Memorial Weekend

Well, a fun Memorial weekend finally came to an end. We were able to squeeze in a little sun, a little fun, some memorable lines from the girls and some yardwork. Saturday started with the normal basketball for me and Julie has restarted at the gym. Kim 2 convinced Julie to join LA Fitness. Julie has really enjoyed getting back in the swing of it, especially the water arobics classes. We then attacked the yard, which included the annual clearing of the east side of the house. While Connor and I were tearing our way through knee high weeds, I heard the girls playing on their bikes. They had named their bikes and were playing "Princess Cops". Which, as Courtney explained to Mallory, is when they are princesses and also cops. You know, we've been told that Courtney is a good combination of Julie and myself, but I never thought of it in that way.

But, that wasn't the best nugget from the girls. Later, Julie caught the girls admiring some of her porcelin dolls. She asked them what they were doing and they told her that they were determining who would get which dolls after we were done and gone. I like to tease the girls to see what sort of reaction I can get from them, so after Julie told me what they were doing, I asked them which ones I would get. Mallory wasted no time in telling me, "You're not going to get any. You're going to get dead, Dad. You're going to die before Mommy. " So, write it down folks, I'm going to get dead.

We introduced Julie and the kids to ultimate frisbee Saturday afternoon before the rains came. A bunch of folks from the ward put together an impromptu game. Julie lasted longer than she thought she would. Connor and Court lasted the entire game and Mallory was in an out, switching between the game and riding her bike. Pete managed to not get hurt badly, so a very successful day.

On Monday, we picked out the tile for the upstairs bathrooms which will be going in over the next few days and caught Prince Caspian in the afternoon. We all liked it better than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We topped it off with barbequed beef for dinner to fulfill the requirement for bbq on Memorial Day, even though it was raining and in the low 60's. Thank you Julie.