Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Silly scripture study
#Fail
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Church Cleaning, High Tide, and Songwriting
Here's her song:
A thunderstorm, a thunderstorm.
All through the town!
Power Damage!
As the evening progressed, it became clear that our 40% chance of thunderstorms had increased to about, oh, I'd say ninety-nine-pointy-one. When the storm hit us, it was raging: the thunder was loud, the lightning was constant, the rain was...wet. Our power flickered a few times in the midst of everything, but it didn't go out until after we thought we were through everything.
We'd just gotten Alexander and Phoebe into their jammies and were about to gather for scriptures and prayer when...everything went dark. It was still light enough outside that this wasn't a huge deal, but Phoebe thought it was the best thing ever!
Friday, June 27, 2025
Benjamin's woodworking class
Andrew posted online about a swim meet the other day and someone commented on his post something like: "Lord, if I have but one day to live, let there be a swim meet, because those things last forever!"
With two swim meets this week, it has felt like this week has been at least two weeks (three swim meets within eight days).
Add in the girls going to YW camp, a heat wave, the girls being sent home from YW camp, daily swim practices, class, work, and everything else...it feels like we've lived an entire lifetime since last week.
Oh, and Benjamin had his woodworking camp this week as well! It was every afternoon from 1 to 5. And I think everyone had a good time—from the youngest boy up to the oldest teacher. Here's Benjamin when I dropped him off on the first day:
% Chance
Ribbons galore!
As you can see, the kids did well at their swim meets this week!
Benjamin had a whole fistful of blue (first place) ribbons:
Last meet of the year!
We did it! We made it through the swim season!
Our final meet was tonight and it was a little...touch and go in the beginning. A thunder storm rolled in just as we were setting up so we spent the next 1.5+ hours waiting it out. We got our meet started at 6:30 pm and the officiants really moved through things quickly!
Thursday, June 26, 2025
It's. Hot.
On Tuesday the kids spent all afternoon in the neighbour's kiddie pool. This picture is just Phoebe...because at this moment all the other kids were sitting in front of the fans (they hauled up from our house) in the garage, dripping wet. That must have felt good!