One week later

Monday of this week, I had activity days. I gotta say, I got moved to working with the 7-turning-8 year olds and I'm loving it. They're so much more excited about activities. They don't look at me like, "Are you serious with this?" or "Do I really have to talk?" Plus, I got a partner and that makes it so much easier!! She has great ideas and does half the prep work. We've only done two activities so far, but they've both been really fun. We made a resurrection eggs kit the Monday before Easter for the girls to share with their families, and last Monday, we did a get-to-know-you activity.

Tuesday, Emilia had her Tween Author Boot Camp. It was put on at the Provo Library, and it was basically a 4-hour conference for tweens who want to learn about writing. She says, "It was a whole lot of everything writer related." They learned about story structure, dialog, and writing appropriately descriptive prose. She also got dinner, a backpack, and listened to a keynote by J. Scott Savage.

That night the most beautiful double rainbow hung out over our house for a good twenty minutes.

The view was amazing, too.

Wednesday, all the fifth grades in the school district had a track meet and Emilia chose not to participate, so she cheered on her classmates for a couple hours and then I brought her and her friend Lizzy home. The other girls had gymnastics that evening.

Thursday and Friday had nothing special going on. I did some grocery shopping. I broke my phone. Like, did a really great job of destroying the screen. We had Lizzy over again and I helped them make Mt. St. Helens out of foam for their report/float on the state of Washington. We had our friend Cassie stay over night Friday night so she could hang out while her family moved on Saturday.

Saturday, I had a stake RS Activity and a baby shower to attend. Cecily had a birthday party to go to. Steve and my dad moved our treadmill out of the basement because we never use it anymore. Then Steve and I tried a new game called Photosynthesis after the kids were in bed. I got it the other day when Amazon had a board game sale. We enjoyed it. It's different enough from the other games we have that it's still interesting, but it's still got enough strategy that it shouldn't get boring anytime soon.

That pretty much covers our week. Oh! Except, I decided to try to start designing book covers to make some extra money. I've been working on some this week for friends as practice.

Here's my mockups for them:

Teacher Appreciation Week is next week and since I'm on the committee, I am helping out. Mostly, they just wanted me to design a print to give as a gift to the teachers. The theme for the week is "UP." Not the movie--like "giddy up," "batter up," "dress up," etc. I'm proud of how the finished print turned out, too, though I can't take credit for the layout. I copied it from here: https://www.raisinglemons.com/creator/holidays/teacher-appreciation-week-2/

And lastly, your weekly dose of Jules. She's started sleeping with her arms above her head and it's adorable. I love this stage.

Also, those eyes!

And that belly! Those toes! Every inch of her is the cutest, in my totally unbiased opinion. :)