Sprinklers

We got to help put in a sprinkler line at the cabin during our last Bear Lake week of the year.  

Ada had to join in on a biology zoom meeting.... Sam and Evelyn are also both doing biology this year.... so Sam joined in.

 

 

This week has been fun and busy.  I got bitten by what looked like a brown recluse about a week ago when we did an outdoor movie with my friend, Michelle.  I didn't see the spider, but the bite looks like a mild reaction to a brown recluse and Sam has been bitten by one at our house before so it would make sense to be the same thing.  It's doing better, but it's sore to touch and was very painful for a couple of days.

My friend, Beth, invited me to the makerspace at the library.  We were making faux stained glass.  

We had a good rainstorm along with several 100+ degree days.  Some of the wild flowers that I planted stopped looking like weeds and actually bloomed.  That's been nice.

Sam has been helping me with daycare.... Ada took over for a couple of days so that Sam could recover from getting his wisdome teeth out, but he's back. (And Ada now has a 5th wisdom tooth that they found at the dentists this week.  Only 1-2% of the population have more than 4.  Lucky duck.)

Syl has starting sleeping on top of my bookshelf. 

My daycare kids wanted to take a picture and they were all standing in a circle so I took one of their feet.  That's one that I can post legally.

We played two games of Forbidden desert/island.  Seth, Evelyn and I won within a few minutes so I think forbidden desert might be the easier game of the two.

Ada is officially an EMT!  Now that she's certified, she's on the job hunt.

Our neighbor, Blake, was in Hadestown, so Jer watched the daycare for the last hour and I took the three oldest to see it.  The story stinks and the music, dancing and acting were great. 

The finished library

Saturday, we helped my parents cut down two of their fruit trees that had gotten a fungus.  It went pretty fast and the kids did great.

The Avatar Aang movie came out. We watched it with Avatar themed dinner.  Chicken skewers (Sokka and meat skewers), russian tea for Uncle Iroh, and cookie dough for the day that the avatar was not boiled in oil.  And veggies because we need veggies.

Evelyn played prelude for church last Sunday.  She was nervous, but you could see as she played that her hands became more steady and the nerves left her.  She did a great job and I'm very proud of her.

Our AC unit in the church has been out the last two weeks.  They ordered parts but they aren't in yet.  The were able to find some big fans and our neighbor had about 200 leftover folding fans from a summer wedding that they weren't sure what to do with.

Our anti person cat sure doesn't mind cuddling with Seth for cat naps.

Seth is doing a Robotics camp for a couple of weeks.  His friend, Gabe, happened to walk in on the first day and they've been having a blast.

I dropped Evelyn off with Ada as a driving buddy.... for a week at FSY.  She's at Snow college this year and having a blast. I've gotten texts from her nightly.  Sam is at UVU and I haven't heard a peep from him.  I hope he's having a great time too.  Dad took him a copy of Bang and I bet they'll take advantage of that.

We saw the new Ephraim temple while we were dropping her off.  It's so pretty.

Syl likes Jer's trains too.

I made lentils for dinner while Sam was gone.  They're so yummy!  I like having Sam around more than I like lentils though.... he's a sweetie pie.

Elise, Alexx and Ada played a cooking game where they made breakfast while one couldn't see, hear or speak.  It was funny.

Bragging

 My Ada passed the National EMT test!  She's officially certified to work as an EMT!  I'm so happy that she's finding joy in learning and wants to be able to help others.  Good luck to her as she puts her certifications to use! 

Frustration

 Ada stayed home from Bear Lake because she needed to wash laundry, pack, memorize her scripts, celebrate Alexx's birthday, and sleep before her competition in Texas.  We missed her, but I'm so grateful that she was home.  AT&T joined up with the city to dig fiber lines.  We already have fiber, but they have to lay infrastructure.  They dug up a lot of our lawn, right next to our new aspen trees, broke at least 5 pipes in our sprinkler system, and left a hole between us and our neighbors.... after we spent the last two weeks trying to trap all their bunnies, we now have bunnies and dogs in our yard.  Ada was able to facilitate the workers being here to fix sprinklers and turned off the whole system when a new leak was found.  I'm so grateful to her!  She left 5 am on Sunday morning and I miss her already.  I'm glad that she gets to compete one last time.

Bear Lake work week

Because our cabin is an extended family property, we all pitch in for bills and work projects.  Currently, we are building a set of three new bathrooms. One set of cousins put in the plumbing, one poured the cement, one built the outside of it... they're putting together the insides now.... and we waterproofed and painted the outside while we were there.  And built an outdoor show for rinsing off after swimming. My parents made sur that Evelyn had a birthday song and a birthday banner.  It was cute.  And we went for shakes for her birthday dessert.

I was joking that they looked like that Gothic Americana painting...  and then there was a giant lightning strike that surprised the heck out of us.

These two updated the first aid kit.

We worked so hard that we went to enjoy some pizza afterwards.

Jer serviced the lawn mower.