The Atherton Family: Spring Break!!!

This has been a fun week! Monday our friends came to play. Then in the afternoon we spent a lot of time outside and just relaxed and enjoyed the first no school day of spring break.

Tuesday we all went to Bradley's preschool. After preschool we took Connor over for a weight check. He gained 2 ounces in 3 weeks...so he is up to a whopping 17 lbs 7 1/2 ounces. He needs to gain about 3 lbs to even reach the bottom of the weight chart. We found out that his sweat chloride test was normal. The doctor decided she wanted some stool tests done on him too....so we got to work on that Tuesday too. We played outside more too.

Wednesday was a rainy morning...most of the mornings this week were rainy. We went to story time at the library. We stopped by the museum of peoples and cultures on the way home. It had cleared up by lunch time so we went on a picnic to Rock Canyon park. We walked all the way up and around to the top playground at the back and ate and played. Then worked our way back around the park and eventually home. It was a fun afternoon. That night I went to a Relief Society activity. It was a service auction. I made a ruffle scarf and took that for my service.

Thursday in the morning I had to talk to the doctor some to get appointments scheduled for Connor at a pediatric GI specialist. His stool tests came back normal too. We'll see what the specialist says, but I'm still not worried about him. He seems just fine. Except for being small he is happy and doing great! Thursday we also went to a health and safety fair at the county heath department. These guys had tons of fun going around to the different activities and booths. We came home for lunch and I looked at the BYU calendar. I saw that the engineering department was doing it's capstone project show off day. We went last year and Jared loved it so we hurried down there again. There were some pretty cool projects and we had fun checking them all out. Then we walked over to say hi to Alan. We played outside when we got home for a little bit.

Connor loves egg cracking contests! He does not like to be left out. He gets really into it and makes a grunt/ sigh when he hits someone else's egg. Connor will even check his egg after it gets hit to see if it was damaged at all. It makes me laugh every time. It is pretty cute. Bradley has had to share the wins with everyone, but I think he still has the most.

Friday we went back to the museum of peoples and cultures. They were doing some fun activities for spring break and had story time at 11. (If I had known on Wednesday that they were doing that we would have only gone once.) Then we went to the museum of paleontology. We had fun looking at all the dinosaur bones. We saw some friends there too. They have a rock there that looks like it has powdered cheese on it, so we had to come home and have macaroni and cheese. After lunch we cleaned up (which hadn't happened all week...or so it seemed) and folded laundry. We got all ready to go to Grandma and Grandpa Atherton's so we could leave as soon as Alan got home from work. We got out to the ranch around 9:30pm.

Jaguar

This is the only one of several where someone isn't a complete blur.

We had a fun weekend out at the ranch watching conference, swinging in the meadow, having a birthday party for Great Grandpa Young (he turned 85), roasting hotdogs and smores, making giant paper airplanes, playing legos, sewing with Grandma, and fishing. Alan and Jared both caught fish...it was Jared's first one! We got to eat lots of yummy food too...barbecued turkey...with all the sides, cake, Belgian waffles, strawberries and whipped cream, and all the yummy leftovers. It's nice to be home to sleep in our own beds tonight.

Conference bingo: almost to blackout!