This past week has been Fall Break for our school district. We enjoyed General Conference last weekend and a visit from Granma Vickie. While the kids were out of school we did a few fun things together. One day we visited the Arizona Natural History Museum. Gideon was excited to show a few displays to his siblings. (Gideon and I took Diana there during her recent visit.) If any of you have seen the movie “Night at the Museum,” Gideon was excited to show his siblings the “Rexie” and “Dum Dum” that our museum has. We also went out to the courtyard and panned for fool’s gold in the manmade stream. We had a good time.
Another day Kyler went with me and the Cub Scouts to the Gilbert Historical Museum. Not as cool as a museum with dinosaurs, but they still learned a bit about Gilbert History and got to sit on a police motorcycle. The docent who gave us the tour was once a mayor of Gilbert and attended school in the museum building. I thought that was cool.
On Friday, our last day of vacation, Kyler planned a family bike ride and picnic for his siblings and I to a nearby pond behind the McQueen Rec. Center. This activity fulfilled a Cub Scout elective. Gideon rode his bike with training wheels all the way there and back! He and I were the caboose of the group, but he made it – what a trooper! At the pond we enjoyed our picnic. We got to feed the ducks and the 1 ½ ft. long catfish! The fish were huge!
Saturday night Jerika went with a friend to a church youth dance (8:30 -10:30pm) and Tori went to a friend’s birthday party (5-10pm!) Oh, our girls are growing up!
Today at church I was sustained as the new Cub Scout Committee Chair. I’m still Wolf Den Leader until they call someone, hopefully that will be soon. Today I also ran my first Cub Scout Committee meeting. It went well for my first time. This past week I also enjoyed playing volleyball at the church again with the ladies and I also worked on preschool stuff. I’m enjoying my preschool class. I’m hoping to refine my planning time so that I can spend more time enjoying Gideon his last year at home. Since our elementary school only offers full time kindergarten, this is my last year at home with him. How sad! Well, I want to make the most of it, so I’ll do my best to simplify.
Jerry is enjoying scouts. He is helping his boys prepare for a Rendezvous in January. They’re going to make their own knife handles, leather pouches, maybe even their own teepee. Jerry is quite excited.
That’s it for now.
Love, Steph
