HBD Wesley

Today is Wesley's happy birthday. He is at FSY in California this week. I told him to send me a photo but he said he didn't take any. The kids in his group did, he said he'll forward me one of those after he gets one. Send I'll update that here when/if he sends it. So it's Wesley's happy birthday but sadly it's his 3rd bday in a row away from home, thus we did not have ice cream or anything, cause I didn't want to. We had enough sugar on Lily's birthday and it seem like sugar and junk always just show up anyway, so no need to go intentionally invite it into our home. I am not going to buy any if I don't have to, and if Wesley's not here, I don't have to. 

I went on a morning bike ride. It rained yesterday and a little bit last night, so it smelled sooooo good. 

I loved it. Today the youth in our neighborhood went downtown for the new Salt Lake Temple visitor's center tour. 

Sophi went and walked over to the church with a friend, but Lily and Natalie were both dragging their feet about it, so when Corey took them over, the group had already left. And Abi didn't go cause she's in California, and having a fabulous time.

Taking surfing lessons. 

Today wasn't a great day but it was ok. I took a long nap that was horrible cause I was dreaming about not being able to open my eyes for an hour. When I did finally snap out of it and drag myself out of bed (lacking energy cause of anemia? Trying to figure it out...) I had some computer time - paid some bills, did some blogging, doing a little more of that now before we go to bed. At scriptures, Katharine wanted to say the prayer, as always, and she challenged everyone to an arm wrestle who thought that they should be able to say the prayer instead. 

She shut each of them down (cause we said "Let her win!") We'll stand up to this princess eventually, but not today.

Yesterday morning I went on a hike with some friends, Jill Elasha and Stephani.

We hiked from the south side of Lisa Falls, up to the ruins and up to the Tanners Flat camp ground. We had a good visit as we walked and gave each other motivation and health advice. Anemia came up - Steph says I should go get a blood panel done. Corey and I still need health insurance. I hope that doesn't come back to bite us too bad with the Affordable Care Act fines? We had a good walk and talk visit. Jill and Elasha and I are going to text each other for how good we eat, giving ourselves some grace for when we eat a treat, but we're trying to be good and eat veggies and avoid processed stuff. I sent them a pic of my current favorite breakfast - a big pinto bean salad with spring mix, onion, kimchi, and chipotle sauce. 

It is seriously so good and satisfying. Thank you Dr. Alex for getting Corey to want beans and veggies and fiber for breakfast, cause that's helping me eat it for breakfast too. 

I also took some time to paint a bit yesterday. I worked on that while Corey took Owen and Edmund on a ride down the quarry trail. 

Such a lovely canyon, I love these mountains.

It's been a month since I did anything art-y. With this one I'm going to try and do a larger painting of the Garden Tomb. Spent some time spacing it out - 

and then that was it, cause later in the evening yesterday, I took the kids with me up to Bountiful to go to Christian's sister's wedding reception.  

We stayed for the whole evening. Katharine was embraced by Christian's little sisters and friends.

The little kids all had a great time playing. Edmund and Owen were running around doing tag with the girls. They all ate a lot of ice cream and nachos. We stayed for the dance party. Christian told Owen and Daniel that he'd pay them $2 each to do the worm AND the sea lion. People were dancing, then these two little boys get everyone's attention in the circle as they do the worm - oh yeah! Cool kids! Then they start doing the sea lion and there was an awkward silence which turned into a collective groan and cringe and people squirmed in discomfort. Christian was dying with laughter, saying it was the best $4 bucks he's ever spent. The sea lion is so bad, such a stupid trend, ugh. Natalie and Sophi went to dance, they were going to do some dance to Beat It that they learned in Ballroom, but when the moment came, Sophi was behind Natalie and then Sophi abandoned Natalie and didn't dance with her, so it was just Natalie there giving it her all for a minute until she saw that Sophi had tricked her into dancing a lone. Sophi was laughing so hard at Natalie that she wet herself! Then she grabbed Natalie to be a shield behind her and sent straight to the car. So then I figured we were done. 

I went to tell Mel and Christian that we were leaving, but they were getting ready for the send off, so we got sparklers and joined in that - Peter and Katharine liked holding the sparklers.

Cute Mel with her pregnant tummy that you can't see -

And then we headed home. The kids all had fun, and I'm glad we were able to go support Christian's family. Congrats to Breeanne and Bryson! And way to go Christian's mom for pulling off another wedding this year! Wow! She's positive that this is the last one for a while, so she'll have a break and be able to catch her breath!