Fun February

Like January, February was fairly laid back.  In January it was nice because it was a break from a busy December but now it's February and it's getting a little old.  We need a little more excitement.

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Brigham wanted to wear his Hulk gear on our way to pick up Jonathan from Band.  I asked him to smile for me and he growled.

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The week after the Klondike Derby I mentioned in January the Scouts had their snow caves activity.  I didn't make Nathaniel go because I thought two weekends in a row sleeping in the snow was just a little much.  Jonathan went though, and he had a friend who is 11 and is able to go on three of the camp-outs this year and he picked this one.  That made me feel better.  Unfortunately, or fortunately, the snow was too powdery to make into snow caves so they hung out in the snow and then slept in a heated garage.  I'm glad he had fun, and I'm glad I got the snow camping activities over with and all the gear washed.

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I was super excited to see the new Provo City Center Temple but I procrastinated getting tickets and then I was worried there wouldn't be any.  I considered just showing up Friday afternoon with the boys but I didn't want to risk a long stand-by line.  So, when I heard they were releasing more tickets I decided to grab some whenever I could.  I decided to keep Brigham home from school and take the boys on a Wednesday.  I never take my boys out of school for things, but I just couldn't pass this up.

It was such a beautiful day, but still pretty chilly.

We didn't have to wait long before we were ushered into a room to watch a video on temples.  After that the wait was a little longer but once we actually got inside the temple it started moving okay.

When we got outside the boys noticed all the coins in the fountain and wanted to throw some in so I gave them each a penny.  Jonathan told me that he wished for Super Smash Bros. 4 for Wii U.

It took me forever to work up the courage to ask someone to take our picture, it's hard being shy sometimes.  I loved the temple, though.  It was so beautiful!  I loved how the woodwork was made to look like the tabernacle.  I loved the antiqued design.  I loved that they had the original pulpit in the chapel.  I loved the stained glass window of Jesus Christ.  I even loved the Victorian font of the exit signs.  I'm always nervous to bring the boys by myself to places with big crowds but they did great.  We even stopped at Wendy's on the way home for lunch.  It was a fun day.

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I was walking through our back hallway when I heard a weird hissing sound.  I looked around and realized that water was dripping from the ceiling and the carpet below was soaking wet.  This didn't make sense because there was no water source above that spot so I called my father-in-law over to take a look and he figured out that it was a leak in a pipe that was spraying up and hitting the underside of the floor and then dripping back down.  It's kind of hard to explain and pictures are even more confusing, but here is my FIL pulling down a soaking wet ceiling tile from the hallway.

He knew a plumber and the plumber was able to come over and fix it without too much trouble, thank goodness.

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This is kind of a funny picture, I know.  Remember all our pumpkin drama from last Fall?  Well, when it was time to toss them, Jonathan just couldn't do it, not when we had lost so many to dirty thieves.  So we put them in the backyard in our "garden" to let nature take it's course.  Well, I don't know if it's the paint or if it's because they were covered in snow for so long but they look like deflated pumpkin balloons.  I thought that was kind of funny.

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February was nice, maybe March will pick up the pace a little.