Goodbye Elk Grove

Well, this is it. The computer will be shut down tomorrow. This will be the last post for a while. I may try to post some updates from another computer at some point, but if not, we'll see you in a few weeks. :) Wish us luck.

Big John's Incredible Pizza

 

 

 

 

We took a trip this week to Stockton to visit this pizza place that I've been hearing about for years. I'm so glad we finally went. Thank you Suzette for always having great ideas. For less than $20 we got all you can eat buffet food for both of us and a token card to do plenty of rides. We spent about three hours there and could have gone longer. The kids just played and played until they were hungry again. Then we ate again and played again. Now I know why people have been inviting my kids to birthday parties there. I could never figure out why anyone would drive their kids 35 or so minutes down the freeway to attend a birthday party. Now I know. It's a pretty fun place.

Morningsong Preschool Program

 

 

Ellie has loved preschool this year. They learned lots of songs--some educational, some just for fun. It was the perfect preschool for her. She loves to sing and perform. I went to their last day water-fun party. Those little stinkers :) got me soaking wet. We're gonna miss them for sure. Ellie has known some of those kids pretty much her whole life.

Thank you Mr. R

This week our ward held the annual Father/Daughter camp-out at Folsom Lake. My kids have always wanted to go, but for some reason we could never quite get it arranged. Now that Richard is out of town we had a good excuse to use another dad as a fill in. My kids all agreed that Mario would be a great sub, so we asked and he happily accepted. Mario is a youngish, married, school teacher with no kids of his own and a great love for all people. He is the primary chorister (he stole my job) and kids just love him. It must be his ever-present, infectious smile. He was a perfect candidate because his own dad was going and taking his little sisters (one of whom is Maddie's good friend from YW). So it was kind of a father/son camp-out with 5 girls tagging along.
They had a great time. Mario prepared tin foil dinners and smores for dinner, they played games and hung out with their friends, they swam in the freezing cold lake and got really tired. Yeah!!
Thank you Mario for all of your hard work and care for my girls. You're awesome!!

Kid Funny

Ellie was telling Lauren tonight that Who's (of Seuss's Whoville) are "smaller than the I can't see".