3,4 Last week was Kate's art night at school. The school puts on an art gallery of student and class work and you can purchase some of the art as a fundraiser. This is Kate's self portrait she did. Her teacher said people had been coming by and were surprised a first grader did this drawing. It is good, detailed, and serious. Then we grabbed a pizza and had a pizza picnic in our old picnic place.
5. Sam and Marianne help me plant the garden. We have all the plants in now and are happily attending to it every day.
6. Cute selfie I found of Jake and Beth when I downloaded the pictures
7. I applied to be a volunteer photographer for the LDS media a few weeks ago, and then they contacted me to see if I wanted to do a shoot with them in South Jordan a the temple last week. I agreed. And it was a new adventure. But I found myself there with mostly full time church photographers and also found myself the most ametuer of the group. They assigned you a model and asked you to creatively come up with a certain shot on the temple and ward building grounds. It was challenging. It was full sun, and also I had one of the worst models- a teenager who was trying to dress sexy??? for a church gig??? I met some new people and technically have a 1 in 12 chance I guess of them using my photo for an ensign or on LDS.org. But I don't see it happening. To be honest too, I much more enjoyed running an errand and eating at chik-fil-a by myself while I was on the other side of the mountain. When I returned home I had a mini melt down about how not worth it it was to give my entire day to something I wanted to do when it just meant I was an entire day behind on housework and laundry and all those things I can't every seem to escape- even if I want to pretend I'm a famous photographer for one day.
8-13. Our traditional Memorial Day hike up Bridal Veil Falls. Well we hiked it last Memorial Day as well, so it is a tradition now. We were ready to go easily by 8 am- again our kids this morning woke up at 5:50 am. So we went figuring we would beat the hot sun and crowds. And we certainly did. It was dark and cold still in the canyon and there was only one other family we saw there. I bought the kids all water hiking shoes last week for the summer of hiking we plan to do. They wore them and were excited to try them out. At the top we fed the giant fish and walked in the stream with our "splashing shoes"- that is what Marianne called them.
14-18 The rest of our Memorial Day was mostly fun and games too. Jake ran to pick up his new phone at the store and took Marianne. They also picked up some BBQ food- mentioned above. She got a Ring Pop and was pretty pleased about that. That is a picture of her sharing it with Samuel by our Memorial Day flag. While they were gone Kate set up a rainbow loom store on the front porch. She had a lot of fun letting her friends in the culda- sac decide what colors they wanted, then making the loom their for them on the spot. We went out to lunch, and when we came back we got out the kiddie pool, slip and slide and water guns. You can see the kids playing water guns, some chubby baby legs sunbathing, and the kids all by the tramp trying to get warm after being in the freezing hose water. Neighbor kids were in and out with water ballons and other water toys. Then we cleaned up and made dinner- a traditional Memorial Day BBQ which we ate outside.
2 comments:
Oh boy do I hear you about those hungry kids. We have the same problem over here. Kids menus at restaurants (not that we go out all that much because, four kids) is just laughable even for the four year old. :) And good for you for doing a fun photography thing! I understand your meltdown, too... Don't you feel like there are just too many fun things we can do with our lives, and that it's impossible to fit them all in?!
Those sunning chubby legs are simply perfect.
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