Mitt Shopping

Sam and Anne went with Jorja and I to look for mitts.  We went to Scheels.  We were debating about there or Walmart.  I'm glad we went to Scheels.  We found a mitt that Sam loved.  It was great because they also steamed it there.  As we drove away Sam said that it felt like this mitt had been used everyday for a year.  Jorja had fun playing with Anne.  Anne loves to growl and it is hilarious.  She growled and growled at the bear, but was a little nervous to get close to it.

Anne and Jorja

Maysen had her 'time with dad' day today.  They made ice-cream. Cookies and cream.  Mike had forgotten to stop at the store to get the stuff on the way home.  Luckily I had some heavy cream in the fridge.  I was going to use it for one of my pies on pi day, but ran out of time.  I'm glad they didn't buy another one!

Maysen

UHSAA Board Meeting

Mike and I had a busy day yesterday.  We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple in the morning.  We had lunch at Village Inn and then Mike went to the temple again with the youth to do baptisms. He's racking up the blessings!  Yesterday Stockton also took the physical part of the pe test.  He got full points on sit-ups (he had to do 48), pull-ups (he had to do 9), flexibility (he had to reach 30 cm ~ actually he was able to reach 10 cm past that!).  The only thing he didn't pass was the running.  To get full points he has to run the mile and a half in 10:45.  The slowest he can go to get any points is 11:48. Stockton ran it in 12:15 or something like that.  It is frustrating because to get full points on the run if you are a girl is 14 minutes.  You can still get points if you run it in 15 minutes.  That seems like a huge difference!  Anyway, he will get to try again next week.  At least he only has to do the run.

I went to the UHSAA board meeting today.  They were planning on talking about getting rid of diving as a sanctioned sport.  Actually they already decided to get rid of it until someone told them they should let the divers and their coaches have a bit of a say.  The diving was scheduled to come on the agenda at 10:30.  The meeting started at 9:00.  I showed up at 9:00.  I wanted to make sure I was there in case they decided to talk about diving earlier.  Stockton's coach was there when I arrived.  Mike Tuckfield was given 20 minutes to present the case for keeping diving.  I thought he did a great job.  My hopes were dashed at the end.  It was obvious that the board had no intention of keeping diving.  Mike asked if anyone had any questions.  He was told he had 3 minutes left.  The Jordan High principal raised his hand.  He took almost the entire 3 minutes to ask his question!  Basically he said, "Why should we sanction you anyway, we don't even buy you a trophy." Wow.  Because the diving coaches pitch in and buy the state champion their own trophy the board doesn't think they need to sanction this sport.  I was so annoyed.  Especially since Mike had pointed to the Jordan High principal earlier and talked about how they had good communication with each other in the past.  When he asked that ridiculous question it was like signaling to everyone else that he doesn't think divers are worth anything.  One of the things Mike talked about was how diving helps fill a niche for the student that doesn't necessarily have the build to be a football player or a basketball player.  One guy leaned over and whispered, "That's what soccer is for."  Annoying.  I was pretty upset when I got home.  I knew they just didn't care about taking this way from my son.  I knelt down and said a prayer asking Heavenly Father to soften their hearts.  I felt such peace as I said that prayer.  I felt that Heavenly Father was telling me everything would be okay.  I don't know if they will keep diving or if things will still be okay if they get rid of diving.  I'm not sure, but I really hope they keep it.

I will finish this entry with two Time with Dad pictures.  Preston had his time with dad yesterday.  Mike and Preston worked on making a conveyer belt to go with a robot game they have.

Preston

Jorja wanted Mike to play softball with her.  She is nervous/excited about playing softball this spring.  I hope she loves it!

Jorja

BYU/Gonzaga

After cleaning the bathrooms with the kids, showering and getting ready for the day, I was anxious to get to the temple.  It is the last day of the month and we kept putting it off.  We realized we would probably miss the session at Draper, so we headed to Jordan River.  Mike said he hadn't been back to that temple since I got my endowments out.  Wow! That was a long time ago!  As I was walking to the dressing room I ran into Shannon.  Talk about timing!  It was fun to go through the session with her.

After the temple, Mike took me to a Hawaiian barbecue place.  It was pretty tasty.  We were debating on going to eat before the temple or after.  I was worried if we went before that I would end up sleeping through the entire session, or wanting to.  When we got home, Mike finished making sock frogs with Jorja.  Well, one frog is finished and I think they have one more to go.

I got to pick the activity for date night.  I had thought and thought about what I wanted to do.  Finally I decided.  I wanted Mike to watch the BYU/Gonzaga basketball game with me.  He had to watch, cheer and not fall asleep.  It was a great decision.  Such an amazing game!  I think it was 21 years since they had an upset that great.  Maybe it was 31 years, I can't remember.  I do remember that BYU never trailed the entire game.  In basketball.  Against the number 3 team in the country. Incredible!  It was so fun having Mike watching the game with me instead of falling asleep and getting scared if I cheer loud.  Much better this way.  I didn't think BYU would pull it off.  Such a great game!

Settlers

Preston is going to be so mad if he sees this post.  After Preston and Jorja went to bed, Mike, Maysen and I played Settlers of Catan with the new board.  Stockton did not want to play.  Preston went to bed saying, "But I thought we were going to play Settlers!"  I told him we ran out of time.  We did.  We couldn't finish a game before his bedtime, but we could before Maysen's.  We thought it would be good to play a small game before we tried it out with the family anyway.  Maysen was extra happy because she won.

 Maysen

Maysen also got called as a Ward Family History Consultant today. She, of course, didn't let us know that was going to happen.  We were pretty surprised when they had her stand up in church.  She likes doing that to us.

Cookie Party

A few weeks ago Mike started doing Time With Dad again.  The kids have been thrilled.  Stockton has Monday, Preston has Tuesday, Jorja has Wednesday and Maysen has Thursday.  Preston actually did his today because he had the Blue and Gold banquet on his real day.  They worked on making dragon eggs into a wand station in Mike's workshop.  Mike finally got his workshop cleaned.  During the remodel we used the room to stuff things.  Mike is so happy to have it back!

Preston and Mike

 Mike, I don't think that is safe!

 Mike and Maysen have almost finished their 3d Settlers board

Maysen had a Girls' State interview today.  She felt she did really well. There are 21 applicants and only 7 girls will be accepted.  Even if she doesn't make it, I'm so glad she tried.

Seth and Megan had their annual cookie party.  I made chocolate covered cookie dough.  Basically the same as the homemade reeses, but with cookie dough instead of peanut butter.  I had so many cookies! They were delicious!

Jacqui won best tasting cookie and also best overall cookie.  She made a brown butter sea salt cookie with nutella in the middle.  It was really good, but super rich!  Because Jacqui won best overall she got to take home Seth's cookie.  He had to take himself out of the best looking cookie competition because it just wasn't fair.  This was his cookie this year.  It took him about an hour to decorate this.  Crazy!