March

The first Saturday of March, the grandson of a couple in our ward, Gaylynn and Thurl Jacobsen, was baptized.  He came over last summer one time to play video games with Jacob.  He is very shy and it went OK, but will take more interaction to get comfortable. 

Julie Wiggins came to the baptism too.  

March began with MANY days off of school.  End of February we had Parent Teacher Conf. and the comp day for it was Friday, March 3rd.

Monday, the 6th, was a remote learning day and Tuesday, the 7th was a "school day", but not spent in school.  The Juniors come in the morning to take the ACT test.  The afternoon was for student who wanted to come in and work on anything with the teachers.

The 7th was also my birthday.  59 years old!  Mom, Heidi and Joy came up, brought lunch to my house and we headed to the temple.  We had lunch when we got home.  Jason worked from home so there was someone to "watch" Jacob.  We had a good time.  

After they left Jaxon came over to hang out with Jacob for a few hours.  They had a good time together.  

Friday, March 10 Jacob went with the Esports team to an all day State Esports tournament at the U.  The opening speaker was Doug Bowser from Nintendo.  Jacob had brought his 3DS and had  him sign it.  Jacob seemed to enjoy the day and Alta won!

The next day, Saturday, we went on a hike to the suspension bridge with Catheys.  This winter just keeps on giving with the snow and the trial up to the bridge was snow covered.  Not impossible to traverse, but not fun for me.  I got to this point and did not want to continue up the trail to the bridge, so I stayed and waited for them to come down.  

I have done the bridge before, but we were able to drive up a little farther--which made it easier for me.  

The middle of March Jason was gone to Houston.  He came back on the weekend in between, but was gone both weeks.  That weekend in between, the 19th,  was Carter Safsten's mission farewell.  He is going to the Tennessee, Knoxville, mission. 

He gave a great talk and explained part of his journey in deciding to serve a mission.  After we went to Mom's for dinner.  It was fun. 

Thursday, March 23rd, Jacob turned 15!  He awoke to a candy bar board and a box of Lucky Charms.  Nothing but healthy stuff around here!!

Here is the snowy day he had for his bday. 
Just keeps on coming

Afterschool he opened a gift from Grandma Safsten.  Slippers and $20.  Loved those!

He also opened a card from us telling him he could pick out a  new iPad cover.  He also got some shorts for summer and we went to McDonalds for dinner

Friday morning I went to the mall to walk and in the space of about 1 hour it snowed about 2 inches!  

Friday night Bridger invited Jacob to join his family for dinner at Chuck-a-Rama.  Bridger is 1 day younger than Jacob.  He had a fun time seeing him.

Saturday morning we had Swedish pancakes.  Usually this breakfast is too hard to do on a school day so we do it on a Saturday so he can enjoy it.  

Finally Jason got home on Saturday afternoon.  As he arrived Jacob was headed out to have lunch with Karen.  Jason took me to pick up my car from our repair guy.  My speedometer is not working quite right.  On a cold start it doesn't work until the car has warmed up.  Because the car is so old there is not a lot that can be done, so for now I'm waiting to see if warm weather will keep the problem from happening.  

Once Jacob got home we opened more presents.  A iPad screen protector and $$ for a new game that is coming out in May.  Around 6:30 Itai came over for cake and ice cream and to play some video games.  Jacob had a fun time.  

Please note that once again the cake is "beautiful!"  😅

In March of 2020 we were supposed to go to the Desert Star Theater to see James Blonde.  Covid hit and we they gave us a rain check. 

Fast forward 3 years and we finally tried to go on March 31st to see Back from the Future.

To begin with this playhouse does spoofs on famous movies etc., but as we sat through the first act it was pretty bad.  I have gone before, but that was before we were even married.  Some of the actors forgot their lines, the lines were poorly written, but we were getting through it.  

We ordered pizza, which was pretty good and had watched the first act.  We were sitting during intermission and the fire alarm went off.  Everyone looked around, but they told us it was a false alarm and we didn't need to leave.  

The alarm went off again and they turned it off again.  

Then, toward the back of the theater, water started to drizzle through the ceiling.  At first it was just one corner at the back and then the ceiling started to drizzle all through the theater.  So we got up and went out into the lobby where they asked us to move outside.  

We went outside and by the time we got out there were 3 fire trucks and an ambulance.  The ambulance had someone on the gurney and were loading them in. 

Turns out there are apartments over the theater and apparently a small fire had started up there.  They sent us home and they offered us a repeat show...we are going in May.