We did festive art, played in the snow, and got Landon's meet season started.
On Monday, Mike and Eliza took their customary field trip to the library, this time coming home with an art project. Eliza has missed out a bit on some of the "specials" classes she might get in regular school despite some of the perks she gets being Dad's star student, so we appreciate these projects or activities the community offers! Her project this time was an elf-themed ornament. Mom enjoys receiving text messages with the final picture and project. It makes working out of the house slightly bearable.
We also tried our luck at making an ornament out of a hollowed-out egg. Cracking one open without braking it is surprisingly hard. So, we got eggs enough for breakfast sandwiches and one shell that Mike painted up to hang on the tree as a kind of Christmas pysanka.
For date night on Tuesday, Mike and Hallie went to an empanada restaurant named (appropriately) Empas in Provo that Mike recently discovered. We were very happy with what we had. We also had Rockwell's peppermint Oreo ice cream. While out we ran an errand for a friend who has Covid and stopped by the university bookstore to see if there were any last minute Christmas presents.
For her writing assignment this week, Eliza had to write a persuasive letter to Santa Claus. She did pretty well, Mike thinks.
Mike found these funny facemasks that look like and flap like a beak, and Hallie went and bought us a couple. Hilarious!
We got snow on Saturday morning. Hallie braved the snow and made it to her hair appointment safely even though a lot of the roads had not been plowed yet. The snow stuck, and we got enough to shovel and to make snow sculptures. Here's a snow cat we made.
And here is a snowman she made in the afternoon.
As we were walking in from the outside, Mike happened to notice the exquisite snow crystals that had fallen on the car. He tried his best to capture a few of these beauties.
Landon had his Cold Turkey practice meet to start the season. Usually this meet takes place with other teams but due to Covid the meet took place at our home gym. One parent per athlete attended and Landon did receive scores. He has some work to do, but he's made a lot of growth since meet season ended in the spring. Can you spot the handsome gymnast that belongs to us? It is fun to see how he has grown physically and in the sport. We are crossing our fingers that the next meet on January 2 will still happen, it will be our first meet away from home since last March. Landon has been working very hard we hope that as he continues to work hard he will see the improvements he has set his mind on.
Eliza committed to her Coach (with a gift of yummy salsa and chips from Salsa Madre) that she will attend practice at 1:30 (the time that the Level 5's practice) for at least the rest of the year. This could mean that at Eliza's first meet of the season she will be competing a level higher than we thought. Eliza said she wants to practice with the Level 4's one last time, which she will be able to over Christmas break but seems quite happy and excited for this next level of gymnastics. Eliza has been through a lot this last calendar year and Hallie's Gym Mom heart is happy to see here wanting to be at gym and making strides in a positive direction.
Eliza loves taking pictures of Fergus. Enjoy!
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