Happy 15th Aaron!!

This week was a mostly normal week.  The kids had school and activities, Dan had work, and I had water polo.  Weather wasn't too bad, at least good enough that the boys could spend some of the days playing at the play ground after school with their friends.  Evelyn was having fun Monday after school teaching David some math.  He loved it and was so excited to learn!  She was so patient an such a good teacher!

Eileen found a recipe for shrimp potstickers and spent a couple days making messes in the kitchen and experimenting with the recipe and seeing what she liked best.  Then she spent at least half the time they were making them trying to keep Anna from eating all of them.  Eileen liked some of her trials more than others - Anna just wanted to eat all of them...  

On Tuesday, Aaron turned 15.  This kid is amazing - he is one of the most chill kids ever.  He's gotten really into anime recently and has been experimenting with streaming his gaming.  He picked "whatever" for his birthday dinner - so we made beef stew.  And his cake choice was just as specific, so Dan made him a devil's food cake.  

Evelyn found a guinea pig crochet pattern and decided that she wanted to make a mini version of the guinea pigs.  This was her first one - and it game out really cute!  She is totally smitten with it and with her little guinea pigs.  

The kids had Friday off.  I still went to my workout in the morning.  Eileen still had classes and Anna took the other teens to the temple in the morning.  In the evening, I went to accompany one of the young women in the ward on an audition recording.  She is a wonderful kid and super talented and I had a lot of fun learning the piece to play with her.  

Saturday was a usual busy - Peter The Rock practice in the morning, water polo in the afternoon.  The usual Saturday library trip and dinner and family time, finally, I took Aaron to Open polo in the evening, and we convinced Evelyn to come with us next time we go.  :)  There was a nice girl there who was an 8th grader and didn't really know what she was doing, and Anna spent some time working with her and helping her out and teaching her!  It was cute to watch! 

Church today was wonderful!  The primary kids were a bit crazy - hopefully soon they will get adjusted to the new year changes and things will calm down a bit!  James and David got to go over to Lydia's house after church - which is their favorite thing ever - then we made the switch at ward choir.  We had the sister missionaries over for dinner and a lesson.  Then we spent the evening playing games together!