We got snow and cold as the semester winds down, and we celebrated with Argentina as they won the World Cup.
Hallie and Eliza went out on Monday and got these cool sweatshirts. Thanks, @ashleycolletdesign!
Mike's department had a Christmas get-together with goodies from
Mrs Backer's,
Fillings and Emulsions, and
Gourmandise and a fun game exchange.
Mike has found a
new place to "cut" digital versions of paper snowflakes. He can make them more elaborate than real-life ones and experiment with ideas before he cuts ones out of paper.
Landon is doing quite a bit better in math this term now that it's online and Mike can explain/commiserate with him.
It snowed on Monday, and we started Tuesday with continued icy weather. Hallie and her teacher had to move most of the furniture and materials from their building to their new digs. Fortunately, the football team helped. The high school will be redone over the next three to six years. They are starting with the football field and the preschool building first. The first picture below is what it looked like on the way to the high school at about 7:30 a.m. By about 8:15 am many people came to get the school moved, and it was awesome. Almost emotional, Hallie said. The principal and several administrators even showed up to help in the move. What a great community!
As they left their old building (which will be torn down as part of the high school renovation), current and former students left their marks.
Here's a pretty view of the bridge and creek next to the library Eliza grabbed while we returned a book.
BYU Campus got its own coat of the white stuff that continued through the day.
At riding practice, Eliza and the horses took the weather in stride.
Here is an image Landon made for his drawing class.
Fergus avoided going outdoors for some strange reason and found warm bodies to be quite the comfort.
Eliza has been quite a bit more cuddly with Hallie too, and no one is complaining.
Mike and the department secretaries partook in our end-of-semester tradition of doing a Christmas craft. This year, Michele taught us how to make macramé ornaments.
(Mike even consented to do a selfie. Ugh.)
Here's the view from Hallie's new classroom. At least the road was clear. The crew who takes care of the high school does an amazing job at keeping the school clear.
Here are the boys hard at work on Landon's homework. Mike does a copy at the same time Landon does just to make sure he knows what to do himself before trying to explain it to the boy. We are not sure what Fergus does, but he likes to be included in the action.
We won a couple of boxes full of prizes from
Cupbop from the food event a few weeks back. Eliza in particular was thrilled to get some of the treats she has come to enjoy over the past few months.
In science class at Yates Place, Eliza and the other students studied classification of different animals. Also, this meant that they could bring in pets for study (read "show and tell").
Eliza and Hallie went to the Nebo gym on Friday. At first, Hallie wasn't sure she wanted to go, but in the end she was happy to have gone. Both kids are finding that they're not as fit as they're used to since stopping their intensive gymnastics regime.
On Sunday, Argentina played France in the World Cup. In anticipation, on Saturday we went over to
La Brioche to get some goodies to nosh on while we watched the game.
So many choices!
After not really feeling like cutting new paper snowflakes this season, Mike seemed to find his motivation in all this week's falling snow.
On Saturday night, Hallie and Eliza had to run a couple of errands (cough, Dutch Bros., cough). Eliza's been a great travel buddy lately! On their way home they found a fun house full of blow up Christmas dinosaurs.
Sunday dawned clear but brutally frigid. We hung La Albiceleste, got out our goodies, and cheered our team to victory! Literal tears of joy were shed as Mike thought about how happy all the people he knows and loves from his mission must be feeling. What a rush!
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