It has been to 81 stores

Wyatt's drawing won an award in the art show this year.  I think he has won every year since Kindergarten.  The art show is at the beginning of the school year and after they select winners they display the winning art around Provo.  He just got his drawing back the other day and he told me that it has been to eighty one stores.  I'm not sure if that is true or not, but he was sure excited about it.  Wyatt definitely has a talent for art.

Here is one more picture of Caitlyn and Alexa from their fun night together.  

Hallee and Tessa often show up wearing the same outfit to dance without planning it.  Cute girls!

Jonah had to say goodbye to Tanner two weeks ago.  He is having a hard time with it. They text and Marco Polo with each other, but he sure misses hanging out with him.  The boys spent the whole day/evening together the night before he left. They went around to different houses all day and then spent the evening at Hang Time.

Kyle had something that night so he couldn't go to Hang Time with them.  Jonah does so many fun things with his friends.  On Friday he went to the temple after school (they decided that would be better than getting up so early) and then they went to a movie after that.  He is always asking "can I hang out?"

Jonah's March league has been a little rough.  They lost their first two games.  The coach couldn't make it to the second game so Keith and Wyatt's dad filled in.  It was a rough game.  The refs weren't calling anything and the other team was very aggressive.  Our boys were getting hurt a lot. Jonah was so frustrated after the game. He was frustrated with his performance, with the refs and with the other team. Luckily the last two games have gone much better.  

I took the girls to Amarie's dance performance a couple of weeks ago.  We rode down with Tiff and Tessa, which always makes it more fun!

Mel's whole family was there and my parents and Alexys came.  It was fun to all be there together.

I thought it was really cute to see my dad passing out M&Ms to all of the grand kids.

The show was great.  Amarie is such a beautiful dancer.  She is in a trio that was amazing.  The music, costume and choreography were perfect.  I love watching Amarie dance.

I love how much attention Hallee gets from the older cousins. 

Caitlyn had a band concert last week.  She is not excited about the oboe right now.  She doesn't like practicing, but I think she still enjoys playing it sometimes.  She did a good job at the concert.  She asked her teacher if she could leave early because she wanted to get to mutual.  She was able to leave after her concert band played three songs.  She is sure looking grown up lately and so beautiful!

Hallee wanted to show me how she arranged all of her beanie boos into families.  I walked by her room later and saw her reading to them.  It was so cute!  I'm listening to pod casts and reading books that talk about being your best self and I think Hallee is a great example of this.  She isn't too concerned with what other people think and she finds joy in most things.  I love it!

Hallee loves to laugh and have fun.  She thought it was so fun to wear her skirt as a shirt, put her underwear on her head and dance around.  I love just sitting back and watching all of the things she comes up with and finds joy in.

Friday night I got to have a girls night with the group! Katie booked a hotel with her points and we went out to dinner and stayed up late talking and laughing together.  I'm so blessed to have such amazing friends and family in my life.  I always have someone I can turn to, for my happy and sad times and I feel very grateful for that!

Yesterday was a good day.  I decided it was going to be a good day and there were a few times that weren't super enjoyable, but overall the good far outweighed the bad.  I'm working really hard on managing my thoughts and making sure that I'm intentional on what I'm thinking and that it will serve me well.  I love Sundays, I love seeing what the kids will come up with to entertain themselves.  I loved watching Caitlyn and Jonah paint together.

Caitlyn wanted to make a treat for St. Patrick's Day.  I'm glad she loves to bake.  I don't enjoy baking and I used to feel guilt around that, but there is no reason to feel guilt.  Obviously the fact that I don't like to bake hasn't had a negative impact on Caitlyn.  We all just have to find what brings us joy and choose that and thank goodness it is different for everyone!

We like to play card games.  I saw a good deal on Exploding Kittens (Matt and Lori introduced us to this game) so I bought it.  Caitlyn's birthday is coming up, so why not make it a birthday present!  We had some free time last night and I wanted to play the game so we let Caitlyn open it early.  We had a lot of fun playing the game together.  Everyone enjoyed the game, which was really nice.  It was a nice way to end a nice day!