Sierra's POL

Yesterday was Sierra's Presentation and I am so very proud of her! She completely did the whole thing herself, I did not help her. She worked with her friend, Karlie. Their class all had medical journals and they learned and studied about the digestive system, circulatory system, and the respiratory system. They all had a patient named Harriet. They were told of her symptoms and needed to determine what her ailment was. Sierra decided after careful consideration that she had Tuberculosis. She drew a poster and was very descriptive about why they had come to the conclusion that Harriet had Tuberculosis. They had a script and dressed up as doctors and decorated their area in the cafeteria at COC as a doctors office. They had the very best presentation, I listened to several presentations and they didn't even compare. At the end the teachers announced what Harriet had and...Sierra got it right! She was so excited! They had a constant flow of people at their station. One of the teachers came to them afterwards and said he was so sorry that he missed theirs cause he kept hearing how great it was! Congrats Sierra, all your hard work paid off! Luv u!!!!

Sierra and Karlie had a lateover at our house and me and Ashton played games, Scooby Doo and Connect 4, he kept beating me at Scooby Doo and I kept beating him at Connect 4. Then we cuddled and watched a little bit of TV, Ashton is a cuddler. Sierra was sad when we wanted to take Karlie home at 10:00, but I'm tired, I want to go to bed and they are still only 11. A great start to our Spring Break! :)

Busy Busy

I'm done with school for the semester and there is still no time...

Monday...exercise, Christmas shopping, work, Ashton karate, a quick dinner and then off to his first basketball practice

Tuesday...help in Ashton's class, work, shopping with Janelle to find Sierra a Christmas present, quick dinner, caroling with the youth

Wednesday...running, Christmas shopping, Ashton's karate, dinner, babysit Melanie-took Sierra with me and we cuddled on their couch and watched tv together while Melanie just slept

Thursday...Presidency meeting, Christmas shopping, work, Sierra to Activity Days-they went caroling to the assisted care retirement center-she was having a bad day and didn't want to go but I told her she needed to, that it would make her feel better to serve. When I picked her up she was SO happy, told me that she got to sing Silent Night in German by herself. :) Then we ran home and quickly got supplies needed for Sierra's presentation of learning. Off we went, back to school.

 Her presentation was on the sun. When I first got into the MPR she pulled me outside and needed to talk to me, she was in tears and totally stressed out. She said her group wasn't doing anything, they hadn't from the beginning, she made the model of the sun out of clay...she made the brochure, brought the heater, the lemonade and cups, she even brought the sunglasses for the boy in her group. I told her teacher that Sierra needed help. Her teacher then ended up talking to Sierra and then to her group and they stepped up and helped Sierra present the information, so she wasn't doing everything by herself. Her teacher is amazing, Sierra completely turned around and was herself again. She was happy and did such a great job presenting the information she learned about the sun.

 Jake left early with Ashton and got us dinner so when Si and I got home dinner was waiting for us. YAY, cause we were famished! Made lots and lots of chocolate chip cookies for Ashton's holiday party.
Friday...Holiday Party's! Sierra wore her adorable snowman shirt, Ashton got to wear his jammies,

 I wore my jammies too!

Took kids to school and then went to Megan W's house to help wrap gifts for the YW, their Christmas gifts. Back to school, helped with Ashton's party and ate yummy food! After school we were home for about an hour, listened to a message on the answering machine-Sierra entered an Art contest for the city-she was placed in the top 20 in her age catagory out of 800 entries!! and then off to take Ashton to Ramsey's birthday party. While at the party me and Sierra went shopping.

Tonight we had dinner with my dad and Tori, Sophi, Rich and family at PC's. Yum!

Life is busy!