Herriman March 2022

 

This is the kind of week it has been.

But I'm better. Mike is not.

On Friday, I drove to Nick and Kaylee's house in Herriman. We have not seen them since December!

They have such a fun neighborhood! There's never just one child. There's usually about five. Or more. Bikes. Scooters. Bubbles, Wiggle cars. Sidewalk chalk. They come in packs and it's NOT a through street!

Emily. She's ten months now.

Their neighborhood has large homes with roomy yards and lots.

Back yard playground.

It's unseasonably warm, so it was pleasant sitting on the front porch, watching kids.

There's a small group of them on the neighbor's driveway, drawing with chalk.

See the fence between the neighbors? There is a walkway between them, with NO visibility for drivers backing out their driveways. 

So nick and his neighbor cut it down!

That's Logan, sitting on the large boulders (to stop vehicular traffic from using the pedestrian walkway that goes to the school).

Saturday was soccer day. I went to Rachel's.

It's indoor, the courts are small, there is a nice berm/wall surrounding it. That means there is much less ball- chasing! 6 minute quarters, small goals, small girls.  We were done in an hour.

We came home and Garrett came by for Lunch with his 8 year old, Zoe. Kids played. We visited a bit. Emily was awoken from her nap, so I gave her a bottle and Kaylee took Logan all by herself to Logan's game. He said, "It's like a date!" Ha ha.

In the later afternoon, all kids took advantage of the good weather and played outside.

Bounce house!

Baby slide.

Lots of kids.

Peek-a-boo!

She is quit the climber!

Inside the bounce, but WITHOUT the other neighbor kids.

Emily in her swing on the background playground.

Jane is at that uncomfortable age where she needs, but doesn't want naps, so she's grumpy.

But here she is, swinging with her dad in the back yard! And she's happy. Her Daddy ( and Mommy) give good Under-Dog pushes on the swing.

Beware the Ides of March!

 March 1st ( of just about any year in the past 25 or so) used to be one of my favorite days of the year. Working in a library with a two-week checkout, a March 1st check out meant that books would be due on the Ides of March, or March 15th. I would delight in telling people as I slid their books across the desk to them with the receipt, " Beware the Ides of March."  Silly me. Only a few English majors through the years actually understood what I was saying., But it was well worth it to get at least a chuckle, slight smile or two through the years.

Now, however, we have another reason to celebrate The Ides of March. Not that the assination date of Julius Caesar is something to celebrate. Or Shakespeare's rendition of it... But TRULY It is the day that Corbin Rossman was born. He turned 11 yesterday, and Mike and I were in Denver to help celebrate. His family all went to the traveling Jurassic World experience. It was really nice! We enjoyed it, but unfortunately Mike missed the scariest part. He needed to make a bathroom run. That was when we met the Great big ferocious tyrannosaurus rex. Katie and I actually SQUEALED. Or maybe screamed a little. We thought maybe we were screaming because the lamp post right over our head clanked down like it was going to fall on us. It did not. It was a prop, like in a Disney experience. But the T-Rex was really quite ferocious, loud, and the whole room vibrated with its roars, as well as rattled the chain link fence next to us. I thought the people who ran the exhibit, experience did a really nice job...

After we did that, the eight of us (!) went out to eat at a local restaurant. We had Mexican food, and very generous portions of it. Then, Mike and I hit the road and headed home. We were trying to avoid a storm that was set to come on Wednesday. Wednesday was our original travel home day, but it is no fun to drive across the Rocky mountains in the snow. We got home just before midnight. Not too bad. But we did eat a lot of junk food while traveling and enjoyed ourself a little bit too much, diet wise. 

Photos for your enjoyment.

Presents at home first!

Dinosaurs and Legos, cash and computerized game stuff.

It was a warm, mild day in Denver. Quintin and Corbin sitting on their back covered patio.

The twins had bad coughs ( which responded well to medication), but no fevers or anything, so they went masked, the rest of us prepared to be so in case it was wall-to- wall people. (It wasn't too bad).

There's even a mask on the dog. (He stayed home. Wearing a diaper).

There were several rooms, or "experiences". A ferry ride out to the island. That first large apaosaurus...a truck, some babies to pet, a lab to explore, fossils to dig, vehicles to observe. A velociraptor in training, close up looks at snarling ones in metal muzzles, and then the climax with T Rex. Fun times.

After our Dino experience:

In the parking lot. Cute, Katie. Real cute. 😉

After lunch. The counter stools had metal tractor seats on them!

Thanks for having us, kids!!