Team Steenblik

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Christmas Sing-a-long

Megan's class sang a Noel song...she did awesome!

Josh's class sang a new song I had never heard before. A song about zebra's pulling Santa's sleigh. He did a great job!

Allie sang the beloved JINGLE Bells. She sang out loud and proud. I was a proud mama!

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Tyler had his first choir concert at the Jr. High. Margie was able to come and support with our family.
Tyler did such a good job. I was a little worried that he would get nervous and not be able to sing like he would like to. But he had no problems at all. He sang out loud and proud! He moves around when he sings and feels the music.
Besides singing in all the mixed choir songs he also sang in a trio. He sang "Carol of the Bells" with two other girls. It was a hard and fast song and they did a good job. They were the only group that projected their voices and we heard them very well.
Tyler insisted he wear his suit and he looked very nice. The only other kid in a suit was his friend Austin. They sang by each other for most the concert and did a good job. His friend Katie looked super cute too. Tyler and Katie matched in blue. They all did so good and it was so fun for us to see Tyler perform and we are so proud of him.

Megan's Big Trip to Texas

Megan and Lydia are the bestest of friends. They have missed each other so much since Lydia's family moved to Texas.
Margie and Lloyd were planning on flying to Texas for Lydia's baptism and Nate and Amy thought it would be such a great idea to surprise Lydia with having Megan fly with grandma and grandpa to their house.

We agreed and we planned for her to go with grandma, grandpa, and aunt Suzanne for the baptism.
The night before they were to leave I took Megan to tumbling and after tumbling I took her to Margie's. I told her grandma wanted a special sleepover with her. At first Megan didn't want to stay but she quickly changed her mind and was excited for her special sleepover.

Suzanne went to Margie's late that night and so the next morning Margie told Megan that they needed to drop Suzanne off somewhere before they took her to school.

They went to the airport and parked and then asked Megan where they were...she knew she was at the airport. They asked what do you do at the airport? She said...go on an airplane...and they asked if she wanted to go on an airplane and go see Lydia get baptized?

Megan said she couldn't go because she had school. Grandma told her that mom said she could miss school and go to Texas. She was not too sure about that and wanted to get back in the car to go to school. But once they showed her the special Mickey suitcase I packed for her she perked right up and was so excited to go.
She loved going in the airplane. She got to sit by the window and when the plane was taking off she put her hands up in the air like it was a roller coaster. Suzanne said she did great on the airplane and that she loved it.

Once they got to Texas they rented their car and then went to Nate and Amy's house. The kids were all there waiting for their visitors to come. Amy recorded when Megan was at the door and Lydia answered. Lydia was so happy and couldn't stop jumping up and down. It was such a fun thing to see. Then they went off to play like no time had past.
They got to do tons of fun things while they were there. They started off Saturday with Lydia's baptism. It turned out perfect and Megan loved seeing her get baptized.

After the baptism they went and did some fun things around their town. They went to see a water feature place and then they saw a big Christmas tree. They had so much fun together the whole weekend. I was told they just played and played. They had a magical time together and it was awesome for everyone.

I was kind of bummed that I wasn't able to go with Megan for her first flight and to see the surprise of her and Lydia but Margie, Suzanne, and Amy did a great job of taking pictures and videos to share with us. She now loves flying on airplanes and wants to go on more far away trips in an airplane. She had a magical time. She is one lucky girl!

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

First Big Snow Fall of the Season

It snowed yesterday a few inches and then it snowed more this afternoon and it is currently still snowing. The kids wanted to go play in the snow. Tyler tried to start an igloo and Megan managed to make a small snowman. Josh and Allie liked making snow angels. It is fun watching them play in the snow from the warmth of the house.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Fall Piano Recital

It was that time again for Tyler and Josh to have another piano recital. They both did very good.
Josh remembered to stop in between each of his songs for us to clap. Neither of them looked at us in between songs. They both memorized their songs and did great. We are so happy we found this teacher and got the boys into lessons. They both enjoy playing and are progressing nicely.

BYU Football Game

A couple in our ward (the Barker's) gave us a couple tickets to the BYU football game. We weren't sure if we should go because Margie was out of town and so it would be Tyler in charge for a long time.
We talked to Tyler and he said he would do it so we said Woohoo and got the tickets. We didn't have too hard a time finding a parking spot and then we walked to the stadium.

We decided to walk around and get some game day shirts and some dinner before we went to our seats.
After we got those things we found our seats and enjoyed watching the Cougars play some football. We walked around the whole stadium during half time and then got a Cougar Tail doughnut. It was a fun game. They won but the other team put up a good fight.

After the game Tony wanted some ice cream from the BYU creamery so we tried the location close to the stadium but they closed right before we got there. So we went to the one that is a couple blocks away. It was super busy so we just bought a quart of ice cream and ate some of it in the car on our drive home. It was a fun night and we were super happy that we were able to go.