Father & Sons Campout/Girls' Time

I haven't blogged in a while. Being the Relief Society president has a funny way of causing any free time I used to have to disappear. And my life seems to have sped up about 1000 times. I can't believe how the weeks fly by. A couple of weeks ago I had a dream that I was talking to my friend, Emily, who is also pregnant and due about 2 weeks before me. In the dream (or nightmare :), Emily was telling me that she was going to have her baby in 3 weeks. I became panicked in my dream as I said, "But that means I'll have a baby in 5 weeks. I'm not ready for a newborn!!" I was very grateful when I woke up to remember that we have babies at 40 weeks, not at 20 weeks. I really feel like I'm going to blink and the baby will be here.

But here's what's been happening in the present: Peter took Asher on his first Father & Sons Campout this weekend. They had a great time, although Peter decided to ask Asher if he saw any dragons when they took a hike through the woods at night. Asher was scared by this so Peter had to tell him that it was a nice dragon and it had flown away. Then they started looking for rabbits and squirrels instead. The only wildlife they actually saw was a frog.



In the meantime, Kaia and I had girls time. (Peter took this picture when he got home, but it shows what we spent a lot of our time doing.) Here's a synopsis of our time spent together:
$1 - red box movie rental
$1.23 - bananas
$1.29 - Cool Whip
$0.50 - yogurt (for a dinner of bananas dipped in a mixture of Cool Whip & yogurt - yum!)
Kaia's spontaneous giggles throughout Horton Hears a Who - priceless


The kids have been doing a whole lot of bike riding recently - Asher is a pro now! The kids can ride the 2.5 mile loop from our house to the playground and back.


Here's the peanut butter chocolate treat I was mentally, and then in reality, drooling over this afternoon:

I can't take credit for the picture or the recipe (mine didn't turn out nearly as beautiful, but they are good - seriously, amazingly good). Click here for the recipe and blog where the pictures are found.

Asher and the kids enjoyed some reading on the couch this afternoon.

Then Asher enjoyed a long hour and a half nap. We tried diligently to wake him up to no avail. He was gone. The days of playing outside in the beautiful weather have obviously taken their toll.


And now, as Peter is trying to convince him to go to sleep, Asher is saying, "My no need to go to sleep. My already went to sleep before!" It could be a long night. :)