Miles painted this picture of Bella. Just like he did of Brigham (did I post the Brigham picture?). He takes slightly-silly photos and then paints them. They are excellent re-creations!
The girls got their new competition leos! (Which are ridiculously and insanely over-priced!) They have missed the first few meets, but will have three meets back-to-back weekends coming up soon! They are both excited and oh-so-nervous (Emmy, at least).
We had a fun YW activity last week: TP and trash-bag brides. :) The boys even joined in the competition. Fun times.
Some of the boys.
It looks like I helped - but I really didn't. I think I placed one piece of tape. :) These girls all got super into it and spent way longer than we thought on it. It was great. Oh, yes, most of the YW are taller than myself.
The kids were off on Friday and so we used our Epic Pass and went skiing at Crested Butte. It was a beautiful day and the sun was much-appreciated! Emmy and I probably would have quit if it wasn't sunny, ha. It was cold (like 10) starting, but with the sun it wasn't too bad! The boys came but we only saw them when driving, at drop-off, lunch time, and pick-up and so I didn't get any pics of them. Jonas' friend Aidan (a different one . . . not our one-and-only Aiden) came. I think the boys had a great day! We girls had a fun time, too.
Silly us thought we could eat our poor-man's sack lunch on the deck - but apparently those tables are reserved for paying customers . . . After I had gotten out all our food (we were still waiting for the boys) and spread everything out, someone came and told me I had to go eat our food downstairs - inside at a "cafeteria." So lame. But whatever.
Here we were in line for our first run of the day. See the beautiful blue-bird sky behind us?!
Ben's missing in our pictures because he's off in San Antonio, Texas learning how to be a soldier. He's having a pretty good experience. He's been working hard but is now enjoying a 4-day weekend.
I think these are all friends from his training last summer in Oklahoma . . . ? I know the gentleman standing next to him was his roommate. Pretty cool. He's gone for a month and so tomorrow marks the half-way point. But who's counting?
Last week they were all "in the field" living up at Fort Bullis. Ben rocked it on the rifle-shooting with a perfect (and obviously the highest) score: 100%, 30/30. Wow, I will not get in a gun-duel with him apparently!
Next weekend we head up to Littleton. I am excited to see Jim and Diana as we just haven't seen them much since the whole Covid thing came into our lives. The girls have a competition on Saturday in the Denver area. Also, Miles' climbing team has their state competition. Unfortunately, Miles missed out making it to state by 1 person! 27 got to go from the Western Slope - and Miles ranked in at 28 (out of 57). (Jonas was 41st.) We're hoping a miracle happens and that Miles gets the chance to compete! Cross your fingers, say a prayer, whatever for him. :) It would be so cool if he could get a chance his senior and final year to compete at state.
Miles has applied, well almost, to BYU-I. Actually I did it for him. I didn't mean to - I just had to get it started because of a March 1st deadline. We had seen earlier that the deadline to apply for fall semester was like September (like 2 weeks before the semester started!), but on Wednesday of this past week, I saw that the grant (i.e, scholarships) deadline was March 1st. So I spend my whole day working on the FAFSA application (some federal loan application requirement for all college students) and his college application. I thought he would have to write something, etc., but nope. Not for BYU-I. Lucky Miles! I think Provo requires like 4 essays . . . aiyiyi. We're getting his transcripts sent, his seminary teacher did her recommendation, his bishop did his ecclesiastical endorsement, and tomorrow Miles meets with a stake presidency member to get his endorsement. Then we hit "submit" and his application will be official. Crazy!
