Cancelled church

We have had a cold and snowy winter. Usually we get a snowstorm, then it gets cold, and then we get a chinook and it gets warm and windy and melts the snow before the next storm. Not this winter. It keeps piling up. And we have had lots and lots of stormy days. We have had lots of basketball games and rodeos cancelled. One night they even closed the temple early and cancelled the play at the live theater.

There was a really bad storm on Saturday, February 17. We got dumped on through the night so both Cardston stakes cancelled church for Sunday. It was sunny by Sunday morning but people were snowed in.

We had our own little church after a morning nap.  We had lessons on the creation, the atonement, keys to happiness, our divine nature, and Carly had some poem/quotes she had created.

IF

If my pedal drops I need help because apart of me is missing.

I can fill it in with joy and 

LOVE

Laughing

Out of the bad crowd

Vector for helping others

Etonement

(she did realize she spelled atonement wrong)

My Heart
My heart feels good
My heart comes from Me
My heart makes me funny
and that why I've got some glee

Standing Out
I stand out
I am different but that is ok
because that makes me me
at least that what I say
Some love
Trust
A heart of joy
Not a bad person
Doing the right thing
Okay to be you
U having fun
Truth

Deep thoughts by Carly

practice like you have never won 

perform like you have never lost

  

well done is better than well said

Lucy's Basketball Season

Lucy's grade 7 girls basketball team improved so much by the end of the season. Kendall Hardy is a fantastic coach. Lucy's last regular season game was cancelled because of a snowstorm. 

They won their first game of the divisional playoffs. Their second game was postponed a day because of another snowstorm, and then they played Raymond and lost by 6 points. They were tied with 3 minutes left but didn't pull it off. 

Go Cougars!

Valentine's Day

It was a very snowy day for Valentines 2018. In fact, they let out school early and cancelled all basketball games, the play at the theater, and they even closed the temple early. We were actually glad to have a couple hours at home. 

Leavitt Community Association had planned a dinner and auction and that didn't get cancelled. Austin and I went to the dinner. I bid on a service call from Doug Baker Plumbing because he had already been at our house this week to help us with a clogged drain. 

I did the string maze and the girls had cookies and mints as their prize at the end of their string - except Hanna who can't eat cookies so she got dried mangos. Hanna was having a nap when the strings were ready so Carly woke her up so we could start. Hanna came upstairs and said that this better be freakin' awesome because she was not happy to be awake.

A boy at Austin's school donated $40 to buy a flower for girls at the high school. Austin decided every girl should get a rose, so the high school gave a flower to every girl. He also brought me home some roses. 

Hanna also got roses from her friend, Taylor Barfuss. The poor kid didn't time it very well because he went to give them to her in the gathering area, and Austin and Brad Sommerfeldt were standing nearby and gave him a hard time. It's not easy to have your dad as the high school principal.  Taylor had crashed his car earlier this week when he hit a snowdrift on the road to school. When Mr. Jensen saw Hanna with the flowers he asked her if they were from Crash. It's rough but a little bit funny.

Luther Invitation Tournament (LIT)

Both of the Cardston varsity basketball teams headed to Regina, Saskatchewan to the Luther Invitational Tournament. (Regina is 7 hours east of Cardston). They took a charter bus because school buses can't leave the province. We thought about riding the bus with the team, but Austin needed to be back on Sunday to be with the stake presidency at a ward conference on Sunday so we drove.

The first 3 hours of our drive were terrible. If I was alone, I would probably have turned around because of the snow storm. 

It was an amazing tournament. They had an opening pep rally, a Friday night skills competition, a Saturday morning breakfast banquet, and Saturday night closing ceremonies.

They had student committees from Luther to run the tournament - security, entertainment, banquet, odd jobs, announcers, scorekeepers, etc. They had a student assigned to each team who welcomed them, sat on the bench during their games, filled their water bottles, brought them oranges at half time, and brought them sandwiches after the game.  The girl assigned to Hanna's team cried when they went to say good-bye at the end of the tournament.

Hanna's team played against the Lebouldous Suns and won. Their second game was against Magrath. We drive 7 hours away and have to play against a team 20 miles away that we have played a million times. Magrath beat us and ended up winning the tournament. We ended up in third place after beating the Riffel Royals. 

The Cardston boys team ended up winning the tournament. Austin wanted to stay and watch, but we wouldn't have gotten home until almost 4 am. We watched the game online while we drove instead. We got home at 1 am. The bus made it safely home the next afternoon.

We did a 60-second visit to the Regina LDS temple. It was so cold.

Grade 11 teams

3rd place

Hanna's team with their student committee member who cried when they left.

Basketball, basketball, we love basketball

 Lucy & Hanna both had basketball tournaments this weekend.

Lucy played in Cardston. They won their first game, lost the second game, and won the third game. Her team is improving so much. Most of their games are really close, but they are starting to pull out the wins. Lucy got player of the game for her third game. Carly ran the clock for all of Lucy's games. She is actually really good at it. Her brain loves those kinds of things.

Hanna's tournament was in Calgary, so we missed her first two games. In the first game, it was really close, and her team won 61-60. Hanna made her two foul shots with less than a minute left in the game when her team was down by one.

Hanna got a pretty good shoulder to the head at her game last weekend in Medicine Hat that gave her a black eye, and her head has been hurting since. She sat out a few days of practice this week, and then it was starting to feel better. It starting hurting again after a shove in her first game this weekend, so she didn't play in the next two games of this tournament. It was killing her to sit on the bench. But luckily her team played their best two games and won the tournament.

Austin and I went on a double date with Neil & Hali Leishman to Calgary to watch the championship game. Plus the varsity boys were also in the championship game, but they didn't win their game. 

Basketball is a rough sport.