Cookie Dough Chaos

We have almost successfully made 767 pounds of cookie dough.  Maybe slightly more as the chocolate chip made more than we were expecting.

We finished the chocolate chip at Ensign Ranch.  (With little drama 😉)

But it was a lot of work!!

And we decided to wave the white flag on the Monster Cookie dough getting finished on Friday night.  So we divvied up the monster ingredients and made that yesterday and today.  I finished up 45 pounds of that today, out of about 270 ish pounds.

Phew!!

It may be time to look at a different fundraiser option.

But at least for now, we are almost done.

Track season has begun

Track season has begun.

Peyton has decided to do track this year.  

Today was the first meet.  It was an invitational at Chief Kanim in Fall City.

He ran the 4 x 100m 

And threw shot put.  

Today his best was 24.9 for shot put.

A ton of cookie 🍪 dough

When you are making 767 pounds of cookie dough. . .

. . .you need a lot of instruction tags.

Chocolate Chip and Gluten Free Monster cookies for the win!

We are going to Ensign Ranch with the YW Friday and Saturday to make lots of cookie dough for their cookie dough camp fundraiser.

Wish us luck! 

(It’s like 170 single batches of cookies 😳)

That’s a wrap. . .

Peyton and I spent most of the week at the Stake Center for Built on the Rock this week.

There was tech rehearsal, dress rehearsal, and 4 shows (Friday night and 3 on Saturday).  Along with dinner, lunch, dinner, lots of snacks and games and devotionals.

The youth made new friends in other wards, laughed, cried, there were injuries (minor) and lots of fun.

Joe, Addison and I (I came out from behind the scenes cooking and lining up Kids) watched the last show Saturday night.

It was a beautiful show!

Peyton said he was kind of glad to have it done because it’s been so busy, but that he was going to miss it!

Laman meets Addison

Some of Peyton’s friends—Preston (Stripling Warrior), Ian (Lemuel), Bryce (Angel for the Sons of Mosish)

Great big muscles 💪 

Built on the Rock

As a Redmond Stake youth we have been working in Built on the Rock since September or October.  

Music first, then scenes and now finally its show week!

Peyton is Laman in the Lehi scene

“Show Us the Way”

Although it will be nice to have our ward time back it’s going to be a lovely show!

So much time and work has gone into it!

Yes!!

If only we could all remember this, and live it!  How much better would we all be?

Olympic Game Farm

We wanted something fun to do today since Spring Break is coming to an end.

I had heard of the Olympic Game Farm, but we have never been.  It’s out in Sequim, out on the peninsula and not real close.  But since we had time today and it wasn’t pouring rain we decided we’d go for it.

We got up this morning and took the Edmonds—Kingston ferry ⛴ over to the peninsula.  Then drove up to Sequim.  

We didn’t really know what we were getting in to.  Just knew it was a “drive through zoo”.

Oh my!!  We were pleasantly surprised.  We had visitors practically in our car.  And we were laughing so hard sometimes to the point of tears. 

We got four loaves of wheat bread to feed to them. And boy were the animals (and the seagulls and crows) loving the bread!!  And the kids went through all four loaves feeding them.

We saw llamas, zebras, bears, bison, elk, wolves, fox, prarie dogs, bunnies, seagulls, crows, horses, deer. . .

I think we made some friends that wanted to come home with us 😉

What exactly is a watershed?

The Redmond Watershed. . . what is a watershed?  

Peyton and I went for a walk today at the Redmond Watershed, but I always wonder when I go by there,

What is a watershed?

Well according to Webster it is. . .

While we were walking is rained, hailed, was cloudy and clear blue skies.  Just wait 5 minutes and the weather will change 😉

The tortoise and the hair

Peyton and I went for a walk on the Snoqualmie trail today.  It rained all morning but stopped when I got home from work.  

Peyton is trying to eat healthy and exercise more so he suggested we go for a walk.  And so off we went.  He probably thought I was a little like the tortoise (slow) :). But he didn’t say so.  Addison didn’t want to come with us so she stayed home.

Afterwards we went to get Peyton a haircut.  He’s been pretty fluffy the last couple of weeks and it was definitely time.  He has decided that he really likes the MVP at Sports Clips.  Lol!  It includes a scalp massage and hair wash.  I do love that you can “get in line” online before you head there.

He’s looking pretty good! 

 (Except he’s mad that the Internet is out and doing weird things). 

We don’t have a consistently good internet connection.

Dysentery, snake bite, broken leg, oh my!

Addison got it for Christmas in her stocking. It’s a quick learn, a quick game and very exciting.

You can find it here

We played it for Family Home Evening tonight with the Sister Missionaries.  

The goal is to get 600# of food for the whole group to win the game.  It’s all or nothing!

Tonight we lost Peyton to dysentery, one Sister to a snake bite and only collected 300# of good before we ran out of ammunition and got trapped by trees and lost the game.  

Renew. . .

Sunday is always a good time to renew and put the sins of the week behind us.  Grateful for our Savior and repentance!

The odds are. . .

One day of no rain :)

Our friends from Utah came to Seattle for Spring Break.  Unfortunately it rained the whole time they were here, almost. . .

Except yesterday!

Yesterday I took the kids out of school (we don’t have Spring Break until next week) and the Behunin’s go home Sunday early.

So we went to take the Mukilteo-Clinton ferry to go to Whidbey Island 

Then we drove to Coupeville to have lunch.  Addison and I shared yummy crab cakes and a jalapeño burger. And Peyton had and oyster BLT.

Then we were off to play at Fort Casey.

A fort built in the late 1800’s to protect the Puget Sound.  Fortunately they never saw actual combat.

Marcey and Addison are much more flexible than the rest of us 😀

Peyton, Heather, Addison (and Peyton’s rock)

Addison is always working on her splits for Dance 💃 

Noah, Addison, Peyton and Ryan

After exploring for awhile we were off to the Tulip Festival in Skagit County.

We drove around through Oak Harbor and over Deception Pass.

But when we got to Tulip Town there were not many tulip fields in bloom.  To early and to much rain so far. daffodil fields were in bloom.

We had to drop Addison off at Joe’s parents to we said goodbye to the Behunin’s until summer.

Thanks for hanging out with us!

On the one day of sun!