1st Hangarnel Awards

In honor of the Oscars, we put together a little award night for Jake's family! We get together every Sunday anyway and so we threw together this fun night. We assigned everyone a family member to write an award for and then we presented them. Everyone was asked to dress up like a super star! We had Bond, a Rap Star, a few princesses, director, a glam star and old hollywood star!

We had fun listening to the awards. We clapped and cheered and listened to pretty bad acceptance speeches and everyone got candy awards!  Everyone also cast votes for special awards and we gave out these trophies. It was really fun and we can't wait to do it again next year!

Teaching Elements & Principles of Design

During our interior design unit, after spending a week talking about the Elements and Principles of design, I sent my students out with my camera to take pictures around the school. The came back with some great pictures!

Emphasis & Radial Balance

Space & Line

Balance & Pattern

My Kiddies Come To School

Valentine's Day

New Years Eve Bowling

I put together a fun new years eve night.  We all spent the night bowling in American fork. The kids loved it. And by kids I mean the adults.  Ha.

We got tons of Chinese take out and waited for midnight to roll in.

Love family!

The Annual Late Christmas Post

Christmas was great and insane all at the same time. 

Jake and I were completely frazzled from Groupon and the 16 hour days we were trying to get through. Bryant got married and my parents were here and we were making thousands of cake pop s a week. 

I was so sad to see the Christmas season passing by without really being able to embrace it.
My mom got us the little elf on a shelf and the elf maybe made it to two spots.

It took serious strategic planning to get presents bought and wrapped!

But Christmas day and Christmas eve were great.  I love seeing zoey and Logan so excited to have Santa come.  They really make holidays so special. 

They got spoiled with presents from grandmas and grandpas and aunt julie. They were so lucky to have so many people who love them. 

We are so lucky to have the freedom to teach our little ones about Jesus Christ and his birth. It warms my heart to hear zoey express her love and understanding for Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. 

I hope next season I personally will have more time to really focus on Christmas and the special time of year it is.

Valentine's day

It was a good Valentine's day this year.  We made no plans at all.  We got the kids some dollar store presents,  I packed Jake a special lunch and Jake brought home flowers for me and zoey. She was so excited about it. 
We had maddi come over and watch the kids and we went to dinner with the 'big kids'... all Jake's uncles and aunts. 

I love my family and Jake's family.