Weekend Getaway

At the first of the month, we decided to take the kids on a quick weekend getaway. I am SO slow at posting so I'm basically a month behind. Anyway, initially our plan was Vegas but found out that on that particular weekend, the weather was going to be the same as it was here. So off to Park City it was! Here's a bunch of pictures we took.

First we spent a couple hours at Jungle Jims before heading up the mountain

Took the kids on a train ride. . . btw-not as fun as we expected.

Kids in front of the train before the ride.

Aren't we cute? Jada took the picture. .not bad photographer skills, eh?

Me trying to take a pic of Jace and I together.

Rusty being silly

I'm thoroughly enjoying having my pic taken, can you tell?

Our last night in PC. In a Mexican restaurant waiting for our food after a fun swim in the hotel pool. The kids could have swam for hours!

Patio Prep

Here are some pics of Rusty doing the prep work for the back porch.

Here is Rusty pulling the steps away from the house (he's using some machine that he uses for digging when he's at work-they call it a dingo)

Jace, just chillin.

Here he is pushing the concrete pad that the builder poured, away from the foot of the back steps

Jada was inside helping with her baby cousin, Bryson

Rusty and Jason leveling out the dirt. . or whatever it is they did to get it ready to pour

Jace standing below the back door where the steps used to be.

Parent Teacher Conference

I met with Jada's teacher for p/t conf a couple of weeks ago. Her teacher handed me an evaluation paper for Jada that had a few different boxes where she included her comments.

In the box labeled- Areas for Improvement she wrote:

Jada likes to help people but sometimes she can go a bit overboard. She likes to tell other students the answers instead of letting them do their own work.

I mean, come on, can you really get mad at her for that? It could be so much worse, right? Her teacher said that she felt like that Jada really was genuinely trying to help her classmates. However, she had tried to explain to her that they needed to learn the material for themselves-that she wouldn't always be there to give them the answers.

I could definitely share in her teacher's frustration. She is the same at home with Jace--constantly mothering him and 'helping' him, when I don't necessarily need her help.

I figured that if this was the worse thing that her teacher had to say about her, we shouldn't worry too much?

However, she kind of IS a little miss know it all. . .