It has been awhile

Life has been moving right along. I think just when I feel like I am getting in to some kind of grove something changes. Summer has brought its own changes and challenges from online school. 

 Here are some things from this past week that feel like blessings. 

• Going on a long walk with Glen on Father’s Day morning, and then spending the day with the kids and his parents. 

Larry and Janene had a camp site at Granite Flats up American Fork canyon so we went up there for the evening. A few things weren’t great like being eaten by mosquitoes and the radiator revisor on the motorhome leaking but mostly it was great.

• Topher even came up with them. It was the first time we have seen him in a long time. It was great to see how much he is growing and changing and to have little time around him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Glen being able to find the right part and fix the radiator part before they brought the motorhome down the mountain.
• Carpooling with other parents to get Lucy and her friends to volleyball clinics. It’s made that so much easier and doable. 
• Lilly being able to get herself to her rehearsals and back home and Larry and Janene helping to get her to work so I can still be at work. 
• Swimming at “Grandpa Egbert’s pool of oppression” with cousins and just our family. 
• My mom’s eye surgery going well and fixing the floaters and issues she has had since cataract surgery. No here is to hoping she will take it easy to prevent other complications. 
• Mile high raspberry pie! It’s a perfect summer treat- cool, refreshing and delicious with out being over sweet. Plus only four ingredients and a graham cracker crust. 
• A sneaky date with Glen after we dropped Lilly off at Evermore park to meet up with friends. After a couple attempts at other restaurants we were able to walk right in with out a reservation and be seated at the perfect spot at Los Hermanos  and ended up with their back room basically to ourselves. 
• Cousins being able to fill in for teammates for the volleyball tournament Lucy played in Saturday. It made it even more fun! 
• Glen taking the kids to church. I was planning on going but woke up with a headache and just not feeling great and decided resting and staying home was the right thing to do. We currently get to meet every other week with half of our ward for an abbreviated sacrament meeting. I was sad to miss it because it has been nice to be together with part of the ward again even in a socially distant way. 
• Napping and feeling better.
• Being able to have my sister-in law, Jill and her 7 kids stay with us after they had to evacuate their house because of the Knolls fire in Saratoga Springs. 
• Having enough food in the house to feed everyone even though we were low on lots of things and I hadn’t made it to Costco on Saturday.  
  
• Jill and the kids being able to go home today to a house that probably just smells like smoke. The fire came up to their subdivision and burned right around it.
• This one sounds funny but the Star Wars Rebels series has been what everyone watches together before going to bed at night. I don’t know that it is the best thing be cause it doesn’t necessarily help the kids wind down or us get to bed earlier but it’s something the kids and Glen look forward too. I am usually working on something at the sewing machine or in the background because tv isn’t really my thing but I do try and keep up with the story for the most part so I know what everyone else is talking about when they talk about it.