Our week

It's been a full week. My big project for the week was to get the kitchen cleaned out. Do you have any idea how many places flour can get into?! Getting out a spatula or a cookie sheet I'd notice a little bit of flour in the drawer or cupboard, which means that anything (or everything) in that drawer could have a trace of flour on it, which has enough gluten in it to cause a reaction for Jake. So I went to work re-cleaning all the dishes and drawers and cupboards. I'm not done yet, but getting there. I also got to replace any non-stick coated pans/cookie sheets that have any scratches in them, since the scratches can hide gluten that can't be cleaned out. I have a list of kitchen supplies that need replacing one of these days. What a fun adventure. :) But tomorrow marks 2 weeks that Jake has been gluten-free and he is feeling better already. Except that he had a couple french fries on Friday that were glutenated by being fried in the same oil as breaded chicken and had a little bit of stomach woes from that. But in general it's working out well.

While I've been cleaning the kitchen, Rachel has done a great job at keeping herself entertained. Thursday she decided she wanted to go swimming, so we filled up the pool and she had herself a ball. She even tried putting her face in the water once she had her goggles on (she HATES getting her face wet).

She calls her goggles "googoo goggles" like in the Dr. Seuss ABC book.

Friday afternoon we headed up to Mesa to visit Jake's parents who were down for the week trying to organize some of Jake's grandma's stuff. They were kind enough to babysit while we got to go to the temple, and Rachel had a blast playing bowling with Grandma Campbell. The next morning when we took them to the airport Rachel was very excited, until she realized she didn't get to ride on the airplane, too. Unfortunately, we didn't bring our camera with us, so missed out on any photo ops with Grandma and Grandpa Campbell.
After dropping them off at the airport we went back over to the temple visitor's center since Rachel had never even been to the temple (we always leave her at home with my parents when we go) and she had a blast. We ran into some people from our ward who were babysit-swapping, so Rachel got to run around with one of her favorite friends, Lydia, for a while. They played in the fountain outside, and had fun pushing buttons inside to hear about Jesus.
We eventually headed home for some nice LONG naps and a relaxing Saturday afternoon. And I used that time to FINALLY finish the quiet book (while neglecting my poor hubby and daughter--sorry!). Woohoo! No more big projects for me for a while. Except that now that that's done I can actually start cleaning things up and making the computer/craft room into a room for the baby. Anyway, here's the finished product:

Inside the front cover I put a pocket for books/magazines.

And inside the back cover I put a pocket for a coloring book/blank notebook for coloring on, and crayon pockets. So now we're set. We don't even need to bring a separate bag to church--this can hold it all.

Half-blinking Rachel was happy to find it all done when she woke up this morning and promptly got to work dissembling it.