Saturday we took a trip to the Splash Factory to cool off and find inner peace or something.

Sunday  we went to Jesse and Deborah's ward and went to visit David at the hospital in Dallas. The a/c broke that day and the house was in the 80's so all the kids slept downstairs in the living room with two fans shooting on them. I stuck a pillow in the fridge, stuffed it between my legs and slept on the couch in the family room. it was working again the next day so we were fine but whatever did people do before a/c?

Monday I found a critter show, Zooniversity at the library and took the kids down to watch. Then we hung out and looked at books for a couple hours and I was amazed that 6 kids could stay within library rules for that amount of time. Then we decided to run to the discount theater in Irving to watch "The Lorax." $3.50 to get all seven of us in, can't beat that! I thought, boy, if I'm here the rest of the week we will be coming here every day. At that point we were taking it day by day and hadn't come up with a revised trip plan so I took note that there were two more kid movies if I needed them.

Emma and Josh conducted swim lessons in the pool Julie got for her birthday. Emma whipped the little boys into order, posting pool rules, establishing open swim and lesson times, and teaching everything she'd learn from her swim class the weeks before. The boys liked it the first day but the next day there was much grumpiness and tears when some boys rioted about not being allowed to swim and others felt a great injustice had been done as unruly children were breaking the schedule and over-throwing lifeguard duties.