Crazy Busy

This week was rather crazy - Mondays are always crazy - between laundry, grocery shopping, James and kids after school stuff - we run and run and run and then we collapse exhausted.  :)  We had a fun little FHE lesson from Evie this week - she loved getting to do the lesson.  :)

Tuesday James had preschool in the morning then after we had a fun afternoon reading together and snuggling.  Then after school, Anna had her first All-State practice - she will have them most Tuesdays until the performance.

Wednesdays are always a bit crazy.  Eileen had a doctor's appointment early on Wednesday morning for her regular well-child check up.  She is doing well and is growing healthy and strong!  Then the kids had school, James and I hung out together and then in the evening, we had our usual Choir/Young Men/Young Women/Cub Scouts filled evening.

Thursday James had preschool again - after dropping him off, I ran to Costco for some things we needed, then had just enough time to run home and grab Eileen's lunch (which she had forgotten again) and run it to the school before picking up James and heading home for lunch.  After school Eileen had her Teens for Oceans meeting - then in the evening, she had her first band concert!  She was awesome and even had a little solo!

Friday James and I took it easy - he cut up paper, played with play-doh and read (looked at) books.  Then after school, Anna had Robotics and the other kids had their usual homework and piano practicing.  After we got Anna and had dinner, Dan and I headed over to a friends house to play Pathfinder again.  We had a fun game night, but it's always fun when Dan and Jeremiah get together.

Saturday was just nuts.  Dan got up early to take Anna to a robotic competition - when they got there, there were no coaches there for her team, so Dan ended up staying and acting as coach and helping out until the actual coach got there.  Anna enjoyed it - but wasn't feeling very well, so she ended up coming home before the final results were announced.  While Dan was doing that with Anna, I was trying to get everything else done that we had expected to have two adults and two drivers for.  Thankfully Eileen's flute lessons were cancelled because that was the only impossible overlap.  The kids had a primary pancake breakfast in the morning.  The had tons of fun eating and decorating pancakes.  Then we got to watch a cute primary talent show.  After, I had Eileen watch the rest of the kids while I took Evie to pick out a birthday present for a birthday party later along with picking up my prescription refill.  We got home just as Sister Hendrickson was getting there for piano lessons.  Eileen went first and then got ready to go to a concert with Grandpa for her birthday.  She got to go see a band concert and found that her music teacher at school was one of the clarinetists with the band.  Then they went out for an early dinner before he brought her home - she really seemed to have a great time.  While she was doing that, and Anna was still at Robotics, and after piano lessons, Evie had a birthday party for her best friend at school, so I drove down to drop her off for a fun swim party, then drove back to pick her up 2 hours later.  We got back from picking her up a little after Dan and Anna got home and before Eileen got back.  We had a quick left over dinner.  Eileen got home during dinner and brought her leftovers home with her - she had had mussels and got most of the kids to try them and like them - she is such a cute girl! After a rather long and exhausting day, Dan made a quick grocery store run to get stuff for Sunday and then we tried to play a game of Lord of the Rings - but the game kicked our collective bottoms.  It's a cooperative game - but it didn't cooperate with us....

Sunday started out with church.  The Sacrament Meeting talks were wonderful.  My lesson was fun - I got to have the other class in with me and we had a good time talking about how to become spiritually self reliant and talking about scriptural examples of people who had questions and got answers.  Finally, during 3rd hour, we got to have a combined meeting with all the adults and YM/YW and then broke out into different family history classes.  After church, Eileen and I went to choir, then we got home and got to have dinner and fun with Dwayne and Nicole and kids.  Then we headed back to the church for Tithing settlement.  Then Dan ran out to do a bit of home teaching and came home in time to do our family scriptures and prayers before going with Eileen to the Youth fireside at the Bishop's house.  He dropped Eileen off to go run and help give a blessing before coming home and collapsing - and now it's my turn to go join him!