July 2019 and my instant pot

Photo time one Sunday morning.  I did Hanna's hair.  Notice the vertical pony tail.  

Missy is in the early stages of potty training.  Heidi thinks my yogurt gave her diarrhea.

Mister is curiously destructive.  He's not malicious, but things get broken just the same.  He can be so charming when he wants.  Like, he'll ask, "Daddy, how was work?"

I wrote about my instant pot on the other blog.  I've made three batches of yogurt and it's not as successful as I'd hoped. Kira liked my yogurt, though.  Last night I made beans and used my presto pressure cooker and crock pot and got better results.  So, I may have to sell the instant pot. 

Mister fell asleep in the car, which is common, but I was so amused at his goggles placement.

 Thursday was the end-of-the-season swim party at a home in Discovery Bay.  I was a bit jealous of this pad right on the water. 

How can you live here and not have a good time?  We ran the spartan, launched water balloons off the deck, had good food, and enjoyed a nice evening. 

Okay, bye. 

Lake Powell 2019

We made an extended vacation out of the Lake Powell trip by first driving to Las Vegas and spending the night in a hotel.  We went to church the next day and then did a tour of Hoover Dam.  It had been a long time since I'd been and I'm pretty sure the kids have never seen it, so I thought it would be good for them.  Plus, the Transformers movie immortalized the dam by housing Megatron beneath the concrete.

We then went to a park to run the RC boats but it was so stinking hot.  The kids cooled off at a water park and then it was back to the hotel for pizza and bed.

We left Monday morning after continental breakfast.  The drive was pretty beastly, much longer than anticipated.  The kids had devoured our week's worth of food rations and we had to stop for more.  Fortunately, Heidi was impressed by the Capitol Reef national park.

The rest of the trip can be described through this video and my shutterfly link.



https://link.shutterfly.com/MJkQx1QJ8X