Melting Daddy's Heart

Melting Mommy's Heart

A few days ago, I was driving home with Landon and we had a conversation something like this --

Landon: I will not be a tiger or an elephant or a lion or a monkey or a different elephant

Mommy: You will not?

Landon: I will not be all those things.

Mommy: What will you be then?

Landon: Just your Landon.

Service Auction Cards

I made this set of cards (and some strawberry freezer jam) for a service auction that our ward did for enrichment last week.

(I'm super excited too for the services that I bid for-- a knitted dress for Ellie by a friend in the ward who does amazing work, babysitting from another friend, and help on a sewing project from an expert seamstress -- Hooray!)

Logan Fun

Logan is one of my very favorite places. A few visits with my roommates to their grandparents home there when I was in college endeared me to the town. Knowing my love for it, Jordan took me on a day trip adventure there once when we were dating (complete w/ a soaking wet canoe ride...) And now I have even more fun memories of visiting there w/ April. Here's a couple of pics from our fun stay last week.

April made us feel right at home and had everything set up to greet us w/ such a friendly welcome. (She even had a great basketful of toys and books for Landon to play w/ in his room and lots of stuffed animals propped up on his bed -- and a sweet bright little yellow bed set up just for Ellie too :)

Watching the ducks at the Willow Park Zoo -- not the best picture, but it was a really fun little zoo. They had lots of birds -- ducks, pelicans, parrots, a peacock (In Landon's words "There was a turkey with lots and lots of feathers!!), an owl and eagle. etc. and some turtles, deer, a snake, some monkeys, and a bobcat. The one memorable thing for Landon though was the mosquito that I brushed away from him when we were looking at the bobcat. April got quite a workout lifting Landon up to the top of the fence at each spot to see the animals inside. :)

I got to take Landon up to see and walk around the Logan temple. He especially liked the fountains...

A visit to Logan doesn't feel complete without a trip to my favorite restaurant, the Bluebird.

Since I didn't have work around the house and such that needed to be done, I got to relax and read during Landon and Ellie's nap time! I hadn't read this in a few years since it first came out, so I was happy to read it again. (And, it was so fun to read that I'm reading it again now w/ Jordan! :)

Yoga

I've been going to our ward's Yoga class for the last little while on Saturday mornings -- super fun. We have a couple of girls who teach the class for us and do a stellar job. It's a great, tough workout, and I always leave feeling so refreshed and rejuvenated and excited about exercising and eating healthy foods. Hooray!

What we've been up to

Jordan to San Francisco for a day-- to the google developers conference to help out w/ an Animoto booth (he left early that morning and was back around midnight that night!) And, he got a pretty cool phone just for attending.

Fathers and sons campout -- Jordan and Landon had a fun time playing by the fire, sleeping in a tent, and playing w/ flashlights while Mommy and Ellie had some fun girl time at home.

Jordan to New York and the rest of us to Logan -- Jordan spent a week out in New York and had fun getting to see everybody at Animoto again and spend some time working together in person w/ the other guys. April was a HUGE help to me all week in playing with and taking care of Landon and Ellie.

A new dryer! Our dryer has been clinking and squeeking and creaking like crazy since we moved in (really, really crazy sounds!) and almost always had to be run twice to dry a load. Then, it started to catch our clothes and so the laundry would come out w/ burn marks and/or holes... so we finally found a good craigslist deal and got a new dryer!

(Unfortunately, today I pulled out the clothes to find big blue spots all over everything and a completely blue dryer drum from a crayon that had gotten run with the load...)

Working in the yard -- having fun this year getting to do a little more fine tuning type of work now that lots of the overgrowth is taken out and we've planted the trees we want and such. (Jordan did get to take down an aspen though -- he's joked about wanting to plant a new tree each year just because it's so fun to get to pull them down...) Our garden is starting to grow too which is so fun to see. (Tomatoes, carrots, squash & zucchini, chard, potatoes, and lettuce) And, our peach tree has LOTS of peaches on it too. :)

Sleep -- Jordan took Ellie for a night and part of another this week to let me sleep and it made such a huge, huge difference. I had so much more patience and fun even and felt like I could tackle all of those projects that have been waiting for just a little more energy!

Tumbling class - We put Landon in a 'Tumbling Tots' class hoping it'd be a good way to give him some direction for all of his energy. He has fun running and jumping and climbing and diving, but it's a bit of a work out for me to try and keep him w/ the rest of the class (5 sweet little girls!)

Flowers, flowers, everywhere!

Picked by my sweetheart from our yard yesterday :)