Graduations....

It's been a busy week.  After Eileen's adventures of last week, she had an appointment at the doctors office on Monday - they didn't have anything after school, so I had to pull her out a bit early.  We needed to see her regular doctor before we could get her in to an orthopedist.  But then it took the whole week for the references to get sent over, so now we still have to wait until next week to see them.  

Tuesday was trying to get David back on a schedule (and failing) he hasn't been sleeping well at night (we figured out why - he's broken through 2 teeth this week - he now has 6 teeth total, but is rather lopsided - he has the four center ones, then the two that came through this week were the next one to the left on the top and bottom.  Dan was going to be working a bit late, but everything ended up going well and he was able to come home for dinner, which was nice we had the sister missionaries over for dinner!  

Wednesday was a usual day with Cub Scouts and Activity Days.  Eileen didn't go to mutual - she had a field trip that day at school and it left her exhausted, so she stayed home and rested.  The crutches and hobbling around have been rough on her body and not being able to do all the things she wants to do has been rough on her mind.  She's sick of having a fractured ankle.  

Thursday was the kids last day of school this week.  James had a kindergarten graduation celebration in the morning.  He was so cute!  Plus he was VERY excited that he got to go home with me after.  Especially since it meant meeting up with Aunt Sandi and Grandma at Chick-fil-a for lunch and then getting to go to Kai's preschool graduation in the afternoon and getting to play with Kai.  He had a blast.  

In the evening, after a quick dinner, I headed down to Plano for DMCO auditions.  I believe it went pretty well - now just waiting for official results! 

Friday, the kids were off school, they got some clean up done in the morning, they got to play some games in the afternoon.  After, my mom came up to help out babysitting so Dan and I could go to the temple.  We had a nice afternoon of doing sealings before grabbing a quick dinner on our way home. 

Saturday was rather crazy busy.  Dan took most of the kids to the library in the morning, then after, while David was napping he took some of the kids to the pool in our neighborhood - they had a blast!  Then Dan went to help a new family move into the ward and we got some help moving the couch from Grandma Penny upstairs.  Then in the evening, we went back to the pool for a bit and David got to get in the pool for the first time - he seemed to love it! 

David loves to climb the stool and loves to explore and get into things - especially the pantry! 

Today was wonderful!  The talks and lessons were wonderful.  After church, we had dinner then invited the Gustaveson's over for games and some dessert.  We had a fun time playing Dominion and finally managed a Jones family win against them! 

Broken Bones and Birthdays

This has been a fun and busy week.  The kids had STARR testing at school most of the week and watched movies when they weren't testing.  So school was a pretty slow week.  Monday at the house included laundry and grocery shopping and such.  

Tuesday was a nice easy day for David and I during the morning and was the usual craziness after school.  David and I took a little drive down to the grocery store for a couple things Walmart hadn't had.  We would have walked but it was a drizzly kind of morning.  Dan had to work late - they've got a bit change going on at work coming soon and Dan needs to get all the back end stuff done.  

Wednesday was a normal Wednesday - I went to help out with Cub Scouts, but Aaron didn't have to go since the Webelo's leaders had to cancel.  In the morning, I went to visit Sister Young, we had a fun time chatting together - She's such a fun and sweet lady!  

Thursday started out pretty slow and easy for David and I, then in the evening, I had a Relief Society activity - it was really neat - a lady came to talk to us and teach us about a bunch of ancient Jewish cultural things that help us understand the scriptures better.  It was a wonderful lesson.  I also got to spend some time chatting on the phone with Kay!  I miss her!!!!  

Friday was insane....  After getting the kids off to school, and getting David fed and changed and myself fed and changed, we went to go visit with and hang out with Sister Carpenter.  It was a lot of fun chatting with her and getting to know her a bit better!  As I was leaving and preparing to go meet Sandi for a lunch date, I got a call from the school nurse saying that my daughter had hurt her ankle and she thought I should take her to get it x-rayed.  I drove to the wrong school at first and they were confused - then I realized that I needed to go to the middle school.  The kids schools had all had a field day type thing going on that day and Eileen had been having fun and landed wrong on her ankle and hurt herself pretty bad.  So i picked her up and took her to an urgent care.  They took an x-ray and determined that she had a fracture, so we got her splinted up, and now we need to get her to her doctor, then to an orthopedist.  After we got that all done, we had to go get her crutches because the clinic was out of crutches in her size, then we finally got a late lunch, then it was time to start getting kids from school.  Dan came home to help out.  After, I took Evie to the art show at the high school because she had an art piece that she had done being displayed there.  She got a kick out of it.  Then we headed home for dinner before I went to pick up the baby sitter.  Dan and Eileen and I went to see Avengers: Infinity War.  We had a great time - but Eileen cried for the last 15 minutes of the movie.  

Saturday was Dan's birthday - I had lots of help from David and James to make Daddy's cake - David will climb up the stool whenever it is left out for him.  We mostly had a quiet day though - Dan did some running and helped Aaron mow the lawn.  In the evening, we had cake and ice cream and daddy got his presents.  

Church was wonderful as always

Happy Mother's Day

It's been a fun and busy week!  The pinewood derby was on Tuesday - so I spent most of Monday and Tuesday getting ready for that.  Everyone seemed to have a fun time and I was amazed at how fast it all went.  As usual though - I was exhausted by the time it was all over and just wanted to sit down!  

On Wednesday, The Activity Day girls were putting on a spa day for their moms.  So I got to go hang out with Anna and Evelyn and get my nails and toes done and have fun goofing off with them and having some yummy treats.  It was cute and fun!  Evie did my right hand and right foot, while Anna did the left hand and left foot.  

Evie needed to finish up her GT project and since it involved making cookies, we didn't want to start them too early and have them be old for the parent night display time.  So Wednesday before and after the Church activities, Evie had fun making cookies and picking pictures to use and putting her display together.  It came out pretty cute and the cookies came out yummy!   She did a great job making the cookies all by herself - I only supervised (and put trays in the oven)  

Thursday night, Aaron and Evelyn got to display their projects - Aaron's was a cool project about eggs in space - how they behave and talking about different experiments that have been done.  Evie's was a big hit since it included free cookie samples :)  

As you can see here - her 3 bags of cookies got eaten up pretty fast!  And she was quite proud of herself! 

David is getting into everything and trying everything out.  He loves to open the gate and climb up the stairs, and he recently discovered the stool that we keep in the kitchen and looked like he was trying to cook up some dinner...or maybe breakfast since he's still in pj's. 

Friday after school, Eileen went with her friend to a company party for her friend's dad's company.  She had a great time with her friend!  The rest of us went out to the ward camp out - We just went for the evening to socialize and enjoy the short program - then headed home for bed.  The idea of camping out with a 10 month old who hardly likes to sleep in his own bed wasn't appealing. 

Saturday was a fun day - we walked down to the grocery store to grab a couple things before Sunday and we had some fun playing games and getting some clean up done around the house. 

Sunday was Mother's Day.  Anna and Evelyn helped Dan make biscuits for my Mother's Day breakfast - it's was so yummy!!  I got a beautiful pictures from Anna and an expansion to Dominion from Dan!  Church was wonderful - the talks were wonderful and the primary singing was adorable!  Kinda crazy to think that it was Anna's last primary performance.  After church, we headed home to have dinner.  We had the Walkers over for dinner and games and had a great time with them.  Melissa chatted with Eileen most of the night about horses and we all had fun! 

Fun with Friends

David and I mostly took it pretty easy this week - he is a much happier baby when he can get a good morning nap in.  So except for a couple errands that I needed to run on Friday, we took it pretty easy in the mornings.  The kids had a good week at school mostly - Evie made honor roll with all A's on her report card!!  Monday was the usual laundry and grocery shopping day.  Tuesday we didn't have anything going on in the evening (thank goodness since dinner ended up being late when I ended up having to shop for something that we usually have lots of but had run out of it with out realizing.)  

Wednesday evening was cub scouts and Eileen had a school event for her State Project.  So after cub scouts, We went to check out Eileen's project and then Dan took her to Young Women's and I put the rest of the kids to bed.  

Thursday was a nice and normal day - Dan had a priesthood meeting in the evening, but otherwise, we had a nice fun day together!  

Friday we went over to play games with some friends.  We taught them how to play Dominion - and we got beat again....  But we had a great time and the kids had fun playing together too!  

On Saturday, Dan and Anna got up early to go running with some friends from the ward.  Dan made a Lemon Meringue pie - even though he doesn't really like Lemon Meringue pie, but he made it because I've been wanting one for awhile now.  I have the best husband in the whole world!!!  We had some friends over for dinner and after the adults had a fun time playing Scattergories.  It's funny, we both have dogs named after video games - ours is Koopa from Mario and theirs is Ganon from Zelda!  

Sunday was great - Fast and Testimony meeting was great - David refused to nap so he was a bit tired and cranky by the end of the day - but hopefully now he will sleep well.....  We had a nice time chatting with Dan's parents before scriptures and prayers and heading to bed.  

A couple cute pictures from the week - my two boys cuddling up - it's so cute watching James play with David - also kinda nerve wracking since he isn't always good at remembering to be careful, but still sweet.  

And Evie showing off her painted nails - she spent all weekend painting and re-painting her nails....