What a fabulous weekend I had! Saturday started with a FiA workout where we invited our 2.0s (kids) along, and had a super fun workout with treats at the end. Then we headed to Chloe's soccer game, which is always adorable.
My brother has a limo business and we worked out an elaborate plan that turned out fabulous. He chauffeured his wife, me, and my sister from his house in Pleasant Grove down to Payson and Spanish Fork to pick up my mom and grandma. We brought them flowers and then headed up to the Riverwoods to Color Me Mine, where we painted pottery for almost two hours. We all made some super cute pieces. I did a pitcher. My brother and sister-in-law did square bowls. My mom did a little candy/nut dish. My grandma did a vase. My sister did a couple mugs. It was relaxing and super fun to just chat with the adults. While my brother was chauffeuring us around, Bill and my brother-in-law took care of the six kids, and then we had a babysitter come and they came down to meet us and we went out to eat at La Jolla Groves, which I'd never heard of, but was really, really good. We went to this cool rare books museum/store also in the Riverwoods afterwards that was fascinating. Got to hear a presentation and see a bunch of really old Bibles. I would go back there to keep exploring. It was basically a small museum with so much cool stuff in it.
Sunday we were treated to a brunch at church second hour and then Bill and Suzanne and I teamed up and made a roast, buttery pull apart bread, a boule, chicken salad, fruit salad with lime, asparagus, and finished it off with strawberry shortcake. Doug made it home from taking care of his dad for a few days in the evening and it was lovely to finish off the evening just chatting. Oh, I got to go on a walk with my FiA ladies too, like I usually do Sunday afternoons as well. And the kids were fabulous all day. We got a family picture. It was perfect.
It continues to make me happy how many great things we get to do by being here in Salt Lake. So fun to live near family and be able to hang out and do just really enjoyable things together. Last time we lived here all of our lives were much more in flux and we just didn't have as much flexibility. It's really wonderful to have college behind us, past the super tiny baby stage, etc. Family get togethers even with kids are a lot less chaotic. Loud, but not chaotic like when they were all tiny. I really love this new life phase.
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