2020, June 8-14

Late spring is beginning to melt into early summer. The snow has nearly left the mountains, and what green there was in the fields is taking on a toasted golden hue. 

We attempt to get the kids to do daily chores and homework. Attempt is the key word. Fortunately, they do manage to get some work done. It helps that we've made playing Fortnite an incentive. 

Eliza got to go horseback riding twice this week! We're transitioning over to a new place while using up the last lessons from the old. 

Eliza and Hallie seem to share Hallie's phone a lot lately. Eliza has discovered the glamour selfie. 

Both kids had changes made to their bedrooms this week. Mike put together Landon's new bed. The boy seems happy. Landon's new bed frame is quite tall and he likes that and felt a need to perch.                                                

And Eliza now sleeps in this Little Tikes car. No, she got a new mattress (not pictured because we all know what mattresses look like). For a long time she has complained about the mattress that we got with her bed. So on our return to our weekly date we set out to buy her a mattress.

Again, with the horseback riding, this time at Taylor Ranch. This place has beautiful views. In the picture below Eliza was learning how to lunge the horse she rides. We received a bit of rain the previous weekend and Rihanna the horse needed some exercise before she took Eliza for a lesson.

Hallie helps out at the gym by babysitting not only Lily but a couple of other kiddos too. Sometimes Chloe misses her mom. Eliza who is quite good at Hallie's phone figured out how to let everyone know what was on Chloe's mind.

Once again, Landon helped at Grandma and Grandpa M.'s with the lawn, and Eliza helped fish some mummified voles from out of a basement window well and did a bit of weeding. Grandma M treated us to homemade breakfast burritos. A great way to start off a morning of work. After all of the work we spent some time sitting on their steps and enjoyed the view and the warming weather.

We enjoyed dinner of grilled salmon with our neighbors on Sunday evening. All in all, even with the heat beginning to assert itself, there's plenty of cool breezes to enjoy along with the conversation outside.