SATURDAY - A DAY AT HOGWARTS AND RED LOBSTER

For Christmas we got the kids tickets to A Day at Hogwarts! It was an event in Pocatello so we naturally had to go to Red Lobster afterwards! IT was a long fun filled day! The kids were sorted into a house, fitted for the perfect wand, learned a few spells and potions and drank butterbeer!!! 

FRIDAY - VOCAL POINT

Grandpa Cook took Ty, Crystal, and me to see Vocal Point in Rexburg Friday night! We had a lot of fun!

THURSDAY - ACTIVITY DAYS

I am now a leader for Lily's group of girls instead of Crystal's (we have so many girls we have them split in 3 groups... there are about 15 8 yr olds alone!) This week we made modest dresses with newspaper! Lily had a lot of fun and even made a JoJo bow for herself! lol.

WEDNESDAY - MUSEUM OF IDAHO ARCHIMEDES

We had a special members only pre opening night at Museum of Idaho's new exhibit. We had a good time learning about all inventions and ideas for Archimedes! 

MONDAY-FUJI'S, SHELVES AND LABELLE ICE PALACE

The kids and Ty had the day off so I played hookie and hung out with my family Monday instead of going into work. For lunch we decided to go to Fuji's Hibachi Grill. It has become one of our favorites! Fun and delicious... but super expensive!!!!
Then we bought a bunch of wood at Lowe's to get started on finishing the basement!!! We decided before we could get walls up, we needed to get the boxes of food storage out of the way so we ended up using all the wood for framing on building storage shelves! Haha. (No worries. Ty went and bought more wood a few days later so we have wood for framing again. Hopefully we get walls up soon!)
After we ran out of wood, we noticed the previously very strong cold wind had died down, so we decided to check out Labelle Ice Palace!!! We had a great time riding in a horse drawn sleigh, sledding, drinking hot chocolate, walking through ice tunnels, walking up ice stairs and sitting on Elsa's ice throne in her castle! We also got a LOT of warm hugs from Olaf!

BACK TO ROUTINE

Getting back into a routine was rough this past week. One night this week the kids were super grumpy by the end of the day, but we decided we'd better still have family prayer and scripture reading. We were only reading one verse per person. You'd think it would be pretty painless, but it was torture. Lily was invading Jay's space, and Jay was touching Lily, and I don't even remember why Crystal was pouting. Lily's verse was too short... Jay's was too long...They were impossible to please. Oy. But we did it! We survived another day. Haha. Hopefully next week is a little more positive!!