All the People in This Family

Eva

• Is in third grade
• Isn’t exactly a model student
• Is, like, three years behind in reading and math
• Is so stubborn and committed to her craft. As an example, here is a photo I took of her after we asked her to clean her room, and she screamed in this position for half an hour because she got “stuck” while making her bed:

My suggestion that she just pull her arms out was met with much crying

• Takes dance class and is dancing to “Zero to Hero” in the spring concert
• Is a chatterbox
• Loves going to the events formerly known as "Activity Days," which we all still call “Activity Days.”
• Says “No, thanks!” anytime we ask her to do something
• Likes us to blow dry her hair at night
• Always wants to play outside, but she wants us to go with her, we we have to take turns bundling up and going out to watch her roller skate/swing/jump on the trampoline/ride her bike
• Does cartwheels all the time
• Has a bit of a potty mouth
• Gets really hyper at night
• Refuses to brush her teeth (we have to fight her)
• Leaves a trail of messes everywhere she goes

Zoe

• Is in 5th grade
• Is causing me the most worry right now
• Is always full of big ideas (this week she asked if she could rewrite her school song)
• Is obsessed with Groundhog Day
• Had to get some immunizations recently and is horrible with shots
• Has anger issues
• Yells a lot
• Loves AJR and Imagine Dragons
• Has been suffering from a broken heart all school year because the boy she loves doesn’t like her anymore
• Participated in Lego League and is going to State

District Lego League competition last Saturday

• Does the school choir
• Always wants to try new things and is currently asking for violin lessons and to join a hockey team (she also wants to quit everything after she starts)
• Is my only kid that reads (and she’s still behind benchmark in reading)
• Is obsessed with YouTube and being famous (drives me nuts)
• Fights with Eva constantly (drives me nuts)
• Has a very hard time making friends
• Was Alexander Hamilton in the 5th grade wax museum and performed a very dramatic monologue

I made her costume from DI finds and felt

• Is in Young Women now and seems to like it, but I think she’s too young
• Did baptisms for the dead for the first time a few weeks ago

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Daisy

• Is in the process of registering for high school
• Had her first boyfriend and breakup 
• Tried out for the high school dance ensemble and made it
• Is choreographing a dance for the junior high spring concert 
• Is playing Ariel in Footloose (she is 5’7” and the boy playing Ren is 4’11”. Have you ever heard of anything more “junior high” in your life?)
• Pretty much hates everything to do with church and is fetching a fit that I’m making her participate in a stake youth choir
• Sings all the time… unless she’s at stake youth choir
• Loves Winnie the Pooh right now

Daisy in her Pooh gear in front of Pooh ride

• Says she wants to be a chiropractor (I don’t know if she actually knows what that is, but at least she’s thinking about the future)
• Tells me every little injury and every little pop of her joints that happens EVER. If her ankle pops while walking to class, I hear about it. If a butterfly lands on her too hard, I hear about it.
• Is boy crazy
• Is wrapped up in a lot of drama with friends. Sigh…

Nicky

• Is never home
• Works two nights a week
• Stays after school everyday for something… ceramics, theatre, swim team, tennis team, girls… I don’t even know
• Went to Sweethearts with his friend Sofie and wore all white. I tried everything I could to help him not look like a temple worker
• Likes going to the El Rancho Grande food truck
• Is on seminary council and stake youth council and is the second assistant in the priests quorum
• Loves working with special ed students at school and is planning on participating in Unified Theatre and Unified Sports next year

Scotty

• Donates plasma twice a week 
• Is looking forward to Brocation even though we are mad at Disneyland
• Would go to bed at 8:30 every night if he could (instead, he goes to bed at 8:45)
• Has a new boss at work
• Had to work out of a different building while his office was being renovated and just moved back
• Likes to spy on all the neighbors

Scotty in his spying spot

Britt (also known as me)

• Was just called to be on the stake girls camp committee
• Got a part-time job (which is why all of my posts lately are lists)

and since I talk about myself incessantly here on the blog, that's really all there is that's new.