Just Like Louis XV's France

In my history of design class we discuss life in mid-eighteenth-century France and I tell my students that the mad round of pleasure that commenced in the Regence continued during the reign of Louis XV. Well, we have had a mad round of pleasure at our house this weekend -- the fun just never stopped!

On Friday, 15 August, I left early for Salt Lake City to Pick up Anna and the kids. We dropped Anna at the airport for a flight (or two) to Washington D.C. She joined Rob for their own mad round of pleasure in the nation's capital and the kids and I headed south to Provo. The boy's morning was spent swimming at Auntie Em's pool while the girls did crafts. That afternoon I walked with Lucy, Tucker, and Anders to the Bean Museum for a look at some very dead stuffed animals. We were just in time for the reptile show, which was pretty fun. That evening Janet provided Chinese take-away for dinner, which was followed by a walk to the park for some playground fun. Keeping with the Chinese theme, we killed off the evening with the Olympics and Grammy's warm peanut butter cookies and milk.

Saturday morning I made pancakes for breakfast (those kids LOVE pancakes). Lucy went grocery shopping with me and the boys watched Muppets From Space. After lunch we returned to the pool for some Olympic-inspired swimming at Em's. We made crunchy tacos for supper and then the three older kids went to the Demolition Derby in Spanish Fork with Auntie Katy.

Sunday was church followed by Sunday dinner. Todd and Courtney joined us and then, after one more Muppet classic (while Clara napped -- baba night night), we made the trade off, and those fun kids headed back to Taylorsville.

Anna, off to D.C.

Anders, Clara, and Lucy checking in

Tucker and Anders being Michael Phelps

Paying homage to their mom's freshman year
on the way to the museum (their dad's dorm is gone)

Choosing a favorite animal on the museum door

Up close and personal with the python at the reptile show

Chinese take away

Rock climbing at the park

Okay, obviously posed

A spectacularly beautiful evening

Pop Pop making "sockdolagers"

Lucy managed the shopping list and unloaded the cart at Costco

More pool time at Em's

Demolition Derby in Spanish Fork

Lots of good Muppet movies and Olympics watching

It was a great weekend. Thanks for coming and come again soon.

OXO

Grammy and Pop Pop

Breakfast with Hank and Colette

Last Saturday, 2 August 2008, Kris, Ann, Stephen, and I went to Brickerhaven to have breakfast with H&C. They provided a delicious meal with great pancakes, sausage, bacon, cheesy eggs, OJ, and fruit. We were treated to slides of their African photo safari and spent several hours just visiting. It is nice not to have any pressures that made us need to run off. We also got to see Hank's waterworks. With an ingenious system of drains, he has collected all the water that runs in springs under their cabin and diverted them into the small spring that has always run through the property. It is a most pleasant spot and a perfect cabin.

Hank, Stephen, Ann, Colette, and Kris on the porch

Colette working her magic in the kitchen

Hank's waterworks

Relaxing and visiting, Tennessee style

H&C will be here through the fall and I hope we get to visit again soon.

OXO

D.