Thursday, July 21, 2016

Our fun weekend!

Playing Ra
In summer we have been able to play more family games. I snapped a picture of us playing Ra. Sarah loves bidding on anything related to destruction. I'm not sure what that says about her!
Lately Matthew has been really interested in driveways and sidewalks that have cracks. He built this road with "cracks" in it all on our living room. He ripped up paper then taped it back together to simulate roads. 

Matthew and his roads
 Erik bought me a vegetarian cookbook for my birthday. I made peanut ginger noodles and stuffed tomatoes. Both recipes were amazing. I can't wait to make more recipes from the cookbook.
Stuffed tomatoes
 Last week Jenna went to a video game camp. She learned GameMaker and created several games. Her friend Alexis also went to the camp. They both really loved it. Now I just need to download GameMaker on one of our machines. We give the kids our old computers. I currently have 3 computers I'm using all the time (plus 3 raspberry pis - I guess that makes 6!) so I need to figure out when I can give them one of my old computers.
Jenna and Alexis
 Last weekend my parents took the kids and we had a weekend sans kids! On Saturday we went on a 13.2 mile (according to google fit!)  hike at Cesar Creek. Unfortunately we did not bring enough water. So for the last 1 1/2 miles we had no water and prior to that we were really conserving water. Once we got to our car we high tailed it to a gas station and bought a huge bottle of water and drank it within minutes! The hike was beautiful, however in one section there were so many trees covering the path we had to climb over them and it was pretty crazy!

On Sunday we rode bikes to church then went to J. Alexanders for dinner. Unfortunately Erik got pretty sick and dizzy on Sunday and couldn't eat much at dinner. I think the lack of water on Saturday was really bad for him.

Both nights we rented movies from the redbox and ate huge bowls of ice cream. Yay!                                                                                                                                                              
Erik picking berries on the hike

Where we had lunch

Us on the hike

In front of the lake

In front of the lake

part of the trail that was covered in logs

I took this picture standing on a log while Erik led the way in the trail

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