the week

 Working backwards:  Today Rob and Grace went out adventuring.  They were searching for gold, didn't find any but had a good time.  They also went to the pet store to buy pet stuff, which is Grace's favorite outing.

Hannah hung out with Kelly.  They went to the mall.  Tonight is a stake dance, the girls went and probably are having a good time.  They are still out so I don't know for sure :)

Tonight Rob and I went to El Toreo with Wes and Nellie.  It was fun to catch up, we haven't gone out together in a while.

Yesterday was the ward adult Valentines social.  It was a lot of fun.  Not too many people came, we had 12 couples, but those who did had a nice time visiting and eating yummy soups.

It was an off Friday so Rob and I went to the movies during the day.  We saw Collateral Beauty and we both really enjoyed it.

Ethan was sick this past week.  He missed 3 days of school and is actually still under the weather, coughing and he had a fever.  Hopefully no one else will get it.

Grace went on a field trip to LPAC.  They saw "Annie".

At YW this past week we did camp prep, the girls are a lot of fun to be with and always enjoy themselves.

I have read several good books lately.  Last week I read the Selection Series.  I really liked them a lot.  I also started "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" and finished it this week. This week I also read "Blackberry Winter" which was a quick read but with  a story that really draws you in.  Now I am in the almost done with "Rosalia's Bittersweet Bakery Shop" which I am also really enjoying.

The Selection books are dystopian, and are about a girl  who is competing to marry the crown prince.  Sounds lame but it's not.  It's full of intrigue and danger and of course romance.  Warring nations, a caste system that needs to be overthrown and the search for true love.  Good stuff.

The Girl who Drank the Moon is for middle schoolers, I actually bought it for Grace but read it first because she is reading something else right now.  It's the story of a village that puts a baby into the woods once a year as a tribute to the witch and what happens to one of those babies, and the village, and the witch.  There is also a tiny dragon and a giant swamp monster and lots of magic and good characters and danger.

Blackberry Winter is about a newspaper writer and a little boy who disappeared 70 years earlier and how their lives intertwine.

And the Bakery Shop is run by nuns in Italy but it's all about the people who seek sanctuary there and the lives of the villagers and bakers and nuns. Mixed with some baking and some romance and some disappointments. So far it's been a great journey.