The Blur That Was January-March

In between sicknesses we did have some exciting events this January-March.

In January Liberty had her Winter dance recital.  She lucked out and got to have two of her Aunts come watch!

Levi made his last Blue and Gold Banquet cake, the Olympic Half Pipe,

And his/our very last Pinewood Derby!  Three boys = NINE derbies all together. 

At the Boise State STEM day Cade made this awesome creation.  

Levi LOVES science and when he begged his good friend to loan him his microscope, I decided it was time to buy our own.  You would have thought it was Christmas morning.  No sooner had we brought it home then he went downstairs and looked at all 20 slides.  

I came in one day to find Levi's bed made this way:

We had presidential pancakes on President's Day

Caderade made the school team for the Math Counts Competition this year.  His team won 2nd at the Chapter competition and...

3rd at State!

Levi finished a huge project and presentation on Louis Pasteur at school.  He did a great job on his presentation!  I was glad to get those two bottles of pasteurized chicken broth off my counter after a whole month.  

Our  sweet neighbor down the street made Liberty some beautiful doll clothes for her American Girl Doll and she has been dressing her up as a mini me.

Love this girl.

That's what we've been up to.  

Stay tuned for Spring Break 2018!

Quarantined

News Bulletin:
This blog could not be brought to you this winter due to the NEVER ENDING sickness that has befallen the Hymas household.  They have been quarantined until further notice. 

This is what I should have posted a month ago but couldn't because I was too busy taking care of sick children and sick husbands. (just one husband) Rock really set the tone for our year with his trip to the ER on January 1st.  We haven't had any more emergency room visits or rides in the ambulance but we have had at least one child and often more than one child home sick from school since the day they went back after Christmas break.  Just when I think I've got them all better, someone else comes down with something.  And Rock and I have not escaped unscathed either.  Since the middle of December we have had the flu-diarrhea style, the flu-stomach style, the flu-fever and aches style, pink eye, sinus infection, pink eye (Rock had it twice), colds, hives, coughs that will not go away, runny noses, congestion, soar throats, a pulled hamstring (Reagan from track) and to finish it all off (I Hope!) Rock has been sick for three weeks with Bronchitis and is now on the mend. I have started to feel like I am keeping a Petri dish instead of keeping house. The nurse at the elementary school and I are on a first name basis and I swear she thinks I'm neglecting my children. If I have to see the school name on my caller ID one more time I will shoot myself, if the nurse doesn't first.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised.  Our family has always been very healthy and we haven't had to deal with much sickness.  The kids are now all finally back at school.  And every day that I wake up with no one else sick I praise the Lord above. 

News Bulletin:
We now return you to our regularly scheduled blog.  :-)