Staycation with Andy's Family
Andy's family visited us this week! Rea has been telling everyone for weeks that her "cousins from Tajikistan" were coming; Alison would usually explain that her brother works for the State Department, and most of the time that Tajikistan was part of the former USSR, in response to blank looks.
Alison took a week of vacation from all her Primary President responsibilities (good thing we had Conference this weekend!), playgroup, homeschool, grocery shopping, and everything else in order to have fun with Andy and Amanda and their kids. They went out to eat a lot, visited Temple Square and toured the Conference Center, and went to the Natural History Museum of Utah to see the dinosaur skeletons. It was incredibly fun, but exhausting. The big cousins all shared a room and stayed up way too late, and the adults liked to stay up and talk too. Alison also realized that there's a reason she only does a selected group of habitual things while Mike is at work: carting four kids around town to exciting places is EXHAUSTING! But she loved seeing Andy and Amanda and the kids had a phenomenal time. We wish we could go to Nauvoo with them next week, but we don't have enough vacation to make it worthwhile to drive that far. Too bad.
Other than that, we watched General Conference this week. The kids did a pretty good job listening in exchange for jelly beans. They got so many that Alison had to ride her bike to Macey's three times! (Honestly, she did ride there three times, but only two were for jelly beans. Right after bringing home the jelly beans for the first session, we discovered we were out of toilet paper, so back she went.) She had so much fun riding and told everyone that it was so great that when the kids finished off the first bag of jelly beans during the Saturday afternoon session, we rode as a family to get another pack. Rea rode her own bike the whole way - the back streets, which Google says is 1.7 miles each way! She is a great bike rider. Sara is very impatient for the day when she can ride on her own; she doesn't much like riding in the bucket bike. Timmy and Gideon love it, though!
Mike 3D printed tiny Christus statues for Alison and the kids to make empty tomb scenes for Easter. They turned out to be really nice looking. He also has a second supporter on Patreon, so now he's up to $10/month doing odd jobs for people.
Alison took a week of vacation from all her Primary President responsibilities (good thing we had Conference this weekend!), playgroup, homeschool, grocery shopping, and everything else in order to have fun with Andy and Amanda and their kids. They went out to eat a lot, visited Temple Square and toured the Conference Center, and went to the Natural History Museum of Utah to see the dinosaur skeletons. It was incredibly fun, but exhausting. The big cousins all shared a room and stayed up way too late, and the adults liked to stay up and talk too. Alison also realized that there's a reason she only does a selected group of habitual things while Mike is at work: carting four kids around town to exciting places is EXHAUSTING! But she loved seeing Andy and Amanda and the kids had a phenomenal time. We wish we could go to Nauvoo with them next week, but we don't have enough vacation to make it worthwhile to drive that far. Too bad.
Other than that, we watched General Conference this week. The kids did a pretty good job listening in exchange for jelly beans. They got so many that Alison had to ride her bike to Macey's three times! (Honestly, she did ride there three times, but only two were for jelly beans. Right after bringing home the jelly beans for the first session, we discovered we were out of toilet paper, so back she went.) She had so much fun riding and told everyone that it was so great that when the kids finished off the first bag of jelly beans during the Saturday afternoon session, we rode as a family to get another pack. Rea rode her own bike the whole way - the back streets, which Google says is 1.7 miles each way! She is a great bike rider. Sara is very impatient for the day when she can ride on her own; she doesn't much like riding in the bucket bike. Timmy and Gideon love it, though!
Mike 3D printed tiny Christus statues for Alison and the kids to make empty tomb scenes for Easter. They turned out to be really nice looking. He also has a second supporter on Patreon, so now he's up to $10/month doing odd jobs for people.
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