Weekend Notes

David went to the DSU play The Elephant Man. The was a “carnival” in the lobby that turned him into a mythical beast. 


Calvin was Alexander Hamilton for the 6th grade People of the Past. It’s like an animatronic museum. You put a quarter in the historical figure and it tells you about its life. 

He did well. 

Library Fruit Basket Upset!!!  Isaac Meyer chose his Eagle Scout project to be book moving. All Saturday was spent moving books and bookshelves and assembling chairs to make the library new again. 

Emma had fun at SDSU and shared these pictures: the air band competition (she’s bat girl) that they won and the tug of war. She is apart of the women engineers sorority. 

Willa’s hair. Willa’s sleep mask. Willa’s life. 

Oscar’s House and Calvin’s Fort

Emma was Oscar’s pixie this Christmas and made him a fabulous house. It took up a good portion of the basement and started to break down, so, eventually, it had to go. We took some pictures before curbside recycling came. 

Blanket forts at the library. Calvin really got into it. This picture doesn’t do it the least justice. 

Weekend Notes

Pi Day!!!  Small celebration, but still so yummy.  Go circumference!

St. Patrick’s Day, the leprechaun came and broke the traps but he left skittles...

...and a yarn trail leading to Lucky Charms. 

Impromptu tea party. 

Dinosaurs and dragons invited. (No idea why Willa has been wearing a sleep mask lately.)

David joined a band!  A friend of mine learned that he can sing and play the recorder and invited him to join a band her husband was starting. They sung at a true Irish dive bar and it was packed. 

Santa makes good

We took our trip to the Mall of America that Santa gave gave. 

Random Willa

Willa is a strong personality. It causes a lot of feelings, often hilarious. 

What she hears:

How she sleeps. 


And, she loves her dino and her jammies. She changes into them as soon as she gets home. 

Month-end Notes

Whoops!  My beautiful intention to document our life every weekend fell through again. So now a monthly round up:

Date night concert with David. Music too loud?  TP!

Valentine's Day—chocolate fondue, if you drop the strawberry in the pot, your neighbor gets a kiss!

Next is a set of photos from a text chain with my siblings to David. I was teasing him for his supposed forgetting of Valentine's Day. 










Willa’s 9th Birthday!!!  

Heavy, heavy hangs over thy poor head

What do you wish this person with a [bump, kiss, shake, etc] on the head. 










Something special this year, usually our kids just get small, fun gifts like gum and cereal. This year David found and fell in love with an extra large stuffed dinosaur for Willa. Despite my protests, and with the help of his brother-in-laws (we were all together at the store) David bought it. 

She doesn’t know what’s coming. 


But her brothers do!




The drop.




The tackle!!!


“It’s so fluffy!!” 

The birthday party. Emma put it together because she couldn’t be there for the actual day. 

Emma’s amazing dragon cake. 




Picture booth with Pin the Fire on the Dragon in the background. 






We also had a scavenger hunt and did a craft. Then we ate the cake and opened presents. 


Enoch was there too. 


Another Enoch win, this time literally:  

8th Grade Science Fair

His team won 2nd place. They developed the hypothesis that sports played in real life produced higher heart rates than sports played in video games (wii).