March Happenings

This past weekend, Nile had his hockey playoffs for the end of the season.  He lost his first game but then won the second two games.  His team ended up coming in 5th place out of 10.  We went to a pizza party with the whole team on Saturday night and had a fun night.  Nile sure does love playing hockey and we had a great team and great coaches this year.  Sunday,  I took a couple of pictures of the kids before church we ended up having a beautiful morning.  I have been busy reading.  I just finished two good books.  The first one is These is My Words and the second one was American Bloomsbury.  Claire is busy at dance class getting ready for her recital in June and she is into playing Webkinz on the computer.  She is so funny as soon as she earns money for her pet she goes to the pet store and buys new outfits for her puppy where Nile on the other hand saves all his money and only buys the necessities like food and water.  Brent is talking more and more lately.  He cracks us up.  He told me the other day he wanted to go to the alligator place and I said, the zoo.  He said, no the other place.  So I said Hilton Head and he said, yes and I want Jason to come with us.  Hilton Head is where we take our family vacations every year.  I think we are going to go in July this year.  Scott won another trip for work!  His region came in 2nd for sales for last year.  We are going to Vegas in May just Scott and I.   My sister is going to come in town and help watch the kiddos.

President's Day Weekend

We had a busy weekend this past weekend.  The kids were out of school last Thursday and Friday for parent teacher conferences.  We went to Chuck E. Cheese's on Friday to let the kids burn off some energy.  Then on Saturday, Scott's mom and brother Kevin came in town for the weekend.  We went out to lunch for her birthday and then we went and saw National Treasure.  Luckily, Brent slept through the whole movie.  On Sunday, we had some snow here so church was cancelled and then we had Nile's cub scout Blue and Gold Banquet for school that afternoon.  Scott made his mom his famous Carmel Apple Pie for her birthday which turned out delicious.  Then on Monday, we went Cosmic Golfing at the kids loved it. 

Last week, Nile had his music program at school.  He did a great job.  He was front and center for the performance and is quite the entertainer.  He enjoyed a snow day last week and went sledding with one of his friends from hockey.  So Friday night we took the kids out to dinner for Chinese at Pei Wei,  and the kids used chopsticks to eat their dinner, even Brent.  He loved the food.  Then after dinner, we went by the ATM.  On the way  home, Brent said, "Mom, I need to tell you something."  and I said, okay Brent what do you want.  and he said, "Tell dad to give me some cash."  We were cracking up.  That night, we called Jason on the phone to see how he was doing.  I told the kids that he was getting ready to play in a hockey game and we all told him good luck.  Brent then said, "Let's go to Jason's hockey game."  I said, we have to take an airplane and fly back out to Utah and he said "Let's go."  He loves watching his uncles play hockey.

Sunday January 27

On Sunday we had an interesting day at church.  This is a picture we took before church.  I am in the primary and we have a "missionary moment"  we the kids can share an experience from the week where they have tried to share the gospel.   Our primary president was conducting and she called on Sunbeam during this "missionary moment."  The sunbeam then says, "When my sister was a baby my mommy used her nibbles to feed her milk."   It was a quite the comment.  All of the adults in the room had to contain their laughter.  Needless to say, we are changing the how me do our missionary moment and asking the parents to come in with their child to tell us if they have an experience.  

Pine Wood Derby

Nile had the pine wood derby last night for scouts.  His car did okay.  He designed it himself and Scott helped him make it.  He received the "Sportiest Car" Award.  On Monday, for the holiday, we took the kids down to Kaleidoscope at Crown Center and then we went ice skating at the outdoor ice rink with some of our friends.  Brent loves ice skating.  He just wants to keep going and going. 

Utah Trip

Last fall, Scott and I decided that we wanted to take the kids out to Utah to see Jason play hockey at BYU for his senior year.  This past weekend in January was one of the few weekends where he had back to back games in Provo.   So last Thursday, Scott, and I and the kids and my dad all flew to Salt Lake City from St. Louis to go see Jason play some hockey.  We had a busy trip.  On Friday we took the kids skiing at Sundance.  Nile loved skiing and did really well.  I was watching him come down the mountain and some other moms were asking me if he had been skiing for awhile and if he had lessons.  I told them he had private lessons from his papa.  Claire went down a few times and enjoyed it.  We then went back to the hotel and took the kids swimming at the pool.  Then we went to Jason's hockey game.  Nile was able to warm up with the team.  Lots of my cousins that are living out in Utah came to the game and also my aunt Mardi and uncle Jay and aunt Donna.  Scott's brothers also came to the game.   Then afterwards we went to Village Inn for dinner.  

On Saturday, we swam in the pool at hotel and then we took the kids up to the BYU bookstore. We also walked around campus.  Scott and I hadn't visited in a few years so it was fun to see the new buildings.   We decided to go to the BYU basketball game that day.  Sitting next to us in the bleachers were future little cheerleaders and some of the BYU cheerleaders.   Jason took Claire over to the cheerleaders to get a picture since she was in her cheerleading outfit.  She had a blast at the game.   Then we went to Jason' s hockey game.   They won on Saturday night. After the game, we drove up to Idaho during a blizzard to see my grandparents.  It had been about 3 years since I had seen them.  

We spent Sunday going to church with my grandparents and then my aunts and uncles and cousins living near by came to visit for a birthday party for Claire.  We had fun visiting with all of our relatives.  

On Monday, we drove back to Salt Lake City.  We went to lunch with my aunt and then walked around Temple Square and the Church History Museum.  Then we flew back to St. Louis and then drove back to Kansas City the next day.   It was quite the trip.  We tried to fit in as much as we could.   The kids were happy to get home and back on a schedule but we sure did have a fun time.  Nile is already asking when he can go skiing again.

Happy New Year!!!

We survived the holidays.   I am posting a picture of the GE cookies that Scott and I make every year for some of his customers.  This consumed a lot of time in the month of December.  I am also posting a picture of the glass blocks that my friend Kim and I sold together.   We had a busy time in St. Louis.   On Christmas Eve, all of the Farmer family was together at my aunt Sue's house.  It was  fun to be with all my cousins and aunts and uncles and my grandparents.  We had a fun night and enjoyed all the yummy food that we always have.  On Christmas Day, we went up to the Maddox's to listen to Craig's phone call home from his mission.  We enjoyed talking to him. We went to the St. Louis Zoo over Christmas break and also the City Museum.   The kids loved both.  Today, Claire enjoyed playing dress up and putting on her new nails that Santa left her. We hope everyone has an exciting new year.