- Monday, Nate and the two littles and I went on a walk after we took the big kids to school. We walked up and around Island View Park, then down and around the cemetary and back. It was really nice. This is one of the things I love about Nate's strange schedules. The days off. Very enjoyable for us as a couple. Then we made a trip to IHOP as well ;) Caramel Apple Crepe.... mmmmmmm..... love that place. 9-13-11
- Tuesday night, Grandpa Hatch called to come over with some pizza! We were so excited because I still hadn't thought about dinner. Nate was working, and that always makes it so unmotivating to cook. Grandpa brought two pizzas, a bunch of drink boxes leftover from the reunion, and a HUGE box to play in.... the latest thrill. After an hour or so, Grandpa announced that Tuesday was ice cream day and then the kids begged me to let us go get some. My Dad said he did that on purpose so that I couldn't say no. We all went to Baskin Robbins and had ice cream! My favorite part of the evening was when Noah finished his ice cream.... about two seconds after, he asked, "Can we go get a snowcone now?" Nate had promised him one earlier, so he was still set on it. He proceeded to cry when I told him ice cream was enough treat for one evening, screaming out, "I WANT A SNOWCONE!!!" While we're sitting there outside of Baskin Robbins with ice cream all over his face :). What a funny little boy. Grandpa wanted to give in and get him one, but there's no way. Unfortunately when we went to get him one the next day, we got to the little rainbow, just as they were pulling the thing away on a trailer behind a truck. Such a bummer! 9-14-11
- Wednesday, Sarah and the boys came over for an evening without the Dads with us. We had planned to have breakfast for dinner or "brinner" as we like to call it. I was getting ready for our Relief Society night as well, preparing a pie, so I did a little of that, and made some pancakes. I thought since I usually make 2 batches, with a few extra people, I should probably make 3. It was a lot of pancakes, but I made the whole 3 batches. I tried to keep them warm on the stove, instead of serving them immediately, so that we could all eat together. Well, long story short, everyone was sitting at the table, prayer said, and a few bites into it, they all hated them! My kids are pretty good at eating what they're given, and don't complain a LOT, but this time, they were all dissatisfied with them. I finally got it out of them that they tasted weird. It seemed strange that they ALL would feel that way, so I tasted them, and sure enough they had some weird metallic flavor to them. It was strange. And gross. Sarah agreed, so I tossed them ALL into the garbage. What a bummer! Luckily we had some leftover pizza from the night before, and so we just warmed that up and called it dinner. Kinda lame, but whatever. I finished my Strawberry Fudge Pie, Sarah played with the kids in the backyard, and then we hauled off to the Relief Society meeting. Thankfully they had a nursery since Nate was working. It was a fun evening, but I wish they'd taught me how to make pie crust and pies BEFORE I was asked to bring one to sample..... my crust was a little crispy, but the rest of it was delicious! Pie crust, brownie, cheesecake, and strawberries on top! Drizzled with melted chocolate chips too! I really liked it :) The kids were nuts as the meeting was getting over and they were done in the nursery. They embarrassingly made their way around the pie buffet and helped themselves to whatever... it's all a blur now, I was just so done. But overall, the evening went well. 9-15-11
-Thursdays are a little strange. Nate works Wednesday evenings til 10:00 and then has to go to work Thursday morning at 7:45. So he comes home to sleep and that's all. It's weird to do that, but even weirder, I think, is when he gets home that afternoon around 4:30. It's so awkward. I decided tonight that it's because Nate's been in Controller mode for pretty much 24 hours (minus the sleeping time) and I'VE been on Mommy mode for the same 24 hours. It feels so weird to switch over to Husband-Father/Wife. We are both exhausted. I'm not sure how to explain it I guess. But anyway. I guess we kind of broke it up a little today by Bradley and I going on our much awaited for Date. I took him to Paradise Bakery to FINALLY get his FREE Kids Meal that he got from his teacher almost 6 months ago. After that we went bowling. He "won". I tried so hard to lose, but with the bumpers.... I was actually doing better than I do when I try to win! So I decided to pull the ol' switcheroo at the end there and gave him the bigger number. 90 to 77. It was a lot of fun. We played the question game and I learned a lot about Bradley. Then when I got home I found out Kelly had been wanting to go out for ice cream for her date, so we hopped in the car and went to Cold Stone. She and I ate our ice cream up by the temple as we played the question game as well and learned LOTS about each other. She and Bradley both are so fun to be with. I love the one on one time especially. Good times! On our way home we saw that the mountain above Centerville was on fire!! Pretty scary. Nate was fascinated by it as well when we showed it to him. Crazy stuff... can't wait to hear what happened. 9-16-11
- Saturday was really lame. This is what I hate about this schedule. Saturday mornings feel like death. The kids are all restless, I'm tired from the week and wishing it was a normal "break" of a Saturday, but it's not, and we are all just kinda cranky, lazy and slow going. This was the first one since he started this schedule, so it was a bummer. Hopefully we can figure out how to make them go more smoothly. Although in the evening, Heidi did come up to visit! Well, not really just to visit, she was working on a book on our computer, but she did come! And we stayed up talking til 1:00 in the morning.... fun stuff. I sure wish she lived closer and could hang out more often. 9-17-11
- Sunday, Luke's class joined mine and Brad's class, and since there were 10 kids altogether, and I had to leave to practice the organ a little, we decided to invite Nate to join us. It was a lot of fun to see Brad and Luke be buds. Brad totally took him under his wing. There were 3 other brother couples and they were all just adorable.
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