Tuesday
was great weather and I left Emily sleeping while Dan worked and took
the other kids to "recess" with a bunch of other ward members at one of
the parks here. The kids got to try double dutch and jump rope and
kickball and played at the playground and ran around. I ran to the
store in the afternoon when Dan was done working to restock our fridge
for the week.
Wednesday I packed up the kids and we
headed to Lake Conroe. The weather was great again, low 70s and sunny.
We got to the lake house around 10 am and hung out with all the kids
except Adam and Zach who were out on the boat with the adults. My kids
loved playing on the deck, climbing in Jamie's hammocks, and playing
games with cousins. Emily was an angel, sleeping, eating, and sleeping
some more. After a lunch break for the adults, Jack got to have a quick
joy ride to refill the gas tank and then a little later Candy got to
joy ride while Megan and Brooke tried their hand at kneeboarding. With
help from Jamie and Shad, they both popped right up and had a blast.
They stayed up for good long rides. Then they got to take turns
kneeboarding with Chloe and they all did great again! When they came
in, it was 6 pm and we headed home by way of Chick Fli A. My kids were
SO tired and SO happy.
Thursday
I took all 5 kids to see a new disney movie called Zootopia. I was
nervous about how Jack would do, but thankfully it was a matinee filled
with kids so it didn't matter that he was standing off and on. He fell
asleep halfway through which helped too. Emily slept the whole movie
and the big girls loved it. Emily had her 2 week checkup that morning
and she already beat her birth weight by 5 ounces! She weighed 8 lbs, 8
oz and is doing great. Ali and her kids came to say hi in the
afternoon. It was St. Patrick's day, so we had dinner with the Tracy's
and ate our corned beef and cabbage and irish soda bread. Poor Jack got
into fire ants (he was smashing his hands into the mound!) and got a
bazillion bites. His arms look awful but he's ok.
Friday
Dan was able to take a vacation day, so we all headed back to the lake
house. Carrie came up too. It was a great day just being with
everyone--we just missed Ty and Dad and Sally! My kids kneeboarded again,
Dan got up wake surfing, and at the end of the day all the girls went
tubing. Even Candy was talked into one tubing run. We came home and
took the kids to our babysit swap group and grabbed Whataburger and
watched March Madness games with the Tracy's.
This is how Emily does March Madness.
I love those little skinny legs! She looks so small still in the car seat!
Saturday
Dan and Megan and Brooke went to a friend's baptism from the ward in
the morning and the girls went with Ali to the open house after. The
weather cooled off some and the kids played outside a lot. We got the
a/c fixed in Dan's car and had a quiet night. Dan had a priesthood
meeting where he got his beads for finishing Wood Badge (a scout
leadership training that took like a year to finish all the goals for,
but he finished!).
It's been a good Sunday. Dan had early meetings but came back to pick up the 4 big kids for church. Emily and I stayed home. I read conference talks again and rested. After dinner we went to Jenn and Chris R's to have some smores and enjoy their new fire pit. Emily got lots of love there and we had fun catching up with them. We came home and put the kids down (Jack was wired after all that sugar but the girls all crashed fast).
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