2023, June 12-18

The kids have kept busy with classes and other activities. They learned about entrepreneurship for teens and celebrated Father's Day.

Eliza started the week learning yoga among other classes at BUH. She also learned to play Pickleball on Monday, but we have no pictures to show of it.

Hallie got her nails done in a patriotic summery picnic theme.

Mike babysat the pets. He has a certain animal magnetism that draws them to him. Fergus asserted that Mike was his person. For the most part, Kai accepted this. Besides, he gets plenty of loves from Hallie and Eliza too.

 

We got a couple of new flag-like thingies to add to Old Glory for Flag Day. Eliza sewed the pennant garland this week at BUH.

 

Landon caught Fergus blepping. Kai went back to his other family later in the week, so perhaps the kitty was just happy to be the undivided center of our affections again. 

Mike had an interview in Midvale midweek. We're feeling hopeful that it results in good things. He may have broken the car though, as it needed to be babied in order to drive right on the return trip and afterwards. He took it to the mechanic on Friday. We haven't yet heard back. . . . 

Eliza worked at Guide 'N' Gallop on Thursday. She got to make friends with the goats as well as the horses.

 

We finally got Landon to clean out his backpack this week. Hidden within, he had a trove of drawing made over the last few months.

 

Eliza made these earrings for Mom.

 

On Friday evening, Mom, Dad, and Eliza went to the Spanish Fork food trucks. At the park were booths for the annual Iceland Day Festival. Eliza made a little rock elf she named Skerry (derived from Icelandic for rocky) and planted some Icelandic poppies.

 

On Saturday, our neighbor Hannah joined the four of us at a "teenpreneur" event organized in part by parents from Eliza's homeschool group who are entrepreneurs. Both the kids and the parents learned quite a bit about both the mindset and background of entrepreneurs.

 

Here's Eliza in her Bridle Up Hope shirt bought at the BUH shop during the open house last week. 

Here she is getting a sketch made by a 16-year-old who works at Lagoon doing drawings. 

As part of the event, the kids broke into work groups where they brainstormed to create ideas for a marketable product in the vein of the TV show Shark Tank.

 

Watch Landon's (impromptu!) presentation for his group at this link. They proposed edible tape to hold together food like burritos and burgers that tend to fall apart while being eaten. When the organizer asked who would purchase this idea if the group had it available for purchase, many hands shot up! 

After the event, we retrieved Kai from his other home. He loves to ride with the windows down! We also stopped by the Provo Farmers Market to get a couple of delicious food items from El Puestito. 

In the evening, we went up to Gma and Gpa M's so that Landon could mow the lawn, Grandma could see Kai, and Mike could take in the view. 

Kai left his mark on Eliza.

Father's Day Sunday dawned with a walk around the neighborhood. Both pets took part. Fergus will join whoever is walking, so this could become the usual state of things. 

The thistles are in bloom, and the cottonwood fluff is everywhere. 

Landon and Kai accompanied the grownups for Beto's breakfast burritos and Dutch Bros. Kai even got a Pup Cup.

 

Eliza made it into social media again in an advertisement for Guide 'N' Gallop's barrel racing. 

Weather for the day was quite pleasant, if windy. Storm clouds threatened during the day but abated in time for our Sunday Social. Mike even got some kite time in. 

Prior to the social, we enjoyed some outdoor time with pets and neighbors. 

Mike bought himself this LEGO gift, an up-scale minifigure that's about 6 times as tall as a regular minifig (truck and beehive for scale).