farmington station and Kates house!

Today we had plans to visit with another old friend of ours in the afternoon, so in the morning laura took us down to a big outdoor mall to walk around.  We grabbed a specialty soda at "fizz" and watched a light and water show at the big fountain.  Unfortunately due to covid, the stores didn't open as early as usual so we could only window shop.  After we walked around for a while we went across the parking lot to a huge grocery store and laura bought us lunch at the deli, and then gelato too!  We got home from our morning adventure just in time to pack up and go to Kates house.  Evvie napped in the car on the way home from the mall, and then another 45 min in the car supervised by Einor while we got ready to go.

At kates house, we got to try authentic Salvadorian Papusas, which were amazing!  Wesely especially loved them.  Then we spent the afternoon talking and playing games. I took a few min to take some portraits of their little baby owen and all too soon it was time to head home.  It was such a nice afternoon to see old friends!

Bee's Doctors and friends

Ella had a sore throat last night and still felt bad this morning so I decided that before we took her to our friends house, I aught to make sure she didn't have anything contagious. So we went to a local urgent care in the morning (she is fine just not used to the super dry air here).  While we were there, the bee keeper who keeps bees on lauras property came by and offered to show the bees to jon and the kids. only james was brave/obedient enough to go in the bee area, but jon and james had tons of fun learning about bees!

Once elinor and I got home,  she decided she wasn't feeling well enough to go with us so she went to talk a nap while the rest of us headed out to see our friends Mat and Lisa.  They live just 20 min away from Laura's house.  Lisa fed us a delicious lunch, then i put evvie down for a nap while the other kids went swimming.  We spent they afternoon swimming, talking, having a cookout and just enjoying each other.  Time went by so fast and before we knew it, it was 9pm and we needed to leave.  Lisa loaded us up with a ton of her freeze dried goodies and we went home and collapsed into bed.

Hogel Zoo

Today Livi took off work and we all went to the zoo together.  It was a really nice zoo.  We got to see a giraffe drink water, the lions were napping right against the glass, the rino showed off at the viewing area, the kids were well behaved and the weather was nice, it was the perfect day at the zoo. 
We got home in the afternoon, and we had some time so I taught livi how to make Macarons,  we made strawberry lemon ones and they turned out delicious!