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We have traveled to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science we can't even count.  With a 4 day weekend right before our annual membership expired, we headed down for another trip.  Other than finding a fake anaconda added to one of the exhibits, we felt like we had seen it all.  So at lunch time we headed to the nearest Good Times drive through and went over to the Denver Art Museum to see the traveling Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit.  It did not disappoint! It was pretty exciting to see the real costumes but I thought all the little details about costume inspiration was even more interesting.  Examples include Han Solo coming from the Old West gunslinger days, the Empire's coming from Nazi uniforms, Darth Vader being based on Samurai. After showing Hubby some of the places we enjoyed on our last visit, the children got to practice making their own costumes before heading home. One thing about long weekends is w...

One of the things I get to do is attend Activity Days with K.  The Valentine activity was quite clever and enjoyable.  An act of service the girls did was to make hearts and walk down the street to heart attack the bishop's front door.  It was made even more fun due to the sheet of frozen rain that turned the sidewalk into an ice rink! Progress at 100 mile club:  M hit the 50 mile mark and D hit the 75.  I took this picture right before Hubby took him to his district Klondike activity.  It was unusually warm and windy and he seemed to have a good time but was even more excited to work on his first pinewood derby car after he got home. While Hubby and D were at the Klondike, we girls picked up Grandpa and headed to the Girl Scout day at the CSU basketball game.  I hadn't been there since watching my sister-in-law's sister-in-law play volleyball there over a decade ago.  This was their first college sporting event and their favorite...

The idea of a new year really got my elementary children thinking.  They kept making funny jokes about how it had been a whole year since they had slept and there was no arguing with them to tell them, no, that was yesterday.   (:     In January we got in our annual trip to the ice rink... our youngest graduated from nursery and became a Sunbeam.  Since it was New Year's Day and many families were out of town, only about half of the primary was there, which worked out perfectly for all the changes that happened that day.  N's favorite outfit to wear to church is her C-3PO dress from Walt Disney World with a navy blue cardigan and tights.  I suggested she only wear it every other Sunday so her other dresses could have a turn. (:  the neighborhood children contemplated licking the light pole like they had seen in Christmas Story (thank you, VidAngel) before  we got to remember what -13 degrees felt like... D earned enough money s...