May 12th Peter's class went on a field trip to Hagerman. The kids got to go to Ritter Island and had fun learning about the area, its history, and exploring around! (Peter's teacher is so awesome and took pictures for me because I couldn't go.)
Casey and Peter got to go on a father and son camp out with the ward on the 14th. They picked up some subway on the way. After dinner they went up to balanced rock and wandered around a bit. They had some smores and the boys played in the dark around camp and the hills. It wasn't their best nights sleep, but they had a good time together!
Both Kendal and Peter had their AR parties this past week. Kendal got to go to Nat So Pa on Tuesday with the fifth graders. She came home a bit sun burnt, but so happy! Peter's AR party was a little carnival at the high school. He only came home raving about cotton candy and a big bounce house, but I know there were games and such he enjoyed. His teacher said he had a great time!
I've been going into the library a few times a week the past two weeks to get in some training / knowledge from the assistant librarian (Kathy Lundy) who's leaving. Alice has been a trooper coming along and just dealing with things, (honestly I've pulled out my phone and had her on the preschool learning app quite a bit because she's getting more comfortable there and discovered the swivel chair is fun!) It's a lot of information, and I feel overwhelmed at some moments, but I know I'll get it down. I also received a new calling today. I'll be Secretary for the Primary.
We had a couple of nice days this week. I took Jem and Alice to the Library story time the last couple of weeks as well as the local park to play. I also took Alice yesterday to just have some one on one time at the school playground that she's always pinning to go. Alice is working on basic sight words, writing, and counting higher with me for preschool as well. She's very proud of writing her name on her own!
Kendal gave her first talk in Sacrament meeting today. She talked about Gratitude. We looked through some quotes, and stories one day, and put them together with her thoughts yesterday. She was nervous, but we told her that she bears her testimony enough that if she can do that she could conquer this, and she did! She did so well and we're proud of her for doing it! This week has been very up and down with weather, so we took a small break in weather this evening and walked down into Shoshone falls. The falls are at full capacity right now and so cool to see. I honestly thought Alice would be harder to motivate on the walk, but she was so excited to see the waterfalls, and there were smaller ones coming down the side of the hills as we walked down. She kept saying how beautiful it was.
School ends in a week and a half. Peter is excited for school to get out, Kendal is devastated, and they both are upset their friends are moving at the end of next week. Summer is on the horizon, with a busy June ahead of us. Track, basketball, camp, training's, Logan, birthdays, etc.
(Kendal and Adi wrote a friendship song - these two are going to miss each other a lot!)
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