Valentines Day

Today for Valentines Day Dallin's 4th grade class had an etiquette breakfast.  I am so grateful for teachers who go the extra mile to help my kids love to learn.  Dallin was NOT excited about having to wear a shirt and tie, but he was excited about who his partner ended up being and the food, of course!  He is sitting across from Kaylyn.  She is my cousin Kyle's little girl.  We love Kaylyn and her sisters and her sweet mommy.

 Dallin told me a week ago that Kaylyn picked him to be her partner, but then Mrs. Mackay decided to draw partners out with sticks and she just happened to pick Dallin and Kaylyn to be together.  Funny the way things happen.  They are fun kids and get along great.  I am sure the food was delicious and the morning was filled with fun!

 My friend Hollie's daughter Savanna is in Dallin's class and she said to the girls, "how about an all girl picture?" So all the squeally little girls lined up for their picture and after they went and sat down the boys jumped up and lined up.  I thought it was funny they wanted their picture taken too.  They are such handsome little guys!

In other news at the Hawkins House.....Oakley got inducted into the Honor Society of her jr. high on Monday night.  She was invited to be a part of it because of her good grades and doing so well in school. 

She is in the orange....kinda hard to see.

 Her three best friends are also new members of the Honor Society.  What amazing girls they are!

Katie, Alicia, Lauren and Oakley. I am so proud of her and her besties.  Congratulations girls!

A couple Funnies!

Last Friday I was headed into town when I got a text from Rhett's teacher.  I thought it was kind of weird to get one from her during the day and it made me a little nervous.  I laughed though when I opened it.  It read:

Your kid *Rhett* just did the SPLITS for us during show and tell!!!!!

When he tells people he can do the splits I think they are always a little amazed and blown-away that he REALLY can do the splits. :)  He usually jumps into them which makes it a little more dramatic too.  Ha, ha! It makes me laugh that that was his show and tell and that his teacher was so shocked by the fact he could actually do them that she text me!

 This is an old picture of it, but for those that haven't seen his trick here it is!

Everytime somebody new comes to gymnastics I hear them whispering about my boy that can do the splits.  It shocks most people.  We seriously have NO IDEA where he came from.  He did not get this from his parents thats for sure!!

Laiklie has been saying some strange things lately that crack me up.  On sunday she put on a pair of leggings after church that had a hole in the knee.  When I commented on them she saids, "Do you want to know what I call it?" Of course I said I wanted to know what she called the hole....she says, "THE FUTURE!" Very dramatic with arms and everything!:)

Yesterday I was cutting up an orange for her that came from Gramps and Grams Romrell in AZ (THANK YOU!!! Sooo yummy!) I cut the ends off and she asked if they needed to go to the garbage.  I said they did and she said, "no, I think I will keep them.  I will call them clammy!"  Ha, ha! Where does she come up with this stuff?  I found *clammy* on the floor awhile later and threw it away.  When she found out she was mad at me and told me that her and clammy were friends! :)What a crack-up!

Today I helped in her class with PE.  I help every week and have been avoiding teaching the kindergartners how to play dodge ball.  I knew it would be confusing for some of them.  I taught them today though and it was DEFINITELY a challenge to help them understand the game.  The very first time I said go and they ran to the center to get a ball one little boy named Ryan got hit and was out within the first couple seconds.  He cried and cried.  I kept telling him we would play another round but that he had to stop bawling.  The next round poor little Ryan was only in less than a minute before he got hit and was once again in tears.  Poor little dude! But....by the end of PE as they were lining up Ryan was next to Laiklie and I heard him tell her, "Your mom is the BEST MOM EEEVVVVEEERRR!!!" Laiklie kind of looked and me and grinned.  I thought it was so funny that a good game of dodge ball gives you best mom ever status!  Who knew?!

D on Ski's

Our elementary offers a skiing program each winter.  Dallin was old enough to try it out this year.  Oakley never wanted to do it - her friends didn't....therefore she didn't....you know how that works! :) So we are new to this.  Dallin wanted to try a snowboard at first and so the first week he snowboarded.  He didn't love the snowboard bunny hill combo, so the next week he wanted to ski.

 This is Dallin and his friend Nathan trying out the new ski's.  He ended up loving the skis and I don't think will go back to snowboarding until he is a little better.  One of the things I love about the program is that for the 1st two weeks they teach them a ski lesson.  It helped him learn the basics.  Yay! Because Ryan and I are NOT skiers and wouldn't even know where to start!

 Slow and easy at first.

And this was one of the last runs of the night.  Dallin is the black blurry spot on the left.  They got to where they would fly down that bunny hill.  They even found a little bump that they could catch a little air on.  Ha, ha! Boys!!