Sunday Sunday

Did anyone else have a lesson on "Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy"?

I'm sorry, but this is one of the most BORING lessons I have ever gotten. Even I, ME!, didn't have much in the way of comments.... and I'm a FREAKING TALKER!

I have a hard time imagining a peaceful Sunday in our house with only the "approved activities", sorry crayons and coloring books barely last through one hour of meetings. It ain't going to last much longer... Maybe visiting Grandma and Grandpa would work better, then again who knows! My kids can be unpredictable sometimes.

On a brighter note, we had the missionaries over for dinner, those guys are a hoot. Totally crack me up! It was so good to have them, and they even had seconds (so I know my new recipe for Chicken Enchilada's was good to people outside of myself). In fact between our family and the three missionaries we polished off 2 full 9x13 pans of the stuff, the rice, and almost all the corn. Then the got huffy cause I forgot to mention that I had Fat Boy ice cream sandwiches for desert until AFTER we had mostly finished dinner. :)

They really are fun though, I hope I get a chance to have them over for dinner again some time soon, if only for the laughter!

Happy to go to Church!

So yesterday I took my two older kids shopping for new church clothes... I should have taken EB too but he has had the Crud this week and I figured a nap would be good for him...

Anyhow, Goober was NOT very pleased with me for dragging him shopping, while Missy was all girl and was excited to go. :) Needless to say, they were happy to go to church today (they would have been happy to go anyways due to the "friend making" opportunities that church brings about).

So here is Goober in his new duds:

And Missy in one of her new dresses:

And here is EB (he didn't go to church today due to aforementioned Crudiness) just cause he's cute and I kinda feel bad not including his picture when I included one of both of his older siblings)
Notice the length of his hair, pretty long I know, but I just can't bring myself to cut it!!! I have before, but now it's more thick and I think of all of the trendy possibilities I have there. For any of you that have ever touched Goobers hair, you know that his hair is course and thick and that only short, shorty, short hair really works on him due to it being incredibly stubborn on top of it. Well, EB's hair is not as course and seems to have potential for actually laying down when I comb it with water... so I guess we shall see. I know, I know... I'm over thinking the whole 18 month old hairstyles thing. But where I've never had brothers, I've always been a girl (GASP!), and Goobers hair is so very uncooperative, I see potential for experimenting where I haven't been able to before.... MwhaHAHAHA!

Ok, so this post has now degenerated to the point that I feel the need to cease and desist. So TATA!

HORRAY!

Yippy! Today Our whole family made it ALL THE WAY THROUGH CHURCH!!! YAY! No potty accidents, no uber crying crankiness, and no freak outs! Though I struggled through the first meeting, after that the other meetings went ok. So I count that as a VERY successful Sunday!

My homie :)

So, this is Jer.... he's cold. So he's wearing his hoody with that hood up baby! Which makes him look kinda like a gangsta wannabe :o)

Anyways, most Sundays Jer makes eggs for the fam. This morning is was just for me cause the kids ACTUALLY slept in .... one benefit of illness I guess. Well now, I guess I should be more upfront :oD We actually ALL slept in ... no WAY am I letting that opportunity pass without taking it! But by the time that Jer and I got to breakfast the kids had already had theirs ... so he cooked for the two of us.

And may I say, his egg cooking Skillz definately top mine! :oD

Dinner at Grandma's House

Every other Sunday night our family eats dinner at Gma and Gpa S's house. Aunt Azlee and Uncle Chris do this as well, so we end up with 10 people (counting the two 2mth olds).

This time it was our turn to cook... as it is every third Sunday we eat there. So Jer made stroganoff while I chased the kids around trying to keep them away from the hot surfaces in the kitchen :) After dinner we sat around and talked for a while and Gma S read to the family a little till it was time for the kids to go to bed.

Some Sunday nights we stay to talk or play board games while the kids either play with the oodles of toys that Gma and Gpa keep stashed away or while they play on the playhouse in the backyard. Either way it's a good time for the kids to be able to get to know family that they don't see throughout the week. Hopefully as they get old they will be able to become close friends with their cousin (s) and hopefully understand that their extended family loves them too.

As a child I didn't live near any of my grandparents and was always a little jealous of the kids I knew that could go to their grandparents houses often and were best buds with their cousins. I hope that my kids will be able to understand what a blessing having grandparents live near by is as they get older and hopefully take advantage of it often.