the weekend (pictures later)

Friday

• laundry day.  all the sheets, towels and rugs clean.
• organize Ro's massive piles of clothes.  make a bigger mess than I started with.
• Deb, Brent and girls stop by on their way home from Disney.  one night sleepover again.
• Keyonna comes to crash too.  party!
• cancelled our plans to go to the hockey game
• pile up in the Shumwagon and hit Bellagio instead.  fountains = our favorite visitor spot in Vegas
• stop by Glaziers on the way home for dessert
• tried to convince the adults to go dancing. Deb's not a party animal like she used to be.  Aaron said he'll go another night with me.  I will hold him to it.  
• stay up late talking anyway.  Love my sis.

Saturday

• waffles for breakfast.  12 million kids were at my table.. or so it seemed.  
• cousins left, but not before Deb waxes my eyebrows
• pick up Nat, Jane and kids for Spring Mountain Ranch
• always a good time with my lady-friends.  the kids have a blast at the lake.  Simon strips down to his underwear (of course.)
• drop off the older boys at home, wrap a cute pink gift.
• Aaron, Keyonna, Simon, Ro and I hit a baby shower for Aaron's co-workers.  Two men who are having a daughter through a surrogate.
• most entertaining conversation I've ever had at a baby shower.  So interested in the process.  Gay men are the best conversationalists.  
• Cafe Rio on the way home for dinner.  heart to heart with K.
• Boys attend Primary practice while we're away.  Thanks Jane for picking them up and bringing them home.
• yardwork.. never ends.
• played Rummikub with boys and KeyKey.  Aaron always wins.
• Date to the grocery store, just my man and me.  we stroll the isles.  pick up food for Sunday's meal. and some eggnog.
• rent Bernie (with Jack Black) on a whim.  watch 1/2 of it before we fall asleep.  funny and way weird.

Sunday

• haircuts for all 5 boys.  I know better than to wait until Sunday morning. but they went relatively smooth.  Trimmed Ro's mullet.  
• Texting with the Bishopric during their meeting.. while giving haircuts.  Multitasking at it's finest.
• ward party on then off then on again.  Whip up fliers to take to church.  and a food sign up sheet.
• quick shower.  hair damp but not wet.  makeup on the drive to church.
• get to sacrament meeting 30 minutes early.  best seats for the program.  make copies of the fliers.
• talk to the sister missionaries for a while.  love them.
• tears during the kids' songs and testimony.  Miss our old primary faces.  Miss our old ward.
• Roma poops up her back during the meeting.  Able to get her to the bathroom before it gets on any of her clothes.  I am a miracle worker.  #imusthave5kids
• Give the boys hugs after the program, off to classes.
• contention during RS lesson.  it's gonna take a while for our wards to mesh...  baby steps.
• big meal after church.  love my boys for knowing how to cook.  they baked the ham, wrapped and cooked the potatoes, microwaved the peas, made the kool-aid and set champaign glasses for our traditional Sunday toast.  love them.
• 15 minute nap before visits.
• Aaron has meetings at the church.
• call grandparents
• scripture study and FHE lesson with our boys.  never enough time on Mondays.
• two chapters of Phantom Tollbooth.
• early bedtime for the kids.  late for the parents... I started going through an old box of notes and pictures.  bad idea.  but went to sleep in a great mood.

Monday

• 1/2 mile run with the kids.  Ro in the wagon.  Simon runs 1/4 mile without stopping.  Ben breaks his 4 minute record.
• quick shower.  no makeup.
• drop the babies off at Jane's.
• carpool.  parent teacher conference at the school.  both teachers.  both positive.
• left wondering why my kids are in school.
• pick up kids at Jane's.  head straight to a presidency meeting.
• lots of stuff to cover.  need to fill callings in a major way. 
• talk to Michelle.  give her directions to my house.
• RS phone calls.
• two visits with sisters in our ward.  love the social part of this calling.
• make bread bowls and soup.  creamy broccoli and cauliflower. no recipe.
• Jane calls and picks up a few items at the store.  I made bread bowls for her and she makes another pot of soup for our dinner guests.  more to choose from.
• whip up some pumpkin bread with Simon while the oven is on.
• Invite Azy for dinner too.  The more the merrier.
• Mich, B and Oliver arrive.  DIE over this cute boy. 
• Aze, Chris and boys arrive.  Love this fam.  Feels like HS again.
• no pumpkin carving.  too much talking.  kids play upstairs anyway.
• 10 pm bedtime. 
• stay up to blog, read about the debate.  Will watch it tomorrow.