10/27/15

The baby seems to be coming along nicely.

Long week! Lots of legos and movie nights. The kids were out of school and the haze was bad enough we didn't do a ton outside this week. We did have a long day at the zoo on a good day.  Mary and Dan had a great trip! Mom, Christy and Grandma THANK YOU for making it happen! Sorry to throw things off by having them leave a day early on short notice, but everything worked out and they are home now. Mary went back to school this morning. She seem to have adjusted fine, maybe she never got on the US time. She hasn't stopped talking about the trip. She said her favourite things were playing with cousins, trick-or treating, going to the pumpkin patch and she came home with Christmas songs that she wants to learn on the piano.

I have had a hard time getting our garden to take off here. I was discouraged and though, "How can I be killing everything in this garden?!" Yesterday afternoon we figured out why. Weeks ago I thought, I wonder if the monkeys come back here, but we hadn't seen many on the patio, and we were getting some vegetables. Well, yesterday the children and I were in the backyard when we walked around the corner of the house and there was a whole troop of monkeys in the garden. They had pulled up all the sweet potatoes and 5 monkeys were sitting eating the roots and plants. Another monkey was standing at the basil plant pulling one leaf off at time and eating it. Another was in the lettuce, and the last was in the tomatoes! I was thrilled to see I wasn't the problem!  We have got to get a dog! I think the garden is bad idea until we have a way to keep the monkeys out of it. I've attached a video that Dallin took. He ran around to the other side of the gate to try and get a photo as I kept the children out of the garden in the back. I've honestly felt so much better since yesterday afternoon. Especially because I'm giving the RS lesson on self-reliance in two weeks and I kept thinking about what we were trying to do to be self-reliant spiritual and temporally.