Fall Break

We'd planned to spend a long weekend in St. George for Fall Break but Cat's soccer team pulled off a big upset in the state tournament the day before the break started so we decided to postpone our trip.  

It was fun to take the kids to Richfield for Cat's tournament game that Wednesday afternoon.  The game was over pretty late (more on that in the next post) so we stopped at "Sandi's Drive Inn" for hamburgers and shakes before heading home.  The kids declared these were the best burgers they'd ever had and said we would definitely have to return.  I told them we would not be driving back to Richfield for hamburgers.  But we did appreciate the ruralness of the drive on our way home, pulling over to admire the bajillion stars that were visible!

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Cat now had practice on Thursday and Friday, and a game in the middle of the afternon on Saturday.  So we spent Fall Break at home - almost entirely at home - and it was great.  Laid-back, relaxed, easy.

Tickle fight.

The kids did lots of Wings of Fire reading.

Luke had aspirations of building a big box fort.

Eliza was excited that I let her use this temporary tattoo -
and took it a step further with extra freckles and lipstick.

More Wings of Fire.

And little puzzles.

That Saturday, a wildfire started on Timpanogos.
This is what it looked like from State Street that night.

Our ward started video calls for Sunday School and other classes
this month.  Here's Jack during his Deacon Quorum lesson.

We drove down to Exchange Park in Provo so we could
go on a little Sunday afternoon walk along the Provo River.
Luke brought his bike, and he let Eliza and Jack take turns on it too.
Here he's making sure Eliza wears the helmet while she rides.

Eliza and Luke didn't have school on Monday, and Cat and Jack
were having an at-home learning day, so it was kind of an extension
of Fall Break.  Monday evening we had some time to just hang out
and play games and it was the best.  We need to do more of that.

Not pictured: Eliza spent over 2.5 hours as a mommy's helper for a woman in our ward who has 3-year-old triplets.  She loved it and she did a great job!