Parentheticals

On Tuesday of last week Alison and Sara and Rea went to see Wicked with Grandma and Grandpa Craig and Julie. They really enjoyed it. Rea said it was great! Sara also finished all of her rise testing. She did very well and got good scores, so she is very excited about that. We will be making peanut butter brownies in celebration. On Wednesday Mike took a half day off of work to work on the house with Grandpa mike. They got a lot of work done: they filled in cracks with the exterior of the house and started the blocking and built some framing that had been missed by the other guys. The house is still moving forward, however, it isn't moving as fast as we would have hoped because there's just so much to do. We are going to have to push back the four way by one week. That being said we are still making major progress. For activity dudes we played various games outside and inside. The kids really enjoyed it. At Young women's this week Sara wasn't invited because it was only ...

We missed posting last week, so there are two weeks to report on.  We have been making good progress on the house during the time. The HVAC, electric, and plumber are all going regularly. In fact, we recently calculated that everything might be done in June Not this Saturday, but last Saturday we went to a ward fund raiser for girls camp. The girls put on a carnival for the kids and had a silent auction for the adults. It was fun. We also celebrated Mother's Day. We made Alison breakfast in bed, and the kids sang in church. Rea and Sara also taught the young kids in church for their Mother's Day lessons. The lessons went fairly well. This weekend the plastic stayed over for a multi-day sleepover since Grandma Sheila and Grandpa Mike have been taken care of them. The kids played way too many video games and watched way too many screens, however, they did get along fairly well. On Saturday Mike and Grandpa Mike took advantage of Taylorsville bulk waste disposal day to get rid of ...

Timmy and Gideon went to Disney with Grandma Julie and Grandpa Craig this week from Monday through Thursday. We were sad that they were gone, however, we were very excited that they got to see all of the things at Disneyland.  They loved so many things about Disneyland. Gideon's favorite part was the Ferris Wheel and Timmy really liked the Car's ride. They got a wheelchair for Timmy; however, he also sometimes walked on his boot. While they were gone, we made smaller meals and Alison, and the girls went out most days to the library or somewhere like that. The result is that we had much less cleanup to do around the house. We can't say that that was a direct result of the boys being gone, however, it was certainly funny that that was what happened. Elsa missed the boys most of the kids, since she loves playing with her brothers so much. We are all glad that they came back. Wednesday for YW Rea and Sara walked to the temple. Rea said, "It was pretty cool", Sara said...