Dancing with Daffodils

Cute cousins! It was a great week. We left Monday (June 21) to drive up to Rochester. The kids were so good in the car and it was an easy drive; we didn't even stop once! We had brought food and had movies and Harry Potter to listen to and books to read and we just chugged along and made great time.  We had a nice evening with my parents and my sister and her family did come over for a few minutes in the evening so we could say hello. Tuesday we went to the mall and just walked around and shopped and had lunch at the food court. Everyone got to pick a book at Barnes and Noble and my mom also bought Lily a beautiful dress as an early birthday present. I also went to visit KayLee at work and sat with her while she had lunch since she was very busy all week and it was probably our best time together. After the mall the kids and I went over to the Jansson's house to just hang out with whoever was around. They are all very busy but it was good to see Erik who got home from his missi...

It has been a good couple of weeks. I took Lily to get her second vaccination, taught piano lessons, took the kids to the pool, did lots of reading, laundry, exercising and cooking. Last Tuesday afternoon we went over to the Shoeny's for one last swim and chat. I hadn't actually talked to Joni in a long time and it was nice to catch up but then we had to say goodbye, which is always sad. Friday we had planned to go to Six Flags on our way up to my sister's house but it was pouring rain. We decided to stop by anyway to pick up our season passes and by the time we got there the rain had stopped. We only had an hour but we went on about eight rides because no one was there. We walked right onto the rides and rode them by ourselves. Josh and I even did the Voodoo drop tower since the kids didn't have to wait at all for us and it was so fun. I wish we could have stayed longer but as it was we hit terrible traffic and were later getting to my sister's house than I told he...

Another week has gone by. Memorial Day was nice. We had a big family breakfast and then went to our church picnic. Last year we went to the park where we normally have it and just played by ourselves because there was no picnic so it was much better having our ward family back this year. We played games and had a relay (our team won!) and laughed and played and talked and it was really nice. Everyone was supposed to bring their own food but I don't like making lunches and we had just had a big breakfast so we stayed until about 3pm and then went home and grilled hot dogs and I made some salads and we had an early dinner sitting outside on our patio. It was really nice. The missionaries came over later and we had a nice visit with them--the first in person visit in over a year. I feel very grateful for my country and the many who have died and I like living in a very patriotic place that honors and celebrates that as well. Tuesday was school and laundry and we went shopping at Targe...