Boise Farmers Market

Our next Saturday Adventure was a trip downtown to the farmers market.  We rarely go downtown (with the exception of John who goes downtown daily :)  There was lots to see and do and the kids thought it was successful because of the mini doughnuts and face painting.  John and I thought it was successful because we made it out of there only  $6 poorer.   

Saturday Adventures

As the kids are getting older it is getting easier for us to get out and do things as a family.  So we decided it would be fun to go on little Saturday adventures with the kids.  And the summer is perfect for that because we can find free things to do!  Two weeks ago it was father and sons (aka girls night).  The boys crashed our party and came home early due to rain.  So on Saturday we decided to head to Camel's Back park and do some hiking and exploring.  The last time I took the kids there they were too little to do much.  After a few tantrums, some fighting, and a crazy rash, we finally made it there.  And we even had a good time.

The kids and I are somewhere at the top of that massive hill.  As we were headed down the hill I earned the mother of the year award when I told Owen he could try running down as we neared the bottom.  Other kids were doing it so I thought he would be fine.  In hindsight I should have given him a bit of instruction about hill running!  He took off running full speed and within about 10 steps was doing a face plant and rolling down the hill.  My bad.  There was a bloody elbow, and sand in all the crevices of his face that you could imaging sand might go.  Snotty sand is gross.  I *think* Owen has forgiven me.  And now he has a cool story to tell :)

River Valley Fun Fair

I can 't believe the end of the school year is almost here...but it must be because we last weekend we got to go to the kids school for the fun fair.  I think everyone had a good time.  Emmie and Owen both showed off their personalities with their face paint. 

I'm still not sure if Owen came up with this idea for his face or someone else, Either way it's a little bold.  He proudly wore it for 2 days until I made him wash it off for church.

John took Owen and Emmie around to the games while I served hot dogs :)

And Ains and I even got to sell brownies that her class had made.  I think by the end of the night they had sold over 400 brownies to help buy electronics for the school. 

They were quite pushy little salesmen, but they got the job done!

 

It was after the fun fair where Emmie experienced the 3rd most traumatic moment of her life so far.  First would have been when I dropped her, second was when she nearly choked in the car, but this is one that I think she might actually remember.  When we put her to bed that night we saw a big spider crawling on her light fixture.  We tried to get it but it climbed inside.  So we sprayed some poison on the light fixture, assuming that the spider would just shrivel up and die a slow and miserable death.  But we were wrong.  About 10 minutes later Emmie started screaming.  A terrible panicked scream.  She was screaming that there was a bee in her room.  I ran up the stairs looking for the bee and nearly ran into the spider that had lowered itself by its web and was swaying midair at Emmie's eye level.  The spider was promptly killed, but Emmie spent the night in our bed.  She was up constantly looking for bugs and I finally had to get rid of her pillow because she was sure that the print on it was actually bugs.  The next night we heard the same panicked scream when she was in the bath and a fly flew into the bathroom. Last night she slept in her own bed with no panic attacks.  I'm seriously hoping she hasn't been scarred for life.

Women's Conference

A tradition has formed among some friends and I that we try to go on a little girls trip every spring.  This year we headed back to Women's Conference in Provo.  We went two years ago and had a great time and so we decided to go again.  And it was definitely worth the trip.  I have great friends in this ward, and not only did we all have a blast together, I can honestly say that I came home spiritually and mentally filled.  The classes that I chose to go to on Friday we wonderful and presented messages that I needed to hear.  Plus is always fun to be back on campus and feel a bit like a college kid again, although somehow it is becoming very apparent that I'm not a college kid anymore the students there look so young!

Other than the classes, staying up late talking, and being carefree for 3 days the highlights of the trip definitely included but are not limited to:  getting a sliver and having a BYU medical team stop to see if they could be of assistance (I was sitting up in the presenters chairs below..behind my friends...when the incident occurred.  Only mildly embarrassing.), getting to hear the woman that plays Cosette on Broadway (in New York!)  sing a collection of Les Mis songs, getting to hear the man that plays Jean Val Jean (sp?!) sing Bring Him Home.  Seriously, both brought tears to my eyes.  We shopped, ate, and did nothing at all sometimes.  It was heavenly.

And John did a great job holding down the fort while I was gone.  And now I'm forced back into reality, just a little more rejuvenated!