So yesterday was a day! It started off good, but then went bad---rapidly. Just to name a few things.....buying diapers at Target, I am at the checkout and Brecklin is gone, can't find her. I look and she is running clear to the opposite side of the store.
Go to the grocery store with all three kids (yeah, that's always FUN!), and it is not to just buy a few things--I needed to do a major shop. Me being the great mom that I am, want to involve my children in the whole shopping experience. Needless to say, Brecklin gets the green pepper that I had her hold and chucks it and of course it breaks, she also did the same thing with an apple, but it didn't break, just bruised. There were many more dramas at the grocery store, but I want you to know that I kept smiling (sort of, maybe in a looney sort of way.) So by the time I get home I just want to get inside and take a breather. I am carrying the milk in and I dropped an entire gallon of milk and of course it splattered EVERYWHERE! Luckily I was still in the garage. So I get the shop vac out to clean it up and I think to myself "okay, it is a pretty day, the girls can play outside while I clean this huge mess up" So I go to open the garage, forgetting that the back hood of our Durango is still open. YES, the hood gets jammed into the garage door..up and down, up and down. Can't get it unstuck. Finally did. Clean up the mess, come inside. Get groceries put away, try to feed the kids, stories, naps. Ah, take a deep breath. Then try to get dinner made to feed the missionaries. Get the recipe box out, and bam, falls onto a little plant that Kedrick and the girls have been trying to grow since Christmas. Clean that up. Hurry and make dinner. Needless to say by the time the Elders got to our house, dinner wasn't ready and neither was I. But COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT. I give myself a 'B+' on my trying day. I kept a pretty optimistic attitude...I like it when I do that, it's pretty rare :)
It was the cutest thing ever, the girls were getting ready for bed and they came downstairs and said: "Here is a hat for you, daddy. And here is a hat for you, mommy." So we played along, it was hilarious and so cute--of course we had to take a picture. 
Nicky and I have been friends since we were 4 years old! Can you believe it-how great it is to have a friend like her. Her and her husband have lived in like 8 different states since they have been married, but we have still kept in contact and it has been so much fun to watch our families grow. She and her girls spent the day with me and my girls last week and we had a blast. The girls dressed up and had a delicious 'tea' party. It is so much fun to look at our girls play together and think that we were their age when we started being friends. I have so many fun and fond memories with Nicky growing up. When she was over we were talking about how much we both like to clean, and I was reminded that when we were 10 or 11 we would clean my mom's house in hopes that when she got home from work she would treat us to a huge ice cream treat from the local Dixie Grill....it usually worked! Yum, I wish I lived closer so I could go get one right now. Anyway, thanks for letting me take a walk down memory lane.
Aside from Krispy Kreme giving you free donuts when their "HOT" light is on, they make a great destination for field trips! Kennedy is in a neighborhood playgroup and we try to go on occasional field trips and this one was pretty cool...they gave the kids balloons, hats, donuts, explained how the whole donut making process works, etc. It was a fun and free little outing.
We went to the Treehouse Children's Museum for New Year's Eve Day. We wanted to do something fun with the kids and they love it, as always. But it was extra fun because they got to make Party hats, they thought that was pretty cool...until we tried to put them on. Funny how that works. If you've never had the chance to go to the Treehouse, it is so great for kids and adults. I love seeing my girls be so engaged in activities that were created just for them, it is like mommy self esteem boost.
