Big Beautiful Day

Today turned into a big beautiful day, and in the spirit of being grateful to God and the Universe for simple pleasures, I figured I better write about it.

Woke up with a desire to clean my kitchen. That never happens. It started with the dishes and ended several hours later after I had organized the Tupperware, and moved everything around in the cupboards. (had to move the bread ingredients closer to my bread mixer for easy access) I also did a mad dash of the house before I left in the morning, and it felt WONDERFUL to come home to a clean space.

I took Quinn to her first parade ever and my first Utah city parade. It was the Alpine days parade. I walked to it with a friend, and I think I got as excited as Quinn at times. She caught candy and toys as the people on the "floats" tossed them into the crowd.

Managed to sucker quite the huge Quinn fit after the parade with class and grace. Eventually we walked home with Quinn sleeping in the stroller. Yay for Super Mom!!

Ate an avocado, which is a wonderfully rare treat since they are crappy and expensive here.

Shared jam and bread with the neighbors.

Figured out that when a wheel breaks on the double BOB stroller, I've got two more perfectly good ones on the single BOB that have the same easy to remove tires. Nice. There is no stopping me on a walk now!

I put shoes on McKenna for the first time. They are a pair of old Robeez from Quinn, and they just look perfect on Kenna. It put me in a good mood.

Had dinner at Sue and Mikes and then Quinn got to watch her first Fireworks show. At first she said she wanted to go home because it scared her, but then she totally got on board and loved it. Uncle Mike says she might have a career future in firework commentation: "Oh, that's big. Oh, that's green. Oh, that's huge...."

Also I found out that my man caught the biggest fish of the trip on his annual Mexico trip with my dad. Yay for Tim and for good fortune in the air!!

And as if today were not good enough ... we are headed back to Sue's tomorrow for dinner, and she is making my favorite potatoes.

Simple Pleasures.