Weekend Update!

We had a good yet very busy weekend. I was hoping to get a little bit of resting in but that was not to be. Here are the top 5 things we did this weekend.



1. Friday afternoon we had AB over to play. It was really nice outside, so we took everyone out to play. They biked, scooted, drew on the sidewalk, blew bubbles, and had all sorts of good fun!


2. Saturday morning, I took Princess and Prince to Basketball evaluations. They played basketball last year and really had a good time. I decided not to put them in a sport for the first part of the year because I wanted to see how they were doing at school first. I had heard that 2nd grade was a big transition year, and with the Prince starting school for the first time, I wanted to give them both plenty of time to adjust. Since they are both handling things really well, they get to play basketball!


3. AB and his family invited Princess to go see a live nativity scene on Saturday night. She went and had a blast! AB's mom said that she took some pictures, and I cannot wait to see them!

4. Sunday - we cleaned all day. We cleared out our two front rooms. There is nary a toy in sight in either room now. We moved all the toys up to the kids' rooms except for the truckload we took to Goodwill. Yes, I said truckload - but to be fair, there were things other than toys we donated. It felt so good to purge like that. We went through toys a while back and the kids were really good at deciding what they wanted to keep and what they wanted to give away. I really stressed to them that some kids would really love to have the toys they rarely play with.

5. Sunday night I watched the season finale of Survivor - guilt free since we had worked ALL DAY LONG! I won't give away the ending, but I was really happy with it except I thought the one who was in third place should have gotten 2nd.

5 Interesting Things We Did This Weekend

Kristi has a weekend update meme that I am going to try this week:

What are 5 intesting things you did this weekend?

1. Friday I kept Princess home from school. She was running a temperature of 103.3. She was just not herself on Thursday night at supper. She was grumpy and not eating anything. She had complained of a headache earlier that afternoon and I wish I would have taken her temperature then. Instead I had her lay down on the couch for a half hour before doing homework. Next time she has a headache, she is getting her temperature taken ASAP! Unfortunately we were supposed to go camping with her girl scout troop this weekend. There was no way I was going to let her sleep outside with a temperature. She kept the temperature throughout the day on Friday.
2. Saturday DadOf3 spent almost the entire day outside working on the deck. I made some good progress cleaning our room and straightening the middle room upstairs. The kids ran inside and outside for most of the day so it was an OK way to split parenting duties.
3. Sunday around 4:00 the Prince came downstairs after having a bad dream. We pulled him into bed with us. About a half an hour later, I heard the Knight playing outside our bedroom. I went out and convinced him to snuggle on the couch.
4. We decided at the last minute to not go to church on Sunday and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The Prince started to throw up right about the time we would have been pulling into the church parking lot. He only threw up that one time, but he was fighting an upset tummy all day. Poor little guy.
5. I started working on our Christmas letter.

That's about it! I hope you had a good weekend!

Weekend update!

It has been a good weekend. We made it to church yesterday and brought along RR. RR is the son of some really good friends of ours from IA. He goes to college down here a few hours away from us. Since he was in the line of Hurricane Ike, we brought him home for the weekend. It has been a fun old time! The kids have had a new big person to climb! We found out that he does not plan to go back to Iowa for Thanksgiving, so we invited him here. :) We know what it is like to not go home for the holidays and we are glad to have him!

I am dragging this morning. My cold went into my chest. I coughed all night long and cough drops were not helping. Yawn! I am hoping to catch a quick nap here in a bit.

Nice Weekend!

We went boating with some friends again this weekend. Princess got up on the skis again!
The Prince and the Knight loved the boat ride. The Prince and AB would not try skiing again. I think the Prince was following AB, and AB was a bit sad that Princess got up before he did.

Everyone had fun tubing though! Here are Princess, Prince, and AB getting ready to tube. They went a really long way before falling off for the first time.

The Prince, the Knight and Princess had fun playing in our backyard on Sunday. You can just see how hot it was in these pictures. We were over 100 degrees yet again.

Just look at the sun shine on the pool. Hot hot HOT day!

DadOf3 and I kept cool with our little tupperware foot soakers! The best $10 we ever spent! Having our feet in nice, cool water really makes a difference when we are sitting outside.

All in all, we had a very nice weekend! I hope you did too!

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Saturday Fun!

TGIS! Thank goodness it is Saturday!

We have had a pretty good Saturday so far. The boys woke up early, as is their habit. Princess however slept until 9:00. I went in to wake her up and she said that she wanted to sleep some more. DadOf3 went up around 9:30 and she said she wanted to sleep all day! Is Princess turning into a teenager already? Say it isn't so!

We finally managed to wake Princess up so we could all head out to breakfast! There is a neat place down here that had great breakfasts and a playscape, and no! it is not McDonald's! So we ate and played and then came back for naps for the kids and some yard work.

We are all so excited that my sister and her family are coming down this weekend! The kids keep asking how many hours until they arrive. The weather has been prefect today so hopefully they will get a good taste of Spring and have fun leaving winter back in Iowa for a while!

Time to go clean some more!

Weekend Update!

We had a nice weekend here in FamilyOf5 Land!

Friday nights are really nice because Princess does not have any homework. DadOf3 came home and a reasonable time so we all headed to Lifetime Fitness to swim in the inside pool. Princess went down the big slide about a zillion times and the boys had fun floating in their life jacket (Knight) and swimming with goggles (Prince).

The kids played outside Saturday morning while DadOf3 worked in the backyard. I spent the morning organizing room parents for the big festival next weekend. After lunch we went to Princess's school and flew our kite for a while. After that it was home for naps. Saturday night we went over to a friend's house to play some cards and let the kids play together.

Sunday we went to church, took naps, and went back to Lifetime Fitness to end the weekend like we started it by going swimming.

I actually started our annual Christmas letter this weekend too. It is good to get a start on that because the time between Halloween and Christmas just seems to fly by. This will be the 7th year I have written a Christmas letter and I have kept them all. It is a neat account of our family history.

Back in the Land of the Living!

Hello!

We had a good weekend. It was a good combination of resting and doing things. I was glad for the resting part. Last week was a hard week.

Friday night we went to a friend's freshman son's football game. It was fun. The boys enjoyed seeing the game (i.e. running up and down the bleachers) and Princess got to play with a little friend while the game was being played. During halftime all of the kids got to run around on the football field - they LOVED that!

Saturday night we had the same friends over to play some cards (euchre and pitch). I love playing cards so it was fun. Princess and her little friend played dress up most of the night.

We all got naps on Saturday and Sunday. Yippee!

Sunday night we went to Lifetime Fitness to swim. The kids loved that!

A Busy Saturday

So, not only did FamilyOf5 take in a movie this morning, but we also went to the beach after naps this afternoon! We found a little beach (emphasis on little) not too far away from home and the kids had a great time! We headed out around 5:00 and got home around 7:30, in time for a late supper, baths, and bed. Enjoy the pictures!

Weekend Update - Steinmart or Bust!

We have had a great weekend here in FamilyOf5Land! Yesterday we all got up early (not MomOf3's ideal way to start the weekend) and had an early start to the day. After breakfast, DadOf3 headed out to get his hair cut. He has to travel next week and he always feels better after a haircut. His traveling next week was also a catalyst for our next adventure: shopping with three kids. DadOf3 needed some new, nicer, summery shirts, so we headed over to ye olde Steinmart for some fun family shopping. If the Prince and the Princess had just told me that they preferred to not shop yesterday, life would have been a little easier. Instead, once we arrived in the store, they declared matter-of-factly that they didn't want to shop and wanted to run around the entire store instead! Now, I like Steinmart. I have found some good buys at Steinmart. DadOf3 likes Steinmart. My one beef with Steinmart is that they have no carts. Carts are critical when you are dealing with a 5 year old and a three year old who do not want to shop and a 2 year old who likes to copy his big brother and big sister! Being the nice wife that I am, once we arrived at the store, I told DadOf3 to go shopping and I would take the kids over to the ladies clothes and look around. Unbeknownst to me at the time, this was a very BAD idea! The path from the store's men's section to the store's women's section took us directly through the store's gift section. This is a very scary place to be with three kids!! There were glass figuringes, glass photo frames, and collectible old-fashioned-looking cars and trucks. Once the Prince saw the cars and trucks, any hope of shopping with them alone had flowen out the window. As a stay at home parent, I must admit that one thing that I really, truly miss is shopping - alone. Currently, if I need new clothes, I order online and hope for the best. This was a chance for MomOf3 to actually TRY ON clothes before purchasing them. The Prince kept coming over to me when I called him and then running right back to the cars and trucks (and out of my line of vision) laughing his very best naughty-little-boy laugh. Grrrr! I turned into mean mommy at that point and threatened to take them out to to van if they didn't shape up. Instead, I just ended up leading them around and around the store in a fruitless attempt to run off some of their energy. DadOf3 came out of the dressing room after what seemed like hours, finding much success in his shirt selection. He was pretty happy with his finds and then offered to watch the kiddos while I went shopping. I jumped at the opportunity but I ended up taking the Princess with me. DadOf3 is an awesome daddy but dealing with the three of them in that situation would have sent him through the roof. The Princess and I went shopping and found some solid colored t-shirts for me! Yippee! T-shirts and shorts are all I need to get me through the extreme heat down here in the southern US. It was a successful if stressful venture!