Friday the 13th

Turns out Friday the 13th is lucky for Callie!
Last night was the Jordan School District Science Fair. Nearly 300 entries, 120 of them advance and compete at the BYU Science and Engineering Fair next month. Callie was so nervous about the interview! We practiced and practiced and it paid off, as one of the questions we'd practiced so much was the one the judges asked her!
She won a big blue ribbon and gets to go to BYU on March 25 for the next round of competition.
The waiting was very intense. She and her friend Taylor both huddled in front of the stage, holding hands and crossing every body part they could.

But fortunately, both made it!


Callie is over the moon with happiness and hopes to win some of the $50,000 in prizes and scholarships that will be awarded at BYU.
And that's not all, folks! The 5th grade has a big contest every year for the best decorated box for collecting Valentines. Callie was hoping to win the "High Tech" category for her class with her jukebox valentines box. She used her snap circuits to set it up so that when you push a button at the top, it plays a recording of "Thank you, and Happy Valentine's Day!". She won not only her class competition, but the competition for the whole grade in the High Tech category. I wish I'd gotten a picture before it got taken apart!
(The grand prize winner was - no kidding - a LIFE SIZE wedding cake made out of cardboard, complete with paper "frosting" roses and a bride and groom. Took 2 people to carry it into the classroom!)
No bad luck for Callie on Friday the 13th!
And just so they get some blog time, here's Kyra in her stage makeup for the Mousetrap, which opens in only 5 days!

And Brynn just being cute on the 100th day of school:

And I got some pretty yellow TULIPS for Valentine's Day - it's making me so excited for Spring. I love tulips and daffodils because they mean winter is OVER!



Happy Valentine's Day everyone!