Bike the Bear

 Stetson just went with his scout troop to Garden City for the weekend and biked 50 miles all the way around Bear Lake. They also slept over night up there and the high was 58 degrees. It was a little cold. Stetsons good friend Kade was his buddy as they road around the Lake. I guess Kade thought that his jacket would be too much weight and so as they started out he didn't want to wear it. Even though it was nearly 35 degrees.  Not many miles into the event Kade started to stop responding to Stetson questions and Stetson could tell that Kade was getting really cold, too cold. It seems that they were required to put their leaders phone number on a wrist band. Stetson says that was a small miracle on behalf of Kade. Stetson had to flag down another rider and use their phone so that he could contact his leader and get him to come to Kade's aid. Lee was able to come and get them and Kade warmed up, got his jacket and was able to finish the race. It seems that there is always something exciting happening in the life of Stetson. 

All of the kids are getting into a really great routine with school. Stetson wakes himself up every morning for classes at the high school and gets himself there. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays the girls and I work together to do a variety of writing, spelling, typing, language arts, history and math. There is also the occasional book on CD or fairly constant morning reading of scripture and other great literature. 

September 2023

Okay, so these kids are the best at designing outfits and making up some game. They act out all sorts of parts from princes to avatar to fire bender to homeless orphan there is always something amazing going on in the Wade household. 

Raspberries are amazing!!!

There is a farm very close to our house where we have gone to pick twice now. Last time we were there we picked 10 pounds of produce. The kids truly enjoy eating there feel afterwards and then we freeze or make yummy German pancakes with whip cream and eat them that way. 

We realized that the best way to decongest our garage was to get a shed so we found one and it was delivered. Spencer the kids and I leveled out some ground and prepped the spot the week before and then poured gravel. After it was delivered we all helped to make and install shelfs and then organize it. It is so nice !!!

School schedules are working well and we are staring to get into a good groove.  

 

School

 Stetson : 

He is enrolled in Seminary with the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. 

He is currently enrolled in robotics and engineering principles with Mountain Crest High School. 

He is in Intermittent Debate with Nalyn Nielson

We signed him up for the same scouting group as his good friend Kade. 

He says he will be attending CAP ( Civil Air Patrol) but has found other fun things to do most Wednesday nights through the summer. 

We are signed him  up for a geometry class with BYU independent studies and are still working on that. 

We will also be working on drivers Ed later in the school year

I am also requesting that he read "The Screwtape Letters" and work through a work book that correlates with that. 

Evelyn: 

She is so excited to be enrolled in Ballet this year and is happy to be in Level 3. 

She is doing "Teaching Textbooks" math,

Good and the Beautiful Language arts and writing as well as more typing.  

She is enrolled in YLA (Youth Leaders for America) taking the following classes:

                 Health and Healing in Nature - Botanical  Science

                 Yoga

                World of Writing

                Chemistry

                Board Game Club 

                Art Exploration

She is also involved as a 2nd year orchestra member and taking private guitar lessons

We will also be doing a good and the beautiful History class with Hailey 

Hailey and Bristol are both enrolled at CLC ( Cache Learning Center) 

                Drama 

                Printmaking

                Choir

                Lego Club

Hailey is doing a Language arts program through good and the beautiful and math as well

Bristol is working hard on reading and doing a good and the beautiful math. 

The Scholie

 This is our "Skoolie" we have owned the bus for a few years but it was this last winter that we officially began the conversion. This project for a long time was mostly Spencer's project but as our deadline for our maiden voyage approached it became very real to the rest of the family. There was plenty of running around for the kids as many a day we assigned the kids to just be with dad and run and get or do whatever he needed.  There was painting, sewing, lots of clean up, tool finding, vacuuming, cooling dad down with spay bottles of water until we installed the swamp cooler. Taping and untapping. Removing decals like "emergence exit" more clean up and finding of tools. Fetching dad snacks and water and holding things. Stetson got to do a little more hands on tinkering creating thing with dad. We all really enjoyed seeing dads vision come about and become a reality. So many hours went into this and we still have a few more projects left to finish up. 

Family Update

                                                      

Stetson started part time at mountain crest high school. He is taking a robotics class, engineering principles and seminary. He's a super smart techy kid who has built several PC's for himself and friends. He also really enjoys anything outdoorsy. He went on a 15 mile bike ride this week, an 8 mile back packing trip last weekend and an overnighter to Bear Lake this weekend to fish and tube and play on the water. He does best if kept very busy.

Evelyn has started Ballet classes and really loves it. She is super excited to be apart of The Nutcracker later this year. She just turned 12 today and helped me make her favorite dessert, Lemon meringue pie. Ironically that was my mothers favorite too! She still plays the violin and is starting orchestra next week.

                            

Hailey is prone to hurting herseft, unfortunately! This week while at Costco she somehow fell and sprained both her wrists and also her right elbow. She isn't able to pick up anything heavy. I'm sure she is liking not having to do some of her chores.  

Bristol lost her 2 front teeth yesterday. She sounds different now. Her and Ezra are often playing silly made up games together and mostly getting along. 

Ezra has all his church teachers wrapped around his finger without knowing it. He is just a kind, loving, fun kid. Who loves Silas and all of his siblings. Silas is a good eater, very active, and very smart. Communication is lacking and sometimes causes discomfort for all. We hope his vocabulary will increase soon. "He seems to think screaming at people is effective means of communication."(Stetson)

Spencer did an amazing job getting our bus ready for our Mount Rushmore trip. He worked very hard long hours at work and then came home and kept on working. We were able to get away for 8 days as a family. He is a great adventure planner. Now he Has been working on organizing our garage and new shed. Hopefully, as we organize, we will be able to find all his tools so we can finish the bus.

I am still primary president and gearing up for the third primary program since being called. Thankfully we have a smaller primary. I am also striving to preserve all that we grew in our garden and save it for later. I'm sure there are a 100 other things I could add, but we are staying busy and strong in our testimonies of Jesus Christ. We love you all and are so grateful for your influence in our lives.