Happenings

Hallee was the star student for the week a couple of weeks ago.  All of the star students get to eat lunch with the principal on Friday.  I got this picture off of Facebook.  What a cutie!

Hailey taught the other beehives how to crochet last week for mutual.  Hailey has had a hard time since their family moved into our neighborhood so this was good for her.  Caitlyn is a great Beehive President.  She goes over to invite Hailey to activities every week and went and invited her to church one Sunday.  We had decided to go visit her after our presidency meeting and Caitlyn told me that she didn't want the leaders to go, she said it should just be the girls so that it didn't seem like we were making them go.  I'm so impressed with Caitlyn.  She is so much more courageous and confident than I was at her age, actually she is more courageous and confident than I am now!

Caitlyn had her first band concert of the year.  She is getting private oboe lessons again this year and that has really helped.  She did great. She is the only oboe player so we could pick her out a lot of the time. 

Grandma was so nice and drove down for the concert.  We love having grandma join us!

On Saturday grandma and grandpa took Jonah out to dinner for his twelfth birthday.  He chose to go to Chuck-a-rama.  He had a great time and felt very loved and special.  He also got to go to the BYU football game that night with Ky.  That's a pretty great day for Jonah!

Yesterday Jonah had a soccer game and both of my sisters and my mom came.  They were such good sports because it was freezing!  The kids ran around and dog piled each other to stay warm.

They had so much fun together.

Amarie and Ataiya came too.  It meant so much to me and Jonah that they all came.

Today I got to hang out with this cool kid.  Damon is so cute and so much fun.  He has always had a calming presence about him, even from day one you could feel it.  Now as he gets older he just exudes joy.  He always has the biggest smile on his face and he has a great sense of humor.  He loves to laugh and have fun.  It made my day to spend time with him.  He loved taking Jackson for a walk.