Bryan & Julene family February updates

Just a little note about this post . . . As I was doing some administrative activities on the Blog, I noticed that our post was saved to draft and never got published. So, here is our February updates. March is still coming. Bet you can hardly wait.

Christopher-

Started teaching a boy trumpet lessons at the elementary school. He is a kid with behavioral problems and the school they were looking for a volunteer to work (supervised) with this boy. Christopher was the only one to volunteer and is doing a great job. It's great to know that he will do great things even when we aren't pushing him in the right direction.

Maygan-

Had more hula performances, continues to practice for math is cool, loves to make bead projects. Finshed playing basketball and had a great time.

Hyrum-

Is a great basketball defender. He makes really great faces when he is defending.

Emily-

Story of the month. Emily saw a lady smoking up on a landing of a building. She asked me (mom), if I saw the "witch" up there. She had to cover her nose the whole time while we were in the area. She told me that she doesn't like witches. So the lesson is don't smoke if you don't want to become a witch.

Bryan & Julene

We went to Mexico to belatedly celebrate our anniversary and to visit the Bickmores who are serving as the temple president and matron at the Veracruz, Mexico temple. We went to the pyramids and Bryan designed a t-shirt that he wants to have made. It reads, "I got burned and the Temple of the Sun." Julene will not be allowed to wield the sun screen stick again, as she ended up drawing a "W" or possibly an "M" on my forehead when the burn set in.

We loved having lots of time to read, play games and speak Spanish. We got to go to a fun parade and had even more fun trying to leave the parade early. We also visited the site of the Cinco de Mayo battle. The Veracruz temple is just like the Spokane temple. It was wonderful to get to know the people there.

This is a picture of us in what is supposedly the first home of Hernan Cortes in the new world. Notice the tree roots growing up through the walls.