Today was such a great day. It started off with me attempting a HITT workout with some friends at 5:30 a.m. I'm never sure if I'm doing the right form or anything...but I am usually pretty sore the next day so that's a good sign, right?
Anyway, after that I figured I'd try to get my run in before breakfast instead of afterwards. So that meant all the kids had to come down to the basement with me. Which meant I didn't really get down there til about 7 or so. It was nice running before breakfast because I think everyone was in a better mood - nobody was fussy or cranky with each other. However, we didn't do any of our morning jobs (making beds, doing hair, getting dressed, reading history or scriptures, nada...) so I don't know if this is something I will stick with. Anyway, here's a pic I took while I was running. I couldn't get Emma in the shot - she was playing the piano.
Later today the girls continued a game they'd started yesterday. They get out all the chairs, benches, etc. and they use them to pretend they are driving or going on an airplane. In these pictures I believe they are driving to the airport. I'll see if I can include some videos as well. The girls packed their bags and brought water bottles and walked through security and waited til it was "family boarding". As you can tell, we are a Southwest Airlines family. I LOVE when the girls play like this. They have such great imaginations and are so excited to play with each other. It's moments like these that I never want to send Emma to school and am so grateful for virtual school - which has allowed Emma to still spend so much time with her sisters.
After Emma finished virtual school, we headed straight to the park. They had wanted to go after lunch today with their friend Hannah but we didn't have enough time, so I promised them we'd go after school. I was so proud of Alice today. There was another friend at the park and I encouraged Alice to play with her. Alice immediately did just that. She offered her some pretend ice cream and kept at that for a while. After a while I asked Alice to ask the little girl what she would like to play and Lily responded, "Tag!" I worried Alice might not like that or want to do something else, but she stopped the ice cream play and started running and said, "Okay! Catch me!" It was so sweet to see Alice playing with a little friend. She really hasn't had much opportunity since COVID. She was just starting to get interested in playing with friends and then COVID came. It made my heart super happy to see her playing so well with a new friend today.
They were just so sweet and good and full of life and happiness, I had to take a picture of the three of them together.
Even though today was such a good day, I felt like I needed some Amy-time. I was going to go shopping and run errands with myself and the babies, but with such good weather, I decided to just go on a walk. Here we are on a trail next to my house. Beautiful, right? I listened to a podcast called "Listen, Learn, Love". One of my friends from BYU, Andy Proctor, posted that he'd been interviewed on this podcast so I listened to it. It was really great. One specific take home message I loved was "build heaven now". The next podcast was about a woman whose sister was LGBTQ+ and how we all need to love others and not judge. And also educate ourselves so that we aren't saying or doing hurtful and untrue things.
Oh and Mabel had conked out because she'd stayed awake all day while Olive had taken a nice long nap. So that's why you just see Olive here. Mabel is snoozing under the red cover.
Another sweet neighbor brought us yummy food! We are so spoiled! Here are the girlies enjoying some incredible egg rolls and fried chicken!
And then I don't remember why...the twins must have taken a late nap or something...but they stayed up way past their normal bedtime. Usually Dallas and I are pretty excited to get the kids to bed at a good time, but tonight it was fun to just sit on the couch, the two of us, playing with our two happy babies. Here are pics of us with them.
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