How we spent our Sunday afternoon (hint: not at church)

In our defense, we tried to go to church. We got all dolled up, left the house fifteen minutes early and drove to the Birch building, where there were only a handful of cars in the parking lot. At this point I figured that the work to fix the flooding damage at our regular meetinghouse must have finished, so we drove to the Amity building, where there were no cars. I then realized it must have been Stake Conference, an earlier meeting with several wards at the Greenhurst building. Oops! That's what we get for being out of town last week, having General Conference the week before, and only making it for the last two hours (due to the silly snow) the week before that.

So, we came back home and played outside in the lovely 70 degree weather!

Will recently learned to make spit bubbles, and as it's a favorite pastime of mine as well, I couldn't be prouder.

Since the boys were all dressed up I tried to take some cute pictures, but . . .
they were less than cooperative,

easily distracted,

and flew the coop. (Clyde is yelling "Mom - brother! Mom - brother!" to alert me that Will isn't following the rules)

Will's very stable on his feet, but the combination of the grass and only wearing one shoe got to him.

Thank goodness for older brothers who catch you when you fall :)

We then played in the backyard for a while (technically I sat in the shade and read Good Housekeeping) and had a lovely afternoon. We do promise to be front and center in church next week, though . . .