Monday was President's Day! Nobody had school so we used the chance to have a Family activity--married kids attendance required! Ha ha! I want us to have at least one every month. January we had our virtual family campout with Megan in charge. Beth wanted to come up with the idea this month and her choice was an Escape Room! I found one that you could download and do from home. We pretended to be travelers on a space ship that was attacked by space pirates. We were locked in the cargo room and had to find a way to get the computer back online so we could open the doors. If we didn't, then the outside doors would open and blast us into space--dead! Luckily, we managed to work together, complete the puzzles, and escape with 15minutes to spare. We are a pretty amazing group.

Then it snowed. I feel like it snowed every day all day long but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that bad. Still, we had a lot of snow. Ben invited Eden and Max over on Wednesday for sledding. They did sled (Beth joined the group, too) but they also made a pretty epic snow fort, too. They spent two hours out in the snow! Luckily, no one lost any fingers or toes but they did hurt when they came back inside!

Cali and Chey also had snow adventures. They went to the park with their friends to play Ultimate Frisbee while it was snowing. Crazy kids! In the end, they made a snowman instead and they even got one of their friends to stand on top. That is very crazy.

In addition to all the fun snow activities, Calianne worked at Funfinity twice this week, and Chey and Cali both worked basketball games for city rec. They only had one day of tennis and I think that was a nice break. They also had ACT prep with their friends and on Saturday night had an all-girl Valentine's party complete with homemade, heart-shaped pizzas, Valentine mailboxes, and of course, Valentine cards with candy. Cali planned the whole thing and it looked like everyone had a great time!

On Saturday evening, our friend, Brinlee, got married. Yay Brinlee! The twins, Beth, and I helped at the reception. It was fun to see friends! Afterwards, we took Beth's friends, Siena and Macy home with us and they had a late night of fun.

Saturday morning, Beth and Ben had a practice belt test. They worked hard from 9am to 1pm. That karate is serious stuff! The least I could do was take them to McDonald's afterwards. They both had adult-sized meals and gobbled them up. They needed some sustenance!

Savannah also had a party with friends this week! She invited over a bunch of girl friends. They played games and talked. They had fun. I think it was good for all of them.

Kevin had an intensive this week and he said it was really hard. Poor guy. This week he speaks in church today, is the keynote for a conference in the Middle East Tuesday morning, and will do another intensive for work.

I started my next book and got four chapters done. I also put myself on a schedule to train for a 5K! So, I ran three times this week. It almost killed me.

We watched the church's Friend to Friend this afternoon. It inspired Beth to do some more drawing. Here is one of her pictures: