Summer begins

Santa brought us Cherry Hill passes, so we got an early start on summer with mini golf on the weekends before school started. Now that it's truly summer, all we had to do was add swimsuits and pizza! Easy, right? Except Vilina always wants lobster or something. I told the kids I would bring pizza to Cherry Hill and she said, "But can you bring ME sushi?" Ha ha. This little Empress hasn't gotten the hang of living in a big family.

Of course, even with summer, I still have to run the music store and a million other things. Tziporah wonders why people keep calling me. The solution to having a lot to do is to layer more to do on top of it so the kids don't notice that "pepl kep kolen" me. We had the neighborhood kids over for a spur-of-the-moment slip-n-slide party. They loved it.

Vilina's friend Tressa

Oh look, another kind of pizza party, at Lucky Slice in Ogden.

And finally, Vilina's sushi. It's a new place in KAysville called Fuku Sushi. The Chinese/Vietnamese owners were baffled that Vilina spoke Mandarin. When she addressed him, he turned to me and said, "Where did she learn Chinese?"  Since she's not ethnically Han, Chinese people don't know what to make of her. Many of them have probably never interacted with a Uygher.

Araceli is working at Truman Carver's old time photography studio at Pioneer Village in Lagoon. The kids working there like to have a few parties throughout the summer to build unity. Knowing that she could make me happy by offering to host the first party, Araceli did. It didn't start until 9 pm, when most everyone was off work, so they stayed late and had a great time. We're looking forward to the next company party!  In short, we got summer off to a roaring start, and it hasn't slowed down. At all. To pack it all in, we have to go full steam ahead. I'm ready!