Jumping on Abi

This morning I got up early to cook sourdough for breakfast. I had the oven on a delay so it would start to preheat while I was still in bed, but then the power went off at 4am. It came back on at 4:45 am and that woke me up. I went down, turned the oven on to preheat, formed my loaves, let them proof in the fridge until the oven was ready, put it in the oven at 5:30 with lid on, took lid off at 6 then left to boulder real quick, Lily finished up for me and took them out. I started bouldering at 6:15 at Ft Union, with 47 min to spare until I had to get home for carpool. I was able to crank out a quick session. Back at home I had two more loaves cooking after the kids left, my 2nd and 3rd of the day. I'm experimenting with different recipes, ratios, methods. It's fun learning to cook sourdough!

Abi didn't have Lyceum today for some reason, and Katharine has enjoyed having her home. Katharine spent some time jumping on Abi. K was being weird and cute. 

She was saying such unique things, like "I've never done this on a human before!" Haha so funny!

I took a video of it. That was fun to watch. Abi was sweet about it too - channeling her inner Bandit Heeler and putting on a smile. We love Katharine. 

Abi took the kids to the library earlier this week, and after playing jump on the couch, we went to the kitchen for a snack and Abi read Katharine the books she got at the libray.

We got our first real snow today. Bella sent me this pic of Alive all bundled up and oustide seeing his first snow!

I cleared it with the shovel for the car tire tracks this morning when there was just a little bit. It came down throughout the morning and I checked how high it was this afternoon. It didn't look like too much and I went out to shovel. Welp, I was wrong, it was too much - very dense and heavy. I got the snowblower out for the first time this winter season and cleared enough for Abi to not drive on it when she got home from school. Then I took a break with plans to finish clearing it for Corey before he got home for dinner at 6:30. I had chili cooking for dinner, plus more fresh sourdough in the works to go with it. We're ready for a nice warm comfort food meal! 

The boys were excited about the snow when they came home. Owen and Daniel had activity days and they were going sledding. I helped them get ready and controlled the winter clothing search so that the basement wasn't left in total chaos. After I put it all back away, K wanted to go sledding, so I got her and Peter ready and put away all the stuff again, go me for not letting them just wreak havoc down there! It's all put away, I'll have them hang up their wet clothes when they're back. So Abi took Peter and Katharine to the Aspen Meadows park to sled.

Katharine eating some snow.

Peter had a few good wipeouts. 

He was sad when he got home and Abi showed us a video of a big wipe out that did him in. Later tonight she put the video to some music and shared it with the older kids via Wride Nation. Abi said it was really steep after that jump and so he did have a good tumble with that few feet of air plus the negative feet from the slope down. Peter cried about it for 30+ minutes after he got home. Wes was impressed "you don't even see him land! He's a legend!"

When Katharine and Peter just got back from sledding, K took off her pants and left them on the kitchen floor. I said to her "Katharine, can you pick up your pants?" and she replied "Uuuh!! How come I always have to do my stuff!!"

I get you. We all feel that way! Sat down for dinner - chili and sourdough! Thank you Lily for teaching me the ways of bread.

Hooray for me: we had a sit down dinner. Flex!

It's nice to see Natalie up at the table. She stayed home today not feeling well. Most of the day she looked like this doing homework on her bed. 

And one thing that I think is  so funny when Natalie is sick is how CRAZY her hair gets!

So it's been a fun winter day with all the winter things: snow, shoveling, sledding, whipeouts, and warm comfort food. Scriptures tonight was upstairs.

...which means more family closeness around a small screen.

Oh, and Peter wants me to take a picture of his bed. He was very carful to make his bed this morning and he's trying to sleep in it carefully so his blankets and stuffies don't get messed up.