Relief Society and Birthdays

We had a fun Relief Society Retreat. We went to Tonaquint Park for dinner, speakers, and musical entertainment. It was a lot of fun to sit on a blanket on the grass, take notes, and hang out with my family. It's been wonderful to get to live so close to them:)

This is now one of their new favorite things to do... Jump up on the van. I'm slowly getting better about letting them do silly things.

 The poor girl. She took a tumble down the ENTIRE flight on stairs. She had this souvenir for a good month. I'm so sorry baby. 

 Lincoln was so cute. He really wanted to help me make his teacher, Miss Ping, a birthday gift. I was the room mother in his class, so we made this owl from our store. I wanted the tummy to say "Wisdom" (thanks Mike!) in Chinese characters so Susan had one of the other Chinese teachers draw it and I glued it on. I love the way it turned out. We just love Miss Ping:)

 Damon's Birthday Party at Grandma's!

The kids love getting to live so close and help celebrate their cousins birthdays.

We love Grandma and Grandpa Great. I'm so grateful I got to live next door to these two and get to know them better. Grandma is such a wonderful person and so kind. She gave me piano lessons almost every week I lived there. I'm so grateful to get to learn from her. And it was fun to get to chat in between the lesson as well. Grandpa is awesome with his obsession with birds. He'll sit there forever and just stare out the window watching them. "Oh! There it is!"

Haha!! Aurora likes the window too! Oh I could just gobble her cute little face up!

After the party they watched a movie and had a sleepover downstairs. Everyone looks so comfy cozy:)

Our cute Chubby.

It's been good for me to have my friend Shelley down here. She is great to call and get me out of the house and go do something. If it were up to me, I'd stay home all day long cleaning and hanging out with my kids. I've been slightly blah since we moved down and I don't know why. I love Shel to get me out in nature and feel better. We went to a duck pond at Tonaquint Park. It really was cool for me and the kids.

They all got to feed the ducks. Awesome. We need to go back soon.

Poor Auri was bored because I had her sit in the stroller the whole time. But she didn't seem to mind. She still got to see everything:) I'm too stressed to have the baby by the water.

Aw! These kids are so dang cute! Shelley has Brecken, the twins Bailey and McKinley, and baby Sophie.