Busy, Busy

1. Monday we played Sardines for our FHE activity.  It was fun!!  The kids loved it.

2. Tuesday the kids skipped their lessons and went to the PTA literacy activity--they had given every family a copy of the book Because of Wnn-Dixie and asked us to read it to our kids.  Which we did during the Christmas break.  So then they went and watched the movie and had popcorn.  Leo took the kids there while I took Elena to her first violin concert.

3. Elena's concert was really good!  It was fun to watch her and she's learned so much already. Yay!






4.  Elena started Voice class on Wednesday.  I'm super excited for her to develop that talent because she has a beautiful voice.

5.  Efraim is so funny when I take Jubal to swim lessons.  He always starts stripping off his clothes too.  That kid thinks that he should get to do everything everyone else does.  Ha. Ha.

6. We have been filling out a chart during scripture study and one night it was late and so Leo said we weren't going to fill it out that night.  Jubal and Lando were mad so they both ran over to attack Leo.  But then Jubal pulled back and started climbing up the shelf to get the chart and yelled to Lando "You keep him busy!" Oh my heck, we all burst out laughing so hard.  We let them fill out the chart.

7.  Elena went to do baptisms for the dead on Friday afternoon with the YW and YM.  Only the roads were bad so by the time they got there the wait was so long that they didn't get to do baptisms.  They did get Farr's ice-cream though and she saw Lynnaea and Kiersten and Anders and Devaney there.

8. I worked on Isabel's 18th century stays this week.  I'm kind of disappointed in them.  Really she should have a child's stays pattern, but I used a much more shapely women's pattern and it didn't work out that well.  I wanted to try out the pattern and practice fitting it because I'm hoping I can use the pattern to make stays for Elena that will last for 7 or 8 years even if she grows more.  But I didn't get the fit in Isabel's right, so now I'm worried about Elena's. Almost all of the material is from my stash but time--I don't want to waste time. But I already cut out Elena's.  I really ought to make muslins.  Sigh.    I also tea-dyed the trim for Elena's 18th century dress.

9. I got stuck in the snow on Friday.  Luckily our neighbor gave Elena a ride to school.



Leo's coworker pulled me out.

10. We cleaned the house top to bottom on Saturday.  It's always so nice to have a clean house. And then Saturday night we went to The BYU Folkdance Ensemble.  But right before we were leaving (literally five minutes before) Efraim threw up all over Leo.  So Leo stayed home with Jubal and Efraim.  Luckily no one else seems sick and he's already feeling better.  The show was much better than the last one I went to of them.  I loved the Ukrainian dancing the best, but the Bollywood disco dance was awesome too--just funny to me to see them doing the John Travolta disco move with the Hindu dancing.  And then there was a Slovakian (I think, not sure, maybe Hungarian?) hat stealing dance, and that was super funny too.  All the kids loved it although Lando only lasts about 2 minutes before asking me random questions.
   

11.  I love Lando's drawings.  And he got a drawing from a girl in his class too.  When I asked him about it he said "It's not my fault I have a girlfriend!" AND he didn't know her name.

The is Native Americans hunting.
  
And then eating the heart of his kill.  😂😂😂

This was from the unnamed girlfriend.