General Conference Weekend

 We've had another busy week.  Life is always a bit crazy when Dan is out of town - for starters, we miss him!  But also, he is such a good husband, and helps so much around the house that it is difficult for me to keep up with out him.  But in addition to all this - there is the tendency for other things to go wrong when ever he is out of town.  Monday, Anna and Aaron were both home from school sick.  Tuesday, it was Aaron and Evie.  All had been kept home with stomach bugs - the poor kiddos were throwing up :(  Thankfully they managed to get most of it into toilets, but I still felt bad for them.  I felt a bit sick to the stomach most of the week, but only threw up on Monday.  Thankfully my mom was still here to help out.  She left Wednesday morning, but by then most of the sickies were better.

James was tired enough after a couple long days to tell me to lay down on one chair in our front room while he curled up on the other and took a nap.

Friday, Dan got home - I went to get my allergy shot, took Heather to run an errand and got home just in time to have lunch with him!  He came home exhausted though, so I sent him to take a nap along with James while I got some groceries and the kids from school.

Yesterday, we discovered that Evie had gone around the house claiming it as her own.... in sharpie.  We found her name in sharpie in 5 different locations including 3 separate counter surfaces, the refrigerator, the table and Aaron's piano book. We had a little talk.....

Saturday General Conference was wonderful!!  It is always a much needed uplift - plus a weekend mostly off of other things is nice too.  I still took some time to mow the lawn between sessions, but mostly we relaxed!  In the evening we had some friends over for pizza and brownies during the priesthood session.  It was nice having a friend over to chat with - and it was nice sending the kids down to watch a movie and have some adult chat time!  :)

Eileen and Anna were very cute and built a LEGO conference center and temple and they they would go and arrange it every time something happened or changed - so they would move them to be walking out when it ended and have them sitting down during talks.

Then Anna decided a LEGO temple wasn't enough, so she also created a block one with some help from Evie.  

The weather has been gorgeous the last couple days, so after the final session, we spent some time in the back yard playing together and having fun!  Eileen and Anna have been learning how to throw a frisbee at school, so we pulled out the frisbees and had fun throwing to each other and then trying to get it through the hole on the tire swing.