Mark started vegetation surveys this week. He went to public shooting grounds and the duck club for the last time. It was bittersweet knowing he may never go there again. He also went spotlighting Thursday night and saw lots of raccoons!
The BYUI semester ended on Wednesday. Most students took the final early so I was able to finish grading and submit final grades on Thursday morning. I also finished up my hours grading for the English Connect program. I won’t know until closer to the fall semester if they need me to grade again. However, I did learn that I‘ll get to teach two sections of the parent education course again in the fall. I’m happy to have so many students to teach!
Wednesday morning was also our primary Pioneer Day activity. I had hoped to take some pictures but I was super busy running the butter-making station!! I helped the kids make butter in jars, my first counselor ran a potato sack race, my second counselor helped the kids make spinning buttons on a string, and a very sweet sister in the ward sang kids with the song and played some fun dancing songs on her violin. My counselor even made a cute fire for them to sing and dance around. (The fire was the only part of the entire activity I got a picture of). My counselors and I wore Pioneer clothes which the kids thought was fun. The kids had a great time!
Friday we didn’t have work because of Pioneer Day!! We went to the North Logan parade which was a lot of fun! There wasn’t a parade last year because of COVID. Then Mark took the afternoon to help his parents work on their car in Blackfoot. When he got home we had some home made ice cream and watched the Olympics.
Saturday morning my parents took us to breakfast at Herm’s Inn for my birthday! It was delicious as always! We spent the rest of the day getting some much needed relaxing in and watching all sorts of fun Olympic events!
In preparation for our road trip, we bought a backpack carrier for Flynn. He loves hiking and does a good job, but does occasionally get tired moving his cute little legs! We will be doing quite a few short hikes during our trip so we wanted an easy way to carry him. We spent this week getting him used to it and he loves it now! Saturday night we took it for a trial run walking in the cemetery. He does so well climbing in it and then just loves to look out the window!
We had a furry friends visit this week too! This tiny bat was on the wall in our stair well. We left it alone hoping it would fly away at night but it was still there the next morning! We didn’t want it to get hurt. Mark put on his leather gloves, caught it, and released it at the ecology center near green canyon. We hope it found some of it’s bat friends!
Our Story: The Bell Family 