Exploring

 It's been a fun, but rather different week.  Aaron and Evelyn had Thursday and Friday off of school, but no one else did.  The weather was beautiful so we spent most of the afternoon at the park.  Aaron saw a kid at the park playing with a soccer ball and went over and passed back and forth with him for awhile.  A person walking through the park saw them and told them that his fence had a goal painted on it and that they should go use it.  So they did and Evelyn realized that she knew the kid from school, so she joined them.  Evelyn then saw him again at the park on Friday too and spent time shooting on the goal on the fence and then moved to sitting and chatting on the swings for half an hour.  I'm divided between finding it cute and being low-key worried that this is just the beginning....  

We had fun playing games while they were home, and we had parent/teacher/student conferences.  The conferences went well.  Evelyn is even more of a perfectionist than I realized and we had a bit of a talk about the substance of her work is more important that making it look perfect.  

David had a great time at preschool learning about the letter W (which he calls an upside down M) and whales and other ocean life!  

James had his primary activity this week and Caleb went with him - but they were so impatient to go and they decided that we should walk there since if they walked, they could leave right away.  So we walked.  lol  

Saturday, we had a great day!  In the morning, Dan had a baptism to go to and I took Eileen to get her hair cut.  Then after lunch, we headed down town to do a fun little scavenger hunt challenge.  We had a blast walking around the city and looking for things and taking pictures and videos of us being silly together!  Then we submitted the pictures and videos for points.  We didn't finish all the challenges, but we had fun and got in lots of walking and lots of sight seeing!  

Then in the evening, the girls had book club and the rest of us stayed home and ate muddy buddies and played games.  

Today was wonderful!  Church was great and Dan and I had the Great to Be 8 meeting to go to in the afternoon, then we had some friends over for dinner and games in the evening.  We had a fun time!  After getting the younger kids to bed, we played Wingspan.  

Now we are looking forward to two more days for this long weekend - at least for some of us!