The dust was settling. The visiting family had gone home. The play was over. Our house was packed with flowers. And it was time for us to be home together. We decided that what our family needed most was to hold our annual Bleak Week celebration. Perfect timing, really, just in time to help soothe our spirits, drooping from the letdown after the monumental month behind us. So we did our normal things - we went to Crystal Hot Springs, we went out to dinner, I watched as many Jane Austen movies as I could pack in to one week. For dinner we picked a new sushi restaurant in the neighborhood and just decided to whole-hog. We tried so many delicious things, everything from ramen to octopus sashimi, which all three kids adored. Here's an awesome video of Romney trying it out:
For the culmination of the week we drove to sunny St. George (since it's July right now that does not sound fun but it was so wonderful at the end of January.) We went to see Siena perform in her Jr. High production of Peter Pan, with the real broadway music that we grew up listening to - I Gotta Crow! Siena was a pirate and we enjoyed the show a lot. Equally wonderful was the afternoon we spent out with Sheri'e parents rock climbing. I know Chase really loves climbing and is quite good at it. That was what made him excited to go on the trip. What a great way to refill our tanks - get out in the sun, run around outside, scale large rocks.
Which Chase promptly dove into face first.
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