These are the days...

Memorial Day

Always love visiting the National Cemetery on Memorial Day. We learned that the Mormons use Moroni as their religious symbol on the head stones. My kids got a huge kick out of hunting for them!

Off to Lake Wilderness for some fishing and playing catch!

Tucker's last day with Mrs. Cloud. What a wonderful 2 years we had with her. Tuck said he wouldn't miss preschool because he is going to be a Preschool teacher someday;)

Ran the Green River Marathon with some friends. Gorgeous day in Seattle.

This time only 1 minor blister.

Luke's piano recital. He played Hedwig's Theme and The Happy Green Frog. He tells me that he was "made for the piano and the piano was made for him." Hope it lasts:()

Boys went off to Father and Sons and we girls spent the weekend at Maple Valley Days. SO LOVE this weekend. So many fun things to do and see.

Will never get sick of this park for as long as I live. This is one of the reasons we moved here.

Just in...this hole just suddenly appeared in my wall. Apparently I nailed 2 holes into a drainage pipe YEARS AGO while trying to hang a shelf. That shelf is no more, and those holes have been leaking water for a long time. Nothing that a little YouTube, Epoxy putty and spackle couldn't fix!

The BEST for last... Luke participated in his first ever Pinewood Derby race last night. He and Dave started working on the car last week but finished it literally minutes before the race began. Luke worked by Dave's side throughout. This was Dave's first experience as well (he never did this as a child,) and told Luke that they would be happy if the car just made it all the way down the track. You can imagine our surprise when Luke's car not only made it down the track BUT won - nearly EVERY race! He ended up with first place in his den and then first overall in the pack. I have never seen him so happy. He wrote 2 1/4 pages in his journal about the experience and slept with the grand trophy next to him last night. GO LUKE!

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Let's just call this paybacks

Dave got the heads up this morning that we were going to have a couple of "special" talks on reverence today as the Stake Presidency was a little concerned about how loud our sacrament meetings have become. I thought ~ great, let's prep the kids ~ I told them that they were to be on their best behavior, no snacks, no toys, no talking, you get the idea... The meeting went pretty smooth until the Bishop got up. He very tenderly started talking about how important it is that we teach our children about the sacrament...it was at that moment that my family fell a part. Eden and Luke started fighting and Liza and Tucker started screaming---did I mention we were on the second row? I grabbed Luke and put him in a body hold and motioned for Dave to get Tuck and Liza out. Dave left with Liza and Tuck (so I thought...) and next thing you know, Tucker is up on the stand running back and forth behind the Bishop. My sweet friend sitting next to me jumped up to get Tuck, but he of cours...

Child Rearing Race

My visiting brother from Utah and I were left without spouses for 4 days. This wouldn't have been such a big deal, but our kids had already been together 24/7 for 6 days and our boys couldn't think of anything better to do than fight. I don't know about you, but 1 entire day of fighting is enough to drive one mad--now times that by 4. Near the end of the week(and our rope) my brother and I had a heart to heart and posed the question~what in life could be more mentally difficult than this? The only thing I could think of (now remember, we'd just run the Ragnar) was running a marathon. Someone once told me that if you could mentally get through a marathon, you could get through anything. So, I put it to the test...I ran a... OK , not a marathon, but a 1/2. Raising children and running difficult races are so much the same. They both require so much of you emotionally, physically and mentally and yet the end reward is so gratifying. I can't express the joy I felt yester...

Facelift

It is time this blog gets a facelift! I know it is not "in season" but I don't think I want to update my widgets for at least another year. Dave and I just got back from a weekend cruise with some friends on the NCL. We got a small taste of what a real cruise was like and that was all it took. We are already planning the next, much longer one. It might be 10 years before we do it, but it is fun to plan nontheless.

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