The Week

Monday: Took Madi into get her immunizations since her shot records finally got transferred. No fun, but she's a tough little gal. I really can't remember the rest of that day. I only know that happened because it's on my calendar.

Tuesday: My friend Natalie Palmer came over with her son Scott, who is Tyler's friend. She also has a little girl Sarah, but she and Madi obviously don't play yet :). That night was YW.

Wednesday: Tyler's first day of preschool!! I am doing joy school with 4 other moms in the ward. most of the kids are 3, so it's really not for him to learn anything new. It's really just for the social aspect of it, and they have a good focus on character building and values, not just abc's etc. We're doing it just on Wednesdays for the first 6 weeks, then we'll do Wed. and Fri. from 10-12. Day one was definitley a success. He of course loved getting a new backpack that he picked out (super heroes). Bryn just had to get a backpack too and wore it around all morning just like Ty. She kept asking where he was. It's fun to have girl time while Ty's gone. We went to the park and then made some snickerdoodles before going to pick him up. That night I was gone again for pres. mtg.

Thursday: Kenny's department (project controls) from work had a dinner at the house of one of his co-workers. It went alright, I suppose. Lots of breakable things in their house and Madi was being a stinker. She is definitley in the exploring stage where now that she's mobile she's everywhere and into everything, but she was cranky on top of it so I wasn't enjoying it that much. But it was good to meet some of the people he's with every day, including his boss. I like to have a visual image of people when he talks about them. Kenny got to go play basketball that night which is always fun for him, even when he comes home a little beat up :).

Friday: Kenny has every other friday off, it's called his flex day. It's pretty much on my top 5 favorite things of my life that we have a 3-day weekend every other week. Anyway, it also happened to be stake temple day. We haven't been since we came here, so we figured it was time for us to go. We drove the 120+ miles (2 hours) down to Columbus, OH. We got there at 2 p.m. It's one of those really small temples. The plan was for Kenny to do initiatory work first, then I was signed up for the endowment session at 4. Only problem is I didn't know that you had to call ahead to get on the list for intiatories too. It was full, so the kids played outside until it was my turn to go in. I hurried out afterwards so that Kenny could go in at 6:00 (he was able to sign up for that one luckily) since we were staying to watch our friend's baby while they went and did sealings at 6. So I stayed in the church that's right next to the temple (they share parking lots) with my kids and a 2 month old baby. Luckily they were only gone an hour. The kids were hungry, and had really had it by this point. Plus Brynlee had bad diarrhea and got a super bad rash on her bum so she was not very happy either. It was a REALLY looong day. We grabbed some drive-thru dinner and got home around 10 p.m. We'll never drag the kids out to do that again. We'll either take turns going every other month or try to find someone crazy enough to babysit for 7+ hours so we can go. I was feeling guilty this morning during church when the high councilor talked about how some people don't get to go to the temple at all, or only once during their lives and we have one so close (relatively speaking). I have never been this far away from a temple, but I was realizing that I should be counting my blessings.

Above: the temple, but not a very good pic. Below: playing outside while waiting and waiting and waiting. They had a bridge with a little stream underneath and obviously some fun rocks.

Saturday: same ol' stuff. Tyler had another soccer game and he had a great time. I stayed home with the girls cuz they were napping.

Sunday: We went to dinner tonight at the Bielozer's house, along with the Pattee's. We had a really fun time. They grilled ribs and it was SO yummy. Then we made s'mores over their fire pit and enjoyed getting to know them better. The weather was gorgeous and it was just a really nice evening.