March...a birthday month! The month began with Jacob going to the Esports tournament up at the Huntsman Center. He went with the team at school to watch the qualifying teams compete. He has a good time and it gets him out of school (though the homework catch up is not always fun!).
One of Jacob's classes this quarter is Driver's Ed. He has been working on class items and here is doing his GOTE assignment...Gas fill, Oil check, Tire change and, for extra credit, he could put together a car emergency kit.
On my birthday Mom, Heidi and Joy came up for lunch. It was fun to visit and celebrate my 60th. Just sounds so old!
While we were eating Jason came home from work and surprised me with flowers and Sees candy!
One Saturday, the 9th, Christian (Elizabeth's oldest) was baptized. We went to that and then over to her house for lunch. Jacob was doing this same thing 8 years ago!
The night Marcia and Steven, Clark and Natalie and Jason and I went to dinner at Slackwater to celebrate my birthday. The pizza was good and we then headed back to our house to have cake and ice cream. I made the Cake by Courtney Hot Chocolate cake. Yummy. We had a fun time!
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Night before Jacob's chemistry test. He said he was ready, but then told us he had copied the answers. He had a lot of homework that week and was sick of it. We talked about how this was cheating--basically himself. Jacob eventually feels guilty when he has done something wrong and then tells us. So at 9 p.m. that night Jason went over the test material with him so he could be ready. He did know most of it, but needed help. He did well on the test. |
Jason taking a break while I make my
grocery list.
MarySue left to go help Jenny on the 15th of March. She was gone 2 weeks. One of the Saturdays Karen texted Jacob to see if he wanted to go over to Grandpa's with Robbie, Grace and Lilly for pizza. He went over and while he was there Grandpa gave him $100. He generously gives each grandchild $100 for their 16th birthday. Jacob loved that!
The following day, Sunday, we had Jason's cousin (Roy and Vina's son), Brent, and his 2 sons, Kenny and Ren, over for a family dinner.
They had flown in that morning to go skiing during the week up at Solitude. They are so nice!
The next day Brent texted Jason and invited them up, to where they were staying, to have dinner, swim etc. Jason and Jacob went up and Jacob had a really fun time. Too bad they don't live closer!
Jason had a cold that weekend and sat away from the family.
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| Open wide! |
Time for braces! We were going to start this 2 years ago, but things like the orthodontist only being in office 1x a month made me hesitate. Then Jacob started to have jaw popping problems so we decided to try and fix that first.
He has had a night mouth guard for a little over a year and it has helped, but not fixed it.
Saturday, March 23rd! Jacob's 16th Birthday!! It began as he likes it....with Swedish pancakes in the family room watching TV. We then opened gifts. This year Jason and I decided to try and not do an electronic birthday. He opened Lucky Charms cereal, socks, pickleball paddles/balls and new headphones.
At the beginning of the month Jason and I went to our Republican caucus. It was kind of difficult to get in due to the long line, but once we were in with our precinct it was fine. They nominated State delegates to go to convention and then County delegates to go to convention. Jason and I were both nominated as county delegates.
On Saturday, after Jacob's breakfast and gift opening, we headed to the Meet and Greet for the Republican candidates. We had both heard from some of the candidates, but it was nice to have them all in one location to talk to. This was from 10 a.m. - Noon at American Prep Academy.
After that we headed to Jared's for lunch. Hannah and Stephen were in town with the kids for a day and we all went over to see them.
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| Marshall |
We were able to meet the cute new baby Marshall and Karen brought an ice cream cake to celebrate Jacob's birthday. When we got there Janette, Emma and Abby were getting out of the car and yelled, "Happy Birthday Jacob!"
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Getting ready to blow
out the candles |
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| Huff and puff |
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| Getting ready |
After lunch we went home to meet Elias and Jaxon. They came over for Jake's bday party. They headed down to American Fork to play paintball.
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| Load 'em up! |
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As Jason captioned this one..."Ahhh, the
sound of heavy metal, smell of
testosterone! |
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| Heading to play |
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| Prep area |
After playing they came home to show me their welts. ;) They had a fun time!
They had pizza for dinner, played video games to their hearts content, and then had birthday cake.
The day before Easter we went to Jared's for spring rolls, musubi, and Easter egg dying. There was also the grand opening of Chips--a new cookie place over by Jared's. Grace really wanted to go so I drove us over and we all got a free cookie. They were good, but almost too thick and gooey. Had fun getting them.
Easter Sunday I hid the eggs for Jacob to find. He found the first ones pretty easily.
Then he was stumped for the last egg. He looked all over and finally found it!
Hidden between the boxes!
Speaking of boxes...right now our dining room is storing our 2 Adirondack chairs, lawn swing and new BBQ. We don't have places to put them until we set them up, so they ended up here.
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Jacob, Garrett, Amber Olivia, Makenna (David's
niece), Kolton and Julianna |
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Jason, Jen, Amy, Tanner, Chris, Lucy, Barry,
Linda and Mom |
After church we went down to Heidi's for dinner and to celebrate Mom's 85th birthday.
That night Jacob was not feeling well and wanted to go home. So on Tuesday, after breakfast, we packed up and drove home--Catheys stayed and went to Death Valley. 
