Miriam wrote:
Christmas at
our house was awesome! Natalie, Ellie, and I all got bikes! Mine is blue,
Ellie’s is purple and cream, and Natalie’s is black and white. I gave Auriana a
Jelly Belly Machine. Enoch gave Isaac an empty wrapping paper roll with tons of
suckers stuck into it. Isaac gave Enoch a giant candy bar. We ate ebelskivers
for breakfast with Matt and Brenda at like 4:00 in the afternoon! We have a box
with ten Christmas puzzles in it and we did all of them over Christmas break!
Isaac,
Enoch, Natalie, and I are all playing basketball. My last two games were both ties.
Ellie wrote:
On
Christmas, I got a bike!! My sister got one too!! We rode them in our church parking lot. It was AWESOME!!!! When we got there I started riding my bike and
my shoelace got stuck in my pedal!! It
hurt, but it was kind of funny!! We were
getting kind of cold so we went home.
I’m glad I got a bike. It is
AWESOME!!!!!
Becky wrote:
We did have
a fun Christmas and vacation, like the girls described. It was great to be home, be together, and
have some down time. We enjoyed seeing a
few of you, which added to the enjoyment of the holiday! Alan and Konnie helped us get started on our
big puzzle project, which took over our kitchen table and lasted for another
week after they left. Steve and boys
showed up at one of Isaac’s basketball games and we got to enjoy lunch with
them afterward. We spent one day
visiting in Logan; we all enjoyed holding sweet Brooklyn and visiting with
everyone there, including Grandma!! We
continue to keep Brooklyn in our prayers and have been amazed at Jenny and Chad
and their family and the way they have embraced this experience.
We are back
to the grindstone now and have added Futsol into the list of activities each
week. Our school term just ended, so the
kids our feeling a little relief for the weekend. Our ward used the day off of school to hold
youth conference in St. George. The
weather was perfect there and the girls really enjoyed it. Isaac was planning to go, but he changed his
mind and stayed home to attend his basketball game. The coach told him he was going to start in
the game and was depending on him. He
did start and got to do the jump ball for the first time. He was quick and got the ball on its way up
instead of waiting until it was coming down.
He played quite a bit in the first quarter, but fouled three times and
didn’t play much after that. After the
game he wished he had gone to youth conference instead.
Auriana came home from school on Thursday
feeling like she had failed her Calculus test and ruined her A, she was very
relieved and surprised when she found out the next day that she actually got a
93. Only two more terms of her High
School career, can she keep that 4.0?
I’m sure she will, she is such a diligent student!! They all are and I feel so blessed to have
such wonderful, capable, caring children.
Natalie has been working on a
science project to test and display how stress affects the temperature of the
body. She also started a new job
scorekeeping basketball games for the city on Saturdays. She has decided that three to four hours at a
time, sitting on a bleacher seat, is a long time!! I agree!
Her Saturdays are increasingly busy adding that to basketball games of
her own to play in and now early morning futsol games. We have decided to retire Irish dance from
our schedule, but I’m more sad about seeing that go than any of the girls are.
Enoch. Miriam, and Ellie have
rediscovered the fun of sledding and have asked every day this week if we can
go to the golf course to sled. The
driving range is available for that and has three subsequent hills that make
the ride fun. I enjoy taking a ride down
the hill every so often, but mostly I just enjoy listening to the squeals and
screams of the kids as they ride. Last
night we went after dark and had the hill to ourselves; it was a lot of fun!
Bjorn has been busier than ever
with work! I’m not sure he got much of a
Christmas vacation, but he is enjoying coaching Enoch’s basketball team. So far they are 2-0 and have had two really
close & exciting games. He picked a
very talented and fun team, most of them have played soccer together for a few
years, and they play really well together.
