Kirsten’s Senior Academic Achievements

Kirsten is on a roll this year with her academics….she qualified and applied to be a part of a club at her school called Academic Olympiad. Open only to seniors, there were 9 students chosen from the applicants who were the top in academics. As a member of the club she met during her lunch hour Tuesdays-Thursdays at the beginning of the school year  in teachers classrooms to get a review/overview of different subjects.

Then on Wednesday Nov. 17th The team took a day off school and went up to USU to compete against about 30 other teams from throughout the state. Taking four tests in the morning which she called “the ACT on steroids” on subjects math, English, science, and another that pretty much asked anything they wanted.

After lunch all the teams participated in “Star Wars” (still don’t know why its called that, because it has nothing to do with the movies). This was pretty much a trivia with difficult questions including who saved the Hollywood sign from being destroyed and who received a nobel prize for the development of in vitro fertilization.

After all was said and done they awarded medals for the top placing teams in each test category and in Star Wars. Sky View did amazing and placed 1st overall in performance on the math test.

Next they placed 2nd overall in Star Wars

Pretty fun and successful day for the team!!!!

Now we have just recently found out that Kirsten received the Academic All-State Award for 4A Drill team. Of 34 girls who applied only 10 were awarded.

Kirsten was awarded at the end of State Drill Friday Feb. 4.

Our Activities of 2010

With the new year beginning we thought back on the past year and all the fun things we did. It seems like there was at least one activity we had or place we went every month.

Jan/Feb: We finally got new furniture for our great room and dining room

March: Fun trip to Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida

April: Spring Break trip to Cancun, Mexico

June: Welcomed Gr. & Gr. Baxter home from Mission

July: Baxter Family Reunion at Island Park; Kirsten and Kendra had their wisdom teeth removed and Kadia had her tonsils removed.

August: Baby Carli enters school and begins to start losing teeth; Gordon has a fun trip to Alaska fishing

November: Gordon had a deer hunt in Nevada; Family went to Vegas over Thanksgiving

December: Christmas at Temple Square and saw Savior of the World

Holiday Activities

We have had a fun time around the Nelson house this past month. Christmas dinner was a totally prepared and planned by Jami and as you can see she really came through ans served sparkling cider, turkey, homemade rolls, etc. Overall a wonderful Christmas dinner.



We also enjoyed visiting with cousins who had come for the Holidays and had fun reuniting with them.



With our new family camera in tow we were able to snap some cool shots of some of the girls practicing their tumbling at the Baxter Christmas party at the Peak.