Busier than I thought...

Nothing much has been going on around here this last week. That’s what I thought until I started writing this, but we have been pretty busy. Monday night for family home evening we all went to Shawn’s softball game since it was an early one. We picked up dinner from McDonalds and Shawn from work on the way to the game. The other team only had 2 players show up, so it was a forfeit, but the girls had fun playing on the playground and big hill at the park while we waited a bit. For treats we stopped at Dairy Queen and got the dipped ice cream cones.
Tuesday and Wednesday Felicity got to go on their 5th grade overnight adventure. They take the girls up one night and the boys up 2 nights later. She is working on a post about that on her own blog, but she had a good time and got to do some fun science activities. Evelyn did lose her 2nd tooth, so the tooth fairy paid another visit to our house. Wednesday ended up being pretty busy I guess. It was payday so I ran to the bank and to Sam’s in the afternoon after helping in Lydia’s class. After school Evelyn went to her friend’s birthday party and Felicity went to piano lessons. We had our dinner group around 7 p.m., I hosted our book group at 8:30 and Shawn had his last softball game at 9:30. I made 2 Texas 4-Layer pies – one chocolate and one butterscotch – for the dinner group and book group. We enjoyed the leftovers for a few days after that.
Thursday I helped in Evie’s class and the library, we had our presidency meeting before the girls got home from school, and after school Lissy and Lydia went to activity days. That night the big girls had dance so Shawn, Evelyn and I went to the library and to ShopKo to get Shawn some pants while we waited for them.
Friday afternoon I finally got my hair cut! Yay!! That night we picked up some chicken for dinner and took it to the park for a picnic. Then we laid on blankets and read some of our family book (Percy Jackson #2), walked the path along the river, skipped some stones, and just enjoyed each other’s company and some nice fall weather. It was fun to watch Lydia and Evelyn throw handfuls of rocks in the river (they don’t have the patience for rock-skipping yet) and Shawn and Felicity concentrate on the skipping rocks part. Evelyn and Felicity also looked for “seashells” and Lydia pretended to be a mermaid lounging on the rocks down in the river.
Saturday morning it was our turn to go help clean the church. After that we came home, made egg sandwiches for breakfast and then worked out in the yard for a bit. Shawn and Lissy mowed the lawn while the little girls and I started to clean out the garden. We filled 4 garbage sacks with dead plants and picked more zucchini, tomatoes and 1 yellow squash. After that, Evelyn went to another birthday party, Shawn to ok Felicity to work on some golfing skills and I took Lydia with me to shop for some supplies for a card class I am teaching. That evening we made pizza and watched the BSU game all together. I recorded the RS broadcast to watch later this week.
Sunday has been pretty typical – Shawn had choir, I had meetings. After church we made a FAST dinner and then played a game of LIFE with the kids (after they did the dishes). Then Shawn had to go to a music meeting so the girls and I read a chapter in our book (after we finished the game without Shawn). Now they are all tucked in their beds and Shawn just got home from his meeting. Time to relax J