JKLM Jenkins: Deep in February

We woke up Wednesday morning to a leak in our water heater room. Thankfully a plumber was able to come replace this valve within just a few hours.

This sums up our week -- Olympics on TV and checkers with Daddy.

Michael took this great picture on his way home from California on his jet ride. Lucky guy!

So peaceful up there.

Friday at Luke's classroom was another STEM day for us. We built candy cars using assembly lines in "factories" of three kids. It was really cute.

Here is one factory's candy cars up close.

Friday afternoon we had a little trip to the County History Museum and Luke taught me his new trick that he's going to invent. He decided to call it the Montana. It's a mule kick with a twist.

We got to see a real Model A car, just like we emulated when we built the candy cars and like his class had learned about .

After the museum we decided to celebrate the warmer weather and take Ruby to the dog park. It's amazing how warm 15 degrees feels after a week of negative temps.

Luke is a great dog obstacle demonstrator. He lured Ruby onto the obstacles using just her leash as a reward.

She's so eager to please, sweet Ruby.

She really wants that leash!

She's clever, though, and will do a lot to get her leash but still avoid doing the obstacle.

Saturday was Josh's first competition. He did a slope style competition at the terrain park.

This is the group he did his BSF "training" with all season. Squad goals no doubt!

He's in a white jacket, hard to see, but in the left middle of the picture.

He did some great tricks, this spread eagle is my favorite one!

This was our view from our 4th lodge. Mike and I skied and rode all 5 chair lifts and had a beer in all 5 lodges. Dos Cinco.

Josh met us after his lessons, and he was Hangry. He hadn't eaten lunch because the competition was from 11-2. He came into the bar at 2:30 and basically just grunted at us with shifty eyes. We fed him two pieces of pizza and welcomed him back into the real world.