Farewell

We woke up early today to head to Provo for Lauren's farewell. She gave a great message about when she was horseback riding and her horse got spooked when the other horse got out of sight and it wouldn't let her guide it anymore, she got bucked off and it was kinda a mess. She said it's the same with our life and letting Heavenly Father take the reins to guide us. He knows the trail, he knows the safe way back, he can see things that we can't, and we can trust him. Let him guide our lives. She and Wes will be doing this for real now with her leaving for a year and a half to Guam for a mission. They get to write their own story, and we don't need to panic when we can't see the trail ahead. Let God take the reins and guide our life and it will be wonderful.

We went by their house afterwards to visit. It was nice to meet her family. We had a few connections - like that Lauren's mom went to Skyline like us. Corey played in jazz band with her little brother. And her mom even went to prom with Corey's brother Mark! Haha, such a small world in LDS circles. 

Oh, her mom also knows our friend Susan and the two of them go on a walk every week. 

After visiting there, we went to Ethan and Bella's house to chill for a few and give Wes a bit more time to visit. At Ethan's place we watched some old home videos and it was really funny. Little Joseph, Mel, Ethan and Hyrum when we were living at Wyview. 

Taking a selfie with Katharine on the couch. 

Then I went to pick up Wes and he and Lauren got one last photo together. 

She gets set apart on Tuesday! Exciting for her. 

We got home around 1:30, Lily cooked bread, Corey went to take a nap. He stayed up last night until 1 working and also checking in on Abi who was at Prom. I was trying to take a nap too and found a decent hiding spot (top bunk in Abi and Lily's room) until Katharine was about to go knock on our door and wake up Corey cause she pooped her pants. So that was the end of my nap. 3+ hours later she did it again and I went in our room and that's when Corey got up. They are all watching the Family Man right now and talking about the different paths of life, while Wes thinks about what the next year and a half will look like for him. He's going to work at FSY this summer and then continue school and dating and he and Lauren will write and keep in touch and will let the Lord take the reins. 

Ok, well that's good for today I guess. I don't know how I get so far behind so fast. Another week has gone by and I'm behind more here. I'll see if I can crank out a few more, maybe atleast get December done. Also need to finish February and March. Sad news is that I'm behind here and not caught up anywhere else. I'm just behind on all levels. Corey said with his work that it's coming along, but it's always a day late and a dollar short. I guess we're both in the thick of the same stuff. House is a mess and cluttered. Good news: I think I've almost hit rock bottom with it all and am almost fed up enough that I think I'll do something about it soon, hopefully this week. But as of yesterday, I've just been walking around resenting it all and feeling overwhelmed. Today I've ignored it and have been looking at art books and trying to think of where/how I could set up an area to draw and paint. 

Just finished reading the Book of Mormon and I found a formula for joy: 

How to always rejoice - Mosiah 4:11&12

1) remember and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God and your own nothingness, his goodness and long suffering
2) call on the name of God daily
3) stand steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come ("that which is to come" is prob not just the 2nd coming or millenium, but after the judgement when we can have eternal life with God)

"If you do this, you shall always rejoice and be filled with the love of God" Those are three good things that I can work on (along with the house and clutter and stuff...) :)

New Pig

Well, Abi bought another guinea pig today. She said Jerry needed a companion. She drove down to Lindon to buy this cute little guy for $20. She said his name is Brownie.

It looks like Lily approves.

I admit, he's cute. I even touched him. I usually don't cause I don't want to risk anything on me that would flare up Corey's allergies. Abi is selling them both to our behind the house neighbor teenage girl Jules next week when they get back from vacation. 

So I'm still feeling sick, low energy all morning. I haven't been taking my iron, maybe my anemia caught up with me. I'm going to look and see if there's an anemia diet or something. 

Lily didn't have a ride to school today, so I took her and then did a quick lower body workout and let Abi get kids off to school. Corey took a ride and it didn't look to me like it would be snowing in a few hours, but Utah weather does the unexpected and it was true to the forecast and it was snowing this afternoon. It totally looked like a winter storm. Soccer practices were cancelled with that, which always helps when I'm feeling sluggish to have less to do, so that's for that, Lord. With that cancelled, I was able to run to Hobby Lobby again, cause I bought a bunch of water colors, and then I was gathering other art stuff I've bought in moments past, and I had a different but new and unopened watercolor set, so I took the new one back and traded it in for oils and acrylic. I'm excited to start creating art in this next half of my life. 

Frustrated

I've been a little frustrated/in a funk. My children make a mess and chaos everywhere they go. I kinda hate our small toilet areas. If we ever custom build a house, the bathrooms are going to have drains in the floor, so I can splash it down with soap and water and don't have to mop it up, I'll just squigy it into the drain on the floor. Thanks to Brazil for teaching me that this is the true way to clean toilets. The toilets are also going to have space around them so that IF I ever have a garbage can behind it, I can reach it from the side and don't have to risk my hair touching the toilet as I reach behind the toilet to pick up the toilet paper that my children don't get in the garbage can that forms a gross little pile of gross tissue with gross moist germy stuff all over it. I took a photo of a mess like that, but I won't post it here. I guess I just took the pic to remind me of this gross moment. 

I thought  was thinking of going on a ride to try and cure my funk, esp cause it's gong to be too cold tomorrow, but I didn't go. I decided I didn't want to spend an hour and a half biking, and that's ok cause I doubled up yesterday with swimming after the temple and then a quick upper body workout with Abi last night.

Today I was helping Hyrum get some gloves and neck warmers for a hike with friends that I thought might get cold (it wasn't) so he took stuff for everyone in his backpack but didn't use it. When I was helping Hyrum get those, I discovered that the kids made a mess in the basement, with two coats bins in a pile with a bin of thermals and I want to rage.

I had my hunches, and it was confirmed: Owen was the guilty party. (Good to know that he has some faults.) He helped me pick it up but I'll need to re-do it cause all the coats don't fit. I had to really shove them in there when I organized it a few weeks ago. Ugh, maybe we have too many coats. I need to get rid of all this stuff. Too. much. stuff. I also might be in a funk cause I'm sick? Maybe that's why I didn't want to do a ride. Low on energy and I've had a little bit of a sore throat tonight. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be handing out bread... Yesterday I gifted 1 reg and 3 mini loaves of bread. It's fun to share. I took one reg to a new friend Lacey that Kathy O and I were going to go visit for RS, Kathy ended up not coming cause she was sick. I also gifted three mini loaves this evening to Debbie G, Debbie W, Kathy O. 

So Hyrum went on a hike with some friends, including a girl he's slightly interested in. He was talking me to me last night and today about his girl stresses and trying to read the signs and non-verbal communication. Then he told me and Abi of all the reasons that he's a total catch - he's got a 4.0, currently has three internship offers, he can almost bench 225lbs (and believes that he will be the first in his bloodline to achieve such a feat) etc etc...

AND (and I think this is cool) he's been transcribing the Book of Mormon by hand, writing it all out. He's 2 years into this little project and is currently in Helaman. If he continues at his current pace, he thinks he'll finish next February. He's learned a lot and is planning to write a little something about the insights he's had about the Book of Mormon and Oliver Cowdry and Joseph Smith from doing this. Hyrum's been frustrated too. Last night Hyrum took this pic - he's tired of sourdough. The syrup just happened to be on the counter and he considered it for a moment (we are out of spaghetti sauce)

I was able to do a Costco run for food today cause Corey stayed home for me to have his car. He took carpool this morning, then went swimming, came back home to clean up and read his scriptures,  ate breakfast for what seemed like a long time, I left with his car to go to Costco and to Hobby Lobby for art stuff (giving myself an early birthday present) and Walmart for cilantro light bulbs and socks, roast beef and sardines. Yes, sardines, inspired by the video we watched last Thursday. It is the first time I've ever bought those! They have them for sale, I've never noticed them before. I went to Hobby Lobby and Walmart first, then to Costco where I got spaghetti sauce, three 25 bags of flour, and more sardines! They have them at Costco too! wow. We tried them with sourdough and they weren't bad, just seemed like an oily can of dark tuna. All I've had in my brain about sardines until now is that "sardines are super gross." I don't know why Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs gives them such a bad rep! So today we both tried sardines for the first time ever and our opinion - not bad, especially not as bad as I was afraid they'd be (with bones and eyes). I'm sure I'll document it here if either of us ends up doing a sardine fast. 

Eliza gave me a call when we were driving to Walmart. Katharine talked with Mary while I pushed her in the shopping cart. Eliza sent us some pictures of Mary - she's always so smiley!

She is turning a year old in 11 days!

Mary, where did the time go?? It's the circle of life. Before we know it she'll be a senior in high school going to prom. K had two friends come over after we got back from Costco, Becca and Scarlett. They are cute girls, but having two friends over did throw things off slightly and they all spent a moment sulking at different times over different things. That's never happened when they are just two. Abi answered to prom tonight - made a poster with a Hi-Chew saying.

Abi was making that while Hyrum was bragging on himself. She's also in the middle of Senior Assassin right now. 

Dentist

Today I took 4 kids to the dentist. They have not been to the dentist since 2020/covid, but I am diligent about their oral hygiene at home, and thus I am very pleased to report that we came out without having to get any cavities fixed. Owen had no cavities and got sealant put on his permanent teeth. He also has all 4 wisdom teeth! Daniel actually did have three cavities on three different molars, but the dentist said were small and they are all on baby molar teeth that Daniel should be loosing this next year. Owen has lost the same teeth that Daniel had cavities in, and Owen is just a year older than Daniel, so yeah those cavities will be taken care of that way. Daniel got sealant on his permanent teeth. This was the first time to the dentist for Peter and Katharine, and no cavities for them, yay yay. 

At first Katharine wasn't too excited about going, not that she knew what it was, so I don't know why she was hesitant. But she did great once we were there. The kids each took turns laying on the dentist table, and the boys went first and set a good example for Katharine, and she went last and hopped up  onto the table very willingly. 

Open wide little girl.

Daniel's seeing how the cleaning goes.

Watching Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on a tv on the ceiling. "Mom, I'm kinda cool!" she said when she saw this photo.

After all the cleaning and x-rays, the boys got sealant put on their teeth. Now it's Katharine's turn to watch.

Making sure I get a photo of everyone with their mouth open.

Cleaning was all done on the right chair there where Owen is, when they did the sealants they doubled up to be quicker.

Peter's the last one, almost done. 

Good job little kids, you made me proud.

Time to get a prize.

They gave each of the kids two coins and they got two little toys. Something funny - tonight at home, Abi was talking about how she needed to go work for my mom to earn some money for prom this weekend, and Katharine suggested she go to the dentist "They have gold money." The kids were also excited about new toothbrushes, toothpaste. and floss picks. Victory smiles as we went down the mirrored stairs back to the car.

I'd like to thank the diligent people at the kids current dental insurance for pestering me to get that done. I was going to do it, but they sure followed up a lot and put the pressure on, so it did happen sooner than it would have because of their help/pressure. Go team.

After the dentist appointments, Corey and I were planning to go for a ride, but then he said he wasn't  feeling great, so I went and he took a nap. I made sure the kids were all good and let the older kids know they were in charge. Cute Katharine was playing with her friend Becca, and they were both in their Elena of Avalor dresses. 

Two princesses. And Katharine drew this picture of both of their moms! That's me on the left and Becca's mom on the right. SO CUTE! Katharine, these are the first drawings you've done that I've seen! So good!!!

She was proud. Kids all taken care of, Corey laid down for a nap, and I went up the canyon at 5. I took a few photos so I can draw/paint our lovely granite canyon. 

I made bread for dinner. For FHE we were going to go play racquetball, but since Corey was sick I decided we'd just watch a comedy thing and play Flip 7, which I learned again how to play over the weekend with my sisters. But then Lily and Sophi went on a walk - Corey told them to be back at 8:10, they weren't back until after 9, so we read scriptures and now we're going to bed. I said we did enough last week that that can count for two FHE activities. Buenas noches.

Last Week

This past week was crazy busy and great. We went camping out in the middle of nowhere for Spring break with some friends. They did most of the work, we brought the party. I'll give the detailed recap later, I need to catch up for the past two weeks! But we drove down Monday, left around 2, picked up pizza for dinner in Green River, set up camp before dark and went to bed. Tuesday morning we hiked Three Canyon with the Gygis and Morgans. We were all going to go, but K threw up that morning, so Corey stayed back at camp with her. We were gone from noon until dark. It was really cool. I am going to do some art work someday of this spot where we did the rappel into the canyon. 

That was the first outdoor rappel I've done since I was a young tweenager at Brighton Girls camp. We were slow going cause we were a big crowd. 

Some parts were pretty sketchy and we all commented how we were glad that Katharine wasn't with us. We were scared enough for Peter and Daniel's safety. 

Wednesday we went to Moonshine Canyon. Very cool there. It was a bit more technical. We were all going to do that too, and as we went along we decided it was too much for the little kids, esp Katharine and their dog Chewy, so Corey and Abi stayed back with ODPK and I went ahead with Jill and her daughter Esti, and MLSN.

Cool slot canyon!

The last long hot walk in the sun at the end where we had to get back to the beginning of the wash was a bit brutal.

Good experience. Then Thursday we packed up and headed home, and I was going to go straight to a Hibbert Sister Retreat but instead I went to a dinner at BYU with Corey and Ethan and Bella, following a capstone presentation thing. We left the kids to unpack and got back at 9pm. I decided to wait until the next morning to go to the Hibbert thing after Corey and I were able to exercise. I came back from that late last night. Corey picked me up at 11, we ended up staying awake until 1. I woke up early to do the RS board and then get my hair ready and print up a few things for cause I was teaching the lesson in Relief Society (Elder Christofferson's talk "Look to God and Live"). I think the lesson went well, we had a good discussion on trial and chaos (Hebrew symbolism of water) and how we look to God for peace and refuge in our storms. I printed up little pictures of Jesus and had those passed around.

They also did a spotlight on me before the lesson, something that our ward does to help us all learn a little more about each other since our wards combined. So I stayed up late, got up early, and thus I after I got home, I crashed for several hours. Busy busy week, but great and memorable experiences! I'll give the details later, going to go back and blog it all day by day. Mel and Christian came by for a bit, but I was sleeping through most of their visit. Made sourdough. Took a loaf by to the Noble family who invited kids over to swim last night (tried two other families but they were gone (Kofoeds and Weavers) - Sophi was practicing driving while we tried to find someone who was home to receive a fresh out of the oven loaf of bread.) So it was bread for dinner, I'll go to the store tomorrow. K we stayed up late again - 11:20, Wes is in here talking. Hyrum is considering a last minute trip to Guatemala that Corey's friend Jeff threw out a few hours ago. K I'm going to try and go to bed.

DMV & Bluey

I've had a bit of a run around the past two days. Yesterday, Corey had told Lily he'd take her to the DMV. He was going to pick her up at 2, but then he really needed to get work done, so I headed out to do it cause I had a car. I left K at home with Abi. Turned out she was already there with Corey, but I was on my way, so we met half way at Cotton Bottom and I took Lily and he headed back to his dads. I was preparing a lecture about how I hate unexpected things... about I can do stuff like this but I like to have atleast 24 hours notice, so I was feeling a bit put out. She was crying though when she came in my car, she already got a slight lecture from Corey and felt bad, so I didn't say much. We got to the DMV and there we found out that she actually didn't have an appointment scheduled. We texted Corey to see if it was in his email, it wasn't, wasn't in mine or hers, so turns out she had no confirmation number, no appointment number, aaaand no appointment. So there went an hour of my day and after the lecture from Corey and a kinda bad attitude from me, we went back home. I gave myself a C- grade on my parenting and attitude. 

Lily rescheduled her DMV road test for today. I had a much better attitude (cause I had 24 hour notice). Corey stayed home so I was able to use his car (Abi had the van for Lyceum). I took her after he was done with a meeting. I took Lily to that one with K in tow. I was a bit tired and might have fallen asleep in the waiting room while she did her road test and K colored on my phone. Lily didn't pass her road test, so we get to come again AGAIN. The instructor said she needs to do more head checks. She also didn't do parallel parking well enough. They also said to take off the bike rack to make it easier for her. We aren't going to do that, so she'll just take the van next time. I think she rescheulded it for tomorrow morning. I'm going to let Corey do that one.

I did not take any photos yesterday or today! I did watch Bluey with Katharine for a bit. She likes the easter episode, I like Sleepytime. It made me cry yesterday and again today. 

It is visually beautiful, it is so cute and funny and relatable: the kids scaring you from your sleep, kids kicking you, the way Bluey asks "Dad will you sing to me?" Bandit sleeping with underwear as a blanket, haha, and I love the music on it - Jupiter Bringer of Jollity, esp the music at 2:54. Yeah, the music definitely is what gets me. I'll sit with Katharine and snuggle her, my little baby chick, and have thoughts of how I don't want to let go of having my own little ones here in my home. I'm glad I already have grandkids and hopefully we'll be able to spend more time with them. But yeah, I already miss my babies. K is still little, I'll soak it up while I can. My sister shared this video today on longevity. "The Longevity Lie No One talks about" - really good. I plan to live past 100 and I want to stay young for Katharine, I'll be 64 when she graduates high school! I don't want to just say alive, I want to stay healthy. I'll do it for myself and for my kids and grandkids.

Palm Sunday

Mel and Christian came up for church today. Melodie and Abi did a flute duet with one of the musical numbers at church - My Shephard Will Supply My Need (one of my favorites!) the flute really added a special touch. It was a special Easter service today for Palm Sunday, and cause we will not be meeting with our congregations next Sunday because it will be General Conference. 

Corey and I went to visit with some neighbors, Jill and Craig, who invited us to join them on a spring break adventure. We're going to go down to Green River area and camp and hike Three Canyon and Moonshine Canyon! It is going to be really great. At first we were thinking we'd just take ALSN and maybe Owen with us, when they were thinking Three Canyon or Dark Canyon (Dark canyon is harder and further away) but we decided on Three Canyon for this first adventure together, and they said they think little kids could do it to so we're going to take all the kids! Should be fun!

Hyrum and Wes and Lauren were on their way back up to Idaho, after spending the weekend in St. George, and they came by for dinner around 4pm. Katharine helped Corey make tapioca pudding, which is one of Corey's favorites to feed a crowd with. 

Such a big helper, Katharine! Corey made a boatload of potatoes yesterday in preparation for his starving college kids coming over for dinner today. That was nice of him. I made a big Greek salad, and sourdough of course, and Corey also got some beef yesterday. We got it all ready...

Unfortunately, Corey put his soy milk yogurt in the potatoes, which he's done before and it's usually ok. But this time, he heated it up on the stove and it must have cooked the soy or something cause it made the potatoes taste very sour with a hint of cheesy taste to it. It was too much for the kids and no one took second helpings, and most couldn't/wouldn't finish their first, so basically this whole silver Ikea bowl of 12 pounds of potatoes was wasted and thrown out. Kinda sad.

But there was plenty of bread! So good news is that no one went hungry. Ethan and Bella came up and we saved some meat, salad, and roasted veggies for them. After dinner, we all went to JeNeal's graveside. Today is her birthday. It was also very appropriate for the Easter season, because we all firmly believe in the resurrection of Christ. Christ overcame death and hell, and because he did, we all will as well! That is his gift to us - life and salvation. 

Life and death. Little ones born into our families, like our little Alvie...

...and older generations going on ahead. But they will be ready to meet us and welcome us when it is our turn to pass on. 

Racquetball

Ahh, we're at the end of another busy day! We had soccer all morning, and didn't get out to exercise until around 4:30 Corey left for a ride, and I wanted to go for a ride, but I also wanted to swim, cause I think it is really helping my left shoulder! But swimming closed at 6... so Corey left but I went swimming, and I figured if I still wanted to go on a ride after that, that I would still have time before it got dark. Well, then I decided not to go on a ride, and instead I took ODPK to play racquetball! They loved it.

That was also a win-win cause I got the kids out of Corey's hair for a little bit so he could work. I taught Owen the basics of the game and he likes it! So he and I tried to play a game. 

With the interruptions every few minutes by the littles - coming over telling us they wanted to show us something they did with the ball, or telling us so and so hit me in the head, etc etc.

But ya can hardly go wrong with kids with balls in a big room!

It's just the racquet part that is dangerous! So that was fun. The boys got all their sports in today - I took all three of them to their soccer games earlier this morning while Corey had the girls get to work with house chores. How did I do that with one car when kids had games at the same time at two different fields, you might wonder? Well, I dropped off D and O at 10, D's game was at 10:15. Then I drove Peter to Flat iron for his game. I stayed with Peter. The Real Salt Lake mascot, some lion, came and interrupted the end of the game... He just walked on and started playing for the other team, who was already beating us. Kinda funny, kinda weird. Kids were ok with it since they were already losing.

Then after Peter's game, we went straight back to Lone Peak Park to catch the last half plus of Owen's game. And then I was feeling like a softy afterwards and I went and got them ice cream (and myself sushi) at Macey's afterwards. I shared most of the sushi, and they each gave me a tax of ice cream. 

When we got home, I cooked up some of the dough I made last night. I almost figured out the oven. This one was a little over toasted, but it was presentable. I'm back in business.

Yaaayyy. I was pleased to see the girls had done a ton of stuff on the list I left. They cleaned the fridge out and the pantry, filled up the garbage can with pine needles (a little too full unfortunately, I'm not sure I'll be able to take any more to it until it's emptied on Wednesday...) Oh, before that, first thing this morning actually, Katharine came downstairs and asked to go to the store. At the Easter Egg Hunt yesterday, some of the eggs were filled with $2 bills! Katharine got one of those and this morning she asked if she could go to the store to buy a treat with her money. I needed to go get treats for Owen's soccer game, so that worked. We hurried down to Smiths, she got these macaroon looking sucker cookie pops and was very pleased with her purchase.

Good job Kat. You are a smart shopper. It is pink, it's pretty, and it had a $2 in the price ($2.49) so you win.

New Oven & Easter Egg Hunt

The New oven is here!

And a final goodbye to the old oven that served us so well for these many years. I took a pic to remember it by. 

I'll be honest, that is not an accurate pic (as you probably guessed). This is more what it usually looked like, lol. With a big ol' mess all around it. Yes, I took this pic first - 

Then I cleaned it up and then took that second pic, pretending it lived a respectable life like that. I tried to take care of it, but it did get worked to death. The new oven was scheduled to be delivered between 9-11. I was trying to clean up under the oven drawer when they arrived. He said "Let me get that one out of the way, then it will be easier to clean up under it." He pulled it out, and I guess I never knew that was an option. I have cleaned under the fridge, but never the oven. It was naaaasty. Look at the side of the oven there - yeah. 

Gunk like that all caked on the sides and edges, lots of dust and legos and small toys, dice, mancala pieces, marbles, a baby spoon, beads, dirt, crumbs, etc etc yech. I did a very quick and good sweep, then I scrubbed it down real fast while they were hauling that one out and I had it cleaned before they brought the new one in. We still need to get ride of and replace the non-working vent above it. We haven't used the vent so what if we just don't have one? I can put a magnetic knife thing above it instead? Corey said he and his dad will get that changed out. I'll give them until the end of the school year. If it's still here come summer, I might take a crack at it. Wesley came home last night - he and Hyrum are on their way to St. George with Ethan and Bella & Alvie and Mel and Christian for some fun college kids activity. Wes headed out this afternoon. He drove Hyrum's car and left today after Lauren got to Provo, so he gave her a ride in Hyrum's car, Hyrum went with Mel and Christian. It was fun to have him around for a bit this morning. He rode a bike to school with Peter ~

And then also went to see Daniel's School House Rock performance for the school at 9:30 today. So nice of him to go. Abi had a B day again, so she was around. For her mission, she still needs to get her wisdom teeth out, and since she has all 4 she can get paid to do it via a study (like Joseph and Mel did) and she got a call today to participate in a study with a few conditions: it would involve her staying at their facility to be monitored for 3 days, they would compensate her $2500 freaking dollars, BUT, she'd have to have her blood drawn like 15-20 times in that process, which made Abi be like, uhhhh, no....

$2500 dollars??? That's not worth it? You can't face for fears for over two thousand dollars? I know that when you come home from your mission, you'll really be wishing you had that! But she's leaning towards a hard no. But she said she'll call them back on Monday. We'll see if Corey's able to convince her otherwise. 

After the littles were home, the kids went over to the usual yards for the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Owen is ready for this party to start.

Group pic!

And then they took off. They found their 12 eggs, and smiled for the camera.

Peter had gathered two orange glittery eggs and Katharine thought they were so pretty, but Peter wouldn't trade. That was a little sad. But K had opened her 12 and was ok with it. Then she saw her friend Becca who had two very pretty pink glittery eggs. Katharine told her she liked her pretty egg, and then she grabbed one and gave it to Katharine without a second thought. 

She is a true friend, and I guess Peter is a true sibling! That was at 3, and then at 4 I took K to the school park to play with a girl named Sunny that Abi and Katharine had met on another occasion when Abi took the kids to the park. And then I got a text that there was another Easter Egg Hunt at the community park - Owen's friend invited him to go. So that was at 5 - I hurried home with the car at 4:50 so Abi could take the kids to that. The kids were playing with neighbors, so the neighbors all got in the car to go too. I hadn't heard about a community thing going on with that, but they had my blessing to go, and if there wasn't anything happening, they could just play at the park for a bit or whatever. Abi said there was a hunt, and it actually looked like it was a ward party for some other ward - she saw some neighbors from our ward before the split, so she thinks it was their ward. But they had people there to mingle with, so they stayed and had cupcakes and had fun. 

It was a good candy day for the little people. Corey and I went on a date to Bandits, then played 18 min of racquetball, and that was all I did for exercise today. It was a full and busy day, the end of a full week and a lot of fun.