Utah 2020 and the coolest basements ever

Aaron had a pricing/inventory crisis and to work most of Monday. I took the kids over to Mark’s to see my parents and play so Reese and Quincy could babysit and I could slip away for lunch in Provo with my dear friend Kristi Aase.  Uncle Marker hooked the boys up in gloves and the Rocky soundtrack and they worked out some aggression 🤣🤣

The kids watched the new live action Dora movie and Yogi Bear cartoon in the theater with Grandma and cousin Garrett.  


Kristi and I caught up at Zupas and then We masked up and Kristi got me onto the closed BYU campus (where she works) to meet up with some independent study program directors And talk about online education options for my older children, incorporating 504 plans, and transferring credits back and forth between independent study and public school. It was so helpful! 


Back in American Fork, the children didn’t mind the absence of their parents one bit. (Well the twins did, because change in routine is never an easy or simple thing for them, but the rest of the crowd lived their best lives playing. 




Cousin Zachary is serving a mission and recently returned to the field (Covid sent many foreign serving missionaries home to their native countries for a few months of quarantine). He is now on a stateside reassignment in Dallas Texas! 

Reese, Quincy, and I were able to slip away for an hour of shopping at DownEast and found a bunch of cute dresses and school clothes. It’s so nice to find a whole store where everything is cute, affordable, and modest and we aren’t limited to a small handful of choices that meet our preferences for dress.  

Aunt Melinda blew the boys’ minds and took them next door to her sister Andrea’s house, where she has a full on arcade in her basement and storage room. 

I won’t lie, the rest of us went over for a few minutes that turned into an hour and we easily could have been sucked in for several more. The wizard of oz pinball machine was the coolest pinball machine I’ve ever seen. Andrea and Melinda are such fun and hardworking sisters (and what a dream to live next door to each other!) and are so kind to let our kids take over their homes and play! 

Corbin and I ride am with Mark and Melinda to pick up dinner from Slims. Mark channeled his inner 11 year old boy on an empty side street, and delighted Corbin with how fast his Tesla can go in a manner of seconds. I lost years off my life and added a few grey hairs. Even Melinda admitted her stomach flip flopped, too. I am no adrenaline seeker! We ate outside because Utah air is dry and bug free and it cools off in the evenings. Aaron took the 3 littles home to bed and I stayed with the big kids to visit another hour.