My New Favorite Thing

My early morning class didn't make me die as bad this week. I even went by myself almost the whole week. My friends had different stuff going on last week and hardly came to the 6:00 am class. I'm still not looking forward to my alarm going off in the morning though that's for sure.

Gabby had her kinder chicks this week. Once a month they have incoming kindergartners come in for an hour for various things. This last time they met the librarian who read them a story and then each of the kindergartner teachers. They did an activity while the teachers talked to us about what kids need to know coming into Kindergarten, which is a lot more now because of the common core standards. She is pretty shy and I think she will have a harder time initially than Corbin but I know she will love it. She looked so cute with her little backpack going to school.

Scott and I went on a date again Friday night. Two Friday's in a row must be a new record. We are going to my brother's wedding in a couple of weeks and we are leaving the kids here with a young single mom in our ward. We decided it would be good if the kids got a little more acquainted with her before being left with her for 2 days. So she came over during the week and hung out for awhile and I decided it would be good if she babysat by herself as well. So Scott and I went to the movie Selma with our friends the Hunters. Afterwards they came over to play games but we ended up just talking instead. We really liked the movie. We didn't know a lot of the details portrayed in the movie. It's super crazy to think all of that happened and not very long ago. Crazy.

Scott's busy and he's adjusting to working 6 days a week. He was gone all night at a the Boise Green Festival downtown, there were all kinds of hippies down there. Ha.

Ok so let me tell you about my new favorite thing. We have a pretty small backyard and we are stuck in our house for a while more possibly forever, who knows. Anyway our fence backs up to a church parking lot. I have often thought how great it would be if we had access to the parking lot through our fence. It makes it a straight shot for Corbin to get to school, it's a great short cut. I also thought it would be a great place for the kids to fly their kites and ride their bikes. I seriously talked to Scott about it recently and got him on board. He even called my brother who's a realtor asking about permission verses forgiveness and we all learned toward forgiveness. I still felt like Scott getting around to putting a gate in the fence would take a long time. I tried to think if I could Nicole Curtis it but wasn't feeling confident in my skills or lack there of. Anyway I talked to Scott about how I wanted the gate put in yesterday. He went right out and just sawed a hole in the fence. A few days later he drilled in a couple of eye hook and latches and we are good to go. He may put in a legit gate someday but I don't even care. We have access to our huge playground now and I am STOKED! One annoying thing is the kids can't go back there without me but it's still a lot easier than going to the park. The other annoying thing is there's tons of goat heads back there. I hate goat heads. I tend to let my kids roam barefoot all the time but we can't back there. We talked to the kids about how they could never go back there without Scott or I and we explained some of the dangers. Today Corbin really wanted to go eat his otter pop back there and I told him I was busy and didn't want to go out there so he couldn't. Then Piper said, "you can't go back there, there's bad guys back there." Ha.

Primary is good. I enjoy teaching. I like that my class are 10-12 year old girls. That would probably be my ideal primary class. I'm not too sure about teaching the wee little ones.

As soon as I get Ryan out of his high chair he climbs on to the table and starts in on the kid's leftovers.

Gabby going to Kinder Chicks.

New backyard playground