ZYSO Water Party

Courtney has been a violinist in the Zion Youth Symphony Orchestra this year and they had their end of the year water party.  It was fun because they invited families so we got to see them all interact.  They had water balloon launchers and games.  It was a fun afternoon

Crazy Ethan

Ethan is hilarious.

It's too much of a pain to get a cup but it's easy to get a bunch of straws...
    

Bryan was cooking mushrooms and Ethan wasn't happy about the smell.

Soccer

Courtney's soccer team is doing really well this season.  They have been in 1st place for most of the time and we are hoping they hang on until the end.

She is the blue #22 player:

The girls she is usually guarding are larger than she is but once in a while she will guard someone her own size, which is fun for her!

National Honor Society

Ethan as invited to join the National Honor Society and we got to go to a dinner for it.  It was fun because the three kids in our neighborhood who attend Success Academy were all asked to join.  Ethan didn't realize that it was a big deal until they started explaining what honor society is and why it's important.  It is the only student organization that you have to be invited to be part of.  It was pretty cool.

The food was weird though.  Bryan thought it was fish but Ethan and I both think it was chicken.  It's not good when you can't identify what you are eating.

His name was announced and he got to walk across the stage to get his pin and his certificate.

I had to get a pic of it and he had to be sarcastic...
   
The group of kids from our neighborhood/ward.

Free Pizza!

Little Caesars has a promotion during March Madness that if a number 16 seed beats a number 1 seed team, they will give everyone a free lunch pizza.  Well, it happened. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) beat the University of Virginia.  So on Monday, April 2nd, we got free pizza for lunch.

It was Spring Recess for Courtney (but not for Ethan) so she went with me to get in line.  I was worried because we were only 20 minutes early to get in line and I thought it was going to be a long line.  But it wasn't at all.  We were given a voucher and then we waited.  They had it planned really well so it didn't take long at all.  We got a personal pizza and a drink.  I gave mine to Ethan and he was in heaven!  It was so large that he couldn't even eat the entire thing.

Thanks UMBCand Little Caesars!

General Conference Time

We have candy at Conference time.  It started with Conference Bingo but we have ditched the game and now I just give them the candy. ;)  They have 1 bag each per session that they can eat at their own speed.  This year I used the scale so no one could complain that "she has more than I do" or "his bag has more candy than mine does."  Each bag weighed the same amount!


Then they all sat quietly and watched conference!

PDT Team Pictures

Courtney had team pictures for dance.  It was at a park in St George that I haven't ever been to before.  It was kind of windy and during a really sunny part of the day so the girls weren't too excited to be having pictures.  And Courtney was supposed to be between two really uncomfortable rocks so she had to balance on one bum cheek.  She wasn't very happy about it all but they were cute. 

She wasn't thrilled and started making faces at me. ;)

     

Courtney kept falling off the rock she was supposed to be balanced on.

But she pulled it off beautifully!