Philmont Day 3

On Sunday we still had our 3 hour block of church. They organized and called people ahead of time to serve in the various callings and Brother Beck presided. They joked to us that we were the only ward that had 100% attendence that day :). We had Sacrament Meeting in the Assembly Hall, they split us into groups for Sunday School where we had it on the Villa front lawn, Priesthood was in the same area and the Relief Society was in the Assembly Hall. We had Relief Society and Priesthood first with Sacrament Meeting last. I remember doing that as a child and now understand why my mom perfers Sacrament first because the children are all riled up by Sacrament Meeting. Evan did great though. He was beaming because he had a lot of fun. Alex was with us the entire time because they didn't have a Nursery. Luckily he did great. He was stuck to Matt's hip so I wasn't with him for Relief Society so I still had a break.

We had family time almost the rest of the day. After lunch we went on a walk around the Villa grounds.

Villa is to the left, Assembly Hall and the two Dinning Halls to the right.

Upclose picture of the Villa. History and pictures of the inside will come later.

This fountain is behind the Villa on the Greenward Lawn. It dumps into a pond. This was the boys favorite spot. Who doesn't like to play in cold water on a very hot day?

Greensward Lawn

Greensward Lawn

Evan next to the pond.

Alex found a "funny" mirror :)

After our walk we played on the play ground. Each tent city had one. Another fun spot for the boys.

Evan making more friends.

This boy was so sweet and helped Alex around the playground. Alex loved these swings and spent most of his time on them. He loved them especially when I was swinging with him because he loved to go "high!"

It had cooled down nicely so we wanted to take advantage of it since the tents weren't hot and put Alex down for a nap. Matt took that job so he could lay down with him. He put on Toy Story and they both zonked out within a few minutes. In the mean time I took Evan to the Craft Room to start working on both his and Alex's parade costumes that they were going to be in on the 4th. I was just finishing Evan's up when I got a call from them telling me they were up because the sun came back out and heated the tent again. At least they were able to sleep for a little bit and then were able to come help work on Alex's. Evan wanted to be Lightning McQueen so we made Mator for Alex. I was surprised that they turned out awesome since I'm in no way crafty. Pictures to come.

We had dinner not too long after and then we got ready for an Adult Fireside. The older kids in the group took care of Evan and Alex so we could both go which was really nice.
For bedtime we wanted to avoid screaming so we allowed Alex to watch Toy Story. We did this for the rest of the week because it worked out so well. No screaming and he would usually fall asleep not too long after.