We usually hold it at a park, but because of inclement weather, we held it at the church house next to his grandma's house. I'll be honest...I complained loudly about going, but once there, it was so much fun. Even for gigantic, pregnant, and critical me.
Here's a sampling of what kept the boys busy: the craft tables on the stage were fab.u.lous!
Taylor beading...he loved it for about 10 minutes...then he started dropping beads by the handful...
Tanner was incredibly proud of his beaded necklace...he's still wearing it! Both boys had beads with letter that spelled out their names.
Each boy got to make pet rocks...I think they're still in the trunk of the car, as we already are growing a rock garden on both front and back porches.
And each of them also made fun foam visors...Tanner was in heaven! This is only part-way through his visor decorating time...he had so much glitter glue when he finished, I think it's STILL trying to dry.
We left after a delicious lunch (with too much of Grandma's fudge in my system) and right before the auction, where items are donated and then purchased with proceeds going towards the next year's reunion.
While Ryan stayed to go shooting with a bunch of cousins, I headed out of town for a little get-together with an old high school friend. She was coming out from Virginia for a wedding and reunion, and so we planned a bbq at my parent's house. Unfortunately the other girls we invited had things come up at the last minute, and the weather was yucky, but we still had some fun.
Never in a million years would I want to go back and re-do my high school years. I've spent the last 8 years blocking them from my memory. However, I wish I would have been better friends with many people...and less self-concious about what they thought about me. That wasted so much time and energy!
I also wish I would have gotten a picture of the two of us and all of our kiddos together, buy we were too busy playing. Here's what I did get pictures of though...
We braved the mud and gloomy skies to go feed the chickens our swill from dinner...aka, all the watermelon rinds, hot-dog buns, and scraps...
From L to R: Jacob, my cousin who is staying with my parents for a while, Parker, Taylor and Tanner. We couldn't get Preston or Paisley to leave their mama's side.
Jacob and Tanner have become 'best friends' as Tanner tells me repeatedly, every day. This teeter-totter is actually a toy my dad made for us growing up. Instead of going up and down, you pump or pull with your arms and legs to make it go around, and around, and around, till you are so dizzy you want to puke. We spent many hours on this as kids... Tanner and Jacob loved it...I had to literally pry them off when it was time to go inside! At one point I thought I was off the hook, as they were going so fast I thought they'd FLY off!
Sunday we went to church with my parents, where the boys were fairly decent...and Tanner once again spent his Primary time in Relief Society with me...little turkey. I have to give it to him though, he was VERY reverent in R. S. So...why does he struggle in Primary?!?!
After church, my mom took Katelyn down to BYU Music Camp, Jacob back to his house, and Reed to visit his friend (I am not sure on the relationship status there!) Amy, so it was just me and my boys, my dad, and Deseret.
Anybody remember this old thing???
Tanner played with Grandma and Grandpa Poulsen's Lite Brite last week, and I was pretty sure my mom kept mine from the 80's, so I used this as bribery for being good in church and eating dinner...
Guess what a little boy THOROUGHLY enjoyed doing after his nap?
I apparently enjoyed it too, because there was an entire package of the black paper refills.
Two is company, but three is a crowd, so I got Taylor playing with Deseret's cash register...
I'm not sure why, but both boys LOVE to play with coins. Every time you insert a plastic coin in the register's coin slot, it would tell you what it was. Taylor repeated it...and could probably tell you what all for coins were that he as using. Little smarty pants of mine!
We ate a quick bowl of cold cereal for dinner and headed back home, where daddy awaited us.
The only downer of the entire weekend (you know by now that there HAS to be a disaster when I go to my parent's house, right???) was that in my thurough packing of weekend stuff back into the trunk, I forgot my makeup bag...with deoderant, toothbrushes, all makeup, makeup-remover, straightening hair products, bobbypins, EVERYTHING in my toiletry bag...was left on my sister's bathroom counter. Uggh!
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Monday morning I ran to WalMart and got some mascara and deodorant, and that will have to do until someone comes my way to bring my bag to me!!! Super awesome that I get to teach sewing classes ALL WEEK, EVERY MORNING. Oh well. I'm hoping this will be a great time for my pregnancy induced acne to clear up...HOPING.
3 comments:
it was good to see you guys at the reunion. Too bad we were both busy chasing/watching kids to talk much.
once again--a HUGE thank you to your parents for letting us come. they are amazing. truly!
i can't believe we didn't take more pictures! i think i have the same amount. oh well.
i TOTALLY agree with the whole "not getting along in high school when we should have" it's so funny to me when i tell my people that we weren't actually friends. i don't remember why. and i don't think i want to know why. but, i am glad we are friends now. you are such an amazing person. i had a lot of fun with you. and, it feels like we have been friends for a long time.
it was great hanging out with you. the kids loved it. and it was fun seeing your boys in real life. :)
Yeah, I remember the Night Bright thing. Is that the same one we used to have?
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