There are many delightful things that you get to enjoy when you spend your day with a 7 and 9 year old!
One is you get to feed french fries to a friendly squirrel that visits your table at lunch, and you get to make up a name for him, and an elaborate backstory. Free Fry will forever be our friend now.
Another cool thing is you get to a have a long conversation about shoebills and their cainism. Which leads itself nicely to a talk on Cain and Able. Which then segways into a wondering about what it feels like to die…and then a wondering about if the pineapple milkshake or the banana one is better. You have to pay attention to keep up!
Also there is no judgement if you eat ice cream twice in one day:)
We went to the water park today and it was so fun! We spent about 11 hours swimming (between the park and the Blacks), no one got sunburned, everyone had fun.
We went on one water slide before Marshall vetoed that activity. He said it was 12% fun and 80% scary. (I’m glad to see he got his math skills and his tan skin from me)
After we got home from the water park we went to mutual. It was at the Blacks. We met there at 5:30 and didn’t leave until 10:00. The kids and the youth had a great time. It’s always a party at the Blacks. They fed everyone, the grill was running the whole night, and the s’more fire pit was lit. We had two boats so that was better than last time.
Penny and Marshall were happy because they saw a wild alligator off the dock after dark.
We enjoyed the lazy river and the wave pool. We also enjoyed the birds. Marshall spotted one he’d never seen before, I told him I thought it was an ibis. Good news I was right. He and I spent a while looking at our bird and shell posters both before and after swimming. He reminds me a lot of Ethan. Smart, cautious, clever, funny, glasses wearing, and thoughtful also Ethan and I like to look at those posters and talk about the birds and shells.
Penny loved the one slide we did and decided that next time Grace has to come so we can have teams…an adventure team to slide and a Marshall team. She laughed the whole way down, and laughed at M. She’s so much fun. Little Miss Sunshine. She’s also a great momma bear to M, helpful, talented, chatty, happy and smart.
Game room at the party house.
Marshall won PIG
I’m going to send two brown fishies back to UT next week!
Grace brought some friends to mutual, and some of the kids from the “old ward” came. That little dot out there is Grace and Alyssa on the kayak.
Ethan Newell saw a bobcat in the brush while he was kayaking. It was a good animal spotting day!
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