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We missed a week again, however, given our current rate or posting, posting twice in three weeks is pretty good, so I am not going to complain.  Last week I don't remember anything interesting happening except for us all being sick in various degrees. Being sick sucks. I found a picture Alison took last week - here it is. This week the kids had off of school for spring break. They mostly played games and visited with people. Timmy, Mike, Logan, and Dustin have been playing multiple games of D&D recently in their campaign. Dustin's character (Vlad) just got turned into a werewolf (he wanted to, since it is a character concept for him). Timmy has been building a big skeleton mech unit to carry Skipper around. Skipper is a NPC party member who mostly just exists so that Mike has an easier time doing the math, since all of the math in the game is made for a team of 4 party members. On Saturday the kids were invited over to grandpa Mike and grandma Sheila's house for a ...

Timmy attempted to voice to text this blog post, since we have not posted in so long. Here is what he produced:  "This week was saltcon week I don't remember where was also I can play I Believe. And so when we got to so can we painted minis and people finding and I got to Nuke toothless and then we had to go back home and that's how we can there you go." So now, we haven't posted since mid February and it's now March so we are deeply behind on our blog posting. I don't think it would be reasonable to attempt to remember everything that happened in that time period, so I'm just going to give a few highlights.  It has been unusually warm, so we have been going canoeing in the Jordan River. We also got a big pile of wood chips for our front yard, and we have spread those around a lot. Hopefully this will prevent our yard from growing lots of weeds.  Mike has been sick with covid or something for about a month, and everyone else is also sort of feeling sic...

Alison was recently asked if she was planning to teach a new class next semester in the same teaching co-op that she is currently teaching in. She would like to teach, however, she hasn't yet put too much thought into it, so she is now starting to try to figure out what to teach. Mike and Rea were sick for multiple days this last week. Both of them are pretty good about wearing masks, so probably they didn't pass it on to anyone, however, it is hard to know for sure. Some of the kids went to the Dalyas on Wednesday instead of going to nature group like usual. One can only assume that they had a fun time, however, they are not here to confirm or deny that right now. On Friday Alison and Mike went to see The Importance of Being Earnest. The Sandy arts guild was putting it on, and they did a pretty good job of it. We really love to play and go to see it every chance that we can get, so we might not be likely to call it horrible, but that being said we still thought it was fun.  Sa...

This week was very exciting in the video game community; there was a new update for Terraria! Mike, Tim, Gideon, and cousin Logan spent a lot of hours exploring the new rules of the world. If you want to talk to any of them, they would be happy to tell you about how stacking whips no longer works or the trick to sand blocks or some other things I've forgotten by now. The Terraria update was on Tuesday, so that was the main thing going on for a few days. Oh, before that, on Monday Elsa's school had a Literacy Night, and she and Mom went and read some books and did some activities and got given a few free books. Elsa got Pete the Cat and the New White Shoes, which she was very excited about. Her school lets her track when we read together online for prizes. Friday the Elders Quorem hosted a ward Pinewood Derby. The kids were soo excited. There's a sister in the ward known for decorating, and she painted her car like Pikachu, organized all the kids to cheer for her, and won th...

We noticed we haven't written a blog post in a little while. Alison sums it up thus: we were sick and then sick and then sick and then sick and then sick and now we are finally getting better.  Here are some good things that we did recently: We went to the zoo. Timmy really wants to go back, so it must have been fun. We played another RPG session with Chauncey and Becky. The highlight of the session was as we were trying to escape the evil ruler of the city in a boat on the water we accidentally summoned the fish of the hills (which is a cryptozooid which my character invented as a cover story for why we were hanging around the town). Apparently something that matched the description that I came up with actually existed in the river, so when we sang a song about it we summoned it and it ate the bad guy who was chasing us.  It was rather entertaining, and a perfect ending to the session.

Well, we missed a week again, but here we are now, so that isn't too bad all things considered. The biggest thing that happened this week has been Christmas. We have been preparing for and celebrating Christmas. On Christmas day the kids woke up around 7 and we opened stockings and then presents. We spent the most of the day playing with them. Elsa made some figurines out of the modelling clay that we got, which were very good. Alison tried to get pictures of everyone with their christmas gifts, but most of the kids were having too much fun to play along. The girls are finally done acting in the Frightmare Before Christmas. They had a lot of fun, and invited their friends to see it one night with the two free tickets that they each got. Mike and Rea have succeeded in their monthly temple baptisms goal. It was difficult at times, however, they always were able to make time to do it, so they will be having a goal day party for it soon. One night we went over to the Brown's house ...