Why hello! This week on Tuesday Monica loaded all the kids into the car and took off for Utah, so it's just been me, Jelly, and the polies around here. Things have been good, but unusually quite. We were all here on Monday for Memorial day, and we went for a hike together. We ended up going on the trails close by our house and going on some of the dirt paths we don't usually walk. Here we all are together at the start. Grayson LOVED being up in the hiking backpack. It was pretty easy to carry him in there as well.
While we were out we saw llamas! The girls wanted to see them closer, and when we approached the fence one or two of them started coming closer. This caught a dog's attention that was on the trail, so he came over to see too, and the llamas flocked over to see the dog! The kids loved it so we stayed for a while and watched. In total our hike ended up being about 1.8 miles. I think everyone had a lot of fun, though Winry was pretty tired by the end.
We took last day of school pictures on Monday as well because we forgot to take them on the actual last day....shhh don't tell. The girls got dressed like they were for their last days of school. Brooke dressed for field day.
And Winry's last day was a pajama day! She was really excited for that. She actually asked her teacher if they could have one.
While out in Utah, they visited a park next to Monica's parents house. There were ducks there, which obviously drew their attention. Hopefully the ducks weren't too scared/annoyed at being chased by Grayson...
Audrey's family lives out in Provo a few blocks away from Monica's parents, so Brooke, Winry and Audrey spent all week together. Michelle and her family also came out, and part of why Monica wanted to go out was to surprise them. While out there both Jack and Audrey had their birthdays, and Audrey's birthday part was on Friday. She had a fairy tea party, and it looks like it was a lot of fun. Look at these cousins having a great time!
I've been dutifully checking on the roly-polies every day this past week. They really like to hang out behind this rock, and usually don't come out in the day. One morning I looked back there and there were at least a dozen of them. They burrow pretty quickly when you move their habitat, so this is all that was left. I saw 6 different Dalmatians though, and those are the hardest to find. They definitely hide the most. Also, if you look through the dirt you can see at least 3 babies! Oh my...
Saturday was such a day here in Colorado. I had an 11 mile run in the morning, and then it was chores chores chores. Of particular note I weeded all along our back fence and put down mulch that we bought last weekend. We didn't buy enough to make it all the way to the corner, so I stopped weeding as soon as I ran out! I spent basically the whole day running around the house doing things (including finishing last weeks blog post that I thought I wrote last Sunday, but didn't actually finish). By the end of the day I was exhausted, and today I'm still feeling pretty drained. I think I'll have to take a nap.
On Saturday out in Utah, it was time to hit the pool! Thankfully I had already returned from my trip to Texas so that the girls would have their new Buc-ees swim suits!! Oh yeah, lookin so good!
Grayson's swim trunks were still a little big, so he just wore something boring, but Monica told me he had a blast at the pool. He was walking around saying "swimming, fun." Later in the afternoon it started getting a bit windy, and he started to get cold and said "done, cold, snowing!" He's still just saying one or two word sentences, but it's pretty awesome how much he can communicate about things. He also typically just tells us unprompted too.
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