Life lately

Avery and I had that fantastic mermaid smoothie bowl in Tucson last week and I wanted to find something similar near home. Good news! This Tru Bowl Superfood opened near us recently. The employee told me they had a soft open in December but just had their grand opening this past weekend.

There were so many options on the menu, I’m looking forward to returning and trying new items. This one was so good.

It was general conference this past weekend. Avery and I missed the first two sessions because of the Tucson trip but we watched the Sunday morning session at Chris & Kristy’s. I’ve been making this cheese and cracker charcuterie for conference weekend lately so this was the simple version this time.

Yesterday I planted this yellow freesia plant and it’s making me so happy. It was to replace a ranuncula plant that looked great for a couple weeks and then quickly died.

Here they are in context. The flowers on the left are my poppies and they are lasting a lot longer than the ranunculas. I painted the front door last week and Andrew put a new handle on and it’s looking so much better. The old door had some cracks and wear and tear that I repaired and it feels so good seeing it look better than before.

I got really into scone making last fall and still like to make them from time to time. This batch is plain and mixed berry. There’s something so satisfying about making them. I always feel a little posh having them too since they feel a little elevated.

I got to do initiatories at the temple this morning! It had been since early March so I was overdue. Looking forward to going back again in a week or two. I saw Barb Abney, who’s in my ward and works in the temple Wednesday mornings, and she said the Gilbert temple is closed for two weeks and the Mesa temple closes at noon the next two weeks because the Easter pageant so it’s busy in the temple.

Rupert and Beatrix have some friends in our ward and at the school bus and some of them are the same. They always ask to play with friends after school and we usually stick with Wednesdays because it’s early release and Fridays because there’s no homework.

Well today Bryn Evans and Ivy Wheeler came over after school so I took them out to ice cream cones from QT. Rupert played at Madden Brock’s house later with Lancing Evans. We have wonderful neighbor friends.