The Return to Soil Bar Canyon

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Early in the week we went to the DI and got bikes for Timmy, Gideon, and Elsa. Timmy's bike had one missing tire tube and Gideon's bike had damaged pedals, however, they were all pretty good other than those issues. Elsa has never ridden a pedal bike before so she is very excited to start learning this and has been having Mike come out and help her balance and practice a lot. We fixed up all of the broken parts of the bikes and the kids ride around fairly often now.

The kids have also noticed the first flowers of spring in grandma Sheila's yard. They are very excited to be done with winter and getting into spring.

On Thursday The architects finally gave us the final versions of all of the architectural drawings for our house so we submitted a final version of them then. We are really really hoping that this time they accept the drawings without any comments.

Mike took the day off on Friday because he still has more vacation and the company will let him carry, so, Grandpa Mike invited him to go to lunch at a sushi place. It was really nice to sit and talk together, and the sushi was very good as well.

Also on Friday Mike and the kids went to the house and opened up our shed and got out a balance bike for Elsa so that she can practice balancing without an adult pushing her around. She really loves riding on her balance bike and wanders around the neighborhood.

Later on Friday the kids wanted to go to soil bar canyon, which is a place that we named in Dimple Dell Park. We drove around and found the place that you can park to go to it, and then we walked down and found the place. The kids found shiny rocks the dog ate an apple core off the ground and Alison read a book. A fun time was had by all. We also added soil bar canyon to Google maps - so if that gets accepted then you will be able to go on Google maps and find it yourself.

On Saturday we have been invited over to the gutierrez's house to have a game day. Caitlin had had a skiing accident and was in a leg brace, however we all still played a bunch of games and had a lot of fun. Mike made Stromboli to bring over and everyone liked that. We ended up playing Trade on the Tigris, codenames, and Bang!

The kids played with their new rabbit and Legos and who knows what else. It was very fun.

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