The boys got to finish their Chinese lanterns for the Chinese New Year. Last year Talmage had a big celebration for the Chinese New Year, I think we reminded him of it when we talked to him on Monday.
Sariah's FIRST DATE!
They are off to the BYU Ambassadors Dance production.
Out on a late night date and up early for the 5:15 seminary baptismal session. What an amazing Dad we have!
Bryant was invited to go to the Spanish Sunday school class in our ward today. I didn’t even know they had one. There weren’t even any natives but just the Spanish speakers of our ward. He said he understood most of it. He’s had two preliminary language lessons and gave our dinner prayer in Spanish one night this week.
I went with Rex and Lyle on Friday on their field trip. We went to the Allied Northwest Potato facility over on Glade North. Among other things, they grow and ship a potato specifically for Frito-Lay potato chips that is a really round potato. They ship all over the world, Guatemala, Japan, Malaysia. It really is pretty incredible. In their quality control room they make potato chips to test for color and defects so the kids each got a Ziploc of fresh potato chips. Afterwards we went to Rhoads house for some potato games. Brother Rhoads had rigged a potato launcher on a trailer to shoot at cardboard boxes like in angry birds. It worked well most of the time. When Rex was launching it however, somehow the plastic holder flipped and it shot the potato right back at Rex. It gave him a pretty good thud in the chest. Glad it wasn’t his nose. He was on the ground for a bit, sat in the van for a bit, but eventually tried it again. I was glad he “got back on the horse.”
Saw this on Facebook this week, pretty fun!
Sariah’s regular season is over. Monday there had been a mask mandate protest
by the students at the high school and junior high and so some of the varsity
players were not able to practice because they were marked absent in their
classes. Sariah was pretty worried that she
would have to start the varsity game on Tuesday. The administration made some policy
adjustments to exempt protest absences and she didn’t end up starting. She was torn—relieved to not have the
pressure of starting, but she doesn’t like it when consequences aren’t enforced
and she felt like those starters got off the hook. Friday night was the last regular season
game. It was against Wapato and we got
beat by 14 points. When we aren’t ahead
handily, Sariah doesn’t play. Despite
the fact that she didn’t play she got to climb the ladder and help cut down the
net because the team earned league champs.
She didn’t know any better and got a pretty stubby piece.
Hyrum had a big weekend. He went to his first math team competition in Spokane on Friday. He was NOT excited about going. He did get a sweatshirt and dinner out of the deal. They didn’t get back to Basin City until 11pm so he crashed at Specht's. Saturday he went with Dave to the AAU basketball games in town. We didn’t commit to the team because practices are in the evenings in Connell and the transportation is too much, but they have been short on players so Dave has been taking Hyrum.
What a great family! Was so good to have them there and feel of their love and support.
So proud of the way Bryant chooses to live his life.
Finally got Talmage's plaque made now that he is almost done.
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