Catching Up February 2025 part 2 (more like 3 because my Valentine post fit in with the catching up)

February 17 was President's Day. Jet helped me with the flag picture that day.

It was also National Cabbage Day. I made egg rolls one of the days around that holiday.

 

February 18 was Pluto Day. I watched one of the many episodes of Psych where Gus said, "You heard about Pluto?" The subtitles had it wrong, though.

 

February 19 was Chocolate Mint Day. I had another Peppermint Patty.

February 20 was National Muffin Day. For dinner we had... muffins again. We made all eggless muffins again. Cornbread muffins, blueberry muffins, and raisin bran muffins.

 

February 21 was the Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda. The kids requested Deku Scrub Cheeseball, which I made. Because Nichole is the one who usually sculpts the cheeseballs nowadays, some of the boys were surprised to learn that I was the one who made the original Deku Scrub Cheeseball way back in 2017. Jet helped put the bay leaves on top.

Jet and I haven't had a chance to do as much baking together as we used to. When we do get the chance it's so nice. I've missed it.

He helped me grind wheat one day, which was nice. My big helper. 

Jet also enjoyed making tracks in the snow (when we had snow. We've finally made it to Spring but I'm still blogging about Winter).

Speaking of snow, a few of us made the trek to the Snow Goose Festival in Delta this year. It was so foggy at first that we couldn't even look for the geese in the fields and when we got to the reservoir, we couldn't see anything there, either.

We entertained ourselves while we waited for the fog to lift.

Finally the fog lifted and just like last year, we found out that the geese had landed on the other side of the reservoir. Except that this year they were so far out, we couldn't get a good look or good pictures.

We did get to see a few fly in from time to time but we've had more exciting years. Oh well.

 

The day after the Snow Goose Festival was National Banana Bread Day, February 23, so we had some banana bread Pop Tarts.

It was also National Rationalization Day so Jeremy made something he'd been wanting to make for a long time- bangers and mash. 

That night was a multi-stake fireside with Camille N. Johnson, the Relief Society General President in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A couple friends and I walked to the building where it was being held. I did not get a good picture. There's a better picture of us when we had banana splits back in January.

Bad picture aside, the fireside was really good. I appreciated the things Sister Johnson shared with us. One of the things she shared was that every morning she has her own personal devotional with President Nelson, prophet and president of the Church. She will put on a talk that he has given in the past and will listen to that while she's getting ready. After that, so many sisters in our stake, including me, took that same challenge and started listening to President Nelson every day. It was talked about when we gathered together for the Worldwide Relief Society Devotional and Testimony Meeting a few weeks later. I went with my ministering sisters.

 

February 24 was Tortilla Chip Day so we had tortillas and dip of course.

 

Jeremy's birthday was in February. Jet wanted to put the candles on the cake so he decided how many of each color and placed them. What a sweetie.

Snow Goose Festival

We're back to our tradition of going to the Snow Goose Festival as Jeremy's birthday trip again. We made it a quick trip this year.

We made it in time to see them in some fields then went to wait for them at the reservoir but they flew in to a different spot than we're used to so we missed them in the air. Sigh.

We went over and did get to see them sitting on the water. 

At least we have seen them flying in the past. 

When we got home we made Jeremy's birthday dinner and had cake and ice cream and Jeremy opened cards.

I don't know where this cute idea of doing numbers with the candles came from- but 87, kids? Really?

Snow Goose Festival

We made the trip down to the Delta Snow Goose Festival again this year. We're slowly starting to do things with other people again as in our whole family drove down together in the van but when we were out of the van we were around other birders from Utah County Birders.

Jet slept through most of it. He woke up in time to say goodbye to another birding buddy who is less than a year younger than he is and goes out birding soooooo much with his mom and grandma. I wouldn't mind getting out more with Jet again.

 

We drove home by way of driving around West Mountain. It was pleasant until some of the kids had had enough of the trip and started fighting. I made them get out and do jumping jacks to get out some of that excess energy that they were using for fighting. I'll have to remember that for next time. We did see a beautiful ferruginous hawk, some bald eagles, and plenty of other birds.

 

It felt so good to take up this tradition again of going to the snow goose festival around Jeremy's birthday. We didn't bring a big chocolate cake to share this year but when we got home, we did have Jeremy's birthday dinner and I did make him a chocolate cake. 

 

Then he opened his cards and his birthday present and saw the book he knew he was getting then saw the bookmark (Utah State Parks Pass) he didn't know he was getting. He was very happy about that extra surprise. He's happy to let me use it, too, since we're both planning on doing more birding this year.

I think Jeremy was pleased with how we celebrated his birthday this year.

Snow Goose Festival- A February Post

So there were a few blog posts I started (or meant to) even before everything shut down and things got scary and crazy and weird and unusual so I'm going to catch up on a few of those, if you don't mind.

The Delta Snow Goose Festival fell near Jeremy's birthday again this year. Jeremy took some of our children to lead a UCB field trip on Saturday for those that couldn't make the field trip on Friday (the person leading that field trip couldn't do Saturday this year so Utah County Birders supplied two options).

Jeremy wasn't able to do his traditional balloon geese and Costco chocolate cake this year so we did cake and ice cream at home. I had just lit the candles on his cake when he got a phone call so by the time the call was finished, one of the candles had burned all the way down to the cake. Ha Ha Ha. We quickly sang Happy Birthday and luckily he was able to blow out all the candles before they went out by themselves. Tee Hee. Just a little fun in the Telford home.

Lucky made Jeremy a present. He took some big LEGOs and created Link from The Legend of Zelda. He even had Link holding a sword and with a shield on his back. He also created a dragon for Link to fight and the dragon dropped pennies just like the bad guys in Zelda games drop rupees when defeated. I just love that little guy's creativity.