The Thurmans invited several people over last Sunday to make Valentines for senior citizens. For the left are Jason, Seth, Kate, Ike, Helen, Vienna and Sam. 
This is a photo of Gibson with his charming Valentine's Day tiger.
After a year and a half of learning, volunteering, working and teaching at Craterworks, Gibson has to step away for a bit to make room for other kids who want to intern at the maker space. He can still use the space for his own projects, but he's not a peer teacher this semester. Nathan, the Craterworks teacher, invited the original group of students to make t-shirts to commemorate their role in getting the Crater High School/Craterworks partnership off the ground.
This weekend the Youth Symphony had their winter concert series, with concerts in Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland. Brandan and Becky attended the concert in Grants Pass. The symphony played a terrific selection of music from the 19th century, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 finale, Elgar's Nimrod, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, movement 1 and the finale and selections from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. If you closed your eyes, you'd never guess a how young the performers were. This is a photo of the symphony warming up.
Brandan and Becky drove up to Portland on Saturday to attend the temple. We had a beautiful day. Great news! Our temple's remodeling is complete and will reopen on Tuesday, February 15. Some restrictions due to covid are still in place, but we are looking forward to a quick 5 minute drive instead of a 4 hour drive. We're thankful for all of the opportunities we had to be in temples in Oregon, California, Idaho and Utah while our temple was closed. We took easy access to the temple for granted before covid, and now we have even greater appreciation for the peace and strength that come from temple service and worship.
Meanwhile, back home, Gibson had another concert. Jason and Ed showed their support by coming to hear him play. True friendship is listening to an hour of classical music with no distractions. Ed and Jason thought the music was surprisingly good.
Helen is in Portland for five days for the state DECA competition. She sent some photos which we'll try to describe and then edit the captions when Helen is back home and can fill in the names. This is a photo of some of the team with their Crater DECA t-shirts. Back row: Lily, Malia, Rowen, Mr. Rogan, Helen, Lucy and Clara. Front row: Chloe, Mary, Hannah and Mackenzie.
They went shopping at a mall. Here are Rowen, Helen and Mary.
The team drove up in two vans.
Making the DECA square.
They went to a Portland Trailblazers game on Saturday. Here are Helen, Lucy, Mackenzie, Ryder and Tayvon.
Chloe, Mary and Helen.
One more game photo. The kids have more sight seeing today. The competition begins on Monday. The event is shorter this year (blame it on covid?), but at least they got to go. Helen is having a great time and we are excited to hear her stories.
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