Hello. I'm up past my bedtime cause I'm waiting for the wash to be done. I need to put our biking clothes in the dryer before I go to bed cause Corey and I are going to go on a bike ride in the morning (maybe Big Mountain!) This morning we went on a HIKE together! Which I loved. Very nice to go slow and chill and have time to think and talk as you walk together. It was really nice. I first took him to my secret spot. Then to the trail to walk around the reservoir and then we kept exploring so I could show him places Mel and I went - the little tide pool area and the giants boulder playground.
Oh, and my other rock too. This time something new happened - I discovered berries! I thought they looked good enough to eat, so I picked a sprig and then googled a photo of them as we walked back to the car. And lucky me, the internet said the were edible, so I risked it, and ate them. They were sour but I liked them, and I am going to go forage for more berries later this week. We also talked about next week doing a FHE hike up there (Hyrum will be home and he suggested a hike) and we can bring vanilla ice cream and have berries and ice cream up in the mountains! That would be memorable, huh? I think they have to have powerful good stuff in them from how brightly they stained my hands (I broke
one when I picked them. When I come harvest later I'll bring kitchen shears). After coming home, Natalie made apple muffins, I thought she looked cute in her apron.
On this day off from school, most of us continued playing legos, which I've temporarily or maybe permanently moved into Sophi and Natalie's bedroom. (Not all of them, just girl "friends" legos.) The legos are not very organized yet, and it's actually been a big mess the past two days, but that's ok cause Sophi and Natalie were gone Friday night and most of Saturday. They have been very patient with me and my mess. Peter and I worked on a slightly modified version of this Elsa's castle almost all day yesterday. Our version is the castle here on the left side of the table. Wow! We did a good job, huh Peter!!
He worked with as much focus as he had building the sand castle at Bear Lake. We had to do some building improvisations, but we did it and it looks so good! When Corey called us down for scriptures last night, we only had to put the snowflake on top, but we couldn't find the right piece to set it in, so we called back "Coming! ...we're coming!" but we weren't cause we had to find the piece! We didn't find it, but got another piece that would do and figured I'd fix it today. We brought down and presented the castle before this house of Lego masters. They said it was good! After scriptures, I went up and tried to clean up a bit and get legos off the floor in their room, but then Natalie and Sophi started making the mess! Sophi must have been inspired cause last night she began to remake Ariel's Underwater Palace 43207. She worked on it today and soon everyone was in and there was no room for me!
I'll be able to play with Katharine later this week, and maybe Ariel's castle will be done by then. The little boys have school tomorrow but ALSN have another day off tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get a system worked out and organized and that won't make anyone too unhappy. I'm weighing options like maybe trying legos in the music room? where my L desk is? Maybe I give them the L desk as their table to create on? I don't know where I'd move the books in here though. Hmm. Maybe I will keep things in Soph and Natalie's room, or my room over in the nook maybe? I'll continue to think about it. Anyway, Katharine played with it today and Natalie helped us find all the friend minifigures with the correct faces, dresses etc. Last night Natalie started working on the Lego Story books again, trying to fix them all.
So that's what me and most of the kids did today. Not Abi though, she was on a hike - she got up at 5:30 am to Willow Lake with friends, good job Abi! Corey spent a good amount of time today figuring out ski passes and rentals. He was able to get us a few tickets this year cause it's our last winter with Abi. All the kids at home plus Corey and I all got 4 days up at Park City via a sale that ended today. We also got 2 days for Wes after he comes home in January (SO EXCITED!!!!) and Hyrum and Mel & Christian might be getting some too. The marrieds with kids (JEM, aka Joseph Eliza Mary and EBA, aka Ethan Bella Alvie) are out this season. So good job Corey for working his magic and making that happen somehow. I got kids' heights and weight, and after having kids try on boots, he took a few down to ski-n-see to rent a few things we were missing. After that was done, he called and said we could do FHE now - climbing at Millcreek with his dad. Wayne met us there, brushed up on his belaying skills, and then we belayed kids for a bit, using all our guess passes on the 1st day of the month.
It was really great to be there with Wayne, and will be something that I'm sure kids will remember!
It was a good FHE and a fun day full of recreating.
