Tuesday March 23, 2010

Lots going on, so I will just do a quick recap in photos.
Last week Catcher officially turned 6 years old. The day before his b-day Damian surprised Catcher by  inviting him to go to gymnastics with him (it was bring a friend week). Catcher had fun and really liked the sponges that they get to jump into. He doesn't want us to sign him up for gymnastics however, but enjoyed playing.

Friday I took Tyson, Maiya and Presley out to lunch with my friend Carla and I. We decided to go to McDonalds because of the kids. It was nice to sit and chat with eachother. After I got home, I got the kids things together and we left as soon as they got home. I was taking them all to my Mom and Dads house for a sleepover. They were all very excited. I visited for a bit, then headed home. I had an amazing surprise awaiting me on the table when I got home. Grant had bought me the camera I have been dying to have for a while now as well as a brand new laptop. Way better than flowers I'd say. I am so excited to give it a try but haven't had a chance yet. What a great husband I have.  (photo of the kids sleeping over courtesy of Grandma obviously since I was not there....I took this off her facebook)

Grant and I then headed over to the Sherlock home to babysit. We played Clue together, hahahaha!!! Until we realized that you just can't play clue with 2 people. So then we watched a show together. At 10, I headed back home to get things ready for the next day. We woke up at 6am to get ready to go to Edmonton. We all met at the Siakaluks house (Adams, Kyles, Siakaluks and us) to head out.

We first went to the Edmonton temple. I've never been to that one before. It was a wonderful experience. Afterwards we headed off to the West Edmonton Mall to look around. Grant, Derek and Morgan went on the Drop zone??? (can't remember what it's called ) in the indoor amusement park. It was a fun mall, but would definitely require a lot more time to be adventurous. We went to the spaghetti house for dinner. (Carrie`s sister in law Kelly and her husband Jason came for the mall trip) Kelly, Carrie and I ended up ordering the same thing from the menu. It was terrible but the conversation was a ton of fun. Oh, and Valene had packed us some yummy treat bags for the car. So sweet. I labeled her Mom of the trip for that :) Grant picked up the kids from my Moms house at 9:30pm and when they came through the door, they flopped right into bed exhausted.

Sunday, Presley was excited to come to primary with Maiya. They have been inseperable since she`s been here. They have had a few instances where they need space, but for the most part, I am impressed with how much they are constantly at eachothers side, and loving it.

Monday the kids had a PA Day and so there was no school. We woke up and everyone got ready and we left right away for Chuck E Cheese. We wanted to beat the rush, and we sure did. We were the only ones there for most of the time, and as we were getting ready to leave, people started piling in.

McKenna won a huge amount of tickets on this one Simpsons game she was playing. I went over to her and she had over 400 tickets piled on the floor. I was like "HOLY!!" and then looked to see what she was doing to get so many. It turns out the machine was being wonky, so everytime she was hitting the one button it would just spu out tickets. She thought she was just really good at the game. That was all on one token too, haha! One of the workers noticed and shut the machine down for maintenance. McKenna got to use the tickets though. It wasn't her fault the machine was broken.

We ate pizza at Chuck E Cheese (such good pizza surprisingly) and then headed off to Toys R Us. Grant said each kid could pick a toy that was a reasonable price. Presley and Maiya automatically went to the Barbie section and chose a Barbie. Tyson got cars. Catcher picked Kinex and the other kids all wanted WebKinz. They all went home and played. The we had a movie night with popcorn. We watched "The Sandlot". They have never seen it, but I knew they would love it. I love that movie.

That leads us to today. Today was an organizational day. I was going through my fridge and freezers and cupboards cleaning them out and rotating food. I also had tons of housework to catch up on. The kids played outside, painted, had a picnic (it was beautiful out) and wanted to watch the Sandlot again. Whew!!! What a fun and exhausting week :)