Friday I got an adorable video of Alice playing peek-a-boo!
I also dropped down to nursing Alice only once a day. Anna played at Paisley's after school. That night I took all the kids but Alice to see Muir Elementary's Peter Pan play. Cousins Joe, Katie, and Whitney were all in it and did fantastic as an Indian, Lost Boy, and Pirate!
Saturday was a big clean up and organize day. The kids all looked at their first year baby calendars as we went through a lot of our old stuff in the basement. This also included my old school uniforms from England (Amberfield) and some stuff from our wedding (my bouquet). So the kids played "wedding." Video here!
Here's all my old uniforms from when I was 9-10 years old.
I had McKenna try on my old England gymnastics stuff but she was too embarrassed to let us take a picture of her, so this is the best we got.
Ben set up a scavenger hunt for Dan on all the lamps throughout the house.
Bethany and Anna also traded rooms! So now the "B Team" is downstairs together and McKenna and Anna share a room upstairs. Mickelle babysat that night while we went to dinner and the temple with the Roths.
Sunday I sang "Jesus the Very Thought of Thee" in Sacrament meeting. Our Come Follow Me lesson was about Peter Walking on water, which we acted out then we watched "Mary Poppins Returns." Dan visited the Reudters and sadly McKenna had a hard time sleeping that night.
Monday I exercised and went on a ministering visit to Pugsley's. I also worked on going through more of my boxes from the basement. That night we had the Nelson Family Party for March BDs and Bethany was so excited to see Grandfather. I also went to a meeting about Anna possibly trying out for the Expressions Dance company.
Tuesday I went to the last Jan Evans class. Once Anna and Bethany were at school, I went to Verizon to get a new phone since mine had been acting pretty bad for a while. Blackout screen problems. It took longer than I thought (2 hours!), so I went straight from there to get the kids from school. We had Quesadillas that night for dinner while we waited in line to see Mary Poppins at Adelaide. There were tons of kids from our ward in it! (Ava Panter, Sam Moulton, Phoebe Reudter, Kory Brown, Maxwell Holdstock to name a few.)
Wednesday, we found these selfies of Ben on an old phone of mine that McKenna uses now when she babysits. Such a goof!
I exercised and worked on getting a Costco picture order which part of it was the rest of Ben's baptism day pictures. Ben came home not feeling well, and McKenna played at Lia's house.
That evening it was Bethany's turn to go on her BD date with Grandma and Grandpa and Mia!
They went to dinner, played at the park, and got ice cream!
And of course their snuggle blankets!
That night at went to book club at Megan Rowe's house and discussed "Grit." I love this book and learned that it's never too late to start learning and becoming something new!
Thursday the kids had books and breakfast in the morning. I visited Shelly, then I babysat Daisy and Rosie Behunin while Kylee went to the dentist. Nate Behunin was also here to put in a french drain behind and seal up the crack in the retaining wall behind the patio room.
We also got a cabinet bid. McKenna had Activity Days to go see Mary Poppins at Adelaide again. We had Cub Scout Pack meeting and Ben got his Bobcat award. He was so excited! He chose the roller coaster cheer.
They played human fooseball afterwards.
That night I picked up Brynn and we drove up to Ogden for a girls weekend!
It started with games in the lobby.
Friday morning Dan sent a picture of the kids playing and getting ready.
In Ogden, we showered, ate breakfast at the hotel, then walked to the Ogden temple to do an endowment session.
Then we went on a shopping spree to Deseret Book
We changed clothes and had lunch at a Mexican place then walked over to the movie theater and watched a chick flick called "Isn't It Romantic" with Rebel Wilson. I laughed out loud at a lot of parts and thought it was a great silly movie. :)
We went back to the hotel and I pumped, went to the hot tub with Lara, Abril, and Swa, then we went to a Bungee fitness class and had a blast! We had some extra spots in the class so I invited Rachael Alexander and Laura Lewis to join as well!
Afterwards, we went out for ice cream at Subzero. We played more games in the lobby and ordered bruschetta.
Saturday I got up and ran 1.5 miles on the treadmill. After breakfast we checked out of our rooms and headed over to Fat Cats to go bowling! But first, we had to do our jumping pictures/boomerang videos.
We were happy Laurie could finally join us as well! After bowling (my score was second to last), we had lunch at Roosters and then to pedicures!
We had yummy cupcakes in the parking lot then headed to shop at Gap! We ended our time together with dinner at Tepanyaki!
I'm so so grateful for a mother-in-law who spoils us and makes us feel like a million bucks! I'm thankful for all of these woman I can call family and that always inspire me to be better. I'm thankful we share the same standards and support each other wholeheartedly!
I drove home with Brynn and made it home just in time to say good night to the kids. :)
While I was gone, Dan took such great care of the kids! He even took the older three to open checking accounts! Look at Anna's cutest little signature. :)
Ben also had Immigration Day at school. I was sad to miss it. He was "Serge" from Russia.
Sunday after church, the kids put on the "Sensational Sibling Circus!" I love the alliteration in the name of each act as well as the refreshments set up in the kitchen!
After dinner that night we went on a walk.
We woke up to SPRING BREAK!
