Lydia and Mary have been going nuts with the monkey string that Lily got for them today and they made lost of jewelry with it that they put on Ammon and Clarissa.
How beautiful!
Here is a video of Clarissa with her jewelry.
What a fun guy!
Here is a video of Ammon in his jewelry.
You might be wondering where Mary and Lydia produced all of this jewelry. Well, in their jewelry shop of course!!
Lily and I both picked out some jewelry from the shop.
I got my new planter box in the mail recently and here Ammon and Clarissa helped me to fill it with soil. It was messy, chaotic, and very very adorable.
This is a selfie of me and Lily resting together. I love our new bedroom! It reminds me of of when we were first married. It’s like we have our own little private apartment while still having the ability to listen in to the whole house with our cameras and Alexa. I think Lily is gorgeous in this sweater, and I love this stunning Vogue shot of her. I had to include it!
After I rested, I noticed there was wind outside so I tool all the kids to fly kites.
It was an extremely intense activity. It was 90 minutes of deep focus. Ammon let go of his string at one point, and fortunately the reel got caught in a tree and I was able to climb a fence and save the kite. I got more upset than I should have with Ammon, but I think he was happy again when I returned his kite and apologized for my reaction. Lydia was completely melting down because we weren’t able to get her bigger more complex kite up in the sky (not enough wind). And Clarissa was a handful at times. It was a lot to deal with and I spent a lot of energy trying to talk Lydia through her negativity about not getting her kite up. All in all though, I was so thrilled to be flying kites with the children, and had so much fun getting kites in the air and watching their joy (when their was joy), that the stress didn’t really bother me. It’s amazing what fun, joy and wonder can carry you through. It was so fun that I took them back to our spot to fly kites again the very next day.