We
did grocery swap with some extra complications from Megan and Brooke
needing to get to basketball camp. Candy and her best bud, Kenzie
She had to wait all.day.long. to open those presents. She was SO excited when Dan got home.
After
dinner she opened them. Her big wish this time was for that horse for
her doll to ride. Megan and Brooke have horses already and Candy
desperately wanted one. She also got new markers, a sticker book, gummy
bears, and some coloring pages.
For
family night we all went around and said things we loved or favorite
memories of Candy. She felt so special and was adorable. Then for
family night treat we had ice cream sandwiches with candles in hers.
Tuesday
July 12th was busy. One thing after another. It started with
basketball camp for Megan and Brooke. While they were gone, my visiting
teachers came and I baked cupcakes for Brooke and Candy's party later.
I picked up the big girls and we sat in the car cutting out and taping
on our cow costumes for some free chick fil a. Mmm, mmm, good. We met
up with a few friends there and hung out til naptime.
During
naptime I made frosting (almond vanilla buttercream) and
decorated cupcakes and then took the kids to the pool for their party.
I invited 4 friends and their kids but only 2 could make it. We kept
it very low key so we wouldn't get in trouble for having an unscheduled
party. All the kids swam for a while, I called them over for cupcakes,
and they swam a while more. We did presents in the parking lot on the
way out. My girls loved it! And I did too, easy party.
Wednesday
was Brooke's 7th birthday! I keep telling her that you'll be home next
year when she's baptized (we'll wait for you :) ). She requested
omelettes and they were yummy. Ham and cheese.
We
played at the pool after basketball camp and caught up with Kat Barney
and her boys there. We had fun swimming and having lunch. We came home
for quiet time and I had promised Brooke a date with me to work on her
gift from some friends--a little paint your own school house and peg
dolls. She was in heaven. Here's her finished product.
Then when Dan got home, it was her turn for us to say what we loved about her and for her to open presents.
She
got gummy bears, a sticker book, a chapter book to read, and we showed
her the inline skates (her big wish) that were on their way but weren't
delivered yet. She was thrilled.
We did her candles in a cupcake and then we all had popsicles for her birthday treat.
Thursday
was the last day of basketball camp. I came to watch the end and see
them hand out certificates and t shirts. Megan LOVED basketball camp.
She didn't make many baskets in the little scrimmage I watched, but man
was she good at stealing the ball. Brooke was NOT loving basketball
camp since she was on the other team and they got creamed. She had fun
other than that though. (Megan's in green, Brooke in yellow)
Then
it was a busy afternoon for me of packing up for our family reunion
weekend. I baked a cake so we could celebrate the birthdays with the
cousins too. We left the house around 3:45 and drove to pick up Dan
from his office (he had gotten a ride into work). We got to the lake
house at 5. Dad and Sally had been there for an hour or so and Amy and
the kids had been there all day. Jamie and her crew arrived near 5:30
and Carrie and Shad got there after they finished work, Carrie near 6
and Shad near 6:30. Shad didn't even get dinner, he walked in the house
and straight out to the boat to take a big crew out. All the kids went
except Ellie, Jack, and Emily I think. And a big group of grownups
too. There were like 17 people out with him! They rode til sunset and
then we all came in for dinner and talking. We were up til 10:30 or
so.
Friday morning we did a really fun adults only
sunrise run. Me, Dan, Jamie, Carrie, Shad, Amy, and Dad. Good times
wakesurfing and kneeboarding. We came in around 9.
Then it was the kids' turn.
It
got rough in the afternoons and we did tubing. Lots of fun and really
hot. We had a sad mishap though. As the big kids got ready to ride the
tubes, Zach was sitting on one side of the double and as Julianne
jumped onto the other side she somehow landed just the wrong way on his
arm and his arm broke! Crazy. A hairline fracture of the radius. Poor
kid. So he and Shad ran to the ER in the afternoon for x-rays and came
home splinted and with a sling. Jamie bought a shaved ice maker for
the lake house and we put it to good use. Dinner that night was hot
dogs and hamburgers. We were all wiped out and by about 9:30 most of us
were dropping off.
Saturday was another adult only
sunrise run. I missed that one but they had fun. Then we did lots of
tubing that day. Lots. We're all sore and bruised and rubbed raw from
the tubes but it was worth it!
Dad trying to kill his 4 oldest kids--we're all looking forward to doing this with you next summer!
We were all packing up on Saturday but Dad and Shad wanted one last run with the two single tubes. I think they had fun.
We cleaned up and ate a quick pizza dinner before heading home near 6 pm.
All the grandkids:
The whole crew--just missing Ty!
It
was a really nice weekend together. I've got a great family. It
felt good to just talk and laugh and enjoy being there.
It was a great Sunday today. Dan had early meetings but the kids were pretty good considering how tired we all were. Sacrament meeting was great. A new family spoke (they live 4 houses down from us). The husband is a convert and he talked about how when he was dating his now-wife in high school, her dad was bishop and occasionally they'd invite him to talk to the missionaries and he (raised Catholic) would politely decline. Then they invited him to vacation with the family to some place he'd never heard of--Nauvoo. He said as they went through the sites there, his heart softened and he told his girlfriend he was ready to meet the missionaries. His talk was on being member missionaries. He said a big part of why he became interested in the church was just the feeling in the home of that family. And how they weren't pushy, they let him come to them over time with questions as he felt comfortable but they always invited. It was a good talk. My class was on captain moroni and amalikiah and the contrasts between those two leaders. And then I got to play piano for singing time which was fun. We had a quiet afternoon. Dan went to a baptism for the ward he's over and then we had dinner and bedtime.
Cute Emily this morning. I took her to the doctor on thursday before heading to the lake and we found out both her ears were infected--she's had a terrible cough. Poor thing. She's so good though, she didn't even act fussy with all that!
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