Lil' Dean Fam

While the boys were out of school one Friday I took them to see the Provo City Center temple open house.  This temple is really stunning.  The building was a tabernacle and it burned badly in December of 2010.  The Church decided to restore the building and make it a temple.  The furnishings and finishings are just elegant.  We had a fun time.  I was grateful to the older gentlemen who told me that my kids looked nice dressed up.  His wife told me they're handsome.  I knew that but it was nice to hear.  And I suppose they were behaving too because I doubt I'd been offered those compliments.  

Our Cub Scouts Blue and Gold banquet this year was a carnival.  I've never attended one, let alone put one on so it was a total baptism by fire situation.  I had a lot of fun with this theme and with a lot of help from my friends and my amazing committee we were able to pull off a great night.   Our Wolves had to do some carnival games for one of their badges and so we made our theme for blue and gold carnival.  The boys and their leaders did a wonderful job with their games.  All of the cub scouts and their siblings had a blast playing games. We had hamburgers for dinner and there was lots of popcorn too!  

The boys have like three Fridays and a Monday off this month so we thought we'd take advantage of the schedule and take go skiing as a family.  Colin got work off and we hit the slopes.  We're feeling pretty good on the slopes now.  The boys have been three times this year and once before and it is really amazing how quickly they pick it up.  I'm sorry if I say that every time.   Friday was a beautiful day for skiing.  It was COLD, about 18 degrees, but it was sunny and there weren't very many people at the resort.   We tried some harder runs this time and although there was some grumbling, but overall we did well with the difficulty.  I was having kind of a rough day with my blood sugars.  It's always frustrating when that happens, but by mid-day I had figured it out and was hitting my grove.  I'm glad I stuck it out, but I'm also glad I know how to listen to my body and know when things aren't right.   ...

I've recently been put in as Cub Committee Chair in our ward.  That means I help with pack meetings and running the cub scouts in our ward.  I am so excited for this calling.  Working with these young boys is just so much fun.  We have an amazing Cub Master in our ward who is just so much fun!  He came up with the idea of doing a boxcar race to go with January's theme of Trustworthy.  He taught the boys about what the different flags mean in a car race and he talked about how the drivers must have trust in their team to successfully finish the race.  The boys took 8 laps around the gym at the church.  They had to make a pit stop to fuel up (drink some water and eat a donut), change their tires (switch one tire to the other side of their car), avoid obstacles (leaders bumping into them on the track) and a few others which I can't remember.  The boys had a fun and memorable evening.  Ryan earned 4 pins!  I'm so proud of him and his h...

The boys are playing Junior Jazz basketball through our local recreation center.  They're learning a lot and having fun. 

We took advantage of the day off of work and school to hit the slopes.  It was a SUPER snowy day.  It snowed about a foot while we were at the resort, we never saw the sun, but we had a great time and man, oh man are my kids getting good at skiing.  So good, in fact, that I'm getting worn out trying to keep up with them!  I'm so proud of them though and hope we'll get to go a few more times  this season!  We love to SKI UTAH!  I haven't uploaded the GoPro yet so I'll have to see what we got!