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Silly big kids.  We were ready to play games before bed and they were being all giggly.

We had an amazing D&D session.  It was so funny.  There were magic potions, size changing badgers, ninjago snake guys, etc.... it was fun.

Sam and Jer and training for a half marathon together.  It's Sam's first one, but Jer said that he's doing amazingly.  

Evelyn and I got to go on a temple date together to the Mt Timp temple.  That was fun.  I haven't been to that one in ages.

My mom, Evelyn and I went to the Snow White ballet together.  It was so cute.  Evelyn LOVED the dwarfs and was talking about how she would love one of their roles and how she knew which dwarf was which.  It was fun to be with these two wonderful women.

Jer and I went to the symphony with Jim, Amy, Jon and Isabelle (first time goer).  It was pretty and rainy.... including a double rainbow right above the newly finished (outside) Salt Lake temple.

But along with the rain, our neighborhood flooded again.  Our house, our neighbor's home and the row of town homes all needed to be bailed out.  Nick made the comment, "Thank you for coming to our annual 100 year storm clean up.  I really wish that we could nail down a day for it."

Jim and Jer working on trains.

Evelyn and I have been seeing a specialist about her eyes.  They want to detach the muscles from both eyes, straighten them out and reattach them again.  She's trying to decide what to do.  I'm trying to research the surgeon.

Jer's excited face

 

Symphony

 

We love that we get to do stuff like this.

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Never too old to wrestle

Picking up Sam from band camp. He had a blast and got to record in disney studios and play at Disneyland for the first time.

Yep, he needs glasses.  

Homework time.

Ada did homework outside with me and the daycare kids. 

We played games with Joe for his birthday.  This was the obligatory birthday photo taken by Seth.

Evelyn had two teeth pulled because they just weren't coming out but they needed to put her braces on before she was done growing.  We've been waiting for almost two years.  She was more nervous for the extractions than for the braces.  She has an expander in now.  Sam also had a filling replaced.  They'd done it and it fell out a couple weeks later... so they just took care of it for no cost.

Family Spring Break breakfast to Kneaders.

Symphony with Ada.  We did one with Sam too, but we didn't get a picture.

Evelyn was on a puzzle kick.

Cute picture of loved ones.

Vivien asked for a unicorn for her birthday.  We ran out of town, but we got it done before her surgery.  Maybe it can keep her company.

Family baptism date.

Seth makes a tent every morning.... whether the air is warm or cold, it doesn't matter... he still parks himself over the vent.

My boat and egg paintings were hung in the Scera Shell Gallery 101 for April.

Lindon temple is coming along.

Utah Symphony

 

Symphony

We had tickets to the symphony, but Jer couldn't go... so I took Ada, my singer, and Sammy, my jazz player.... to the Jazz tribute concert.  We got there two hours early because there were other big events going on and I didn't want to fight traffic, so we went to the cheesecake factory.  I've never been except to get cheesecake to go once.  It was very good, very expensive, highly salted and spiced and extremely slow.  It took us 2 hours to eat. And the server asked if we wanted a kids menu.  I said no, but they brought my almost 15 year old Sam a kids cup anyways.  We all got a kick out of that and Sam said that he didn't need me to ask for a different one.... But we had to take a picture to commemorate the occasion. 

I love these beautiful people more than they can know.

 

Quick 2 week catch up

I only have a minute today, but I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks.... quick catch up.... I've been swimming with my mom at the rec center when I'm not working. It's fun and it feels good on my hip.

We'd promised the kids ice cream for trying to hike a little down the Narrows.  All of them tried it.... Ada and Dad did amazing.  So we got ice cream.

Seth got a free Yummy's meal from school, so I took him on a mommy son date.  He loved cooking all the food for us. 

My friend had an extra ticket to a Beatles music tribute night.  LOVED it!  I'm so glad I got to go.

The pumpkin patch near my mom's house was offering free pumpkins to the neighborhood.... We went and got a couple in the dark. 

We hosted Seth's friend, Jack, for a birthday party. Jack wanted to play with Seth for his birthday party.... so that's what we did.

I babysat for Emma twice in the last couple of weeks.  Peter's gotten really talkative and they're super cute together.

We got to go to the Utah Symphony Harry Potter 7 part 2 night.  That was fun.  All the kids loved it and we went and wandered the stores near by after.  

I made Salmon for dinner and Evelyn was in heaven

Halloween costumes

Ada was a witch, Sam was Uncle Ben and would "die" every time he met a Spiderman, Evelyn was a Peacat.... a peacock cat.  Seth was a dragon rider.

Sam, Ada and Jer were amazing for the Ward Fall Cleanup.  They really stepped up.  I took the younger two to my cousin Tiff's son's, Theo, baptism.  They play with each other at Bear Lake, so it was fun to see him be baptized.

We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house for an applesauce making lesson.  It was fun and between batches I went and made a leaf pile for the kids to play in. 

My daycare partner's husband invited us to a her surprise birthday party.  

Seth made different houses for social studies.

I got to go see Seth's Veteran's Day program yesterday.  He did great.

Seth's activity days.

Evelyn reading with a cat for company.

Evelyn's YW's activity to Jakers.