Weekend Highlights

First, I’d like to thank Ryan for posting that picture on Saturday.  And then if you wanted, you could look at all 100 pictures we took that day.  I can’t believe we took that many pictures!  Well, we did give Cole the camera during the present opening, so we did get some pictures like this:

  We’d like to thank Julene for making that fun fire hydrant cake!  I was looking at it and I said, “you forgot a letter.”  “What?”  She thought I was kidding, but sure enough, if you look closely, you’ll see:

that we’re wishing him a Happy Birtday.  No worries, he’s four.  Julene could not believe that, and started thinking she could take some of the white frosting and squish an h in there, but we wouldn’t let her.  This is her first ever lettering mistake, after all.  So, yes, we have to embarrass her and point it out.  Cause we’re so nice that way.  Anyway, all the kids wanted fire hydrant pieces (made from twinkies!) and loved the cake.

We really enjoyed the fire station mini tour for the kids.  John even got to sit up in the drivers seat.   And Cole got to try on the suit.  He didn’t really want to, but we made him.  Because we’re such good and loving parents. All the kids, even the big ones, seemed to really think those fire trucks were cool.  And it was free!  I did take a giant cookie and a thank you note, which they seemed to appreciate, but they didn’t charge me anything for the tour.

   They also enjoyed the pinata.  But what group of boys (or girls for that matter) doesn’t enjoy hitting things with a stick with the intention of breaking it to get candy out of it.  Whoever invented the pinata was really brilliant.   

I also just have to tell you a little bit about the skit we did for school on Friday.  I had to do a little introduction to the Reflections contest for the school, and I decided to just have Megan and her friends do it for me.  When I was trying to write it (last Monday–yes, I plan ahead), I was just having a mental block, so I started thinking about what costumes I actually have.  Well, we have a huge Nemo costume, and everyone has one or two witch costumes, right?  So, I wrote the skit around that.   Four witches and a fish.

They did such a great job!  I may never have to be in my own skit again!

 

And we had a bunch of parties/dinners this weekend, too.  Friday night I got together with my dear friends for dinner; always fun!  Saturday night we had my cousin and her husband over for dinner, then Monday we went over to our friend Tess’s house for a wonderful barbeque.  We tried our hand at making homemade ice cream.  Even though we didn’t have quite enough ice (the grocery store was out, can you believe it?) it turned out yummy.

But the festivities end today.  Ryan will be out of town for the next week and I will be singlehandedly managing the household.  And lucky me–this week we have two soccer games, two soccer practices, two dance lessons, only one piano lesson, four days of early morning band or orchestra, scouts, and a ward party.  So far.  Wish me luck.