Labor Day Weekend

A HUGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my VERY good friend, Carri! I wish we were close enough to celebrate together! Have a good one!


It was sooo nice to have a long weekend. I just really enjoyed my time at home. Although I did a lot of work on accredidation for school. I got my history curriculum guide done!! I felt like my buns were permantely glued to the couch, and the laptop was permanently glued to my lap. It is amazing how I able to play card games, and also play "restaurant" with the girls with their play food while I worked on the lap top. Let's see what did we do...

Friday, as I wrote about earlier, was spent doing nothing, just going to bed early. Jenna actually went to one of the local high school's varsity football games. Her friend has a brother that plays on the team, I thought, "She is only 10 (11 next month), and she is already going to high school football games? " I am sure we are really going to limit that! After a dinner at the local chinese restaurant, we went home and relaxed.

Saturday- Jenna had guitar lessons at 10 and then the girls and I ran into Target where I spent way way too much money on clothes for Jenna and ballet/dance outfits for the younger 2. They start ballet/dance next Monday. We then went home and hung out the rest of the day. In the evening, we left Jenna in charge and Jeff and I went out to a quick dinner and then looked around at a few new houses to look at floor plans. It was so nice to be able to do that without kids. We have looked at A LOT of houses, but always had the kids and so we really couldn't jot down notes of our likes/dislikes, actually have a conversation about things. We then went to Dairy Queen and took treats home for the girls.

Sunday- Mikayla woke up with a terrible cold. Actually she coughed all night. At first she didn't want to go to church, but then changed her mind and went anyway. My kids have to be literally forced to stay home from church! Which is wonderful! After church I had to run to the grocery store because I had forgotten to buy the ingredients for Spanish Rice and Refried Beans that I was to take to a get-together that evening. I went quickly, came home, made hot dogs and macaroni for lunch and then we relaxed. In the evening we went over to the Dawkins house. Originally some friends of our from Illinoise, the Kaepps, were coming back in town to visit. They used to be a part of our church, but had to move. That was the original intent on the get-together, but it turned out they couldn't come because of a work conflict. We all got together anyway, and had a great time. We stayed too late, and Mikayla was begging to go home because she was sooo tired.

Monday- Today we hung out all morning, while I tried to do some laundry. Jeff was beginning to complain that he needed underwear badly!! :) At 1:00 Jeff and the girls went to the church where there was a "work day" going on. I stayed home so I could clean and go to the grocery store (again!). In the evening we had 2 families over, Darin & Kris and there 3 kids: Ben, Ella and Noah, and Steve (who is our builder) & Amy with their 3 kids: Mollie( who is my student), Cole (who is in Mikayla's class) and Brock. (She is pregnant with their 4th and soon after that baby is born, they will get their adopted baby from China!!!) We had a great time grilling out, the kids played on the water slide etc. They left around 8ish, and then I had to get the girls in bed and then sit down and work on my lesson plans! All weekend I worked on accredidation stuff, and finally, sat down to work on what I was going to do this week!

It was a wonderful weekend, relaxing, but just the right amount of activity.