Art Class

This was our second year of doing the art class.  The kids were more focused on doing only a few of the activities over and over since they had tried all the others the year before.  The Moore's and the Stockwell's were a part of it this year.  Brayden and Kylee did the spinning pot class.  Julia and Blake really only focused on the weaving and Origami.  They didn't really care to do the other stuff.

Matt home

Matt came home on Sunday, January 22, Cynthia's birthday.  We ate dinner at the Herrera's and then ran to the airport.  With our signs we waited at the bottom of the escalator. Of course it felt like forever before he came.  Asher hugged him first, then he hugged all the kids.  Then, I got my hug and kiss from him.  We realized that while Matt was gone Brayden passed him up in height. It was great to have him back home again.  We went back to Cynthia's house so Matt could have some dinner.

Matt got a lot of souveniers and sent them home by flat rate box through the post office.  He most prized souvenier was a jade lion that he bought for? I was teasing him about it and even put him to sleep on Matts side of the bed. 

Candy Factory

The older kids went on a tour of the candy factory.   I was happy that Julia made the cut of older kid that could go.  They thought it was really neat and they came home with prized candy bags.

They watched how they made fruit snacks with Bible quotes on them.   We stuffed our pants with defective jelly beans.  Huge containers of concrete mixers with Jelly Beans all separated by colors.  They watched them be made and put in packages.  There was a trash can full of defective bags of fruit snacks.  Brayden said that they weren't really defective, they just had the print cut off on the package.  He saw all the defective ones in a trash can and was tempted to scoop them up and put them in his pocket.  On the way home they had no water and they were dying because they had eaten a lot of candy.  They came home with Goody bags filled with candy. 

We heard the neat thing to watch is when they make candy canes, but they weren't doing those that day.