The kids BEGGED to eat outside tonight. The weather was so nice, so I let them. I love picnics out back, but the problem is that someone ALWAYS dumps their plate. With all the people in our family you can only have so many dumped plates and then you're just out of dinner. So tonight I made nine hamburgers with a stern warning that there would be no more, dumped or not. We would have been okay, but Lizzie kept following me around with her plate, telling me how yucky everything was (she must have missed me enduring a cloud of smoke, grilling that thing for her!) She did dump hers, but then sat on the ground and ate it. I guess it makes it a little less yucky with a little dirt and grass on it.
We had such a fun day in Flagstaff last weekend with my college friends, especially Grace, Kathy and Larah. These are best friends that I ran cross country and track with, roomed with, and just spent so much time with. I have so many great memories with them at NAU. We watched the Big Sky meet in the dome and remember how we hated racing and working out in there. We went to our old dorm and found our old rooms. We were trying to show our kids where we lived, and they just weren't that interested, but it was so fun for us. On the way home, I thought about how we were so young when we all left there, and now coming back together, married, kids, many life experiences...it was just the coolest. I'm so glad we were able to go. Coach Mann was even there, and it was to seem him.
We're off to Tucson tomorrow to visit the Reid Park Zoo.
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Yeah for Spring Break! So just remember next time you make burgers, season with a little dirt. Can't wait to hear about Tuscon. Have fun!
That story about Lizzie is soooooo funny! I will tell it to my kids on the way to school tomorrow!! Fun, the eating outside thing!! I LOVE that, but never really thought about dinner outside with 6 kids and running out of refills! Maybe you should save those nights for beans and rice dinners!! haahaha!! I do have to say, tipping over a hot dog is much easier than a burger though! So, good idea a about the "flat food!"
I am not sure if you got the pictures I emailed at your dbarney address. Now I can't remember if I actually attached any. I had a couple of cute ones with the kids. In the pic that they are lined up by "size" you might notice that Jon is on his tippy toes! I think he did that on purpose! Funny kid! Let me know if you didn't get the pics! Miss you tons! REally, it was so, so, so, so awesome to see you and your family!!!!
Love, kathy
So how was Tuscon? Have the kids gone back to school?
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