I turned 30 on the 19th and it was a great day! Peter and the boys made me breakfast and I had flowers on the table. I had a great time running and then I took my kids to the park. It was the most beautiful day. My parents came down for the weekend, arriving on Thursday. Our ward's Relief Society Birthday celebration was that night and we did the performance of Women at the Well. I sang the song "He Came For Me" and held Arabella while I performed. She did a great job, not crying or making loud happy noises in the microphone. We had birthday cake when we came home. I had thought about making a posting of 30 things about me but I have not gotten around to it so just pretend you found it here.
On Saturday we played at a fairly new park. It has been open for about 6 months I think. It was a wonderfully windy day and so we took our kite and it flew great! 
I signed up to take the snack to Joey's class today. I try to make the snack match the letter they are learning that day in class. Joey and I will talk about what starts with that letter and then go from there. The letter U is tricky. I actually did it last year too and we took cupcakes but made them like pineapple upside down cakes. This year we made umbrella shaped sugar cookies and the blue ones are raindrops (the big blue ones are just the last bits of dough made into an odd shape). The boys had a great time helping me decorate and were actually exceptionally good. Joey reported that his class loved the cookies. We had the leftovers for family home evening and took one to daddy at work on our way to the library. When we did our favorite things journal tonight this was mine and Joey's favorite part of the day!
Was our first mistake putting Jon in a pirate shirt yesterday or Peter leaving his wedding ring on the counter?! Needless to say this is how our day ended yesterday. Peter and I made a Peruvian meal for a family in our ward who has son getting ready to head to the Lima Central Mission. While Peter was cooking he took his ring off. At one point he saw Joey playing with it on the counter and told him to stop. Then when the meal was over and everything was cleaned up we could not find his ring. We asked the boys and Jon said he had taken it to the sandbox. Peter had to go to a meeting and so I did further investigating. I asked Jon again because I did not want to believe it. He said he buried it so George (Uncle Ben's dog that lives in Utah) would not get it. Well the boys were great and we started looking but as you can see our sandbox is quite large and is about 9 inches deep. When Peter returned home, I had brought the boys in to get ready for bed. He asked Jon where he got the ring from and Jon said without hesitation from the counter. We had both prayed by this point and decided to put the boys in bed and go out hunting treasure. Jon would not make a good pirate becasue he did not have a map or leave an X to mark the spot. We tried to sift the sand through some collanders but it was too wet and so we were left to Peter shaking it from a shovel and I was digging through with my hands. The Lord does answer prayers because it was beginning to seem like a daunting task and we had only dug down about 5 inches in one spot when I saw something shiny. Yes! It was Peter's ring. Peter immediately went to get the camera because this was an experience that needed to be documented. We love our little Jon we just need to help him know what can and cannot be buried. Also, Peter has decided to find a better place to store his ring if he takes it off.
Peter decided that we should go on a family excursion to find fossils on Saturday. We had been planning on going for a hike or something of that nature anyway. We learned that there are fossils up in Red Rock Canyon and so we headed out early that morning. And as you can see by the picture we had success. There were tons of these fossilized shells. The insides of the shells appeared to be a quartz like looking material. 
