2-Last night was HBM's Summer Party. Yummy food and playing at a park? Yes please. (There was also a bounce house that was too big for Lydia, and a balloon animal artist but the line was too long for David and I.) We really like HBM and had a great time at the party.
3-Because of the summer party, yesterday we went and dropped David off at the Frontrunner station so that we could just pick him up at his office and head straight to the party. (We hate having to come home in two cars.) This is different than the usual routine where we wave goodbye to Daddy from the kitchen/garage door while he gets in his car and drives away. When we got home from dropping him off, she looked around like "Hey, where is my dad? Why did you shut the door? Isn't my dad coming inside, too?" It's totally natural, because we never go anywhere with David that he doesn't also come home with us. I didn't even think about it until she started looking for him. I told her that Daddy went to work and that we would see him later - but she just stood by the door for a full five minutes, waiting for him to come in. It was so sweet. I gave her her cheerios and sippy of milk and she just sat down by the door for another 10 minutes. Seriously, a whole 15 minutes she just sat by the door. She didn't cry, it was just like "It's okay, I'll just stay right here and wait for my dad. He's coming soon." So sweet.
4- I know that I've mentioned this before, but Lydia climbs on EVERYTHING. She barely plays with her toys anymore - all she wants to do is stand on them or try to climb on whatever else she can find. Our chaise lounge is the perfect thing for her to climb on and she can start at the bottom and get all the way to the very top. (We now have pillows and a chair sitting on top of it so that she can't climb on it where we aren't there. Some of her other climbing adventures this week include climbing on and scooting off: the rocking chair in her bedroom, the small square ottomans (that she will stand and balance on if I let her... jeez, they are only 1 foot square!), her pink chair, a 7-gallon water container (see #5 below), the small couch in the family room, the window-blinds box in our bedroom, and even learning to climb up onto our large leather ottoman using some of her toys as stepping stools. Seriously, this girl is a climber! Heaven help me, because it is exhausting!
5- This week Lehi City went into water supply crisis mode. The dry winter, hot summer, and large population influx combined to create a pretty serious water shortage. Earlier this week they were reporting that if there weren't massive changes in the populations water conservation efforts, homes would be running dry by this weekend. We aren't allowed to use our hoses/spigots outside, as those use culinary water. Odd numbered houses can only use irrigation water (sprinkler systems) on MWF, with even numbered houses only on TWTh. Other conservation efforts are encouraged. Reports are now saying that things are starting to get under control - but for a while there it sounded like we weren't going to have any water this weekend. It made me so grateful for counsel of the prophets to have emergency food storage and supplies because I was able to go downstairs and get several large water containers and fill them up in our kitchen sink (they were empty because we still hadn't filled them up again since moving them in). You never know when you aren't going to have any water or other important supplies - and I'm so grateful that I am able to feel confident that we could last for at least a little while without running water. It's kind of the same with everything - what if all the sudden you couldn't buy peanut butter, or sugar, or whatever else because of some state/national shortage. I don't think it's always a natural disaster that requires the use of food storage. My testimony of that has grown this week.
Happy Friday everyone!
