What we do at Aunt Nellie’s

Well first we drive to Nellie’s of course.

We pick up Nellie and drive to the hotel. We go to the restaurant for supper. Best mac-n-cheese ever!!

We have dinner with our friends Lisa, Gunner, Oliver and baby Sullivan.

And then after supper we run down the hall to our room. And when I tell Caleb that Oliver is staying over he says, “I can’t believe it. My very first sleepover!” Haha.

We go swimming!

We go back to the room, put pj’s on and have a snack!

We actually sleep all night. And when I say “we” I mean the kids.

The next morning we are up in a flash, pj’s off and swimsuits on!

We have more swim time!

We check out of the hotel and go back to Nellie’s house. We get to see Charlie!

We hang out and then we go get a tattoo. And when I say “we” I mean “Nellie”.

We get bored. So we go to the library.

We go back and pick up Nellie. We see her amazing tattoo.

We go back to Nellie’s house. We color our hair. And when I say “we” I mean me.

We sit on Nellie.

We do our nails.

We have awesome fun. We can’t wait to come back!

Beloved

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Oh great God give us rest

I could listen to this song over and over.

Oh great God.

Give us rest.

Weekend wrap up

This weekend was the Sportmen’s Show and my parent’s had a booth. They rent out their home as a vacation home, mostly to hunters and fishermen, and so they had a booth to try to drum up some business.

The show was Thursday night, all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We spent most of our time there with my parents, or driving back and forth.   We might have spent a little too much time there because I think it was Friday afternoon we came home so we the kids could rest and Angel was really struggling to settle down. She kept crying and crying about all different types of stuff and she finally said, “THE SHOW IS SO BORING!”  Ha! Poor kiddos!

A few other highlights from the weekend were:

Both kids slept all night Thursday night. Yahoo! We are certainly making progress but it doesn’t usually happen that both kids sleep through the night.  And of course Friday and Saturday nights they were up about 40 times. I think it’s time to restock the sleep in your bed all night bribe box!

I worked Saturday and Sunday night. Thankfully it wasn’t too busy so I got alot of studying done. I still don’t feel prepared enough for my exam on Wednesdays. It’s on tissues, bones and joints. But Pat gives me a bad time because I never think I’m prepared and so far I’ve been doing ok on exams.  But still, I get pretty stressed out about. If you think about it, pray for me Tuesday and Wednesday as I prepare for and take my exam!

The kid’s cousins Tony and Krissy took them to an arcade on Saturday. This was a nice little break for Pat and I and so we went home and took a nap. Ha! Such excitement, huh!

I really struggle with making lunch on Sundays. We usually go to the 11:00 service and so by the time we get out of church it’s 12:15 and then everyone is tired and cranky and I usually convince Pat that we need to just go out to eat. We really need to quit doing that and so I actually made some food for lunch on Sunday! When I got home from work on Saturday night (1 am), after I had a snack and watched tv, I put a pork roast in the crock pot on low for bbq sandwiches. It was about 2 am and so I figured it’d be done perfect for lunch. Pat had cooked up some potatoes for me and I was going to make up potato salad Sunday morning.  Simple. Yummy.

Oh, wait. Except we didn’t eat it for lunch. We kinda forgot to move the clocks ahead and so we kinda overslept.  And then my mom said that they would take the kids for a few hours because our life is a crazy mess and she thought we really needed a break. Um, ok. Thanks?  Ha! So instead of eating a yummy lunch me and Pat ate popcorn at the movie and the kids had cotton candy at the sportsmen show.   Before going to work Sunday I did get the potato salad made up and so Hubs and the kids got to enjoy our lunch for supper.

I don’t have too many pictures from our weekend.

The kids at the bear show that was at the Sportsmen’s Show:

And the best picture ever. My dad with the kids at the show on Thursday. Caleb picked out his outfit. He’s one cool dude. (Notice the tie! And cowboy boots – kinda – just like Papa!)

Pumpkin love

Yesterday I willed myself off the couch so we could carve the pumpkins that had been sitting on our porch for two weeks.

Before I show you pictures I need to show you the video from last year that my mom made. I don’t remember if I ever posted it but it’s so funny. I love seeing Caleb mouth words to us like he’s talking. I forgot that he used to do that.  And Angel’s hair was so short!

Thankfully this year, he overcame his pumpkin phobia. (Kinda.)

We had lots of fun listening to both kids ooo and aah over all the slimy stuff they were pulling out of the pumpkins.

Not my best pumpkin pose moment.

Here’s a couple of videos…

We only carved faces in two of the pumpkins and the rest of the went in the trash. I KNOW! After an hour of pumpkin cleaning though, this sick mama would have agreed with just about anything in order to go back to bed.

And the best part – besides seeing my kiddos laugh and have so much fun – pumpkin seeds!