Music Camp - Week 49

Hurricane wanted to attend music camp this summer. He attended this week. Since he will be attending a new school, he wanted to make sure that he wanted to take orchestra at a different school this summer. The other reason was that he was trying to decide if he wanted to take private lessons or be in orchestra. He said that he had fun and wanted to continue with orchestra.

Pioneer Day was a normal day except for the evening. We were asked by Sister Miller in our ward to have our boys sing a pioneer song, lead the group in a song, and to share a pioneer story. There were pioneer games and a meal.

On Tuesday, we hosted a book group. We put out a request for books to read and checked them all from the library. We showed the books to our friends but read the book "Naked" by Michael Ian Black.

Hurricane asked if we could have water balloons. So at the end, there was a water balloon fight.

Sweetheart has been reading "Hatchet" by Gary Paulson. I went to a Cub Scout Committee Meeting and came to home to them finishing the book. They were quite enthralled by the story.

Throughout the week, we cleaned the furniture. There was a yard sale with an old Singer sewing machine in a sewing table.

The sewing machine works, and the table looks lovely. The couches look great after being cleaned.

During the week, we all got up early and weeded in our yard for an hour a day. We made great progress. The boys took out a tree that had died in our yard. It took them two days to dig out the tree. They were really proud of themselves. Granted Sweetheart did a lot of manual pushing to help the boys along.

Sweetheart worked on his commute car on Saturday. He flushed the transmission fluid and one of the cooling systems in the Prius. As he cleaned out the cooling system, the fluid came out in pink clumps. He flushed the system multiple times until no pink clumps came out. He finished working on the car late in the night. I'm grateful to know that he has skills to work on our cars.

Auntie Yvette and her children returned from the trip to the East Coast. They spent the weekend with our family. We had a good time with them and visited the Nature and Science Museum together before they headed home to Utah.

On our way home, the boys found a random rainbow in the sky. They asked to take pictures for themselves.

Be Well!