2019 :: week 13

March 24

I successfully survived my first Sunday at church with all four kids. Getting everyone ready and in the car took a little longer than I anticipated, but we made it. Sacrament meeting went fairly well and I got to attend Relief Society with Miles. I have not been released from the nursery, but am taking some time off.

March 25

For family night we returned the dishes and tupperware that some of our kind friends used to bring us food in after Miles was born. We have been overwhelmed by how generous people have been bringing us meals before and especially after Miles was born.  In the afternoon I made cookies and we brought those too.

March 26

The end-of-the-year talent show is the most anticipated event of the year at OPC. Lauren and some of her friends are thinking about singing Rachel Platter's "Fight Song." They performed for the some of the parents at pick-up. They did a good job, but the song is much longer than the one minute limit, so we will have to do some tweaking if they decide to go through with it. The girls also suffer from varying degrees of stage fright, so they will have to overcome that too.

March 27

Lauren has come to play this soccer season! In her practice this afternoon she won the game of sharks and minnows that started with the twelve players against the two coaches and ended with Lauren against everyone. In other news, I survived my first crazy Wednesday. I loaded up all the kids at 4:35pm, picked up Will's friend and teammate Bennett, drove to Will's baseball practice at 5pm, drove back to the neighborhood and picked up Lauren's friend and teammate Annabelle and drove the girls to their practice at 5:30pm. It was a lot of driving and both Elliott and Miles (thankfully) fell asleep. In the future we will be carpooling, but the mom I was planning on carpooling with got sick.

March 28

It started raining a bit on Thursday, but Elliott was a ray of sunshine when we walked to the park to pick up the older kids at school. That evening was busy, Anthony had a bishop's council and I went to book club. We discussed Girl, Wash your Face! by Rachel Hollis.

March 29

The kids had no school on Friday and I was planning on taking the to the kids to the zoo. Unfortunately it was cold and rainy, so we changed plans and went to the Money Museum and the Federal Reserve Bank downtown. It was good to get out of the house and the kids enjoyed the various activities. That evening we had a family movie night and watched The Three Ninjas. The kids thought it was hilarious.

March 30

The kids watched some videos of dominos falling on youtube and were inspired to create their own. Will really got into it. Unfortunately we don't own nearly as many dominos as some of the people who posted videos do, so his visions were left unfulfilled. That afternoon Anthony and the kids went to the church to help set up the sound system for the ward talent show that evening. On the way home they stopped to put air in a leaky tire and the tire valve came off in Anthony's hand. The tire totally deflated almost instantly! He called Brother Clay (our ministering brother) who came and helped Anthony put on the spare tire. They then drove to the tire store and got a whole new set. Even though it was frustrating to buy new tires, I am grateful that this happened when Anthony was around and we weren't in a time crunch.