St. Patrick's Day and stuff

Owen had a project for school where he needed to write a report on an influential woman for Women's History Month (March).  He choose to do the report on his Grandma White (Beki's Mom).  He filled in all the information and at the end he had to draw a portrait of the influential woman.  This is - HANDS DOWN - the best person Owen has ever drawn.  He did a pretty good job of answering the questions and hopefully he did a good job presenting it to his class.  

(Yes, Grandma White is playing basketball, we don't know why....)

On Friday Owen could wear St. Patrick's Day accessories to school.  He was very excited to wear his green tie and "Kiss Me I'm Irish" button.  Though he said that if anyone tried to kiss him he would take off the button.

 For St. Patrick's Day we made a traditional Irish feast: corned beef, roast potatoes, boiled cabbage, crusty bread, Irish cheese and homemade root beer (pretty good Guinness substitute).  Owen loves making the root beer and his favorite part is when we get to add the dry ice.  Mommy was a little heavy on the dry ice this time and it was bubbling pretty hard.

Our feast!!  It was great and we will be eating left overs for a while.

In other news, the Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope.  Since Owen attends a Catholic school, this was a pretty big deal at school.  Beki was at the school to help out in Owen's class when the white smoke starting coming from the Vatican - so we spent a good 15 minutes watching the white smoke.   Over the next few days they did quite a few different Pope centered activities.  At some point, Channel 7 News came to Owen's school and was filming some of the things the children were doing to celebrate a new Pope.  Apparently Owen got some camera time, thought we have not been able to find this footage online.
We just find it quite interesting that the LDS child at the Catholic school was the one on camera talking about being excited about the new Pope.  

Chris still has his class to get his teaching certification renewed.  This last through 15 April and we are counting down the days.  We are looking forward to spring break the first week of April and hopefully we be able to take a little trip.

Just a short clip of the boy working on his gymnastics skills.