Lincoln Days

Over the weekend we celebrated Abraham Lincoln's birthday in our district by attending the annual Lincoln Days. It's a fun event we always look forward to. It's also a big Republican rally. The Governor, Senator, Congressman, Lt. Governor and other state leaders were in attendance again. The kids always enjoy seeing them every year. The state leaders are actually starting to remember the kids because so few kids participate.

This year Olivia was asked to sing again. She also sang the National Anthem last minute. See this post. Alex also spoke. He did great for his first "speech." He has gotten a lot of support. The governor pulled him aside afterwords and said if you want to use my name you have my full support. All the campaign managers of the state leaders have been so helpful. They are fun people! They are my favorite. They also remembered our family from last year. I taped Alex's speech. It's long so I only want to upload it once. I'm putting on his facebook page so look there for it soon.

Our family strongly believes in this country and the freedoms we have. We know it is our duty to stand up and fight for them. I'm grateful for great husband that understands this and leads our home in all things. God Bless the USA!

I don't know why I didn't get pictures of the kids with the state leaders this year?

We made Valentine's-I'm not even kidding.

Family Scripture Study: D & C 36
Weekly Family Scripture Memorization: John 3:16
Theology: "The Holy Ghost" from Gospel Principles.
Fantasy Read a loud: Read multiple chapters from Percy Jackson and the Sea Monsters.
Art: Shocking, but true, we made our valentines "boxes." Aren't I a genius? We put tin foil over our Halloween buckets and glued paper hearts on them. It wasn't even very painful. I didn't like it, but it wasn't painful.
Clubs: Today we had boys scouts and our 4-H meeting.

Caleb: Read his scriptures, did 10 plus pages in Explode the Code and finished the book, read two e-books on line at Raz-kids.com, learned about lizards, wrote a blog post about them,

Luke: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, read The Ranger's Apprentice to me for 30 minutes, walked on the treadmill, made lunch, read several books to Caleb, played ping pong, and worked on his story.

Jared: Read his scriptures, practiced the piano, read in Peter and the Shadow Thieves for 1 1/2 hours, and listened to Alex Rider #2 on tape for an hour.

Olivia: Read her scriptures, wrote in her journal, practiced the piano, practiced her vocal solo, finished The Great Little Madison, read in several American History books trying to find what she wants to read now, made breakfast, and made home made beef stew.

Deanna: Read my scriptures, wrote in my journal, read a conference talk, read in 7 habits of Highly Effective People, had a scout meeting, worked on stuff for 4-H (I'm the Clover Bud leader), walked on the treadmill for 45 minutes and played ping pong.

Alex: Read his scriptures, read in the church handbook, listened to a Ronald Reagen speech, had a meeting with his campaign adviser & the Regional chairman, ordered lawn signs, ordered his palm cards, listening to Percy Jackson #1, went to work, and played ping pong.