Saturday, June 13th during breakfast Andrew said, "I
think today is the day I'm going to ride a bike all by myself." So
Steve and him went out after breakfast and guess what a few minutes
later they came in to show me -- he was a riding guru. He and Ellie went
to the church and rode around for 30 minutes and then he went riding
again later that day. He was super sad we didn't make it to the trail
that day so Monday morning we went for a ride on the trail and he did
great (one little scare because he was still learning to brake and there
was a down hill into those gate crosses that about gave me a heart
attack -- he ended up ditching his bike, whew and then we practiced
braking more).
For Family Home Evening that night we watched the Layton Temple Groundbreaking
and talked about how much we miss going to the temple. We need to be
doing more family history work so we're ready when we can attend again.
This week we're trying to get in our summer schedule routine.
So far it's gone well, the kids are motivated to get their checklist done so they can do their daily learning activity on the computer then free time on the computer. One-on-One time has been fun too: Marcus and I "build" with legos and then went for a drive to pickup Greek takeout (which had french fries so he was excited); Andrew had time with Dad and took apart and old tech item in his office; Lila has been having a lot of one-on-one time with me going to dance competitions so she opted to watch another Good Luck Charlie with Ellie the day of hers; Ellie and Steve fixed an old computer together (Steve is excited that he might get some projects done during her time 😂) I also thought we could do a Mom & Me book club so we started reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and plan to discuss it once a month during her time.
Our
first Cooks and Books day was a success. We made pizzas which was
nothing really new but the kids really liked reading the books that went
with it. One of them was The Little Red Hen makes pizza and when it got
to the part where the Hen tossed the pizza in the air I asked who was
going to do that and Ellie responded, "Not I." very apropros.
After
pizza Steve and I decided to go on a date hike (we were inspired by our
adult hike in Tahoe). We went up to Davis Creek trail and took the
little side trail to the first waterfall.
On
all trails it showed there was a loop that reconnected so we decided to
take that up and around. . .well it was super steep like I was on my
hands and knees climbing and when we got to the top there was a trail
marker there saying that was was steep and dangerous -- that sign was
not at the bottom. We had a good time with a couple of more adventures
and a rope climb part down to a 2nd waterfall (which by the way was not
any steeper than the other part that we did and it did not have a rope,
ironic).
Summer
is going to be a little different this year, but we're going to make
the best of it and do our best to enjoy the time we have together!