We did some fun things this week! On Wednesday, we went to Grandma's house to play with the cousins. It was a fast trip, but fun to play. We had all 8 grandkids together. It was impossible to get them to all look at the camera at once, but I thought we got some good ones. While we were there we had fun seeing Ashlee's new apartment and Mark's new dog! (I also enjoyed a pedicure and haircut! Thanks Emily and Natalie!)
On Friday we took the kids to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. We enjoyed seeing TONS of fish and even getting to touch a few! After that we took the kids to eat at the Mayan Adventure. We hadn't been there before, but heard it was fun. Our table was right down by the divers, so we had good seats! We were all very entertained watching the divers go into the water. Overall, it was fun to get out of the house and do something different.
My heart is aching today for a mother that I don't know personally, but we both had boys in the same preschool class. I got a phone call last night from Kyler's preschool teacher telling me that one of the boys in Kyler's class has been really sick this last week and on Friday was just diagnosed with leukemia. After a seizure Sunday morning, he passed away! I had a hard time thinking of anything else the rest of the night. I cried thinking of this poor mother, not knowing how I would go on, if it were me. This has been really good for me to have a renewed patience and love for my kids. You just never know what is going to come next. Within a week, this little boy went from sick to being gone. We will do better to treasure all the time that we have together.
We had a great Easter Weekend. We were able to go to Grandma and Grandpa Cressall's for lunch, a big egg hunt and treasure hunt. The kids had a blast, although Tyson looked really confused at what we were doing. The eggs that eveyone wanted (including the kids) had money in them! We came home with tons of fun stuff! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for a great time!
I have spent a good part of today working on my digital scrapbooking. I'm trying to figure out all the tricks, including printing. After talking to the people in the photo department at Costco I learned that I could print 3 scrapbook pages (12X12) on one paper (12X36) for $4.99. Not a bad price, I thought. Then, I had to figure out how to save 3 pictures side by side and save it as one file. It took me a while, but I think I got it. I downloaded my pages onto Costco's website and ordered them from home. (There is no 12X36 option online, so you just pick 12X18 and then call them so they know to change it to 12X36 before it prints). Luckily, the girl that was working at Costco today was very helpful and gave me some good suggestions. I picked up my pages, cut them apart, and in the book they went! I've already got more pages ready to print, I think I like this digital stuff!
Second, it was Kyler's turn. We went bowling. Kyler was amazing. The last few times he's been bowling he was with Brian, so I was really surprised how good he was at aiming the ball to go the right way. And yes, he was really excited when he beat me at both games we played! (I'm a little out of practice!) I was really bummed that the bumpers didn't stay up for me too, darn! That would have helped.
It was really fun for me to do something different today and Brian did awesome at holding down the fort. I came home to a clean house (even after the neighbor boys came over to play), fresh homemade bread, a weeded flower bed, and probably 10 other things too! I wish I did that good while he was at work..... maybe next week. We'll see!
managed to get a few good ones.
Congrats to Ashlee and Aaron! We are happy for you!
He chose to have a Ratatouille Pizza Party! We broke a pinata, put on our chef hats to make pizza, opened presents, played and ate pizza and cake! It turned out to be a really fun party, the thing that made it a little harder was when I knocked Tyson over and he landed right on his mouth! It bled forever and gave him a huge fat lip! Too bad it was right in the middle of the birthday party. We got over that and still had a lot of fun!
