Journaling

And now it's been a week since I blogged.  Wow.


- Monday was President's day.  No school.  I had ideas in mind for some fun things to do that day, but it all came to a screeching hault when I found out how much work Charity still had left to do on her History Fair project which was due the next day.  We spent MOST of the day working on that with her.  Took a trip over to Grandma's to use her Word.  Unfortunately, our Word was dumped a few years ago when our computer was having trouble and so doing her homework has become next to impossible here at home.  It really stinks actually.  But at least there are other options.  Most of the things she has to do she's been able to do on her Open Office on her laptop, but a few things still require using someone else's.  Either way, we finished her project, and all was well.

In the evening, we headed up to Nate's Parents' house to have dinner and FHE with the Beckstead's!  This is something we've had as almost a tradition ( I think we've missed a few years) and something we always enjoy and look forward to.  Becky put together a really nice dinner and lesson.  We all drew our favorite person from the scriptures on a paper bag and then everyone had to guess who it was.  Kelly helped Luke and they both drew Joseph Smith with the gold plates and the barrel of beans he had hid the plates in.  Charity and Bradley, independent of each other, both drew Enos.  Nate did Ammon who we just read about in Family Study.  And Noah did Noah :).  We played a few games, I think the kids really loved the game Shark.  We finally got Darren out at the end.  We showed them our Quelf game, played that for a little while, watched Casey make a fool of himself :) Then a few rounds of It Came To Pass.  Nate let everyone have a free Root Beer Float, not counting it as a strike.  The whole night was just a lot of fun.  Even Noah and Erika had fun running around, surprising Grandma and Grandpa.  Good times.  Wish I'd brought my camera.   2-18-13

- Friday Nate got to go with the kids to school at 8:00 and have "Dads and Donuts"  I don't know what they did, but the kids were SO EXCITED for this!!  Even Luke was basing how fun his day was going to be off of this and his birthday table lunch.  It was much anticipated event!  I hope Nate felt the love :).

Then later in the day, Nate, the littles and I were able to go the school and have lunch with Luke for his birthday. That was a lot of fun! Bradley was having lunch with his friend Skylr at the same time so he sat there with us.  I love being able to spend some of the school day with our kids.

While we were there, we found out that Mrs. Davis (Kelly's teacher) was going to be doing the No Missing Work Party on her own because none of the parents had signed up for it.  We figured since we were there, that we'd volunteer.  She consented.  We waited a half hour and then for the activity we played the SHark game we'd played at Becky's.  Nate did a group and I did a group.  Nate's group had more fun, go figure.  But I think it was a success.

That night we had our family game night.  We all went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.  That was a lot of fun.  We had a really nice waitress and everyone kept changing places the whole time :).  Then we went to the store, picked out a new game, LIFE, and grabbed some snacks (and the stuff for me to make my dinners on Monday) to munch on while we played.  I have ALWAYS (at least since I was 12) wanted that game!  I don't think I've ever played it the correct way though :).  IT was a fun game.  LONG, but really fun for everyone.  Erika and Noah lost interested fairly early on, but they stayed in the room with us, which was more than I could have asked I think.  Everyone did pretty well.  I think Bradley won.  He kept getting the Spin to Win money.  It was a good time though.  I love spending time together as a family.  We were glad Charity came home from her night out with her friends to play with us.  2-22-13

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