Monday started our week off with a bang... or just a visit to the doctors office for Alayna's well child visit. Either way it was a fun way to start our week! Alayna is doing well and gaining her weight back that she lost from her last round of being sick so she is thankfully back up on her growth chart where she was before. Alayna is weighing in around the 22% and is in the 27% for her height so basically she is little but healthy and that's just the way we like them! She only got one shot and handled it like a trooper! It never ceases to amaze me what a good attitude and healthy child visit can do for the way that the girls act in the doctors office! Alayna was such a ham the whole time and was a very willing patient which she usually isn't! That said I kind of doubt she will be so interested in being nice to the nurse next time considering her annoyance with the shot. I spent the rest of that day cleaning the upstairs of the house. The girls room no longer has a mountain of clothing to get lost in in the middle of the floor and you can walk through my bedroom again without stepping on books, toys or any other countless items the girls have 'shared' with us in the last few months. (yes months it has been that long since I really cleaned my room. Don't judge me!) Thanks to a great family that used to be in our ward at church we now own a carpet shampooer and so the upstairs almost got all shampooed before I ran out of soap and energy to do more.
Tuesday went a ton slower. I managed to seriously pull a muscle in my abs the day before so I could hardly move without being in pain. So the goal of having a spotless kitchen and living room to match the upstairs was a very slow and slightly unfinished project. BUT the girls had a great time playing at Grandma's house while I cleaned and I really enjoyed not having them taking out toys as fast as I could put them away! By end of day we were all exhaused and ready for bed and the girls were fantastic for the time they were at home 'helping' me with the cleaning!
Wednesday I kicked myself for not taking 'before and after' pictures of the house because sometimes I think I could really benefit from seeing how bad I have let it get in the past and how badly I don't want to put that much work into cleaning the house again! But I started work on the nightmare of a basement. I did laundry non-stop for two days to catch up on it all but after those two days the only laundry left was the stuff to be put away and the things we were wearing so that was a pretty huge accomplishment. I got a lot done in the basement and am about ready to have Ben tackle to project of fixing the broken board on our fouton.
Thursday I finished laundry (those two days I talked about before were Wednesday and Thursday.) and finished everything I could in the basement. It is now possible to walk through the basement. It's not perfect but it is much better the next step is purging and organizing. The girls both had playgroup that day and I really enjoyed some talk time with Bethany when I came to get them! It really makes me appriciate friends who are tolerant of my crazyness and are ok with random chats that last an hour!
Friday I ran away from home. I needed out! it had been basically a week of being locked up in the mess and all I wanted was for it to stay that way for even just a little bit! So I loaded up the girls and we went to Loveland to a 'craft day' with a mom and enjoyed some time to just talk with other grown ups and get some little projects done while all the little kids ran around and played! After our adventures there we finished a whole bunch of stuff for my mom's calling with the young women and then headed home to a wonderful dinner that daddy cooked. Much to our dismay I got an e-mail that day from our internet provider that they had gone bankrupt and would be ending our services... that day. Which of course left us NO time to get something else figured out so we were left with no internet.
Saturday Ben spent the morning working out internet for us. We found out that thanks to a comcast problem we could not do anything over the phone so Ben went in nice and early to try to work out internet with them... long story short they lost our business by not being able to service us for more than a week. So we are trying out an AT&T mobile hotspot for the time being and $110 later we have internet. It was a long day and Ben was good and wore out by the end. That evening we went to the Merritt's house to see Hailey and the cousins, Jackson, Grant and Elle who are here for Thanksgiving. Eliza and Alayna were thrilled to have some time with cousins and we had an awesome dinner thanks to Abby! After a night that went way too late for the girls we finally crashed!
Sunday has been good. Ben spoke in church today and did a wonderful job! He got tons of compliments on it and I even got a few for him! It really was wonderful especailly considering the limited time he had to prepare thanks to the internet fiasco over the weekend. Everything else has been nice and quiet. Currently Alayna is napping, Eliza is playing quietly and Ben in snoring in his chair behind me! Life is good. It is very good!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Someone Turned 2!!
Have you ever had a moment in life when you look at your calander for the week and it suddenly hits you that there is almost no way possible to get it all done and squeeze that favor in for your friend or neighbor that you would really like to help out. It kind of felt like that for me this week. It seems like every time I try to plan to go do something with friends (the girls or mine) something else has to be on the schedule. People are going to start to think that I don't care about them!!
Monday was spent in Loveland taking advantage of the last day that we had with Rachel, Bruce and Hailey all here to play with. So I wanted to make sure that I took advantage of as much time as possible with them. Not to mention the fun that it is to now watch all the little cousins play and run around together. Eliza was very disapointed when I told her that we were taking them to the airport to go home that evening. Durring the day we did take the girls over to Toys-R-Us to play for a little while and I thankfully finished up some birthday shopping for Little Miss Alayna! That evening after both girls got in a good long nap on the drive to and from the airport we went to Grandma Merritt's house and celebrated Alayna's birthday a day early! Ben was awesome and took care of the cake for us and Alayna made out like a bandit for her gifts this year! From us she got a Rapunzel doll, Tinkerbell figures, and a barbie and horse. The Waite side got her a new stroller for her babies (which is so cool!) and the Merritt side got her a new dress (super cute I will get some pictures later!) and a magnent board with letters for the wall at home! Thus far the favorite toy has been Rapunzel and the stroller but the magnent board is a very close runner up with house much use it has already seen!!
Tuesday was Alayna's official Birthday! So Happy 2nd Birthday to my beautiful and amazing little girl! You are always a little light in this house and so full of laughter and joy that you can't help but feel it right along with her! Our morning was spent doing a quick temp clean on the house so that we could again walk through the living room and then Aunt Abby came and took Alayna out for her birthday to get a balloon and "Abby treats". She of course came home with a 'singing balloon' they are all the rage these days and everytime that thing hits the ceiling or a person or anything else for that matter we hear " Buzz Lightyear Two Infinity and Beyond" and other Toy Story quotes. I do not hate them... I'm sure that I do not hate them... I just have a very strong desire to 'accidently' run into it with a knife or let them take it outside to play with it... good thing they're cute so I don't do either of those things! After Abby got back I took them out for a birthday lunch and playtime on Chic-Fil-A's playplace. They were pleanty wore out after that and we all had a nice quiet afternoon to follow!
Wednesday we went to the pool. Eliza had really wanted to go the day before but by the time Alayna was awake it just wasn't worth the effort anymore. So we had a great time the next day playing in the pool. I learned my lesson though that we will not be the last ones to shower after the water arobics class because we all got chilly showers and both girls were then starving, cold and grumpy so next time we get out first! After that we ran some errands and worked a bit more on the house-of-no-return. I am really starting to think that I need a professional organizer to come fix my house... That or else my sisters just need to come over (all 4 of them because that is how much there is!) and help me just get rid of stuff that I really don't need!! It is time for a good purge.
Thursday we had the Mott girls over to play all morning it was fantastic they all play so nicely together and as the mom it sure if fun to watch and listen to their little imaginations take off the way they do. Sometimes I don't love it when I suddenly see myself in their play and the way that they interpret some of the things I do but I do take a little statisfaction that someday their children will do the same thing to them and in the meantime I just need to work on improving those tendencies!
Friday was fun... or just insane. I went to Loveland to help with the set up of the open house for Lindsay and Mike. I made a few pies and then spent a good portion of the day packing up those pies and the other pies that my mom made. In total there were 40 pies to be eaten that night... I don't think we even came close to denting that excess of pies but they were all very yummy! Then I let the girls ride scooters around the gym at the church while we set up until I gave in to Alayna's pleas for a nap which was apparently much needed at that point. The reception was in the evening and went very well the decorations were incredible! I was glad to see so many people and Lindsay looked fantastic as expected! By the end of the night we got home around 9:30 and both girls had crashed in the car on the way home so bedtime was a piece of cake that night!
Saturday was good. First off Happy Birthday Grandma Merritt we love you so much thanks for everything you do for us!! I did not get done nearly what should have been done but the girls and I sure had fun going shopping all morning together. Ben went with the young men to use their catipult one final year and chucked pumpkins for pleasure. I was lucky enough to happen across a TV for a really great deal at Sears that day as well. After some serious thought and debate, some internet research and taking Ben back to look again we ended up buying a new TV. We bought a floor model Sony 46" LED that is wonderful! We probably spent too much money on it but it was also 50% off and was better quality than were were going to end up getting plus it means that I didn't fight any crazy black friday shoppers for a TV this year. (ours really needed to be replaced thanks to the old one turning itself off on a regular basis and not turning back on. So this was our Christmas this year Merry Christmas Ben & Sarah!!)
Sunday has been good. Church was excellent the Bronco's are playing a decent game so far and Eliza managed to only have one thing today that made us shake our heads. Apparently it was announced in sunbeams today that I told Eliza that "her baby brother is going to be a girl." I had no idea that it worked that way. All I have been doing is trying to get it into her head that it will be ok if this baby is a girl because boy-oh-boy this baby's big sister is not going to be happy if it comes out a girl!
Overall the week has been good Alayna is showing us more and more each day that, yes she is offically two. She has tantrums like you would not believe and the language/communication barrier is becoming more and more of a sore point for her. I keep wishing she would just hurry up and have that 'speech burst' so that we could talk to eachother better. She understands just about everything but getting her to form some things into words seems like an impossible task! I have to remind myself that this is just temporary...thankfully.
Monday was spent in Loveland taking advantage of the last day that we had with Rachel, Bruce and Hailey all here to play with. So I wanted to make sure that I took advantage of as much time as possible with them. Not to mention the fun that it is to now watch all the little cousins play and run around together. Eliza was very disapointed when I told her that we were taking them to the airport to go home that evening. Durring the day we did take the girls over to Toys-R-Us to play for a little while and I thankfully finished up some birthday shopping for Little Miss Alayna! That evening after both girls got in a good long nap on the drive to and from the airport we went to Grandma Merritt's house and celebrated Alayna's birthday a day early! Ben was awesome and took care of the cake for us and Alayna made out like a bandit for her gifts this year! From us she got a Rapunzel doll, Tinkerbell figures, and a barbie and horse. The Waite side got her a new stroller for her babies (which is so cool!) and the Merritt side got her a new dress (super cute I will get some pictures later!) and a magnent board with letters for the wall at home! Thus far the favorite toy has been Rapunzel and the stroller but the magnent board is a very close runner up with house much use it has already seen!!
Tuesday was Alayna's official Birthday! So Happy 2nd Birthday to my beautiful and amazing little girl! You are always a little light in this house and so full of laughter and joy that you can't help but feel it right along with her! Our morning was spent doing a quick temp clean on the house so that we could again walk through the living room and then Aunt Abby came and took Alayna out for her birthday to get a balloon and "Abby treats". She of course came home with a 'singing balloon' they are all the rage these days and everytime that thing hits the ceiling or a person or anything else for that matter we hear " Buzz Lightyear Two Infinity and Beyond" and other Toy Story quotes. I do not hate them... I'm sure that I do not hate them... I just have a very strong desire to 'accidently' run into it with a knife or let them take it outside to play with it... good thing they're cute so I don't do either of those things! After Abby got back I took them out for a birthday lunch and playtime on Chic-Fil-A's playplace. They were pleanty wore out after that and we all had a nice quiet afternoon to follow!
Wednesday we went to the pool. Eliza had really wanted to go the day before but by the time Alayna was awake it just wasn't worth the effort anymore. So we had a great time the next day playing in the pool. I learned my lesson though that we will not be the last ones to shower after the water arobics class because we all got chilly showers and both girls were then starving, cold and grumpy so next time we get out first! After that we ran some errands and worked a bit more on the house-of-no-return. I am really starting to think that I need a professional organizer to come fix my house... That or else my sisters just need to come over (all 4 of them because that is how much there is!) and help me just get rid of stuff that I really don't need!! It is time for a good purge.
Thursday we had the Mott girls over to play all morning it was fantastic they all play so nicely together and as the mom it sure if fun to watch and listen to their little imaginations take off the way they do. Sometimes I don't love it when I suddenly see myself in their play and the way that they interpret some of the things I do but I do take a little statisfaction that someday their children will do the same thing to them and in the meantime I just need to work on improving those tendencies!
Friday was fun... or just insane. I went to Loveland to help with the set up of the open house for Lindsay and Mike. I made a few pies and then spent a good portion of the day packing up those pies and the other pies that my mom made. In total there were 40 pies to be eaten that night... I don't think we even came close to denting that excess of pies but they were all very yummy! Then I let the girls ride scooters around the gym at the church while we set up until I gave in to Alayna's pleas for a nap which was apparently much needed at that point. The reception was in the evening and went very well the decorations were incredible! I was glad to see so many people and Lindsay looked fantastic as expected! By the end of the night we got home around 9:30 and both girls had crashed in the car on the way home so bedtime was a piece of cake that night!
Saturday was good. First off Happy Birthday Grandma Merritt we love you so much thanks for everything you do for us!! I did not get done nearly what should have been done but the girls and I sure had fun going shopping all morning together. Ben went with the young men to use their catipult one final year and chucked pumpkins for pleasure. I was lucky enough to happen across a TV for a really great deal at Sears that day as well. After some serious thought and debate, some internet research and taking Ben back to look again we ended up buying a new TV. We bought a floor model Sony 46" LED that is wonderful! We probably spent too much money on it but it was also 50% off and was better quality than were were going to end up getting plus it means that I didn't fight any crazy black friday shoppers for a TV this year. (ours really needed to be replaced thanks to the old one turning itself off on a regular basis and not turning back on. So this was our Christmas this year Merry Christmas Ben & Sarah!!)
Sunday has been good. Church was excellent the Bronco's are playing a decent game so far and Eliza managed to only have one thing today that made us shake our heads. Apparently it was announced in sunbeams today that I told Eliza that "her baby brother is going to be a girl." I had no idea that it worked that way. All I have been doing is trying to get it into her head that it will be ok if this baby is a girl because boy-oh-boy this baby's big sister is not going to be happy if it comes out a girl!
Overall the week has been good Alayna is showing us more and more each day that, yes she is offically two. She has tantrums like you would not believe and the language/communication barrier is becoming more and more of a sore point for her. I keep wishing she would just hurry up and have that 'speech burst' so that we could talk to eachother better. She understands just about everything but getting her to form some things into words seems like an impossible task! I have to remind myself that this is just temporary...thankfully.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Wedding Weekend!!
Dang I don't really feel like blogging today. That is a bummer because I really need to get on top of this blogging every week again. I have been getting way too lazy about this! so I am biting the bullet and getting this post taken care of!
By the way because I am a slacker and keep forgetting birthdays: Happy Birthday to Jaron, Heather, Heidi, and Rachel for the month of October!! We love you!
Our week was full of excitement and adventures... Monday I finally took two begging little girls to the pool. They have only been pestering me for the past month to please take them swimming so I finally buckled down and did it. I was again reminded that I have NO idea why I fight it so hard because it really isn't that much work for the two of them! Plus they get clean and good and worn out from doing such activities. I need to quit fighting it so much. After the pool I took the girls home and we did a few things around the house that needed to get done and then waited for the evening hours so that we could do a little bit of 'official' trick-or-treating. It was really up in the air if I was going to take them after the mass amounts of candy they got from the trunk-or-treat at the church but thanks to their cute little pleas I took them out. We did one house in our neighborhood before deciding that it was just too creepy to trick-or-treat in a neighborhood as sketchy as ours is. So I loaded the girls up and we went to the Merritt's neighborhood which was much better. Grandma ended up coming with us and we did a few houses before going home to put them to bed! They both loved it and spent the next few days asking if they could go "truck-r-triting" again.
Tuesday was a fun day we spent the morning running errands going to a few stores in hopes of finding some costumes on clearance that would be fun for the girls and didn't find anything that I was even slightly interested in buying. Oh well we tried. I had a baby appointment that afternoon so Alayna had her nap at Grandma's house and Eliza got to play with everyone while I enjoyed a lovely trip to the office. The baby is sounding good and I'm measuring just where I should be!
Wednesday it snowed again. In fact it snowed another 6 inches here in Longmont and buried many of the branches that were sitting on the side of the road from the last storm. It did some more damage to the few trees that didn't give up their leaves in the week they had free of snow. Poor trees. We went to Loveland they also got plenty of snow and the Waite tree that had suffered such great loss last week was being propped up by previously broken branches so they could drive under the bottom branches that were again touching the ground. I can't really remember everything we did while we were there but we must have had a good time because both girls ended up falling asleep on the car ride home!
Thursday was spent getting ready for the weekend. I cleaned house and started some laundry. The girls went to playgroup that day at the Mott's house and I got to go pick up some clearance fabric for making some princess dress-up for the girls for part of their Christmas. Other than that, I played with the girls a bunch and mostly we just stayed home that day! By the end of the day my cleaning had all been undone, the sink was again full of dishes both girls were screaming at my feet and I was down right grumpy. I was thankful to have Ben come home and take over for a little bit while I cooked dinner. After dinner I went to my meeting and Ben took care of bedtime with the girls! Thank goodness for amazing husbands like him!! Sometimes he is the only reason my children live to see the next day!
Friday was insanity! I cleaned the car, did the dishes, did more laundry and packed for the weekend in Colorado Springs. I made a trip to the store and tried to not stress about the fact that I felt so far behind and really needed to hurry up! In the end I successfully got us out the door with Ben's help (of course). We ended up having a fantastic drive (at least for the first hour because I slept through the second hour) of the drive there. We found where we needed to be and were able to get things rolling the way we needed. There was some real confusion with the babysitter that we had arranged for in the late realization that we were about 30 min away from her and we needed to be leaving for the rehearsal dinner in about 20 min. So long story short Lindsay had her friend bail us out (I owe her big time!) and we all went to dinner with everyone. It was kind of a mess and I again apologize to Lindsay for adding to the headache of trying to make your own wedding happen. So long story short it worked out. Dinner was amazing I can't remember the last time I had food that yummy!! We took the babysitter (Eliza) home all the kids seemed to really like her, at least until it passed bedtime and the little ones just wanted their mommies to come put them to bed! We stayed at the Hampton that night and neither of the girls wanted to go to sleep when we got there they were both waaay too excited about being somewhere cool like a hotel. So sometime around 10pm they both crashed. Thankfully the girls slept very well at least until about 6:30 the next morning.
Saturday we had a fantastic morning getting ready had a great breakfast and then headed over to the church for pictures before the wedding. Neither of my girls were happy about it. They were both exhausted and little stinkers for the photographers. I felt kind of bad but the memories will now be forever of my moody little girls at Lindsay's wedding :-) Gotta love toddlers! After that we took them to Lindsay's house where the babysitters were waiting for us! Eliza was excited to see Big Eliza again but Alayna promptly burst into tears. Poor kid was so tired that she couldn't even handle the idea of being left to play. So I put her down for a nap before we left and crossed my fingers that she would wake up in a better mood. Rachel carried Hailey in with about the same reaction. After spending the night cleaning up after her puking toddler she was also in need of a long nap! Poor Hailey sick tummies are no fun! The wedding was beautiful. Lindsay looked amazing and Mike looked like the luckiest man alive (which he is!) Ben video taped the ceremony and I enjoyed sitting by my siblings enjoying the scene! After the wedding we went to the reception which was at one of the most beautiful placed I have ever been to! It was a photographers dream come true!! I got some cool pictures there and enjoyed the scenery in general! The food was incredible and the 'take home' gift was delicious (I think I may have single handedly consumed an entire mason jar of homemade toffee in one sitting!). So thank you to everyone who put so much work into making it so much fun for us! After the reception we went and relieved the babysitters took them home and then made our own way home. After waking up at about 1 AM that morning and not being able to go back to sleep I ended up having a very difficult time staying awake for the drive home as did both of the girls who were super easy to put in bed as soon as we walked in the door!
bride and groom... my personal favorite of the ones I took!
Please note that this bride was "wise" enough to have a really fun activity the day before she got married... they went paintballing!! So the bride and all her bridesmaids were covered in all those wonderful little (and big) welts Lindsay happened to have one located perfectly to look like a hicky. They all wore their battle wounds with pride!
Sunday has been good! It was stake conference and I really enjoyed the day! I was wiser this time and came with more things for the girls to do and then had the chance to entertain one of the little boys sitting behind us (who was begging to go home) for the last 20min of the meeting. Both girls were great and other than it being hot thanks to how many bodies were in the room the talks were awesome! Now we are headed over to enjoy some time at the Waite house with the Sommerfeldts before they go back home on Monday night. Hopefully the weeks to come will be just as much fun as this one has been and maybe a little less stressful!
Eliza-izm of the weekend:
Lindsay: "Eliza do you like my dress?!"
Eliza: "No!"
Kari (Lindsay's maid of honor): "What would make you like it Eliza?"
Eliza: "If it was pink."
seriously that little girl is all girl even a wedding dress now has to be pinked up!
By the way because I am a slacker and keep forgetting birthdays: Happy Birthday to Jaron, Heather, Heidi, and Rachel for the month of October!! We love you!
Our week was full of excitement and adventures... Monday I finally took two begging little girls to the pool. They have only been pestering me for the past month to please take them swimming so I finally buckled down and did it. I was again reminded that I have NO idea why I fight it so hard because it really isn't that much work for the two of them! Plus they get clean and good and worn out from doing such activities. I need to quit fighting it so much. After the pool I took the girls home and we did a few things around the house that needed to get done and then waited for the evening hours so that we could do a little bit of 'official' trick-or-treating. It was really up in the air if I was going to take them after the mass amounts of candy they got from the trunk-or-treat at the church but thanks to their cute little pleas I took them out. We did one house in our neighborhood before deciding that it was just too creepy to trick-or-treat in a neighborhood as sketchy as ours is. So I loaded the girls up and we went to the Merritt's neighborhood which was much better. Grandma ended up coming with us and we did a few houses before going home to put them to bed! They both loved it and spent the next few days asking if they could go "truck-r-triting" again.
Tuesday was a fun day we spent the morning running errands going to a few stores in hopes of finding some costumes on clearance that would be fun for the girls and didn't find anything that I was even slightly interested in buying. Oh well we tried. I had a baby appointment that afternoon so Alayna had her nap at Grandma's house and Eliza got to play with everyone while I enjoyed a lovely trip to the office. The baby is sounding good and I'm measuring just where I should be!
Wednesday it snowed again. In fact it snowed another 6 inches here in Longmont and buried many of the branches that were sitting on the side of the road from the last storm. It did some more damage to the few trees that didn't give up their leaves in the week they had free of snow. Poor trees. We went to Loveland they also got plenty of snow and the Waite tree that had suffered such great loss last week was being propped up by previously broken branches so they could drive under the bottom branches that were again touching the ground. I can't really remember everything we did while we were there but we must have had a good time because both girls ended up falling asleep on the car ride home!
Thursday was spent getting ready for the weekend. I cleaned house and started some laundry. The girls went to playgroup that day at the Mott's house and I got to go pick up some clearance fabric for making some princess dress-up for the girls for part of their Christmas. Other than that, I played with the girls a bunch and mostly we just stayed home that day! By the end of the day my cleaning had all been undone, the sink was again full of dishes both girls were screaming at my feet and I was down right grumpy. I was thankful to have Ben come home and take over for a little bit while I cooked dinner. After dinner I went to my meeting and Ben took care of bedtime with the girls! Thank goodness for amazing husbands like him!! Sometimes he is the only reason my children live to see the next day!
Friday was insanity! I cleaned the car, did the dishes, did more laundry and packed for the weekend in Colorado Springs. I made a trip to the store and tried to not stress about the fact that I felt so far behind and really needed to hurry up! In the end I successfully got us out the door with Ben's help (of course). We ended up having a fantastic drive (at least for the first hour because I slept through the second hour) of the drive there. We found where we needed to be and were able to get things rolling the way we needed. There was some real confusion with the babysitter that we had arranged for in the late realization that we were about 30 min away from her and we needed to be leaving for the rehearsal dinner in about 20 min. So long story short Lindsay had her friend bail us out (I owe her big time!) and we all went to dinner with everyone. It was kind of a mess and I again apologize to Lindsay for adding to the headache of trying to make your own wedding happen. So long story short it worked out. Dinner was amazing I can't remember the last time I had food that yummy!! We took the babysitter (Eliza) home all the kids seemed to really like her, at least until it passed bedtime and the little ones just wanted their mommies to come put them to bed! We stayed at the Hampton that night and neither of the girls wanted to go to sleep when we got there they were both waaay too excited about being somewhere cool like a hotel. So sometime around 10pm they both crashed. Thankfully the girls slept very well at least until about 6:30 the next morning.
Saturday we had a fantastic morning getting ready had a great breakfast and then headed over to the church for pictures before the wedding. Neither of my girls were happy about it. They were both exhausted and little stinkers for the photographers. I felt kind of bad but the memories will now be forever of my moody little girls at Lindsay's wedding :-) Gotta love toddlers! After that we took them to Lindsay's house where the babysitters were waiting for us! Eliza was excited to see Big Eliza again but Alayna promptly burst into tears. Poor kid was so tired that she couldn't even handle the idea of being left to play. So I put her down for a nap before we left and crossed my fingers that she would wake up in a better mood. Rachel carried Hailey in with about the same reaction. After spending the night cleaning up after her puking toddler she was also in need of a long nap! Poor Hailey sick tummies are no fun! The wedding was beautiful. Lindsay looked amazing and Mike looked like the luckiest man alive (which he is!) Ben video taped the ceremony and I enjoyed sitting by my siblings enjoying the scene! After the wedding we went to the reception which was at one of the most beautiful placed I have ever been to! It was a photographers dream come true!! I got some cool pictures there and enjoyed the scenery in general! The food was incredible and the 'take home' gift was delicious (I think I may have single handedly consumed an entire mason jar of homemade toffee in one sitting!). So thank you to everyone who put so much work into making it so much fun for us! After the reception we went and relieved the babysitters took them home and then made our own way home. After waking up at about 1 AM that morning and not being able to go back to sleep I ended up having a very difficult time staying awake for the drive home as did both of the girls who were super easy to put in bed as soon as we walked in the door!
Lindsay is a beautiful bride!
Sunday has been good! It was stake conference and I really enjoyed the day! I was wiser this time and came with more things for the girls to do and then had the chance to entertain one of the little boys sitting behind us (who was begging to go home) for the last 20min of the meeting. Both girls were great and other than it being hot thanks to how many bodies were in the room the talks were awesome! Now we are headed over to enjoy some time at the Waite house with the Sommerfeldts before they go back home on Monday night. Hopefully the weeks to come will be just as much fun as this one has been and maybe a little less stressful!
Eliza-izm of the weekend:
Lindsay: "Eliza do you like my dress?!"
Eliza: "No!"
Kari (Lindsay's maid of honor): "What would make you like it Eliza?"
Eliza: "If it was pink."
seriously that little girl is all girl even a wedding dress now has to be pinked up!
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