Gandma, Ashley, and Women's Conference

Monday Jared had soccer practice again.  His coach was there and it looked like they had a good fun practice.  We just stayed for the whole thing.  Construction has started again on 9th east and it makes getting to the front of the school hard...especially in the afternoon.  We do usually just go to the back of the school, but for soccer we would pick Jared up at the front.  We just walked around this last day.  We had a good family home evening that evening.  We also started Connor's 3 day food diaries this day.

Tuesday morning I had an appointment I needed to go to, so Alan watched Bradley and Connor for a little bit.  Then in the afternoon it was nice enough to play outside for a while.  Jared had his last  soccer game of the season that night.  It was a team he had played before and had lots of friends from school and previous teams on it.  It was a fun evening.  We hurried home after it to eat dinner.

Wednesday we played outside more and got ready for Grandma and Ashley to come.  Brett went up with me to pick  them up from the airport.  We had a fun time parking in the economy lot and riding the bus in to get them.  Grandma was there waiting for us when we got there. (Riding the bus took longer than I thought it might.)  Ashley's flight was delayed so we waited and waited and waited.  Then we figured out we were waiting in terminal 2 and she was coming to terminal 1 (like several other people we saw picking people up while we were there)  So Ashley was there waiting for us when we got there too.  We got back home close to midnight.

We had pancakes with strawberry jam for dinner.  Part way through dinner Brad said "Do you want whipped cream with that?"  We just happened to have some in the fridge...that's probably almost a year old.  Alan said Sure!  This is after dinner.  Connor is just getting squirts in the mouth.  We were very glad this was the last day of food diaries!

Thursday was Women's Conference.  I dropped Lauren and Jared off at school and then got to go with Mom and Ashely to Women's Conference.  We had a good day full of inspiring classes.  We came home at 5 for a quick dinner and to see Lauren's soccer game.  Brett went with Alan and the kids to Lauren's game and Mom, Ash, and I walked since we wouldn't  all fit in the car.  Lauren had a good last game too.  Mom, Ash, Alan, Connor, and I rode home and Brett walked with the other guys.  When we got Mom, Ash and I went back to Women's Conference for the evening activities.  There were some service projects going on and sharing stations.  Then when those were finished we went to the concert.  It was a fun long day!  Alan said they had a good day at home too.  Alan went in and helped in Lauren's class.

Friday was more Women's Conference.  We had fun going to more great classes.  I think maybe my favorite one from the whole conference was a class we went to about the temple that day.  It got over at 5 and we came home to a great dinner Alan had made, soy chicken and yummy veggies.  That night we just relaxed and visited with everyone.  Alan went and helped in Jared's class Friday too.

A sign Alan must have seen in the hall (and thought was funny) when he went to help in Jared's class.

Connor got to have mac and cheese for lunch...and loved it!

Grandma brought some fun presents with her! Some of my old play make-up.

They all had to try it out!

Connor wanted a mug shot since the other guys got one.

We had to cover our faces while they got ready for their show!

They went all out!  They put on a great show with fantastic make-up.  They all had a really great time until I had to scrub it off of them in the bathtub!  That deterred them from doing another one...at least for a short time.  I think they might be getting an itch for it again.

Saturday morning we got up and went to the baptism of a girl who lives up stairs.  It was a nice baptism.  Another boy who lives in our quad got baptized too.  Mom and Ashley came with us and walked home with Jared, Lauren, and Bradley.  We went by the Wymount yard sale and after we changed a picnic out in our quad for after the baptism.  We enjoyed the picnic and Jeff and Brett and Elizabeth all made it over eventually.  In the afternoon we walked down to campus (Alan stayed home to get some work done) and saw Jeff's labs and some posters that he had up in the halls of some of the buildings.  We all played outside a little more.  Mom, Brett and I went to winco for some things.  Ash went and had dinner with Will's family.  When we got back from the store Alan had started yummy pizza.  After dinner we played a little more and Alan went down to the creamery and got Woosh Cecil (ice cream flavor) for us to try when Ashley got back.

Bradley brought out a full costume complete with saddle fur to entertain us.  He is saying Yee Haw.

YUM!!!

Sunday I had to take Ashley up to the airport.  Jared, Lauren, and Bradley all rode along.  When we got to the airport we found out that Ashley's flight was delayed 4 hours (or more?).  We just had to leave her to hurry back for church.  We made it back just in time.  Bradley got to give is first talk in primary about prophets.  He did a pretty good job, but I don't think anyone was able to hear him.  It was nice to have Grandma there 2 weeks in a row to hold Connor during the 2nd and 3rd hours.  That night we got to go eat dinner at Jeff and Elizabeth.  We had yummy fajitas, horchata, and tres leches cake to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.  We had a fun time visiting that night.

Connor licking the cilantro lime ranch container clean! (After I did :)

Dessert!

Playing for a few minutes before it got too windy.  It was raining Spring! (pollen)