived.



The girls names this rock "The Whale Rock" 






Las Vegas NF Walk - Kurt's sister, Elaine, works UNLV and for the last few years she has organized the Las Vegas NF Walk. This is the first year we've been able attend and it was fabulous!!



We loved seeing many of Kurt's family that we don't see very often. 

Monday, December 14, 2015

Peter Pan

In October, Nyah was in a local production of Peter Pan, Jr. She played Noodler, one of the pirates.








Austin helped with spotlights and is in the back row on the left side of this picture. 

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Updates

Kurt not so subtly asked when I last updated the blog and I caught the hint. I know it's been a couple months, so I thought I'd give a quick update before posting about all the adventures we've had the last couple months. 

 
Austin has been busy with his classes and activities and spending time with friends. He spends most days on the computer doing his math and programming class, reading & writing papers for his other classes, walking George, and then hangs out with friends when they are out of school. He's still taking Ballroom dance, attending Civil Air Patrol, and Nyah roped him into playing Tweedle Dum in Alice in Wonderland. 

Nyah is currently involved with 3 plays (4 if you count her upcoming one time performance as Mary in our ward Nativity). She's playing the White Rabbit in a neighborhood group of Alice in Wonderland, she'll be Leonato in our commonwealth's Much Ado About Nothing, and she recently joined Up With Kids to be in Aladdin. She spends most of her days working on memorizing everything, writing stories, and working on art projects. 

 Olivia is busy every day- playing with her sisters and friends, doing her daily PT exercises and other exercise, mastering reading, playing games, singing songs, and working on art projects. Olivia likes fashion and loves looking at different clothes and styles. Overall, her health is really great and I'll post another update on all that another day. 

Spunky Jo is usually the leader of her little band of merry sisters and friends. She organizes elaborate make-believe games and activities for anyone who's willing. She also spends her days mastering reading, playing games, singing songs, and working on art projects. Jolie loves learning about animals and spending as much time with them as possible. 


Sophie loves cows and horses and dogs and playing with all her little toys animals. She goes with her sisters to play with friends sometimes, but just as often prefers to be at home playing by herself and sticking close to mom. She wears her PJs everywhere she goes. Like her sisters, she's busy each day with reading, games, singing, and art projects- preferably with a glue gun!

Kurt is working long and hard. He was in Australia for 10 days in November and came home with a nasty cold that seemed to last forever, but he finally is well again. He's super excited for his Christmas break!

As for me, well, I'm busy with all of the above! But I also manage to run every day, read a ton and work on my own art projects.

What's going on these days....

Kurt- Busy as ever with work  Decided to do his Master's degree Still playing guitar & charming our children to sleep Mana...