19 March 2023

Becky moved back into her regular classroom as the HVAC updates in her hallway are complete. This was the 4th time she moved classrooms this year and hopefully the last.

Gibson and Becky were unexpectedly caught in a snowstorm driving to cello lessons on Tuesday afternoon. Gibson's cello teacher lives 30 minutes away and though it was raining where we lived, it was snowing near her home. The snow snarled traffic and caused delays as semis needed to put chains on their tires. We never made it to cello lessons. It took us the entire time of his lesson to exit the freeway, turn around and head home again. Gibson showed superior driving skills and expertly avoided an accident.

We got back home in time for Helen and Gibson's school exhibition night. Exhibition night gives students an opportunity to show parents the projects they are working on. Helen displayed her watercolor that represented the book, The Alchemist.

She also showed us the business plan she created with a group in her business class to open a Nothing Bundt Cakes franchise.

Gibson showed us his report about La Sagrada Familia for his history class.

He built a game in programming that lit up randomly and asked players to try to predict which lights would activate.

Gibson made a poster about Madame C. J. Walker for his English class.

And he built a catapult for Physics.

Brandan and Becky celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary by attending a sealing session at the temple. Doing sealings in the temple on our anniversary is one of our oldest and most meaningful traditions.

On Saturday we helped out at the pear orchard by hanging pheromone strips. The strips deter coddling moths. The worm stage of the moth likes to burrow into the pears, lowering the yield and the value of the pear crop.

We worked in teams of three to place the strips. One person put the strips onto poles and the other two used the poles to place the strips high into the branches of the tree. The pear farm focuses placing pheromone strips on the outer perimeter of the orchard.

Here's a photo of Gibson in action. It was a beautiful morning to be outside. A large crew from our stake  showed up to help and we finished the entire orchard in an hour and a half.