January

It's been a while, but I want to start this up again.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
7:40am my cell phone alarm goes off....I get dressed, get my stuff that I packed the night before and head out to the chilly, windy morning air
8am meet 2 cute senior girls for a photo shoot at the greenbelt around the corner. It was warm yesterday, too bad it was cold today.
9am still location hopping with pictures
10:30 home to my fam....try to warm up
10:45 eat several of the crepes that Michael made for the morning Jamboree
11 dump all my pictures on the computer, chat with everyone about the morning
12 michael goes on a bike ride, kids got bundled to jump on the trampoline, I look through the pictures I took
1 Michael home, kids still playing outside (though they were in and out often)
1:30 sit around the table for lunch and hot chocolate
2pm kids go back outside to jump some more, bringing their blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals on the trampoline with them.
Michael calls the boys in for a haircut
3 boys shower individually
3 kids all outside jumping in the cold again
3:30 Michael and I tackle our bathroom linen closet--purge 2 big garbage bags of stuff
4:30 get ready for our date...edit a few pictures from the morning
5 go pick up the babysitter, Jenna Cox
5:15 head out with Michael on our date
5:30 meet the Broughs at Texas Roudhouse
yum yum food, i was so hungry: Free appetizer, we got yummy tator skins
I got ribs, soooo yummy!
7pm we head over to Main Event and play glow in the dark miniature golf. It was really fun with lots of laughs. Mostly at mine and Jessica's similar stinky skills and at our mens impressive skills on the course.
8:15 finish....try to bowl, but its an hour wait
head over to Billiards and play for an hour
Similar athletic skills as mentioned above
9:15pm part ways in the chilly parking lot
9:30 home to our babysitter and kids in bed, hooray!
I drive the sitter home and try to drop off the redbox movie, but the machine is broken
wait on hold for nearly 30 minutes to get codes to get a free movie our next 2 times
10 watch the Office with MSD on the computer
10:30 go to bed

Sunday, January 25, 2009
7:30 Michael kisses me goodbye on the way out to his Sunday morning meeting, I roll over and go back to sleep as usual
7:45am Alyssa wake sme up
8am kitchen microwave timer goes off, my request for Michael to wake me up (last week I woke at 8:50 am and scrambled out the door in 10 minutes).
8:10 send the boys to shower, eat breakfast
8:20 by shower was cold:(
8:30 all 3 kids dressed, working on their church bags (scriptures, paper, church book)
8:40 I'm getting myself ready--wearing the dress I made with Debra last week
8:50 out the door
9am get to church, Michael saves us a choice bench
Sacrament Meeting: nice and quiet and calm, all 3 kids do well, its been well over a year since we've had to take a young one out for noise--that will change with a baby.
Sunday School in the gym
R.S. I held a baby girl twin in the foyer, trying to relax her--she finally fell asleep
12 head home alone in the van. If Michael comes home after church, the kids like to go with him and we race--I won today.
12:30 eat my leftover ribs
lounge around
make Andes mint cookies
2:30 take a nap for the first time in 2 months (I get too groggy and can't do it unless i have something to be up for)
3:30 Lights come over for treats and chatting
5:30pm Lights leave, M was supposed to home teach, but it was cancelled
6 Michael takes Tyler to home teach as his companion
Matthew, Alyssa, and I play the peanut butter and jelly card game
Watch Mormon and Moroni church movie
7 Michael and Tyler home, eat roasted potatoes for dinner (kids don't like potatoes, its all we had, in order to show them they are good)
7:30 Scriptures, prayer, chat and work on Articles of Faith
7:45 kids off to bed, talk to Grandpa Duke a few on the phone