We had a great week. Summer time can be lots of fun. I enjoy not having a tight schedule. I had fun doing the cooking class last week. The kids enjoyed it too. This week the kids have classes. Spencer did a “Star Wars” class last Saturday evening. It was more of a party and they watched the original Star Wars movie. He enjoyed it. Spencer is attending an ASL class this week. He had a lot of fun with it yesterday. His first grade teacher did a lot with ASL in the class room and he remembered a lot and was excited to practice and learn more. Andrew is doing a origami class this week. It has renewed his interest and he has been making things all morning. Caleb is enjoying lots of time to draw maps and built with blocks. He also plays computer games as much as I will let him.
Caleb thought it cool he could build a tower taller than him
I have a calling in the ward now. I am one of the Activity Day leaders with the girls in the ward. Last week we met and I enjoyed meeting the other leaders and getting to know some of the girls. It is a big group, about 20 girls.
Last Thursday Neal and I were going to go to a Shakespeare play at an out door theater. Since it was raining we decided not to go. Instead we went to a movie theater and saw the movie “Love and Friendship.” It is a movie based on a Jane Austen book called “Lady Susan.” I enjoyed the movie and now I want to read the book. I have it on hold at the library. I guess others want to read it now too!
Friday evening Neal and I went out to dinner and then did the Shakespeare play. It was a free event and we were able to enjoy a nice out door production of “Much ado about Nothing.” I am glad it worked out to see the play. The evening was pleasant to be outside and the acting was good. We enjoyed time together.
The boys are enjoying playing with Neal’s Lego and building many fun things this week. I think it is fun how happy they are in their play. Often they will be humming or even singing made-up silly songs. I am glad that they are all so happy.
Sunday I taught Spencer primary class. It was interesting. The kids were a bit disruptive and it frustrated me, but we made it through the lesson. Spencer was well behaved. He said the kids are like that all the time. We had ward conference and I enjoyed hearing from our leaders and their good messages on faith. For Primary sharing time we had the stake primary president teach. She taught the same lesson we had heard at the ward conference for our last ward back in February. Spencer leaned over to me and asked “haven’t we heard this before?” so he remembered it too. It was a good lesson about the pioneers and pressing forward in faith.
Monday morning I told the kids we could go to the library. They were all excited to go and talking about what kinds of books they would look up. I decided to go to a donut shop to get some free donuts we had coupons for. The kids loved the treat. As we were leaving the donut shop I realized “the library is closed on Monday!” At least I remembered before we got there. I felt pretty silly to plan an outing and realize it couldn’t happen. We went to the library Tuesday afternoon. We found some good books. Caleb is interested in plate tectonics and I found a book about it. We had signed up for the reading program so we could show our reading logs and get a prize. This week they were giving out books. The kids loved that. I like that they give the kids books. In Texas we always got coupons for restaurants in the area, which was fun too, but the books last longer than an ice cream or donut.
Monday afternoon I took the kids swimming at the community pool by the middle school. They have been begging to go to play and just have fun, not just their swim lessons. Andrew and Ruth are doing really well with swimming. Spencer is more confident and learning more about how to get through the water. This pool is nice because at the deepest part (in the middle) it is only 5 feet. So the older kids do pretty good with it. Caleb was playful and enjoyed being there. This is a big improvement for Caleb who just wanted to hang on me the entire time he was in water last year. I enjoyed watching them play. The time went quickly because we ran into some friends and I had someone to talk to. Even though we reapplied sun screen after an hour the kids all got light sun burns. I am thankful I didn’t get burned.
Yesterday I thought it would be fun to teach the kids more about sewing. We looked through my fabric boxes and found fabric for the three older kids to make pajama pants with. Caleb didn’t seem that interested, plus he is a bit young to do sewing. Today I plan on cutting them out with the kids and get them to start sewing on them. I will help, especially Spencer, but it will be fun to teach them.
I noticed some bad spots on my peaches and picked them. We got six peaches this year. The previous owners said their had been a frost after the peach tree had blossomed, so it wasn’t a surprise to have so few develop. I cut two up this morning. They tasted good, the parts we could eat. The pits were all rotten. I am not sure why. I guess I will learn about fruit trees more. The apples and pears are growing well and hopefully will stay good.
Last Saturday Neal flew to England for work. He has been able to write me emails. It sounds like his trip is going well. He doesn’t have much time for touring anything, he is in meetings all day. But he has said how interesting the architecture is and seeing things he has seen. We have missed him. He will be back Friday evening. I am sure he will have some great things to share with us about his trip.
This afternoon Ruth was invited to go swimming with friends and is excited about that. I plan on taking the boys to do mini golf with some coupons they had for free games. I like free things.
Some pretty flowers in my yard
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