Great week :) well except for the snow part haha

Sunday night was spent at G&G's.  Justyn had his kids for the holiday weekend so we had dinner and played some games.  I split after that to join in on the movie night with my friend's but did spend 3.5 hours with the family before doing so haha.

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Monday was a day off of school as it was President's Day.  The kids had slept over at Darcee's on Sunday night so I went and picked them up in that morning.  It had snowed the night before...I guess St. George weather is joining the rest of the world with weird weather.  I remember that it snowed last year on President's Day so it might as well snow this one haha.  The kids and I just had a chill day.  We watched a couple of movies and played a couple of games.  I introduced Space Jam to the kids....Colten was on the edge of his chair at the end to see what happens lol.  Aspen joined me that night at the single's ward FHE dinner.  It was catered from Honolulu Grill with left over Crumbl cookies.  Overall, it was a great day off of work and school. 

On Wednesday night, I got to accompany Aspen to Young Women's where we learned about the Personal Progress program.  It has changed quite a bit since I was a young women.  We'll have a little work to do before the church changes the program lol  But I learned why Aspen loves Young Women's so much...they have yummy treats.  They did a s'mores bar where you had all the fixings for different types of s'mores...marshmellows, regular chocolate, Ande's mints, coconuts, caramels, Reese's peanut butter cups...yummy indeed.

So a huge snow storm was predicted to come Wednesday night and drop 3-7 inches over the next day.  So St. George was trying to prepare the residents for it.  The school district sent out messaging telling parents they are watching what is going on and will make a decision Thursday morning.  We did get snow (a wet snow) and school got delayed 2 hours.  That was fun to try and coordinate with the kids because I still had my classes at the regular time.  But the kids made it to school and had a good day playing in the snow.  Most of the snow melted by that evening.  Only the shadow places still have snow. (most of the pictures of St. George came from friend's photos - I didn't venture too far out)

Friday was an exciting day for me.  I took the day off from work and went to Las Vegas with Hollee to go to the Backstreet Boys concert.  I loved that after we checked into the hotel we just both laid on the beds for about 2 hours just relaxing.  The concert was starting at 10pm Utah time, after our normal bedtime lol.  But eventually we got up and headed over to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner before the concert.  I love that both of us know that anytime we go to Vegas, we know where we will be eating lol.  The food was delish and the cheesecake was oh so good.  I definitely needed (or so I tell myself) that I needed the sugar boost to make it through the concert.

It was so fun for me to watch Hollee as the concert started.  Backstreet Boys is her teenage boy band and seeing them in concert was a dream of hers.  I am glad that I was able to see her smile as she watched them perform.  Actually at one point in the concert, they came out in the crowd and we ended up being 3 rows from Brian.  Hollee kind of flipped out at that point.  The concert was good and they sang a lot of their older songs with just 2 songs from their new album.  They still dance as they used to.  It didn't take me long to fall asleep that night lol.  Hollee said I was out fast.  We headed home when we woke up.  I love that we had a total of 4 hours in the car and we never ran out of things to talk about.  Great sister bonding.  Can't wait for our next adventure.

I went and picked up my kids from Darcee (who was so awesome to watch my kids while I went to the concert) and we headed home.  I worked on getting the house cleaned up after I went to the gym (remember Cheesecake Factory dinner from the night before lol).  I haven't had the motivation to do much cleaning lately but I love having a clean house (it's still not perfect but better than it has been).

I went out for a little bit that night.  Took Cole out to dinner for his birthday and then we stopped by a little get together at Katy's house.  It was just what was needed after a day cleaning.  But the more impressive thing is that when I got home I had two loads of laundry that I actually put away before heading to bed.  The kids crashed early that night (think they had a long night at Darcee's) so they were in bed before I even got home. 

All in all it was a great week full of fun and snow.  This next week is also packed with activities so it should be another great week.

Valentine's Day week

Well this week has been a fun one. It had Valentine's Day.  Aspen was excited for the conversation hearts to be out (apparently she loves them).  But I have really changed my outlook on Valentine's and look at it as more of a day of love.  I posted the following on FaceBook and just believe it whole heartedly.

Most singles hate today but not me. I am choosing to look at today as “Love Day” and express love to all. I love my kids 💚. I love my family, immediate and extended 💚. I love my friends...yes all of you 💚. I love my students (and tell them daily) 💚. I love my life just the way it is...I know that I will find someone to spend my life with and until that time comes I will continue to choose to love every day. So Happy “Love” Day to all 💚💚💚"

I left these valentines out for the kids to find in the morning.  They each loved them and said thank you so much.  Colten had a party at school.  I went to the movies that night to see "Isn't It Romantic" with a couple of friends.  The kids were excited when I told them they could have screen time that night since I was hanging out with friends.

The 3 day weekend (President's Day) has been pretty good.  Friday and Saturday night we held a movie night.  I had the kids watch "National Treasure 1 & 2".  We went and picked up movie theater popcorn.  The kids were in heaven.  I think they are starting to figure out that I have good taste in movies lol. 

Colten spent the day hanging out Brody because he was really sad when he learned that none of the boys in our neighborhood were going to be around this weekend.   Aspen was just chilling at home most of the day.  I think she did a lot of reading lol

Today we have church and then will be heading over to the parent's to hang out with family.  Not sure what Monday will bring just no work :)

No slowing down

Super bowl Sunday was different this year as we went to Isaac's house instead of celebrating with the family.  Colten was a good sport about it and enjoyed watching the game with me.  There were very few singles who actually cared about the game (to be honest it was a pretty boring game - defensive sided for sure) but the Patriots came out on top once again.  It was still a fun night with friends :)

Don't you love weeks that are full of fun and excitement?  I do.  February has definitely not slowed in our pace.  Yes we do have some downtime but not too much.  This week was the family week at Arrowhead so Grandpa Chris joined Colten on Wednesday for Dads and Donuts (didn't get a picture but he was there!) and I went on Friday for Moms in  the Morning (more donuts lol)  I gave mine to Colten.  The weather here has been extremely cold...it was 27 degrees when I walked out to the car.  Made me grateful for my job and not having to do that every morning. 

Aspen is still loving her art class and I am just completely blown away at her talent.  I really should have had her in classes long before now but she is thriving.  Carrol teaches her all sorts of things about art (things I don't even know - one term that is coming to my mind is negative space??).  Aspen comes home with at least two pictures a class.  I hope she continues practicing this talent and it takes her far in life.

Also this past week, Aspen wanted to get her hair cut.  She chopped off a good portion.  I tried to warn her that she might want to keep it until it starts to warm up but she didn't.  She loves her new do :)

This past weekend was another awesome one.  I have pretty much decided that the weekends are the my favorite (and why wouldn't they be? I am not staring at my computer all day).  I get to get out of the house and socialize.  On Friday night, the kids and I (and my friend Zac) went to the DSU men's basketball game.  Turns out it was Teacher Appreciation Night (yay!) and we got in for free plus I got a T-shirt and water bottle and we got some free concessions (the kids were excited about that).  I was sad because Saturday night's game was fan appreciation and they were giving out T-shirts as well.  The t-shirts looked pretty cool and we would have all gotten one but I was happy to get one that states I am a teacher.  The game wasn't as entertaining as last Saturday's but still fun.  I have two more free passes so I think we will go to the last game of the season.

Saturday was another day of fun.  Aspen and I were able to go out to Hurricane and celebrate Oaklee's 2nd birthday with Hollee and Jonah.  It was fun!  Oaklee had no interest in presents (but she didn't want to share when she did get one opened).  She loved a pink Minnie PJ set and carried it around with her and truly didn't care about opening others.  I think Hollee was finally able to tear that away and hide it.  When it came time for the birthday cake and singing, Oaklee went from being happy at the beginning of the song to crying by the end.  It's a 30 second song lol.  It was so cute.  All in all, it was a good party.

Saturday night was the singles ward Valentine's dance.  I headed over to Ed's beforehand to watch a football game for the new league that is starting this spring.  There is a team based in Salt Lake so we are going to get a group together and go watch a game up in Salt Lake.  It is definitely not the NFL but will be additional football lol  The dance was fun.  Not a lot of people there but enough to dance the night away.  I was pretty tired by the end of the night but still had fun!