The Braegger Family Blog: 2017

Monday, October 30, 2017

February 2017

Of course we celebrated Groundhog Day on February 2nd!

We did donut hole/donut groundhogs for an early breakfast before taking Faith to school (she's not doing a lot better, but has been making it to school some days!!),

and Bud checked to see if there would be a shadow at our house. It was a no, so we are hoping for an early spring!

That night I was at Bunco, but left the supplies for the kids to make these treats while watching the movie:

We also found out that Grandma Tesch had passed away.

Gwen Davis Peterson Tesch

1925 ~ 2017

   Gwen was born on May 6, 1925 in Parker, Idaho, to Samuel F. and Temperance Davis. She spent her school years in Las Vegas, Nevada, graduating from Las Vegas High School. She married Arthur “Dan” Peterson on January 4, 1946 in the Manti LDS Temple. They moved to Ogden, where they had six children – three still living.
   Gwen was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in many callings, including Relief Society President and a temple worker at the Ogden Utah LDS Temple. She served with Dan on an LDS Building Mission to the Netherlands from 1963 to 1965.
   She was divorced and she married Herman B. Tesch on November 20, 1973. They served together in the Pennsylvania Harrisburg Mission from 1976 to 1977. Herm passed away on December 19, 1991.
   Gwen is survived by her children, Sandra (Elwood) Powell, Ron (Debra) Peterson, and Gary (Anne) Peterson; nine grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
   Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 2 p.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. Friends may visit with family on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the mortuary. Interment, Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.

Such a great and strong woman! She will be very missed.

Earlier that day, I had been at Smith's and allowed Christian to pick a "treat" off the discount endcap. What he found was this:

Metal "ice cubes" which won't melt in your drink. Such a funny and crazy thing for him to want! They were still $6, but I looked on Amazon and they were $28! I let him get them, we take them home, he opens the box...and they are missing! Someone had stolen them out of the box. Christian, of course, had a melt down. We went back to Smith's, they didn't have any more on the clearance rack and weren't getting any more in as they were a seasonal item. They refunded our money and my buddy was very sad. Later that evening, an employee noticed some in another location in the store, they looked up my phone number with my loyalty card info and told me to come pick them up! They really have the best employees at that store!

On February 4 we went to grandma Tesch's funeral.

A beautiful service and then to the graveside and lunch at the church.

A true celebration of an amazing woman!

On the 7th Faith got her driver's permit. She has been so excited to drive and is finally having some better days where she feels up to it.

On the evening of the 10th Faith was wanting to drive, so we thought up a reason to go somewere: doughnuts!

After arriving home, Christian was busy crafting something for some time and then presented his sister with this--

an award for not killing him with her driving LOL!!

February 11th I couldn't resist a pic of Skittle Butt snuggling her Buddy.

Later that day we stopped by the dollar store and traversed the forest of balloon strings!

I loved Bud's self portrait he made at school

Bud's ribbon from his ballroom dance competition

some of his Chinese lettering

At Riot on the 13th we wore red to recognize American Heart Health month

The 14th Christian made this snazzy Valentine box--a Lego man sitting on the toilet, all made from Lego set boxes!!

Here is the toilet separately:

And here is the plans he drew up before starting construction:

I made heart cinnamon sugar biscuit donuts and rosebud shaped bacon for breakfast.

I went to school later that day to volunteer at the Valentine party. I had ice cream, pink soda, sprinkles, and licorice straws for the kids to make themselves "cupid floats."

They also got to make emoji face felt pillows and play some fun games!

That evening we went to see the Lego Batman movie for the $5 Tuesday price. It was SO FUNNY!

After we got home, Lana and Tammy ding-dong-ditched the kids with some Valentine treats.

Only bad thing about this day--my heart broke when one of my best friends moved to Utah county.

This is February 19th but is a common sight during the blustery cold winter. Kids playing X-Box games while their puppy snoozes.

To celebrate President's Day on the 20th I tried my hand at making some Washington and Lincoln pancakes.

Also printed out a Mt. Rushmore paper craft for Buddy to make.

February 28th we celebrated Mardi Gras/Pancake Tuesday with some sugar-free grain-free protein pancakes. Surprisingly, Christian still seemed excited about them!

Christian got his haircut by his favorite stylist, Joseph.

For dinner, I made a version of the Monte Cristo sandwiches we love at Disneyland. Ham and cheese wrapped in dough and fried, dusted with powdered sugar, and with a homemade berry compote on the side. They turned out yummy!

Here is Skittles with her Mardi Gras beads:

For dessert we had King cake, minus the baby. Instead, we used what we had--a tiny Yoda figure! Faith was the lucky one, we hope that translates into health this year!!

Thursday, May 18, 2017

January 2017

January 2nd everyone was off from work and school, so we took a trip up to Logan. It was a beautiful winter wonderland!

We, of course, were headed to the cheese factory where we got lots of curds and other cheeses.

Took the kids ice skating at Station Park, but the ice was really rough and not fun at all. Got our money back after just a few minutes and headed home to watch a movie instead.

Tammy sent me this cute picture she got of Lana and Larry.

On the 3rd we went to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Christian saw a cool trick on Outrageous Acts of Science on January 4th and decided he just had to replicate it. You balance two forks on a toothpick on a drinking glass. Then you light the toothpick on fire from the end inside the glass. It burns all the way to the edge, then goes out and the forks are still balancing on the tiny piece of toothpick barely touching the glass! Bud caught the whole thing on video with his phone and posted it to Facebook.

I had a tooth start hurting over the weekend, but by the morning of the 9th I was in extreme pain. Got into an Endodontist and had to have an emergency root canal. My sweet visiting teacher heard about it later that day (because her daughter is Christian's piano teacher) and brought me flowers!

I know I take a bunch of photos of Skittles snuggling with her dad, but I just think it's so dang cute! Here she is on the 11th welcoming him home from work.

On the 14th we took the kids to Boondock's for some fun (or, from my view, torture).

Bowling is fun, though!

We used gift cards to eat out at Texas Road House that night.

The 16th was MLK day and we had a peace-loving breakfast.

The kids loved the chicken and waffle sliders so much last year that we had the same lunch again! (Fried okra-not as much of a hit)

We also watched the movie Hidden Figures about how African American women did so much important work with the space program helping to get us to the moon. We LOVED it!

Faith started feeling a bit better and attending some school. On the 19th she got 100% on this!

On the 21st I got a new filter app and took this glamour shot of the kids on the way to Buddy's ballroom dancing competition in Provo. It was snowy and a pretty tough commute!