So far, so good

I am having a better week so far. I have not been awesome at getting to bed early, but better. Ian distracted me with THIS. It was fun though. I have exercised every morning except yesterday, so that's felt good. I have been trying to be more patient. Weston has been doing much better with not having accidents. Just one so far this week.

On Tuesday I got to go with my Young Women to the LDS Humanitarian Center to do some service. We spent 2 hours putting together 576 school kits. It was really a lot a fun. Exhausting, but fun. The kits consisted of: a sturdy canvas bag with handles, 3 lined paper notebooks, a ruler, a pack of colored pencils, 4 regular pencils, a pair of scissors, a large eraser, a pencil sharpener, and a card with the church's name and phone number in multiple languages. Our kits will be sent to Europe. Pretty cool. I can't wait to sign up to go again. If you are looking for a group service project, check it out.

Yesterday we went to the Tracy Aviary with Tara and her kids. It was a beautiful day and the kids loved it. We saw all kinds of ducks and birds. Here are some highlights.

Weston and Makenzie with the Golden Eagle. The eagles were so cool. They were just right there in front of us with no fence above. The fence you see is the only one. Apparently all the eagles at the aviary were rescued and all have healed wing injuries that prevent them from flying or surviving in the wild.
Weston and Kenz found this peacock wandering around. It didn't spread it's feathers for us, but we got to get really close and check it out. Davin was too enthralled with looking at the peacock to pose for a picture.
Here's Davin and Jarom hanging out in the strollers while we watched the South American birds.
In the South American enclosure you could go inside the "cage" and see the birds. This was Weston's favorite part of the day. He and Kenz spent at least 15 minutes playing "tag" with this little brown bird that had hair (at least that's how Weston described it).
I was excited to see the flamingos, but these ones weren't as brilliantly pink as I had hoped. They still are cool birds to see with their stick legs and weird beaks.
After we were done seeing all the birds, we went out to the adjacent park, which is huge and awesome, for a picnic. Weston threw a little hissy fit because we weren't going on the carousel they had in the park, and basically refused to eat lunch. Had we not been with friends I probably would have taken him straight home. Instead he had a timeout by a tree, then managed to recover for some play time at the park.

I selfishly allowed Weston to go play at Makenzie's house after the outing because I wanted to chat some more with Tara. It actually worked out pretty nicely. The rest of the afternoon was naps, of course.

Today and tomorrow we have plans to go visit friends, so we are certainly keeping busy. I would like to find some more time to read. I have several books from the library that I want to work on, but it's just not happening right now. Oh well. I will settle for enjoying our friends and outings.