New Park

Yesterday we found a new park. It's a tiny park tucked in the middle of a block of houses. I wanted to take a few pictures of the kids. Lily didn't care, Emma was all to happy to have her picture taken, and Jack was less than impressed. When did he get to be a surly teenager?!

Fitness Challenge

Our stake is having a year long fitness challenge to try and encourage individuals to exercise and be more healthy. You can earn 1 point per 20 minutes of exercise with a maximum of 3 points a day. Today is the exception. It's a no holds barred and you can earn as many points as you want today. I'm not sure how many points I want to earn today.

This morning I woke up and I'm sore in places I didn't think that I could get sore. I think that I perhaps overdid it yesterday. I woke up and got a few miles of jogging in before it got too hot. Since I was already sweaty I decided to mow the lawn, once again, before it got too hot. Then that led to the kids and I weeding the side of the house that was threatening to take over the house. Then later in the afternoon, when it was blazing out, we went to an outdoor swimming pool. Jack and Emma can swim like fish, Lily on the other hand isn't quite there yet. That led to me wrestling/holding her for an hour and a half in the pool. I'm thinking that I might need to take it easy today.

Milk Man

Having milk delivered to your house is fairly common here. While I think that it's a "cool" idea, I resisted the idea and went with supermarket milk. I don't want to have cooler sitting on my front stoop advertising my conformity.

When we first moved we had to taste various brands of milk until we found the brand that we liked best. Jack is the milk connoisseur and he's one that drinks it the most. He likes the Safeway "Lucerne" brand.

Well, the other night a dairy truck was driving down the street trying to attract new customers. The salesman/milk man was spouting off all the advantages to their milk; freshness, reusable jugs, yadda yadda yadda. Lucky for them I had run out of milk that day. I was willing to try their free milk and sign up for delivery. More importantly, Jack tried it and deemed it good. That was the selling point for me!

I'd like to say I'm not usually so willing to sign up for new services, but I think that this will be a good one to try. It seems like lately, I'll run out of milk and have to go to Safeway for just that. Nothing like wasting precious gas on a milk run to the grocery store. So, straight from the cow to our fridge in 36 hours, we'll be enjoying our "fresh" milk.

4th of July

We opted for a neighborhood party instead of driving and trying to find "the" spot to watch city fireworks. The kids ran around, ate too much watermelon, and enjoyed watching the fireworks in the street.

Slow Day

We got a slow start today and didn't have anything planned. I think those are the days that nothing and everything gets done. Michael took his parents to look at some model homes while I ran some errands. Michael has wanted to build some shelves for the basement for a while, he decided to put his dad to work and use the same set up as in one of the model homes. I really appreciate that his dad helped carry in the lumber. Not that I can't do it, but it nice to not have to do it.

Anyhow, Michael and his dad got one shelf unit together and plan on finishing up the other half. Michael also got the bracket for the flag put up. We can now have our flag flying on the 4th.

*This is the finished shelf...

Touristy Things

It's always nice when family comes to visit (hint hint), we go do things that we wouldn't normally do. On a spur of the moment, we went to Estes Park and then into Rocky Mountain National Park.

This is us at 10,000 feet. The altitude was fine, but it started to rain and get chilly. Go figure that we weren't prepared for cooler weather.
Local wildlife.
This is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. We walked around the grounds, we did not see any ghosts.

Living Dangerously

So, this is what the boys were up to while the girls went to the movies yesterday. The raft only went over once and everyone come home in one piece. There are some scrapes and bruises to prove that they went in the water. Jack (sitting in the back with the blue helmet) loved it and would go again. Maybe I'll have Michael write his version of the trip at a later date.