Springtime good times

 We slept in this morning and then went for a walk on the Red Hill.  It's  wonderful up there right now with flowers blooming everywhere!  We really enjoyed that.  Then we went to Kai's soccer game.  He's in kindergarten now and losing teeth!  They play on very small fields with only 4 kids at a time.  It's pretty cute.  Some of them try very hard, and some of them are in lala land looking around and paying no attention.  Kai's team has a really great coach and this year he loves soccer.  When he first started a year or so ago, he would only play if they bought him a little monster truck afterwards as a bribe!  But now, he's all in!  He played really well and his team won this one!  Go Kai!!! (Christie's sister, Heather, came to cheer him on too!)

Next up was Brenden's next to last game up in Cedar City...they won by a long ways.  Then we watched Eliza play her last game and they won too!  Good times!  We did watch Brenden's last game, which wasn't a win, but we watched it in comfort from the scorekeeper's box with Christie and her folks and Eliza and Kai.  That was fun!  The score was 1 to 1 until a ref made a call that gave the other team a great shot on goal with only 1.57 minutes left and that wasn't enough for them to even things up unfortunately.  

Afton play the role of Phoebe in their homeschool group's Shakespeare play this year.  She did an amazing and surprising job on her part.  It was very funny!  

Another fun thing was taking hot dogs and all the rest of the picnic to Pine Valley and cooking up a picnic a few weeks before the campground opens up and the crowds arrive.  It was so peaceful, pleasant and delicious.  While we were gone someone set the Brooks Pond Park afire with their cigarette butt dropped into the cotton from the cottonwood trees.  It did a lot of damage even with the firemen getting their pretty quickly.  It almost got a house next to it into trouble and they had to replace some telephone poles as well as losing sever big trees.  Too bad.  It happens pretty regularly unfortunately.  

Another fire experience was getting to help cook the DO cobblers for the Single Adult bonfire activity with Francisco, one of the ward members.  It was fun to get to know him and some others a little better that night.

Another great thing happening is Essie turning 10!  She such a cute thing!  They sent us such a cute video of her opening her present from us.  Wish we could be a bit more involved with these kids, but distance makes it hard.  Love them just the same!  Happy #10 Essie!