Since We've Been Home
So the Wandering Family is done wandering for a bit, and now that we're at home things have settled down a bit. Well, not exactly "settled," I guess, as there's plenty of excitement with some new things starting up, but nothing like the travels of the past few months.
What have we been up to? Well, first of all, we were jet lagged for a couple of days after our arrival, meaning that I got a chance to take a picture of the dawn with the sun rising over the mountains. Not a sight I see that often, I'll admit, but it was beautiful (see above).
Then it was my birthday, so we had a few friends over and Bobbie made me a delicious fruit pizza.
In home school news, the boys are learning about plants, so Bobbie decided to get them some seeds and plant them so they could watch them grow. If they survive (the boys LOVE watering them, so they might get overwatered if we don't watch carefully) it should be fun.
This weekend, our friends A and S invited us to go to the lake with them. We've normally gone to the salt lake, but right next to it there's another lake with much lower salt content that, in my opinion, is much nicer. We decided to go there and have shashlik (you can see the fire in the grill on the right getting the coals ready).
Of course, after our Italian adventures, our boys are now water experts (ha!), so we went for a swim. Matthew first investigated the pouring properties of his watering can ...
... then he decided to lead an aquatic assault on the sand castle his Daddy and brother were building ...
... and then Steven decided that looked like more fun than building it, so he joined in ...
... and with two attackers Daddy was overwhelmed and the sandcastle succumbed to the assaulting waves.
A good time was had by all.
And that's about it. Thanks for thinking about us and checking in; be back next week for more exciting news. Hopefully.
As a bonus, as this was such a short post with few pictures, I leave you this, one of the few "image macros" I've ever seen that actually made me laugh:
