Happy Friday!

Today was a really fun day. Krychele's cute niece Desi was able to come and play with us. Little Hema and Vela were so excited to have her over. They waited looking out the window for her for nearly and hour this morning and screamed with joy when they saw the car pull up! 

These two little helpers and I made cookies.

Then today was Hema's last day of his summer Let's Play Music class. So we went to watch them sing and play for us.

Hema loves to play his bells.

And his rhythm sticks.

This is his favorite part of the puppet show. He is being a mean cloud! I love how intense his face is! 

Vela was dying to be part of the class. 

We came home and did some finger painting which all kids love to do. Let's face it, the messier it is the more fun it is!

Then my parents came over and tended our 3 sweet monkeys while we went on a date. Thanks mom and dad! The kids had so much fun!!

First we went here:

Then ate some of this:

Pretty much the perfect date night!!!

Then we headed home, got the kids to bed and worked on hauling a mountain of playground bark from our driveway back to the play area. It is amazing how much bark we have lost over the past couple of years mostly due to the crazy Lehi wind. There were a few bare patches back there and we figured we better get it filled back in before someone falls and breaks something! We gave up about 1/2 way through the pile. We were hauling it Tongan style - not using the wheelbarrow - but piling in on a tarp and dragging it to the back yard. Hema tells me that is how they moved stuff all the time growing up. It actually works pretty well, especially since the bark is so light. 

Now it's nearly 11:000 and I am off to type up a baptism program and sew a CTR towel for our ward's 9:00 baptism. Oh the joy of being a procrastinator!