Standard Week

This way, that way, shake shake shake!  I know it's easy to tell, but Grayson is leading the music at FHE last week!  He really got into it and did an inspiring job.  We had to have a jumping jack break halfway through FHE, and raced to do 50 several times.  I think we'll probably need to do that again tonight.  I should just insert it into the agenda!

The kids have taken more interest in cooking lately.  I believe I shared about Winry's cooking day last week, and Brooke had a day this week.  For lunch we had sandwiches on a skewer with strawberries.  It was a pretty fun idea, and tasted great!  She even made my whole sandwich and everything all by herself.

The 24th was pioneer day, so we made homemade butter like we do every year.  The kids all helped to shake the jars.  Winry was very dedicated to the cause and did a really good job with her jar.

Monica took the kids back to school shopping this week.  They got various clothes and school supplies and were very excited to show me when I got home from work.  Grayson, of course, came along, and he was a super trooper.  There was not much excitement in it for him, but he just cozied up with the cart cover and made the best of it.

One of the local libraries, well, a slightly less local one... anyway, was doing a reptile show!  Monica took the kids, and it looked like a really great time.  They were all telling me about it after work.  They said no one was allowed to touch anything, but they were right up close to get to see things.  There were turtles, and snakes and lizards, and even a legless lizard, which is somehow different than a snake.

After, they all headed to Chick-fil-a and even got ice cream after lunch.  What a lucky group of kids.

They had a lovely sign out, and Brooke was the only one that could really fit in it.

Brooke decided to draw Texas on the etch a sketch.  Not too shabby!

Winry got a scratch or something on her finger, and put a band aid on.  While looking at her finger she said "look dad, it looks like Bruno!"  I said it was too bad there wasn't a face on her finger, and a few minutes later she was ready to show me again!

A piece of other fun news is that I got an electric scooter this past week.  My office is about a mile from the train station, and while that's not bad in the morning, in the afternoon when it's 100+ degrees I'd rather not make that trek, so I've been grabbing random rental scooters and riding them down in the afternoons while I waited for one to come.  It's pretty fun to ride around, and it saves a lot of time.  It only takes me a little over 5 minutes to make it now, depending on red lights.  I also take it to get the mail, and in general just think it's fun to ride around.  

I've also been trying to get back to running more regularly.  I've been really tired lately, but I was still able to get out all 5 times this week!  Hopefully as the craziness of unpacking and moving boxes around begins to ease up I'll be able to get back into exercising regularly again!  Oh, I found my old journal from high school and gave it a look over this past week.  I must say I was a rather inspired writer...  It was fun to read the parts I did, and I do want to finish reading it (I wasn't a great journaler, so all of HS is maybe 50 journal pages if I'm lucky), but it's really interesting to get a look back at previous you and wonder what you were thinking!

That's all I've got for now.  Maybe I'll go enjoy a scoot around the neighborhood!  Have a great week!