Sunshine, Snow-days, Sexual Education Class, Toastmasters Public Leadership & Speaking Workshop, speeches, coffee, sleepovers, book clubs, dance performances...
Churros in the sun.
Notice the complete lack of snow!
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Teaching OWL class on sexual education.
The focus of this class was on STI transmission and familiarizing with various forms of contraception.
A probability exercise/demonstration on the chances of getting an STI.
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Coffee dinosaur
Fun with 3-D printing.
And eating froggy cones.
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Another Toastmasters workshop!
Miss 1 presiding as president.
Miss 2's speech on neuroscience.
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Sleep-over & Science Saturday!
Pizza!
Yum...
Sleepover, coupled with the Science Saturday at the U of U, in the morning!
Science Saturday was a half-day workshop put on the the medicine department at the UofU to familiarize 5-12 students with the wonderful world of medical science.
Comes with breakfast...
... hands-on workshops & videos...
...And lunch!
Afterwards, olders went off to explore the city.
Meanwhile, the sleepover shenanigans continued on with post-workshop pastries.
<3
... And running around the backyard...
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Another playdate.
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Another month, another book club at our local library.
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Ducky would like you to do a "Happy"-"Dance".
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Out on the town.
Post wellness check-up gelatos..
Another day, another Boba tea.
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The snow returns.
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Another Toastmasters meeting.
I love how each class has a different layout of seats.
Miss 2, new presiding president.
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Sisterly hug!!!
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Dance performance time!
The teens of Miss 3's dance troupe.
Practicing their ribbon dance on stage.
Meanwhile in the backrooms, Miss 3's troupe practices.
Culture Night up at Weber State U.
Their turn up, marking their dance on stage.
Practice time was short.
Back stage rooms.
Since the practice time for Miss 3's troupe on the stage was abbreviated, and there was so much room back stage, I decided to reconstruct the size and shape of the actual stage.
I hunted down some tape, marked the corners and middle with tape.
That way they can get a good feel for the size of the stage.
Here they are practicing on their backstage "stage".
Meanwhile, the olders are tending to their makeup.
One last chance to mark out the dance before actual performance.
My attempt at stage makeup with Miss 3.
Not bad.
I think that I can go older with the colors, next time.
Down-time, as they wait backstage.
Waiting their turn, watching the first act.
Hanging out with the olders.
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Reviewing how to chain my front tires, shoveling more snowed-in sidewalks, sprouting wheatgrass, painting wooden dolls peg dolls, more knitting in the waiting room, rolling snow balls, more speech making, baking!
More snow.
I put this chain on myself.
Hooray.
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Another day, another OWL sexual education workshop.
This one is lead by my esteemed co-facilitator!
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Back at home, magic-time (MoDo) time can be something as simply magical as coloring.
More shoveling.
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One week of intense wooden doll painting.
Catalana Chicken.
Wooden doll.
Backyard snow.
Rolling and building a snow-bunny.
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Wooden dolls.
Turtle.
Zombie.
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That time of year again.
Starting/sprouting wheatberries.
The wheatberries like to cluster upon initial exposure to water.
It is best to stir.
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Painting wooden dolls is crazy fun.
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This particular knitting pattern, I only work on in waiting rooms.
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At home, practicing her speech for Toastmasters.
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Setting up a mini-field for robotics testing.
Off season robotics work.
Testing, coding, running.
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For Badger Home Evening?
Chocolate cake.
Yes please.
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Sprouts are marking time, making progress.
Miss 3 practicing her speech for Toastmasters.
We love our Poppin Cookin.
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And I love my coffee art.
Coffee Bunny.
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Ran into a old art-school classmate!
<3
Miss 1 continues to perfect her speech.
On snake oil.
;)
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Meanwhile, more snow.
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Thinking Easter/Spring thoughts, sprouting those sprouts, finishing up our Toastmaster Leadership & Public Speaking workshop, finishing up the last of the wooden dolls, snow-Frappuccino's, yet more snow shoveling, onto Pysanky, decorating chocolate egg dioramas, caramel popcorn...
3-D printed dinos, contemplating Easter.
The sprouts are nearly ready to plant.
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Final workshop for the Toastmaster Youth Leadership Workshop
The students present speeches in front of the greater audience of our sponsoring professional Toastmasters Club!
Miss 3 with her speech on Saving Our Oceans.
Miss 1, with her speech on "Buy My Snake Oil".
Afterward, lunch!
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Back at home.
Mangos.
We like to draw on our food, upon occasion.
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Painted Wooden Dolls
The culmination of a week+ work.
This is my idea of a good vacation time spent: project time.
Frogs from left to right:
Lipstick False Poison Dart frog, Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Blue and Yellow Poison Dart Frog
My Piggies
My hummingbirds:
Ruby-throated, Rofous-tailed
My bodacious bovine:
American bison, Guernsey, Holstein, Scottish Highland Yak, Water Buffalo
My bunnies
Nar
Chickens: Bantam & Catalana
Sheep!
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So much snow.
Snow means Snow-Frappacinos!
By Miss 1.
Meanwhile, spring is here.
Let's color.
Yum, chocolate Frappacino.
More shovelling.
Meanwhile the squash plants that my littles decided to start in the middle of December continue to grow.
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Pysanky week.
Now that the wooden dolls are finished, we move on to Pysanky.
Wax, dip.
Wax, dip.
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Time to plant the sprouted wheat.
Experiment:
avocado chocolate mousse for Badger Home Evening dessert.
Conclusion: worth a try, but we are not fans.
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More Pysanky.
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The snow continues.
We have at least 20", maybe 2 feet.
And she found this cool icicle.
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Digging out the front steps.
And enjoying the snowy backyard.
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Pysanky is not without its heartbreak.
The sprout-lings are growing well.
Our resident caramel corn maven.
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Easter Egg Dioramas.
As per request.
I cast the eggs.
I mixed up the frosting.
I mixed up the marshmallow fondant.
And let them have at it.
My invitation to create.
Tired, but happy.
Down on the farm!
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Junior Achievement Biz Town (a business workshop) with Miss 3, and a end of Toastmaster's Workshop Celebration at Classic Fun Center! (What a Friday!!!)
Junior Achievement Biz Town Fieldtrip for Miss 3!
Checking into JA Biztown as a volunteer.
the view from town square.
Miss 3 was going to "work" at a local petroleum company.
I'm one of the volunteer parent fasciliators.
Town center, with all the participating homeschoolers.
So much excitement!
The inside of the power company: Rocky Mountain Power.
The whole Marathon crew.
Miss 3 hard at work.
A worker visiting from Rocky Mountain Power, making the rounds, changing the air filters.
The view outside of Marathon Energy.
Miss 3 cashing her first paycheck at the local bank.
Lunch break.
There's even a Smiths Marketplace!
You only have two breaks to handle all of your paycheck depositing, errands, purchasing, and philanthropy.
The local medical supply company supplies Smarties.
The company CEO giving the final company meeting.
Leaving Biz Town, crossing the bridge to metaphorically return from "adulthood" back to "childhood".
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\After JA Biz Town, we had an hour of down time before we jetted over to Classic Fun Center for a Celebration of completing our 8-week Toastmasters Youth Leadership Workshop.
Congratulations to all of our students!
Great job!
