Labor Day weekend in the mountains

This is not the view from our backyard. But kinda. This beautiful scene is the view from the end of the parking lot outside our mountain chalet (townhome). This weekend we visited grandpa for a pandemic-appropriate and socially-distanced dinner where the boys did a little scootering and played with grandpa's dog. And, of course while in the mountains, we had some of our usual family hiking and trail running for the adults. 

B and his Bike and Jammies

B's still working on getting comfortable on the pedal bike in the alley. This time he decided to ride in jammies with the shirt inside out and shoes with no socks. He also took a break from riding to sweep the garage, as one does. He'd latter fall asleep on the floor of his brother's room while listening to bedtime audio books. But at least he was wearing his jammies.

 

Week 25

The big guys spent most of last Sunday baking and cooking.  Ads made no bake cookies that he learned about from his Avid camp and LT made his "famous" blueberry muffins.

Meanwhile, B made crowns for the kings and queens in our house.

Monday our cleaning help came and so B and I took school on the road to the park.  It was 70 degrees and absolutely perfect.  We rode bikes over and spent most of the day.  I was having so much fun that I didn't take as many photos as I wished I had.

But as usual, I found a lot of photos he took with my phone.

As Brian mentioned, we had a lot of online adult events this week.  I don't even know what this one was or why B was in a banana costume, but this is life.

With the big kids in school full time, our pool still open and the temps pretty hot, B and I took advantage and made a last minute reservation to go swim one afternoon.  

More pics from the family Lego exhibit adventure.

And more of the zoom back to school chaos.

Friday, B had a little tour of his new school, he loved it until he got really hungry and had a full melt down.

And more of the 150 foot birthday party slip n slide in the mountains.

 

back to school nights

We did three back to school nights on zoom in two actual nights. That wasn't busy enough so to keep things interesting we also had pool reservations and tickets to The Art Of The Brick lego exhibit at the museum (pic of my favorite piece at the exhibit above) right before they started. Throw in a birthday zoom for Kari's older brother too. So we found ourselves scrambling to make and eat dinner and watch the back to school zoom all at the same time. We managed to take a few photos of the controlled chaos one night. We turned off our video during the call so as not to embarrass ourselves with other families having to watch us eat dinner. When you turn off your video, it shows your profile picture instead. One of the kids had chosen a photo from a hotel a while back that was sort of a face made of a towel with wrapped chocolates for eyes. But the photo maybe doesn't look exactly like what it is.  A friend that was also on the zoom sent Kar a text saying that our profile photo looked like a couple of condoms set on a pillow. So much for not embarrassing ourselves... 

slip & slide

150ft slip and slide at a birthday party of the boys' friends. Good times were had by all and even the adults got in on the fun. 

 

An unconventional swing

B playing mini golf at the RV campground outside the Badlands.