Monday, June 30, 2025

Tea Party

 

May 21 was International Tea Day. I got excited to try out recipes from Whisk Me Away by Michelle Wright. 
We had Cucumber Sandwiches, Spinach Artichoke Dip on homemade English muffins (the muffins recipe was not in the book but the dip was), The Perfect Tea Cookie, and strawberries and cream (also not in the book but it was Strawberries and Cream Day). We each got to choose what kind of herbal tea to drink and of course I had to use my "just one more chapter" mug.
Not only does this book have delicious recipes but there are bits of trivia about different time periods as well as games and quotes from Proper Romance novels. 

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Dancing and Graduating

On May 20, Eliza Doolittle Day, besides eating chocolate, Lucky had his end of the year dance festival.
Great job, Lucky. Can you guess what song his grade danced to?
 
That evening, we went to Jr.'s seminary graduation
Great job, Jr. 
During the graduation, they showed pictures of the seniors as babies and as they are now. These are the pictures of Jr. We got the little boy picture of him from this blog from 16 years ago (August 27, 2009). He's still a cutie.
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Later that night, since it was also Pick Strawberries Day, some of us ate strawberries. Some people in our family love strawberries, some hate strawberries. I am one who loves strawberries.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Eagles and Blackbirds and Real Birds, Oh My

 Jeremy is a bird eater, a one eyed, one horned, flying purple birdy eater.
 
O.K. This is what happens when I get started on a post but don't have time to continue blogging. My kids step in and... well, you saw the first line of this post.
 
What I was going to say was Jeremy had a balloon gig coming up where he was building a jet based on one that actually existed so as a family, we went up to Hill Aerospace Museum to see it. 
Research!
 
Here's the story: Back in the 60's, that's 1960s, Murray City acquired a retired jet, a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. Do you want to know what they did with it? They turned it into a slide. Yep, a playground slide at Murray Park, where kids could climb up one side and slide down the other. Around 1990, it was retired as a slide and taken to Hill Air Force Base. It was repainted (and whatever else needed to be done) and hung in the Hadley Gallery of the Hill Aerospace Museum. Ta-da. So we went to see the real jet and later Jeremy (and Debbie) built it out of balloons.
 
Here's the real thing:
 
Here is the balloon jet: 
 


Here is an informational poster they had at the event:
 
And here is our family at the Hill Aerospace Museum: 
It was a nice family activity. I loved seeing Jet with the jets. Tee Hee. I told the kids that the last time I went to this museum was when I was a little girl myself. One or two of our kids had visited for youth activities but this was the first time as a whole family.

We saw lots and lots of aircraft and Jet and Lucky both picked out pennies to squish. Jet's was an Eagle and Lucky's was a Blackbird. We made sure to get pictures of them with their pennies with their aircraft.
 
After we got home, a few of us went down to Utah Lake State Park to see real birds. It was a windy day, a wonderfully windy day. It was so fun to see waves flying up onto the rocks while we were there. So fun.
Lucky especially loved it.
We saw some birds, too. 
It was a long, busy, but good day. 

Friday, June 27, 2025

Mommy, Look

Lucky: GOAT Haircuts? Is that for kids? 


Thursday, June 26, 2025

Here's Some More Catching Up

May 13 was Leprechaun Day, Crouton Day, Fruit Cocktail Day, and Apple Pie Day. Guess what. We celebrated.
Ah, homemade croutons and homemade apple pie. Mmmmmm.

Besides given ourselves "gold" coins for Leprechaun Day, we also turned on Irish music and had some fun moving to the music. 
Lucky decided to use his fruit to make a kebab. Why not? 
 
May 14 was Dance Like a Chicken Day and Buttermilk Biscuit Day. We made Biscuits and "Gragy" from Shelf Cooking 101 by Jordan Page.
Of course we danced like chickens.
 
May 15 was Dinosaur Day, National Chocolate Chip Day, and International Day of Families. We had Dino nuggets and chocolate chip pancakes with our family.
 I also got out for a walk that morning with a friend I haven't been able to do anything with for a while.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Wax and Awards

The day after Screen Free Week was busy. I got to see Lucky be Brigham Young at the elementary school's Wax Museum.
He did such a good job. Ever since the school play, he's loving being dramatic with things. I love his Brigham Young face. Such a fun kid.
Oh, he just corrected me when reading this. "That's not true. I've always loved being dramatic, doing voices and stuff."

That night was a Senior Awards Night at the high school so I got to see Jr. get recognition for some awards. Woohoo. Cool kid.

Then we went home in time to be online for my niece opening up her mission call to... Argentina. I had a brother who went to Argentina on a mission. Jeremy had a brother who went on a mission to Argentina. Fun stuff.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Anniversary and Mother's Day

We celebrated our anniversary and Mother's Day during Screen Free Week.
On our actual anniversary, we had our traditional anniversary dinner with the kids. This time we decided to eat outside because the weather has been nice for that. 

On May 10, Babysitter's Day, the kids took care of Jet so Jeremy and I could go out to celebrate our anniversary. Jeremy and I went out birding in the morning.

We went out to eat in the afternoon.
We stopped by the movie theater to get a picture with A Minecraft Movie poster to joke to the kids that we went to see a movie during Screen Free Week. We didn't. 
We got ourselves Winco salads and ate them late at night at a park where we could watch some of the city lights. We were tired by the end of the day.
I think Jeremy did this face on purpose to be funny. We do love to spend time together and are very happy to have been married for so many years so far. 
 
When Jeremy asked me what I wanted for Mother's Day dinner, I told him I wanted the kids to make dinner for me. The kids. Not Jeremy. Jeremy ended up helping as well as contributing and it was probably more work for him than if he had just made dinner for me by himself but I appreciated it. 
Nichole made cheeseburger pasta, Jr. made Reese's bread, Jr. Jr. made scones, Lucky provided sparkling apple-grape, Jeremy contributed a veggie platter, and Jet (with Jeremy's help) made a chocolate cake with strawberry frosting and hot chocolate powder sprinkled on top. 
Lucky made a napkin flower for me.
At church Jet stayed with us during Sacrament Meeting, had no problem when Jeremy took him to Primary (often he wants me to take him), I was able to have brunch during Relief Society with other sisters (and Nichole), and after church, Jet played a little ukulele/guitar toy and made up a Happy Mother's Day song. I also got to spend some time outside with a book.
 And that is the end of blogging about Screen Free Week. Yay. Finally.