February Highlights

February came and went quickly! I was a little busy with our school's largest fundraiser and event of the year. Our PTA hosts a carnival and silent auction every February. We bring in close to $40,000 in one day and it takes a lot of work to put it all together. If I wasn't teaching or with my kids, I was busy working on Carnival! It was nice to get it done with but also a lot of fun.

Lydia had a field trip to Galveston and the children's museum there. I was able to join her and watch her play with her preschool friends.

The area high schools do a bunch of musicals in January and February. One high school did Matilda. Ashton and I went and she loved it. We also went to Beauty and the Beast with all the girls. It had a live orchestra, which was really neat. Ashton loved Matilda so much she is singing a song from it for the school's talent show.

February brought Alpha class for Ashton. With our district's gifted and talented program, 4th and 5th graders get to pick a course off campus during the spring semester. Ashton picked nature photography and loved it. Apparently, she was a good friend to the kids in her class as I saw this note one day. It is a mixed group of kids from all over the district so it was fun for her too. Tanner and Gemma will get their chance in a few years as well.

Gemma hit 100 days of school! She had a blast walking around the school in the parade.

February also brought Valentine's Day parties. Lydia acts like she owns the school. She is there so much with me when I am volunteering and she just makes herself at home everywhere we go. The front office staff have started teaching her Spanish and give her candy every time. Most of the teachers know who she is and the kid's classrooms all love when she visits. Lydia found a reading nook in Gemma's classroom.

Tanner came downstairs one night to tell me that if he kept his eyes like this, they'd be stuck there forever.

At the school's carnival, we had a Pie Throwing game. This is one of Tanner's teachers. I also got my 30 minute shift in the pie booth.

A family moved into our neighborhood from a neighboring ward and we are thrilled! We've known the family for several years and are so excited to have them closer. We've met up at the parks lots of times and the kids can bike back and forth too. Most of the kids line up closely in age, which is nice.

 Tanner had a field trip to the Houston Space Center. We went on the tour of the Astronaut Training Facility, which was fun. Tanner got to be with his best friend all day at the field trip.