Regular Routine

When I went to wake up Lauren this morning, this is what I found.

I think the big bump is her legs, but she was sound asleep under the covers like that. She has been so tired lately! As soon as she walks home from the bus stop she begs to go play with her friends outside. Then at about 5:00pm, I make her come inside for dinner, homework, bath and bed. By bedtime (7:30pm), she is whining and crying because she is so tired. Tonight our goal is 7:00pm bedtime.
Emma comes home really tired, but her friends don't live in our townhouse community, so she tends to spend her after school time on Webkinz World (website), watching TV, talking on the phone to her friends, doing homework, reading or doing some kind of project. She tends to be happy to go to bed, happy to wake up and happy to do whatever we ask her to do. I should start calling them Yin and Yang.

This week I worked Monday, but now I don't have to work until next Thursday (Fall check in day). Today I went for a 3 mile walk along a road bordering potato fields on one side, wheat on the other, the very tippy tops (the "teats") of the Tetons ahead of me, while listening to Sheryl Crowe, REM, and Barenaked Ladies. I'll spend today cleaning, cooking and running errands. I love being home, free to do whatever I want.

Landon starts his graduate classes tonight in Idaho Falls. He'll be gone Wednesday and Thursday nights until 9 or 10 this semester.

Our ward was split and we were assigned a brand new ward (The Willowbrook Ward) a couple weeks ago. It's kind of fun to have a ward that's beginning from scratch. We both got new callings this past week. Landon is the membership clerk and I'm a RS teacher. We feel pretty lucky to have callings don't take much time or need to go to regular meetings.

Yesterday I bought two big bags of tree ripened peaches from a farmer who sells them out of the back of his truck down by the freeway. He had both donut peaches and the regular kind. They tasted like candy! They were so ripe and juicy. The farmer was quite a character! He told me he has made $10,000 selling his peaches this year, and that he hasn't had anything to do with the IRS since 1974. He was wearing striped overalls (like a train conductor) with a crazy patterned shirt underneath. The peaches were incredible.