Icky-Sicky

Monday started out the usual busy.  I went and swam, came home and took the kids to seminary, walked David to school, went to work out, then walked home.  After I was exhausted and feeling crummy.  So I laid down, but the further into the day I got, the worse I felt.  Dan ended up doing the shopping and picking up David and I spent the day resting and trying to not get too sick....  It didn't work.  I called in sick to work on Tuesday and Wednesday I already had off, so I mostly took those days easy.  I didn't go swim on Tuesday or Thursday, but since I had already committed to do the 1-Hour swim on Wednesay morning, I went and did that.  It was a bit rough at first, but not too bad.  I kept a pretty consistant pace (thought probably a slower one that I needed to) and I managed to swim 2 miles in the hour.  I didn't stop and tried out my new mp3 player.  Even sick, I was glad I did it!  

Thursday I was starting to feel better and getting sick of being cooped up at home, so I went in to work - since it was a short shift anyway.  After, I picked up Evie and Aaron who were home after finals and we went to their swim meet.  We swam against Jesuit.  The kids did a great job!  Evie took 3rd in her 200 IM and Aaron took 3rd in the 500 Free.  It's so awesome to see them pushing themselves and growing!  Evie had friends come to watch her and cheer her on too!  

David had swim lessons this week - Paxton's parents took them on Tuesday since I wasn't feeling well, then I took them Thursday evening.  

Thursday was James' birthday.  We had to kind of squeeze it in between all the other things going on, but he wanted Ramen for his dinner and he wanted an ice cream cake.  He got a sweater from Grandma and Grandpa Jones, some Legos from Grandma and Grandpa Cox and some books and a Parkour class from Mom and Dad.  

By Friday morning, I woke up to a sinus infection that was hurting all the way down to my teeth.  So I made a doctor's appointment. I skipped Zumba to rest, but couldn't get my shift off, so I worked, then headed home to get David from school, then I went to my doctor's appointment to get some anti-biotics and get this thing gone!!  

Saturday morning was a youth temple trip, Dan took the kids and they had a great time.  

Saturday I was already starting to feel a bit better, so I went to swim, then to a couple water polo scrimmages.  Then in the evening, Dan and I met up with Dave and Stephanie and Carson at Fogo de Chao for dinner.  It was such a fun evening with yummy food and great company!  We are already planning to get together again in a couple months!  

Today, I'm definitly starting to feel better - though I worry that David is starting to come down with something.  I spoke in church today, and the choir sang.  Thankfully since my voice is still a bit shot, I was off the hook for Primary for a special adults and youth meeting our ward was having.  

In the afternoon, we had some friends over to play games and then after dinner, there was a fireside for youth and parent to introduce the new theme!  It was great!  Now for bed and hopefully we can all get back to our usual healthy lives!  

More Swimming and more fun

Once again, a busy week with work and friends and school and sports.  David is doing swim lessons 2 days a week with his friend Paxton.  They love it and they get to see their friend Anna there too.

On Thursday Aaron and Evelyn had a meet against Aloha, so it was fun to see all the Aloha kids too.  Both kids swam well - though both were tired and Aaron didn't even get to swim one of his events because there was a bit of a situation as the meet was getting going.  One of the girls on the other team fainted after warm-ups.  She didn't hurt herself, but the EMT's were called and the start of the meet was delayed by half an hour or so.  So they ran all the varsity events back to back - which was exhausting for all the swimmers who then had to swim back to back events with no rest and was emotionally difficult for everyone, plus they had to cut most of the JV events.  

Thursday, after school, while I was taking Evelyn to her meet, David went home with his friend Anna and hung out with them and they took him to swim lessons and then he came home with Paxton.  When he got home, he asked if he could have a sleepover, so we said yes since there was no school on Friday.  Then he wanted another sleepover on Friday night.  I caved and said yes, but he was super grumpy by Saturday evening!  

Dan has been working on a game scoring app - it will eventually work for multiple games, but for now,  he is working on getting it to do everything we want it to do for Dominion.  He's really put a lot of thought into it and it's really awesome so far!  He tested it on Thursday when he went to go play Dominion with James and Ben and it worked great - He even won a game and got to show it off to me :) 

Saturday, between the usual crazy - Dan and I met up with John and Melissa at the temple for a session, then after for dinner at Thai Basil.  It was so good to spend time with them and time at the temple! 

Saturday and Sunday have been our usual busy - I let the kids have fun drawing on the chalk board during primary - but with a purpose - they were supposed to listen for important words and then draw pictures of them on the board as we sang - we only had 4 kids in primary today, so I just let them all draw all they wanted and it worked great!  

Birthday and Friends

We've had a fun and busy week.  On Monday, I met up with my friends Sara and Emily for lunch.  We had a great time together!  It took us longer than usual to get together, but we finally managed it!  And as always, it was so worth it!

Aaron turned 17 this week.  We couldn't get him to decide on a birthday dinner or a cake, so his brothers convinced him to choose Sushi for dinner and I had Dan grab him a Bunt cake.  We got him a sports bag and a banana snuggy for his birthday - and he seems to like them enough to use them!  :)
 

On Thursday, Aaron and Evelyn had a swim meet.  It was against Westview and Evelyn swam the 200 IM and Aaron did 100 Fly.  I am so amazed by them - they are really pushing themselves to do hard things and they are doing them amazingly well!  They were both exhaused by the end of the races, but they did so well! 

Evelyn had Honor band this week - rehearsals and then her concert.  She is so amazing and has come so far in her flute playing and as a musician!!  

On Saturday, David had a primary activity.  We took the primary kids to the temple and went to the visitor's center and did a scavenger hunt and went into the atruim and then had some fancy hot cocoa after to warm back up.  It was wonderful!  

Then after, I went to Parkrose to play water polo, then I had to go to an inservice meeting for the lifeguards, then I headed down to Open Polo.  After the 40 people we had last week - it was a bit skimpy this week with only 12.  But we had a good time!  

Church was great - we are adjusting to the new time and figuring things out, but it's great!  

Happy New Year

We've been enjoying our Winter Break with the kids.  We are mostly taking it easy.  I swim in the mornings, but then come back and nap for a bit until the kids get up.  We had a fun outdoors swim practice on New Years Day - it was tons of fun and a great way to start the new year!  Anna has been having a blast with friends and sewing - she went on a vest kick and has made a whole bunch this week!  She has been picking up some shifts for work and having fun with her siblings.  

On New Years Eve, we got together with a bunch of friends for a couple hours to chat and eat and play, then the some of the kids went to the youth dance, some of them came home with us and some just stayed home.  :)  David went to do New Year's at Paxton's house and I went home to work on a puzzle and eat spinach dip and watch movies!  

While Paxton and David partied, Nicole came over to help with the puzzle and we had a great time chatting and working together and we managed to get it finished before it got too late.... ish....  Since the puzzle was 80's themed, Dan put on Tron: Legacy and Eileen while complaining a bit at first eventually got really into it!  :)  

We had some fun this week using gift cards and such - I got a gift card to Hobby Lobby and used it to get a new cutting mat!  Nice to have one that's not torn up and got cracks and glue stuck to it and other things....  

David loves leaving little notes around the house - and I thought it was cute when i found these taped to the oven...  

This week has included a lot of workers in and out of our house getting our bathroom and kitchen finished up.  The kitchen stuff is all done - the tile is done on the shower and the grouting it put in - next up is sealing it and putting the glass back in - then we will finally have our bathroom back!!!!  

The girls had fun fun together using some face masks that Anna got for Christmas - they had fun goofing off and being girls together!  

Saturday morning, we took Anna to the airport.  :(  We are sad to see her go and will miss her - but it's been so great to have her home and she is off doing amazing things!  Aaron and I dropped her off, then went to play water polo at Parkrose - we had a great turnout and a lot of fun!  Then we headed home for a yummy dinner and some family time.  Then Evelyn and I went to Open Polo.  There was an INSANE number of people there - including people I never expected to walk into Open Polo - we had nearly 40 people there and it was crazy croweded, but it was fun!  Evelyn had a couple friends come to watch her play - their favorite part was watching a goalie get hit in the face.... lol 

Our Sunday church time is now early morning - 9 am.  It was great though and we had some kids in primary that David knows from school, so it was really fun to have them!  After, we did some napping and playing and eating an early dinner before choir.  Then choir practice.  

Our family scripture time was a bit silly.  Dan and Evelyn sat on the smaller couch - then Evelyn said there was room enough for me too, so I squeezed in with them (already 3 people on a 2 person couch) then David came and crawled on to me  (so we now had 4 people on the 2 person couch) so I made a silly comment about how there were 4 people on the small couch and only 2 people on the big one, so James and Aaron came over and joined us on the small couch, and we read scriptures like this....  It was fun!  Silly, but fun!