Catch up

I'm so busy trying to catch up with everything and get ready for this next weekend that I haven't really blogged about anything in the last week or so.

Things I haven't blogged about:

-Chalk the Block.  The kids had a blast drawing all over the Riverwoods mall sidewalks, and I had a blast visiting with my sister, Janelle, and trying the Waffle Love truck finally... delicious!
-Regional conference was awesome. 
-The Ogden Temple dedication was amazing.  To think, when I was born 33 years ago there were only 35 temples in the world.  Today there are 143 and there are 27 more in process.  It's really neat to also think that I've been able to attend the dedications for the Mt Timpanogos, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, Ogden, Brigham City, Draper, and the Oquirrh Mountain temples.  How lucky we are to live in a time that allows us the opportunity to not only serve in the temple and bring ourselves and our ancestors closer to Christ, but that we can regularly do so.    I loved hearing Pres. Eyrings testimony about the covenants and blessings of the temple.
-Family night at the Discovery Park playing cops and robbers with the fun family of one of Jer's co-workers.
-My 6 week follow up with my doctor where I completely forgot to ask them a question that I've had in my head for the last 6 weeks... nice.
-Making Ada's Elsa costume for both her birthday and Halloween.
 
Overall a very busy and fulfilling week.

Bad friend moment

I am a complete dork. I was just rushing to get the kids to the carpool on time and sent Sam to the car with his toast, which had peanut butter on it.  Their oldest daughter is severely allergic to peanuts... And I know that! Now they have to clean out their car before she can ride in it again. I offered to clean it for them, but I sure feel like a dork.

All in the pronunciation

My kids are convinced that the tweezers in the Who Shook Hook game are called Tweezelers.

Date night

Friday night, we got to go to the Mahler's First Symphony directed by Tierry Fischer.  I still absolutely love Tierry Fischer!  It was a great performance and I managed to stay mostly awake despite having a 5 week old baby still sleeping 3 hours at a time.  Turns out that they were recording that performance for a CD to sell next year for the 75th anniversary of Abravanel Hall.  Might have to get that one.

Utah State Fair

Nell's birthday was this last week.  So much fun!  We met up at Julie's Fabric Stash and hung out with her, my mom and Sharon.  We also got to go to Malawi's pizza with them before Sharon went back home to Roy.  Evelyn through a fit while we were there... but we all survived it, even Evelyn.  Saturday, we met up at Utah State Fair.  It was a rough start, we almost forgot the tickets, my mom was sick all night so she and my dad had to stay home.  Finally got settled and played... then Sam disappeared.  Someone finally found him and took him to the lost kids tent. Oh my gosh!  Scariest moments ever!  All I could do was pray. 

 

Look at all these cute kids!

3+1

Nella and her roller coaster buddy

Keeping baby happy

This was the coolest thing.  The kids LOVED this guy.  But they were so funny about it... they kept running just in front of it saying, "Watch out!  It's going to get you! It's going to bite you!"

Love these guys

Smiling

I've tried really hard to get a good smiling picture of this kid. It's been an exciting venture. But yesterday he smiled at my mom while he was wide awake. So cute! Now to get him to smile at me.

Sweet baby

While it's tougher with this little guy, he sure is sweet.

Look who's growing up

This baby wanted to hold his own bottle tonight I guess.

First hair cut

last week

This last week was the kid's fencing competition.  They did really well, but Sammy had a particularly hard time coping with the fact that he's the smallest and hasn't been able to beat two of the other kids in the class... including the very tall 10 year old that wouldn't usually be in the class in the first place.  Poor kid.  He really is very good for a 5 year old. 

 

Jer also set up our tent in the back yard to clean out before he put it away for the winter.  The kids had a blast playing in it for a while and we did our reading for school while we were there.  Cute kids.