A bad watermelon, a carnival, and the ghosts
On Saturday of last week we got a watermelon at Maceys and brought it home and put it on the counter because Timmy had requested watermelon with his dinner. Monday morning when mike woke up he stepped in a puddle in the kitchen. After some looking around he discovered that the watermelon had ruptured. Apparently the thing was infected with some sort of gas producing bacteria (perhaps yeast?) and its internal pressure was too much for it. When he picked it up the middle fell out (though the shell was still mostly strong). That was a disappointment.
Timmy has joined a martial arts dojo because he has wanted to start learning a martial art. The one that we found was mixed Judo and Ju-jitsu and Muay Thai twice a week. He liked it, so we signed him up for the class. On Tuesday was his first class. He learned how to get out of a headlock and had a fun time wrestling with the other kids. He is very excited to learn proper wrestling moves and use them on everyone, particularly Dad. He wants me to add that it is "awesome and we wrestle and we run 18 laps around the place every day"
Mike and Rea went over to the Payne's daughter's house to pick her peaches (there were a lot of them and they were very good), so we have also been enjoying a lot of peaches this week too.
On Wednesday was Sara's acting class. She is really loving it and is really excited about it. They are meeting it the Draper historic theatre, and they will be learning all of the songs and dances for the first half of the school year and then will be assigned parts after Christmas. The play will be in April or May. We will tell you all more about it when we know more.
This week Rea and the kids have been doing a Gorilla fund raiser. They ended up raising over $200 for the Dian Fossey Gorilla fund (https://gorillafund.org). They walked a total of 59 miles during the 4 days that they were doing it, and they are happy to have been able to help the gorillas. Rea is often excited about donating money to various animal related causes, which is cool to see.
Thursday Rea babysat for the Wilsons. She really loves baby sitting and hasn't gotten to do it as much as she wants to, so she was really excited about it.
On Friday Timmy was invited to Dmitri's birthday party, so we dropped him off there and then the rest of the family went to the Daybreak campout in the park. Timmy says his party was very fun and they played Minecraft and even learned how to crawl in Minecraft. Meanwhile, the rest of us played with the grandparents and Becky's family in the park and danced to the guitar music around the campfire. Mike picked Timmy up when the party was over, and then we were all at the campout. We made tie dye t-shirts and then we wussed out because it was cold and slept in the Poulson's house for the night.
Before wussing out, Rea wants to note that we also got to see the moon through a telescope, which she really enjoyed.
Saturday morning Alison left everyone at Grandma's house while she went to a Relief Society super Saturday and made a bunch of wax fire starters. In the afternoon, after we all came home from Grandma's, Alison found a free outdoor futon on KSL and she and Mike went and got it to start making our outdoor school room. We took everything out of the side of the carport, swept it out, and rearranged it to make room for the futon and chairs and fire pit. Hopefully we will have fun doing school outside and it will encourage the younger kids to have fun outside while the older kids are doing school.
Finally, Mike was looking at Craig and Julie's ghosts that they have on their ghostbuster music box, and he sort of thinks that the shape of the ghosts is important to the fact that they spin as they rotate around the glass lake
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