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On Monday Mike went back to work with a damaged finger. It was hard, but he managed it. The kids have a hard time being gentle with his finger. The Rogers moved back to Utah this week, so we helped them move in on Wednesday and Thursday. We are so excited to have them back in Utah. They hadn't unpacked their toys, so we had to bring our own when we were helping them. On Wednesday we got a new kiddie pool, and we brought it over to their house to play in. It was very popular. On Thursday we went to a convert baptism in our ward. The kids liked the fact that it was short. For school this week we started reading the story of king Arthur and his knights, and so they got to see the Disney movie "Sword and the stone" on Thursday as well. Timmy liked the start of the movie the best. Thursday night Rea went to activity days and learned cross stitching with the other young girls. On Friday Alison and the kids went to an oak connect meeting where they planned for their

We totally started writing this on Sunday as usual, but Sunday was interrupted to some extent, and we failed to finish it until now. Here is the blog post for last week (such as it is) Monday we got (and began to spread) another load of wood-chips - that chipdrop website is great if you want free wood-chips, and don't mind getting some leaves and sticks along with them. This load was large enough to pretty much cover the remainder of the yard, so we probably will not order another load this year On Tuesday we went to the park group's faux camping trip up the canyon. We had dinner, and played and talked, however we didn't spend the night. After the camping trip, Mike went to BGDG. He played a game by another member of the guild, and had a fun time. On Wednesday, when trying to clean out the drain, Mike got the cleaning tool stuck and it broke off when he tried to get it out. That was annoying. On Thursday we spread wood-chips again - we finished most of them. Hopef

Apparently we have not written blog posts in a long time. From the 22nd to the 26th of July we went to a family Reunion in Oregon. Much of the Brown family was able to make it there, and we had a fun time. We loved playing with our cousins and going to the beach. The kids also "found" arrow-heads that seemed to magically be seeded in the yard of our camp site. Rea remembers the really windy day at the beach where it was so windy that it kicked the sand around all over the place. The first time that we tried to fly kites at the beach, we were hardly able to get them up, however the second time, it was so windy that we had a hard time controlling all but the largest kites. Sara liked the fact that we stayed in Yurts, and she also liked "crab paradise", which was when grandpa Mike caught them a lot of crabs and they played with them in a man-made tide pool. Gideon liked playing on the sand, and drawing pictures to Mommy, and grandma Sheila sharing out foo