January Happenings - Part 2

On January 22nd, up at the Conference Center was celebrated the 100th year of Seminary.  Camille got tickets.  It was fun to go up and hear the history of seminary along with some amazing talks.  Such an awesome program that Camille is apart of and I had the privilege of being in. 

We really didn't get any snow until January 23rd.  We had gotten a few skiffs before, but nothing that needed to be shoveled.  Tanner & Bradley were loving the snow and had fun making a snowman.  It still didn't amount to a huge amount, but enough for them to play in.

Byron went to Miami, Florida for a conference from January 23rd - 26th.  He was able to learn a lot and enjoy the beauties of this area.  He was even invited out on a yacht with some other people for a lunch one day.  He thought he would go out to sea, but ended up staying tied to the dock the whole time - he was a bit disappointed.  He said it was a beautiful boat.

Beautiful Miami- one day I hope to come here with Byron and possibly take a cruise:).

This is a mess that Bradley made in about one hour.  He did keep himself busy, however, which is some thing that he doesn't do very well by himself.  Bradley also had fun helping me clean up this mess:).

Johnathan's first Court of Honor after turning 11 - he helped with the flag and was able to receive quite a few merit badges and earn 1st class.  He is very motivated with scouting and is lacks only one required merit badge to get his Star rank. 

Johnathan getting his awards with his amazing leaders - Bishop Jensen, Brother Lemon & Brother Slaugh

Tanner also received some awards - along with earning his Star rank - he also has some amazing leaders - Brother Whitehead, Brother Hamblin, Brother Wilcox and of course his dad (who was in Miami).

Science Fair - Johnathan was so excited to be able to do his own project.  Tanner & Camille were both required to do one for 5th and 6th grade.  Johnathan, however, only had to do one in 6th.  He ended up getting green bananas and putting them into 4 different environments.  Then everyday he took a picture of each of them and after a week decided what environment is best to keep bananas from not ripening as quickly.  He found out that our food storage room (downstairs) which keeps an average temperature around 67 degrees is the best spot.  I was so excited to learn this info and now keep all of my bananas downstairs.  I am surprised at how long they will last down their in the right temperature.  So I guess Science Fair projects aren't so bad:) as they really can teach us things.  Johnathan was so excited to get an Einstein Award with his project.

Every 4th Sunday, we get together with the Beck family.  In January Melissa was in charge.  She did a great job at having some really yummy homemade pizzas and then some balloons that went a long with her awesome lesson.  We all were able to let out balloon go outside to signify something in our lives that we want to "let go of."  It was really fun to have us all let them off together.