Concerts and Clay

We attended the kids' school concert on Thursday. It brought back memories of singing on the stage of the old Warden Elementary School when I was in second grade. Seeing the boys in band also reminded me of Mr. Kleinert and Junior High concerts.

For FHE we made a nativity set out of Sculpee Clay.

Gas War

Most of you are probably too young to have experienced a gas war.  They were fairly common in the 50's and 60's but since the price of gas has sky-rocketed over these last 30-40 years you don't see them much any more.  This last few months they have been building a new Maverick gas station in Lewiston.  It opened a couple of weeks ago and the war was on.  Prices were running about $3.42 and instantly dropped about .$20.  Then daily Maverick has been dropping the price twice a day.  The other stations have had to drop their price to keep the business.  As I passed the station Friday on the way home Maverick had just dropped the price to $2.89 per gallon.  There was a car at each of the 10 pumps and many of them had a car waiting in line.  It will be interesting to see how long and how low the price goes.  We are all loving it.

Hope you are all ready for Christmas.

Saturday

 Aimee had another cheer competion this week, complete with Santa afterwards.  She had a lot of fun and they did better on their routine.

 

 Saturday was also Scout Ski day at Copper Mountain.  I took Tyler up for his first time.  He did really well and got the hang of it pretty quickly.  He learned how to turn well and made it down the run several times without crashing.  I took him on a bigger run and he did well until it got a little steep at the end.  He had a beautiful crash that ended with him tumbling in a cloud of snow and a ski shooting up in the air.  I wish I could have captured it on video.  Contrary to his expressions in these photos, he had a lot of fun and is ready to go again.

 

-Brant