Friday February 12, 2010

It has been another busy week around the Sager Home. Tuesday I went over to Diane's house.I have been wanting to learn how to knit again. I used to know a bit when I was younger, but could not remember any of it. So Diane was willing to have me over to her house to show me the basics of knitting. She said we would als teach me different ways ince I get the basics down, and also how to follow a pattern. I brought Maiya and Tyson with me.They had fun and LOVED her cats. I got home just as the kids were getting home from school. Who knew an afternoon of knitting could fly by so quickly and be so fun and relaxing. It was another night of swimming lessons and cubs. Wednesday I spent most of the day out on visits with Rose. We visited some of the ladies in the church who had just recently had babies, as well as a b-day visit. It's a lot of fun getting to knw so many people. Damian had gymnastics right after school, Grant got McDonalds for dinner on the way home, and then the girls had to head out to Activity Days. They did a Valentines activity. Caleb came over to hang out with Grant and Meg, Charity and I went out to the mall together. I absolutely love the fresh fruit smoothies they sell at one of the shops there, I wish I could remember the name of it. Sooo good! Thursday I went to Valene's house to hang out and let the kids play together for the morning. Got home just in time for Catcher to go to school and then headed out to Jennifers house to do some visiting teaching. The kids came home from school and there were TONS of money jobs available for them because I had been neglecting the house a little over the past few days (you'd think it would stay cleaner because we weren't around much, but this was not the case). The house looked a whole lot better, and the kids were very happy for the cash after all of their efforts. Now it is Friday. The last day of school before their week long break. They all brought their Valentine's to hand out at the school, and had their parties. I left to go do the rest of my visiting teaching with Stephanie today. We went to visit Andrea and Lawren today. When Grant gets home he will be taking the older kids to the movies to see "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" while I go over to Alex`s house with the younger kids to babysit so they can go out on a date. The kids are very excited to have a bit of a breather from school. I will have to keep them busy so they don't drive me crazy!

Saturday February 6, 2010

Today was a primary activity for the kids at the church. The activity was putting together little bracelets and making cards for the children in Haiti. I was explaining to Maiya about why we were doing this activity. I explained what had happened, and that we were trying to do something small to help out. Maiya ran to her closet and grabbed 2 dresses. She said that she wanted to wear 2 dresses to the activity, so that she could share one of her dresses with one of the girls from Haiti (she thought they were going to be there). She said that the girls in Haiti would like to be dressy. There were lots of kids there, and they did so well with the bracelets. They were also accepting donations of tshirts, waterbottles, mini first aid kits, sandals etc. I think it's so important for children to be doing things like this. Serving others is something I have always enjoyed doing, and I want my children to be able to learn about how important service is. I have thought of trying to do one service project a month together (obviously that would not be the only time we would be helping others, but it would be nice to have one specifically planned to do as a family) We shall see what we can come up with.

After the activity, Kaitlyn got to go swimming with some friends. The other kids just played around and Damian got to play his videogames. (I only let them play for one hour each on the weekend. Damian had already played his 1 hour yesterday, but he won the reward for being the child who did the most money jobs during the week. His reward was 1 hour extra of videogames.) Tyson however, found more trouble to get into. He wanted to have a drinkof juice, so I gave him one. 2 minutes later I found he had spilled it all over the floor, and was slurping it up...*I am shaking my head right now*
Catcher had Ethan over to play, and Damian had his friend Julian over. Grant and I went out on a date tonight. First we went bowling together. I am such a terrible bowler. We played 4 games and I lost every single time. My worst loss was 134 - 41. I was the 41. Seriously, that was probably the worst game I`ve ever bowled in my life, hahaha!! We had fun though. Afterwards we went to Mr. Mike`s for appetizers, and then off to wal mart to get some snacks for the rest of the evening. I had just bought Grant the Simpsons season 20 DVD`s. So we went home to relax and watch a few episodes. It was a fun night.

Wednesday February 2, 2010

Today was mainly taken over by hair. I got the kids off to school this morning, and then headed over to Meg's house to get my hair done. She did a great job! Ever since I went blonde my hair soaks up all colour, so I have to often fix the colouring. I am trying to grow my hair out a touch to see how I like it. I don't think I will ever go long again, maybe down to my shoulders, but that's about it. Meg has set up her own salon in her basement. It's pretty cool. I took a few pics of it to add here. Grant was off today, so he stayed with the kids. After I got back, I took Damian to gymnastics. It's pretty fun to watch him. When we got back from gymnastics, Grant had dinner ready. What a great end to a nice day!

Tuesday February 2, 2010

So on Sunday we were 30 minutes late for church because of my crazy "mom brain". I would put something down and it would literally disappear right before my eyes. It was so annoying. I was starting to think there was a little fairy thief of some sort in my house trying to make me late. After church we had the Sherlock family over for dinner. I guess it has been a little while since we have gotten together because Damian had said to me that morning "Don't they care about us anymore?"  and I was like "Who?" and he said  "The Sherlocks, we never see them anymore". So Grant and I decided to have them over. How sad that he thought that. It was fun having them over. Monday was back to the school routine....and we slept in until 8:20am...OOPS!!! I darted out of my bed waking up all of the school kids and rushing them out the door for 8:40am. I am so surprised we were able to pull it off in 20 minutes. I then got ready to go out with Rose Hudson to do some Relief Society visits. We had some wonderful visits. I enjoyed myself. Catcher went over to play with Ethan for the morning, and his Uncle Josh walked them to school. Grant headed out to the gym after I was done. Later in the afternoon, a nurse came to the house to do some medical things (blood samples, urine samples, blood pressure etc.) for our insurance company (hence the pic of me and the needle). I wonder what the nurse thought about us taking pics of getting bloodwork done....she probably thought we were nuts, and I don`t blame her.
Today was a tinkering day. A little of this and a little of that around the house. Not too much going on....that is until I get on the phone. I don`t have a cordless phone (long story) and so I just use our back up phone (the cord phones, where you are basically attached to the wall the whole time you are talking). So needless to say, this is a great opportunity for my children to get into trouble. I was talking to Meg, and as I got off the phone, I came out to find that the couch had been pushed into the hallway (we have hardwood floors and our couches slide easily on it). Tyson had done this. I moved the couch back, only to find Tyson in the middle of the kitchen floor playing in his very own "rice"box. Good Grief, what a guy! Look at him smiling at me....

After school we ate a quick dinner, did some chores and then it was time to take Kaitlyn to swimming lessons and Damian to Cubs. I was glad to get home. Grant just bought an Ipod touch, which he was very excited about. I believe he was slightly influenced by Tyler, Morgan and Dereks cool toys. I have to admit, they are pretty cool!