Another week at a glance

Friday
7:30 tyler to school
8 quick computer time, kids tv time
9:30 head to outlet mall...Gap to return, buy new jammies
10:45 arrive at elementary school
11 lunch with tyler, help Neisha get kids thumbprints for teacher christmas present
11:30 surprise teacher for her birthday, party/cake on playground
12:30 home, michele and jackson over, watch jordan and madeline
1 computer stuff while michele chats
2:30 michael home, he gets tyler, michele leaves
3 attic to get christmas stuff
4 leave to go take pictures on greenbelt:) yay, it was good
5 home, run to HEB for dinner stuff
6 quesadilla's for dinner
6:30 run with Alyssa back to Gap outlet to exchange pants size...hopefully i'm ALL DONE with jammies now
7:15 outlet parking lot, sing with alyssa under the street light "Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam" our arms open wide, singing loud:) cute girl.
7:30 back home, aj fell asleep, boys already in bed
8 watch Oceans 13 with michael
10:30 work on afternoon session on computer
1:30 am head to bed after typing this

Thursday
10 to emily's to watch her kids
work on stuffing Christmas cards
read magazine
play outside with kids
lunch: she brought the kids happy meals
emily helps me with my labels
2 home for an hour: computer get ready baptism towel and camera for session
3 get tyler late again, have to sign him out at the office
3:20 baptism towel to 8 yr. old heidi
3:40 leave with a new baby for alyssa from the w. family
3:50 arrive at candida's for her to watch my kids while i take her neighbors kids pictures
4 session time...drive to greenbelt....take picts
5 pick up kids at candida's: watch tyler ride a 2 wheeler amazingly!
5:20 ride bikes more, take picts of tyler on 2 wheeler, michael home
6 cereal for kids for dinner, michael makes he and i warm bagel sandwiches
6:30 family lego time in boys room
7 ready for bed
8 primary pres mtg at emilys...she's making her banana bread per my request:) hash out next years classes and teachers
10:20 home....email rachelle quint picts again

Wednesday
9 computer: email from girl in killeen asking if i can photograph the homecoming of her husband from iraq after 15 months...i want to go but scheduling conflicts...find another photog
10 return 10 pairs of adult size jammies to Old Navy...a bit embarressed
10:30 first to arrive at the bowling alley for bee school field trip
Bowl with friends...matthew dropped a bowling ball on jackson's foot when he was trying to be helpful and hand it to him....matthew got a strike (with gutter rails set in).
12 with michele and jackson and kids to round rock donuts
jessica b. calls on my cell
1:30 back home, michele goes to fix a flat tire, we take jackson home
3 get tyler, kids play at home
4 clair comes over with violet...jackson and matthew play while tyler, violet, clair, alyssa, and i play legos in boys room
4:45 michele finally gets out of the tired place, gets jackson, michele, clair, and i talk outside while kids run up and down the sidewalk
5:20 michael home, mac and cheese for dinner, he got us mcdonalds but forget to tell them to take off those nasty little onions, so i choke my burger down:(
6 i escape to our room for a little break
7 family scriptures, watch Shrek Christmas on TV
7:25 michael leaves for his meeting, kids to bed
8 quiet time, computer time
9 michael home, runs to grocery store for me...relief & happy:)
9:45 he's back, i'm still tapping away...christmas letter, labels, cards for clients, p.r. book, christmas gifts, etc.
10 bedtime

Tuesday
7:30 tyler to school
8-9 take some picts for the yearbook of classes
9 home, mom leaves
10:15 matthew and alyssa invited to play at jordan and madelines house
10:30-12:30 free time! Run to Gap Outlet and Old Navy to find jammies for 10 adults for Christmas...
12:30-1:30 chat with jennifer while kids play
1:30 home for a good solid hour
2:45 go get tyler at school....5 minute late:(
3 meet stacy, nathan, julia, emily, becca, and kids at park
4:45 head home
5:30 michael home
5:45 dinner
6 clean up, play games
7 ready for bed

Monday
9 matthew to bee school
post office
home to work on christmas cards...alyssa cartoons:(
12 go get matthew at school
12:30 michele and jackson over
1 my mom rolls into town
2:30 i go get tyler alone
5:30 meet michael at mesa rosa for dinner (all of us)
7 home, kids to bed

Sunday

8 wake up as Michael leaves to meetings at church
8:10 to the boys room, watch them play legos and read books to Alyssa
8:30 emily calls...she thought she woke me up (almost, still groggy)
8:45 michael home early...wow!
9 computer on, work on Puerto Rico album for 2 hours
11 shower, get ready for church
12 phone calls to jenny I. and michele k.
12:45 head to church
1 church begins...Sacrament
2 to the primary room
I got it easy today....the runner
4 church over....chat....head home
4:30 make spaghetti casserole for dinner (kids don't like sauce in spaghetti, so i combine it)
5:30 all of us starving, we eat
6 i have a mini headache, michael cleans up
7 kids ready for bed....michaels parents call
7:30 alyssa falls asleep on the couch after fighting us on going to bed (she didn't have a nap today)
8 computer time for me....work on Kelsey Joy...I woke up this morning with it in my head
10 to bed
11 can't sleep, work on family letter mailing label

The week

Saturday
hang around in Ft. Worth
raining and cold outside....sing silly songs and do skits with the cousins
after lunch, drive back home in the rain....1 hour of slow traffic....
stop at wendy's for dinner
6 HOME
heb for a few items
8 watch spiderman 3

Friday (Black Friday)
talk to candida back home about turkey day and shopping
head out shopping on my own for 2 hours....Target, WalMart, Kohls
nothing in particular....just roaming....Kohls had 100+ people in line, so I ditched that effort
came home to kids who played star wars video games all morning
after lunch head to church to play indoor sports b/c it is so cold outside
k and i read magazines in our "thrones"
afternoon make cake balls and pizza

Thursday (Thanksgiving)
men go play soccer "turkey bowl" in the morning...women prepare turkey dinner
eat
chat
eat
yummy rolls and homemade cranberry sauce...yummy pecan pie

Wednesday
no school for tyler
8:30 take bennett family pict
9 steed family pict
10 back to bennetts to chill for a while
12 candida, michele, and all kids back to my house at noon for pizza
edit their picts while they clean my kitchen:) i have such great friends.
4 everyone leaves....we pack for our trip
5 michael home...load the van...
6 depart for ft. worth
10:30 arrive after a detour route to avoid traffic that still took a while

Tuesday
7:30 tyler to school
8 to the quintuplets to take more picts...michele my helper...matthew and alyssa, too
10 done. head back home
10:30 with kids to dollar store
11 meet stacy and kids at gattiland for lunch
12 play at our house for a bit
12:45 to tyler's school for turkey trot
1:20 turkey trot 1st grade: tyler comes in 3rd place for his grade!
2 check him out early...call grandparents about fun news
3 to michele's...hang, make treat, watch oprah's favorite things
5 head to little caesars for 2.99 medium pizza's
6 yummy dinner
7 kids to bed, michael to meeting
8 up late working on christmas cards for clients

Monday
7:30 tyler to school
8 reflections reception...help Stacey
10 matthew to xander's for bee school turkey party
aj and i to grocery and haircut
12 get matthew
2 jackson over while his mom goes to dr.
tyler goes to jack's after school
5 jackson leaves, tyler back home
6:30 family home evening at the Baird's
alyssa a little sick

Sunday
work on P.R. album in moring
1 to church...not feeling so well (*)

Sunday

8 get up to work on final touches of our Christmas cards...

10 send to print at WHCC

Saturday

7:37 alarm wakes me up
8 meet Stacy L. family to take family picts in greenbelt
8:45 home, michael leaves to teach biking merit badge to scouts
9 clean home with kids, laundry in our bedroom
10:45 michael home
11:15 alyssa and i leave to go get my haircut and run errands: walmart, Michaels craft store
michael takes boys to get car fixed and Hastings to read books
2 pick up the boys and head home
3 Kristin M. Family picts (she took ours last week)
4 home, chill with family
5 reheats for dinner
7 kids in bed
8:30 watch movie we rented last night

Friday

7:30 Tyler to school
computer time, tv time
9 tv off....matthew, alyssa, and I clean kitchen and family room
10:30 jackson and michele come over, show michele our family picts
11:30 chrissta calls, I watch Xander and matthew b. for her while she goes to see her sister's baby at the hospital
12 heat up food for michele from new recipes from kraft foods magazine: twice baked potatoes, buffalo chicken dip, creamy corn bread, oreo balls
12:20 chrissta back
1 head to michele's to play for a bit (per matthew's begging)
2:30 go get tyler at school
3 home, michael home
4 michael takes kids to the park, i get alone time at home, watch Hoarders on Oprah while on computer
5 everyone home, get ready to go out
5:30 drop kids off with heidi and darin
5:45 off to our date: Macaronni Grill for dinner
7 head out to Old Navy to try on pants for me, hobby lobby for a frame, sams for a pict, circuit city to look at camcorders, lowes for zip ties
8:30 HEB for cookie dough and movie: Premonition
9 pick up kids, hang for a while
9:45 home, kids to bed...quite tired, no movie, watch the Office on computer instead
11 bed

Week at a Glance

Monday
run with matthew and alyssa to jackies for bee school, matthew runs and rides just once
9:30 shower
10 organize alyssa's room, rearrange furnture, bookshelf to boys room
12 pick up matthew
3 go to stacy's for playgroup
4:30 home, dinner
6 family home evening on Priesthood Power/compare to electricity

Tuesday
8 to gym with matthew and alyssa
9 home, shower
11:30 head to outlet mall to return and end up buying something else
12:45 to liz's house to play with enoch and eva...kids play, moms chat
2:30 leave to go get tyler at school
3 home, alyssa asleep, boys play on driveway
5 waffles for dinner


Wednesday
7:30 tyler to school
9 matthew to preschool
9:20 alyssa and I run to the bank to deposit checks, return to kohl's, return to target
10 meet friends at park: Felicia & Kendra, Becca, Ashlee, & Benjamin, Bairds
12 go get matthew at pre school
12:30 home....lunch, relax
2 to felicia's to drop off prints/album
2:25 get pulled over for the 2nd time in 2 weeks! My first warning: 39 in a 30...could not find my insurance! Alyssa must have dumped it out of my wallet.
2:45 line to get tyler at school....cry about cop situation, matthew ask why i'm crying and he says he wished there were no police men....I explain to him that I broke the law by going fast, so I deserve to be punished....end up in a long discussion about how our spirits choose the right, but our bodies want to make wrong choices and our spirit has to teach our bodies to make good choices because in heaven we will all make good choices and won't need police men...good moment for us:)
3 get tyler
3:15 meet stacy, julia, and nathan at the park...kids ride bikes....chat chat chat
4:30 head home
make new twice baked potatoes with velveeta and sour cream
5:30 michael home, kids eat leftover waffles, michael and i eat potatoes
6 kids in bath
7:15 michael goes to meetings at church, boys to bed
computer, play with alyssa
9 aj to bed
10 quick HEB run for milk and a few others

Thursday
8am meet michele, drive out to take picts of the quints
quints in their blessing dresses, fun times! matthew loves the 5 babies, alyssa loves the pretend babies
10am leave....
11am meet tyler at his school for Thanksgiving lunch....he is so cute, and happy we are there
play at recess, take picts of him going on several monkey bars, he is so good at them!
12 head home with matthew and alyssa...upload quint picts
1 back to school to help clean up and find they don't need me...plan to check tyler out early
1:15 see tylers' class in the hall going to music class...feel bad taking him fromthat
1:30 invited to stay and watch music class...matthew and alyssa sit on my lap and watch in awe for 40 minutes! it was so fun to see tyler interacting with his class and the songs they sing, etc.
2:10 tyler leaves school with us
2:20 deliver photography album to client
3 home, boys play outside, alyssa asleep
4 clair and violet over, play outside on the driveway
5 make new cornbread with cream cheese in it....
5:45 michael home, eat chili and cornbread for dinner...kids not a fan of the chili
6:30 kids jammies, michael to meeting
7 alyssa on the couch, computer and ugly betty...braid alyssa's hair and she looks in the mirror and love it!
8:15 michael home

Sunday

7:30 up...breakfast all at the table, michael to meetings
relax with kids
edit yesterdays family pictures....pick favorites
work on Puerto Rico picts
in the kitchen with the kids, making cranberry brownies
10 michael home
10:30 eat yummy brownies
11:30 lunch, get ready for primary program, lots of calls
12:30 head to church to get there early to set up chairs, etc.
1 primary program: a success!
1:20 to primary room, movie and popcorn for kids
repeat
4 head home...michael whips up an egg concoction
5 dinner
fall asleep in rocking chair
6 family games: guillotine & dominoes
7 kids to bed
8 computer....look up christmas gifts, work on picts, post to craigs list our single box spring

Saturday

7 up, get ready
7:45 kristin m. ready to take picts
8 our family on the train tracks, taking family picts
candida came to help us smile
9 done!!! get donuts
10 put up bunkbeads
clean and organize all day, phone calls for primary program
edit our family picts
4 to HEB while michael takes kids to the park
5 home, feed the peeps, make new chicken buffalo dip from kraft foods mag
7kids to bed
8 watch Prairie Home Companion with Michael

Friday

7:30 tyler to school
8 home to try to do treadmill but it is making loud sounds, so i did KJ aerobics while watching Ugly Betty, shower
9 with matthew and alyssa run out to Kohl's and Old Navy to return....O.N. has something 40% off that i bought 2 days before, they do a price adjustment for me even though i don't have the item, just the receipt!! yay!
10:30 home just in time, wait on driveway
10:45 michele drives up to drop jackson off so she can go have an ultrasound
11 computer for me, kids build fort
12:15 michele back, having a GIRL!!!!!!!
12:30 matthew, alyssa, and I go to Outlet Mall...getting our family picture outfits altogether
2:30 race back to get tyler at school...drop off skirts to michele and seek her advice on our outfits
3 home, michael there..get ready to go bowling
3:15 jessica called...emily calls
3:45 bowling with fam...oh so fun (i wasn't excited, but it turned out to be fun)
5 done, little caesars
6 haircuts, bath, bed
8 michael and i watch Transformers

Thursday

watch movie with candida, take 2 30 min. cat naps....
6 head home, stop at mcdonalds b/c i was craving a bacon egg cheese bisqsuit
7 home, tyler sick, so staying home, i take a nap while kids watch cartoons
9 up and at 'em, i feel strangely rested
10:30 to holiday craft shows with michele and jackson and my brood (tyler felt better, so I figured it was ok to stick with plans)
go to a park, browse around, drive around town
12:30 wendys for kids, tropical smoothie cafe for us
1 home, kids play, we talk
2:45 michele leaves to get her kids, i take a little nap
3 nap/cartoons
5 go outside to wait for michael to come home
5:30 taco salad reheats for dinner
7 run out to Bealls with alyssa
7:55 drop alyssa off
8 emilys for primary presidency meeting
go over all details for program on Sunday
10 run to HEB
10:20 home

Wednesday

7:30 tyler to school
8 cartoons, computer, find out preschool is cancelled for matthew
9:30 leave to run lots of errands: kohls, old navy, aaron brothers, office depot...stuff for family picts..run into michele and jackson at old navy...boys wander around having some conversation, michele helps me organize our family pict outfits
12 back home for lunch..vegge...violet over for a few minutes
1 to HEB for groceries
2 home, put groceries away, alyssa swing her babies in our garage swing
3 get tyler, head to park
3:10 meet stacy and nathan at park..and baby julia (alyssa made up a song with the only words being, "baby julia")
4 head home
5 get dinner ready (taco salad)
5:45 dinner...family time
7 jennifers baby shower, take pumpkin dip
7:20 leave to get home so michael can go to mtg.
8-9 computer time all alone for me
9:30 candida picks me up to babysit the quintuplets overnight again
10 chat with wilkinsons
11-1am sleep

Tuesday

7:30 Tyler to school...cold front moved in...chilly day
8 home, few calls
8:40 head to gym
9 watch ellen while treadmill/eliptical
10 head home, shower
10:30 run errands: garden ridge, aaron brothers, lowe's
1 go to etan's house to pick him up, but he doesn't want to come...matthew stays
1:30 alyssa and i home, she watches Diego
2:30 get matthew
2:45 get tyler
3 jack comes home from school with tyler
4 play bikes outside
4:30 take jack home
5 michael home just a bit early, heat dinner
5:30 eggs and leftover spaghetti for dinner
6 play hour, our entire family together
7 scriptures, michael goes to church to help scouts with biking
8 work on christmas card orders, watch Monday's Bachelor
10 to bed

Monday

7:30 blow tyler a kiss as he walks off to school, backpack bouncing
8 cartoons/computer: get stuff ready for bee school
9 bee school puplis begin arriving, alyssa goes to play with her new friend, madeline (i'm a little sad to part with her, but i'll be ok)
10 teach bee school, stuff thank you cards for boys party 2 weeks ago
11 bee school
12 pick up time
12:30 lunch for kids, clean room, watch ugly betty taped from last week
1:30 to stacey's house for Reflections meeting
2:45 leave to get tyler at school
3 back to stacey's to finish
3:30 leave...deliver stuff to emily m., jessica b., heidi s., jennifer b., stacy l. thank you cards and stuff left behind and borrowed
4 homework time
5 walk to clair's to give back stuff...hang for a while
5:35 back hom, heat up leftover spaghetti
5:45 dinner
6 family home evening on prayer/ michael's vineman
7kids to bed
7:30 finish sarah sneak peek while chatting to michael about his day
8:30 leave to go to pokeno at chrissta's house
9 yummy food, good friends, dumb game....still fun
11 home, all asleep, get on computer (yes i have an addiction) watch show online while going through picts

Sunday

Fall Back time change
I guess I slept in?
7 hear michael get out of bed
7:40 roll out of bed myself when alyssa climbs on me
8 primary stuff...make calls, etc
9 talk to alayna in puerto rico
10 talk to adriana here
11 talk to emily about program
michael home, help me cut stuff for primary (invitations for the program next week)
12:30 head to church early, set up chairs
1 Sacrament Meeting
2 practice program in chapel
3 practice more...exhaustion and fasting
4ish home...tidy up, make dinner
5:30 new family, the Bairds, over for dinner
7:20 the leave, our kids get ready for bed
8 talk to dukes in cali
online stuff...blogs, etc

Saturday

Happy my headache is gone:)
Waffle Jamboree with raspberry jam and cool whip---so yummy!
Family Cleaning day...garage, etc.
Work on thank you cards for boys party
1:30 to Sams Club with Alyssa for picts and other items, michael takes boys to good will to drop off stuff
3 home, alyssa asleep, michael bike rides, boys play
5 off to do a senior portrait session around town
6:20 done, go to HEB
7 home, 2 extras over to babysit...taylor & parker
watch Meet the Robinsons, work on sr. pict and other orders
9:30 parents come to pick up kids
10 head to bed

Friday

7:30 tyler to school
8 to the gym to work out for the first time in a month...kids happy to play in nursery
9 pack up to head home
9:30 shower, put laundry away, morning tv
10:30 sarah comes over to babysit lots of kids
10:45 head out with michele, jennifer, chrissta to chuy's for lunch
11 april in town from MN lunch gathering...yummy chips and jalepenio ranch dip
1 head back home
1:30 pay babysitter for all of us
2 michael coming home from work (early friday)
3 get tyler at school alone in michael's car
4:30 family trip to sendero pool...chilly, but fun swimming in november..i read my book, Louder than Words
6 home and lauren comes to babysit (feel slight guilt at 3 diff. childcare in one day) she offered free services since i took her sr. picts.
6:30 michael and i head out on date to see movie...sold out at one place...starving...headache...drive to another place with the help of russell on computer and fandango
7:15 drive through Fazoli's
7:40 Dan in Real Life....love this movie!
10 back home, kids all asleep:) feeling nausea and want to puke from my migraine, fall asleep on tall pillows (its what i do when i have a headache at night)

Thursday

TYLER'S B-DAY
6:45 Michael wakes me, we go sing to tyler to wake him
7 smiley tyler comes out for breakfast...open a few presents
7:30 take him to school
7:45 michele meets me at my house, and joins matthew, alyssa, and i in van
8 get to target for 50% off halloween sale
9 go through our basket and limit stuff--leave it in a spot in the store that will benefit others the next day
10 run into mall for disney stuff...not quite half off, only 25% off, but i got minney mouse costume anyway
10:30 drop michele off, got to mcdonalds to get tyler lunch
10:55 almost to school, get pulled over by bicycle cop...stinkin ticket!
11 head into tyler's school with 3 happy meals and sonic breakfast burrito for me (cake balls in tow) I love to see tyler's excitement when we come to visit
11:30 after lunch, head to playground to pass out treats to kids
they were a big hit, yay!
12 head home, tyler convinced me to check him out earlier than i had planned...i had a stomach ache, so i really didn't want to come back
kids watch a movie while i relax
2 we walk/scooter/ride to the park down the street, meet stacy
kids play in the tree, run, scooter, frisbee, etc.
4 walk home
4:30 begin making tyler's bday dinner...crunchy tacos watch dr. oz on oprah
5:45 michael home, eat, my eyes sting from the hot oil
6 grandparents call, open presents
7 kids get ready for bed
8 michael home teaches, kids in bed
i'm veggin on the computer