Virginia Sempervirens: January 16, 2011

January 16, 2011

Dear Family and Friends,

Here’s a quick rundown of our week. Monday was a fairly slow day. I did get a call from the school because B-man had snuck my phone in his backpack and it had gone off during class. I reassured them it wasn’t an emergency, just a sneaky six year old. I made a run to the grocery store, and we had a little FHE after dinner. M watched the National Championship football game with some friends after the boys were in bed.

Tuesday morning we had a showing of our house. We are now under contract so it should really start to slow down. In fact we didn’t have any the rest of the week.

Wednesday we went to go look at houses. We went back to a house that we have a contract on to take pictures, and we also went through one other house. It was nice to get some pictures of the house we may be moving into so that we can remember all the details and plan what we want to do. That night I went to play basketball with some friends right after dinner. I’m lucky to have M. He always insists I go and never complains about watching all the kids and putting them to bed.

Thursday was a pretty slow day. I watched my friend’s kids for her while she went to the grocery store. She had watched the boys for us while we looked at houses. It’s a good arrangement for me; hopefully she feels that way too.

Friday was another nice slow day. M came home a little early which was great, and we had a fun family party. I made pizza and then we watched the rest of “Up.” B-man wasn’t thrilled with our selection. How is it that a he loves “Star Wars” but was scared to tears by “Up?” We learned our lesson thought, when he says it is a scary movie, he means it.

Saturday was a great day. We had a leisurely morning, and then got ready for my basketball game. Right before we were set to leave a guy called back about an item we were looking at on Craigslist. So M took J to go check out the item (a microwave) and I took the other boys to the game. The game was fun. It was against our neighboring ward, and had several players on the team that used to play for our team! It was a competitive but polite game and we came away victorious. After the game we came home and put J down for a nap. After his nap we headed over to a friend’s house. She had made a bunch of 7-Layer dip and needed help polishing it off. She knew who to call… The kids played well together while we enjoyed good conversation and food. After our snack break we did a quick Costco run before coming back home for dinner and then bed.

Today has been a great day too. M had no meetings so the morning went pretty smoothly. We are still adjusting to our new church time. After church we came home, and ended up eating dinner pretty early. I made a roast and all the trimmings. The only problem was that the roast ended up cooking WAY faster than I thought, and so it was done more than an hour before we were supposed to eat. I guess that’s what hot gravy is for. After dinner we struggled to figure out how to fill the rest of the day. B-man was pretty wiggly by the end of the night. A game of Uno helped to calm everyone down before it was bath time.