A few days....

Sunday
lounge in the moring
11:30 moms church, all dressed up, she has her whole clan at church
sit with Michael in Sunday School as the teacher revears Joseph Smith on his birthday
I get to go to Relief Society and I love the lesson on Personal Revelation...Know that you know...a talk from Nov. 2007 Ensign/Conference address
2:30 home, get Pork Roast dinner ready
4 eat with fam
7 kids to bed
play games with adults

Saturday
Michael bikes, we clean, we pack, we wrap presents
I take kids to Walgreens to pick out gifts for Michael
a little bit stressed
computer/empty CF cards/ready for wedding
2:30 leave with a full van and hyper kids
3:30 arrive at Richland Hall for Ms. Taylor's wedding
I'm the photographer.....
4 wedding is suppposed to start, but doesn't
4:30 it starts...I'm in front taking pictures, Michael is in the audience with the kids...at laughter moments, Alysssa laughs loud at the end and the audience laughs again at her:) very cute
eat dinner, take group shots, cake shots, bouquet/garder shots....
6 we are supposed to leave
6:40 we actually leave
begin drive to Houston for Christmas
Listen and sing loudly to Christmas songs most of the way there...Tyler loves 12 days of Christmas and Matthew love the Grinch song
after the 3rd time through, I get tired of it...with just an hour drive to go, Michael and I sing real Christmas carols...
Tyler and matthew go to sleep
Alyssa falls asleep with just 10 minutes to go (she took a nap before the wedding)
9:30 we get to my parents house before everyone else arrives from San Antonio, so I get the key from its secret spot and let us in
we put the kids straight to bed, so when everyone else arrives at 10:20 ish, the deed is done:)
watch the BYU bowl game...half of it
midnight michael and I retire to bed

Friday
Cousins play
adults chat
Jason's Deli for lunch
S.A. Botanical Gardens, Dora/Diego Exhibit
run around, play, take pictures
Sonic for treats
keep kids awake on drive home...traffic
Kim and Russ make steaks for dinner
5 nap for me for a bit
7:30 drive back home....kids sleep the whole time:)
talk to Jen and Michael on phone to stay alert

Thursday
7:30 Tyler to school
home to bake all morning...make 120 cake truffles...chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, mixed with Andes peppermint,white chocolate, dipped in chocolate and white chocolate and topped with crushed candy cane...very yummy!
10:30 get kids ready, jump in the car
11 tylers school for lunch, I was going to bring him something from Sonic, but matthew veto-ed that one and we brought misc. packaged items as I ran out the door
11:30 decorate tyler's classroom with other moms for the party
12 kids in from recess....Holiday party! games in the classroom, stress from my 2 little ones keeping contained...alyssa actually stayed in a "time out" in the stroller when i asked her to
1:15 party over, head home
1:30 sit...computer, wrap packages, mail stuff at post office
2:30 back to get tyler
3 home...pack and get ready to go to san antonio...laundry basket incident...i got frazzled and upset.... Clair stopped by
5:30 michael home, dinner, head to meeting, we head out
6:45 leave to drive to S.A.
talk to Linda the whole drive to keep me alert, phone dies when i get there and cuts us short
9pm arrive at russy's house
chat with ry and russ, chai, ty, matthew play
11 mom and dad arrive
11:20 kim and alayna back fromshopping
boys up til midnight and they think that is the coolest thing!