Awesome long weekend

Here's Anaya practicing "attachment parenting" (see Moana's blog for attachment parenting info.) Notice how the teddy bear is upside down... that's a foot poking out the top...not sure what to call that kind of knot/carrying position!)

This has been the nicest weekend! Friday night after McKay's preschool graduation we did a little shopping for Malia's birthday. Saturday morning Rik ran 20 miles (oh good grief, I would probably die!) It took him 3 hours and 14 minutes. He got up at 4:30 in the morning to get that run in (yuck!) While he was running I tracked down one last thing on Malia's birthday list, and then started mowing lawns with Kayden. We were mowing as fast as we could because it looked like we were going to get rained on. For some reason I'm the only one that can run our trimmer... I don't know if Rik has rigged it that way or what, but no one else can get it to work, so I have to go on all of Kayden's jobs and trim while he mows. It worked out good on Saturday though, because we were hurrying so fast to beat the weather. When we got home from mowing Kayden's two jobs, Rik had started mowing our lawn (he was hobbling along pretty good after his run). I jumped on the ride-on mower while Rik used the push mower. We only had to mow in the rain for about half of the yard.... I was glad we got it done though... because it rained, hailed, and thundered the rest of the day.

After mowing the lawn, apparently a regular shower was not going to be good enough to clean all the stink off of Rik (3 hours of running + mowing the lawn = ewww), so he took all the kids to the club to go swimming. Nothing like chlorine to disinfect you!

Saturday night Rik and I went out to eat and to see Indiana Jones. I sure do like him (Rik, not Indiana Jones...)!

Sunday went pretty good, for Malia and me anyway. I have an awesome presidency, and they make Sundays enjoyable! Rik was conducting though, and the high councilman didn't show up, so Rik had to fill in. He did a great job, but half way through his talk, Kayden leaned over and said, "This is the forth time I've heard this talk!" (We just talked about it for FHE a few weeks ago...) I told him he was more than welcome to get up and speak instead then. McKay gave the scripture and prayer for the first time in primary. He had been asked before, but worried himself right out of doing it. Anaya gave it a couple weeks ago, and that seemed to be enough to comfort McKay into standing up there. Nothing like a little competition for encouragement! As for Malia, the young women decided they were done waiting for Malia, and came and got her a week early. She was over the moon. Singing time wasn't the same without her though...

Monday morning we got the kids up and had a nice big breakfast, then rode our bikes to the park to play tennis.... only then the clouds came in and it poured on us. By the time we rode home we were soaked all the way through (the kids thought this was great....me, not so much.) After that we decided Wii tennis was a better option. McKay and Rik were playing Wii bowling against each other (McKay won both games scoring 195 on one game and 189 on the other). He had the funniest comments: "Dad, you play bowling like Anaya, and she's not very good...." We watched movies, and then had family home evening. Except for riding bikes in the rain, a really nice relaxing day.

I just have to make it through a few more busy school days, and then adjust to having everyone home. I sure did need this long weekend!