Memorial Day and More

Monday morning, I went to work out, then we headed to the Olsen's for a Memorial Day breakfast.  We had a great time eating yummy food and hanging out with friends.  The kids especially loved the chickens and their tiny eggs.  

After, we went home to pack up to go to the beach for the afternoon.  We went out to Rockaway Beach.  It was a beautiful day and we had fun, but it was also rather cold and windy - but it was great for flying kites!  We spent a bit of time wandering around Rockaway too and then headed home.  

Our week proceeded normally from there, School during the day and water polo in the evenings.  Anna and Aaron had their band concert on Wednesday.  The Mountainside band programs are really amazing.  The music was fabulous and they did an amazing job!!!  

Thursday was water polo for Anna, Aaron, Evelyn and I.  Dan and Eileen had another play to go to, this one not nearly as good as the last two, but still much better than the first couple.  Eileen found it rather dull - but it was a mystery and she's never really liked mysteries.  

This weekend has been NUTS.  The Newberg Summer tournament was this weekend and Evelyn got to play her first real games.  She did a great job and had a lot of fun!  She's improving so quickly!  Anna also played well.  Aaron was only in one game since most the boys games were on Sunday and the kids just did Friday/Saturday.  

Evelyn's first game on Saturday was a 7 am which meant she had to be there at 6:30 so we had to get up at 5:45.  On a Saturday....  Then we left from that and went home for a bit before taking Evelyn to her Encore Auditions.  It's pretty rare for Freshmen to get in, and they are in much more need of boys than girls, but she did well on her audition and we will find out in a couple weeks if she got in.  If not she can try again next year and it will be a higher chance of her getting in.  

Then I headed out to Parkrose to play water polo for a bit and had fun, then got home in time to get things ready for Eileen's potsticker party.  We invited some people over to learn to make potstickers and we had a fun time making (and eating) yummy food and chatting.  After, our family headed to the Ward BBQ for dinner and fun and friends.  When Eileen was done, we went home to get younger kids to bed and older kids off to activities.  Anna had a end of year social for Encore, Aaron had his water polo game and Evie and I went to open polo.  We had a fun and tiring evening and finally got home late and crashed.  

I was looking forward to getting to sleep in a bit Sunday morning since church didn't start until 10:30 and it was fast Sunday, but my brain woke up around 7 and wouldn't shut off again.  Church was wonderful - fast and testimony meeting was beautiful.  Choir went well - just need a few more people to come!  

Tonight was the seminary graduation.  Eileen is officially done with seminary!  She was also asked to lead the music for the meeting and Anna was asked to play.  My kids are so talented!  It was neat to be there and while Eileen didn't much care for any of it, I'm glad I got to see it.  

Eileen was house/dog sitting for Sandi this week, but she needed to be here for the Seminary graduation and church, so we brought Popcorn up to our house for the last couple days before Sandi get back.  Popcorn has been super snuggly and sweet and even helped me lose the game we checked out from the library....  

David is loving reading and writing.  Today he wrote a letter to Grandpa and wrote cute little notes for people and stuck them all over.  And at bed time, he read to me instead of reading to him - he read the whole thing by himself - he read Go Dog, Go.  Since it's June, he got his Birthday Buck from primary today, he was so excited to take it to the bishop and get his birthday present.  He has been using it all day to write notes and put stickers on stuff.