Who is Ginger and Why is her House Made of Bread?

A few days ago our good friends Craig, JaNae, Jaycee, and Rylee had a fun weekend including making ginger bread houses. They weren’t alone because we did the same thing two weeks ago for family home evening. We had never made a house out of ginger bread before and Heather was smart enough to buy a kit. I don’t know how edible the thing is but it sure was a blast putting it together.

As always, Heather was in charge and oversaw the entire operation and I was the icing man. I made sure that everything stuck together. The kids did all of the decorating — jelly bean here, gum drop there, sprinkles everywhere!

We had such a good time with this I think we will make it a Christmas tradition for our family.

5th Grade Scrabble Tournament

The year Oak Pointe Elementary held a scrabble tournament for the entire 5th grade class. Honestly I had no idea about it until Tristen mentioned that we made it to the semi-finals with his partner Cooper.

Apparently the entire 5th grade paired up to compete in a grade wide tournament of scrabble. After Tristen announce that he made it to the semi-finals we began encouraging him and praising him. Then when he came home this week and announce that he was going to the finals — we couldn’t have been more pleasantly surprised! The finals we held on the last day of school and conducted by Principal Stevens himself. The final game came down to Tristen, his partner Cooper, and two other girls — you could have cut the tension in that room with a knife! The game was shown on a large movie screen so that everyone in the audience could see what was happening. There were time when we would question what they were doing but in the end they won — and by a land slide too! The final score was something like 130 points to 60 points. We are so proud of Tristen and his accomplishments especially his scholastic ones.