Recover and Refocus

Merry Post-Christmas. We've been having a pretty chill day. Baby Mary showing how we all feel. 

The kids had their fair share of being lazy today via napping and playing Mario Kart. We've enjoyed lots of Mary time too. Everyone has been very good at sharing her. 

Around 4:30 Hyrum took Owen, Afton, Daniel, and Katharine over to the church to play in the gym. Thank you Hyrum, that was nice of you. Sophi went to her friend Kelsy‘s house, good job venturing out Soph. Natalie was sweet to play a dinosaurs vs. aliens game with Peter (a toy he got from his secret sibling).

With Christmas done, I guess it's time to start focusing on the wedding that is two weeks from tomorrow! I spent the morning working on side by side pics - got 10 years and 11 years done. Mel came over and I showed her the flowers I got on Tuesday. She approved and we decided that for fake flowers, we'll start with boutonnières, so I worked on those while we talked over other wedding details. 

I think this will work ok! Mel ordered some magnets that we will use to attach them to peoples shirts and suits. Those will be here Tuesday along with an order of more fake eucalyptus leaves. 

Tonight Corey and I took J&E&M to Nancy's house on our way out on our date. Nancy and her fam flew out at 5 for their trip to St Kit. That works out great for Joseph and Eliza to have their own space We do our best to be hospitable, but it's pretty crowded, and we need to buy new air mattresses. We have two broken ones. Last one broke somewhat recently with kids friends were jumping on it. Someday we'll have some good quality guest rooms for the adults,. Oh, but not so nice that any of them move in or think they can live here? Is that right? Then Corey and I continued on our way for a date night dinner at the Sugarhouse Aubergine. We were going to go climbing after that, but it got too late. We went by the new Trolley Square Momentum and discovered that there is no top rope there and only a small bouldering area. It's a Momentum "micro gym" which is prob good for college kids, and this one is close to the U, so that makes sense. We decided not to boulder there, but are glad we checked it out. The Trolly Square location does have a cold plunge, so that's good to know if we ever want that (you need reservations) and a sauna too. It was kinda late after that to start climbing, so instead of going to Millcreek we went home and we'll go climbing in the morning. I just finished a few more side by side pics - 13 14 15 years, should be good. 

It's been fun making these and looking at the two of them through the years.