☀tuna melt on sourdough

It's windy outside, Hazel and I went to aerobics this morning because exercise is necessary to my sanity. Then we cleaned the car, it's all vacuumed and wiped out. That was a big job. Then we cleaned Hazel's room because she wanted a piece of candy and that is how she could earn one today. Then she crawled into her bed and fell asleep and I am enjoying some quiet time. (should be cleaning the kitchen and folding laundry) but I'm taking a break. It's cloudy and windy outside and I absolutely love it! All I can think about is eating a tuna melt on sourdough bread. I think that will be what we have to have for dinner tonight. I am listening to The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and it is tremendously interesting. Off to get Maren and to get sourdough bread at Costco - that is where the sourdough craving started.

Hazel at Costco

☀coincidence, I think not

I think the funniest thing about all of this is that... I went online to figure out how to creatively tell Barett I was expecting. We needed dessert for FHE, so then I thought I could calculate my due date. When I did that it gave me the date June 16, 2013. Mind you I was still in shock myself and wanting to rush to the store to get the cake and some dinner because you don't cook on a night like that {thank you Papa Murphy's} we really like their Veggi Delite Pizza. Anyhow, I had no idea that that day is also Father's Day. So it is a very happy coincidence. The due date calculator said it was calculating according to how a physician would calculate a due date, but I guess time will tell if that date changes. So happy Father's Day my love, your present is already determined!

By the way, I really wanted to get the carrot cake because I love that kind, but the girls wanted german chocolate and that is one of Barett's favorites,

so I deferred.

☀save the date

Can you figure it out? {it took Barett a minute}

☀en plein air

   7.31.12

Might as well get a few pictures up from running in the sprinklers, this is remembering back to good times this Summer. I love how the girls looks so much like they are appreciating the music and dancing, as they watch on in the picture above. They learned to paint en plein air. It was a bit windy that day but otherwise a fabulous idea. They had fun painting the things that they saw around them. En plein air - is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors, which is also called peinture sur le motif ("painting on the ground"). The pile of all the blankets and pillows from the house for them to run and jump on to is a monthly occurrence and I love the last picture of my family all clean, out of the bath, in pj's and sitting with Dad, as it should be.

☀Weekend to enjoy

GENERAL CONFERENCE

We have and are enjoying the words of our prophet, apostles and other speakers.

We have also enjoyed the choirs and Music & the Spoken word.

We are in search of a new family focus, for the next 6 months and lots of personal revelation.

Take aways so far...

- I hope to be as spry as Elder Perry when I'm 90,

- the Temples announced will be such a blessing to people in those areas,

{we are still so excited to watch the progress of our Provo City Center Temple}

- the announcement of the younger age for serving a mission {18 for boys & 19 for women} is so exciting