Our Week

We've been staying busy this week...

Monday- For Family Night we went to Picnic Point Beach with some other families. It was nice to visit and let the kids play.

Tuesday- I took Chelsea to get her picture taken at Penney's in her blessing dress. We got a cute picture of her. She's a very good baby. Later I swept and mopped and vacuumed. It's always stressful to clean while kids are up and around. I feel like I'm picking up or cleaning and it doesn't look like I've done anything. I also did a bunch of laundry today. It was kind of a hard day today.

Wednesday- I took the kids to the zoo. We got there right when it opened. It was not busy and that was so nice. We strolled along and got to see our favorite animals. We were on a path and this pick-up needed to get by and the zoo worker was asking us to move out of the way. They were nice about it. I quickly got the kids and we moved out of their way. Well this lady gave us these tokens for a free carousal ride for being so nice about it. The kids were excited for that surprise. We got home in time for lunch and naps. Then Chelsea and I left around 4 to meet up with my Mom, Sara and Marci down in Puyallup. Well, the traffic is horrendous at that time of day so it took me 2 hours to get there. Ugh. We ate dinner at Olive Garden and went shopping to Charming Charlie's (a jewelry mecca). It was fun. The drive back was much better and I got home in an hour. :)

Thursday- I did some organization of my closet, got the kids ready and then headed down to Ikea to meet up with my Mom and sisters again. We put Kate and Preston in the play area and shopped away. After Ikea we went to Chipotle to eat- yummo!- then to DSW for some serious shoe shopping. By that time my kids were very tired and even though I wanted to keep shopping with them I needed to head home. It was nice to have 3 nannies helping me with my kids though! Lindsey fell asleep minutes into our drive home. When I got home, I put her back down to bed and Preston went and took a nap too. I ended up waking them up around 6 so they'd eventually go to sleep at night.

Friday- We had the leather repair guy come to our house by 9am. We had a rip in our leather couch, probably from the kids climbing on it. He stitched it up, patched it, painted it and dried it. It was actually interesting to see the process. I've never seen how they fix a rip in real leather. The place we bought our couches from actually paid for it to get fixed since they are only 1 1/2 yrs old. Very nice of them. Hyak's Leather Furniture Store in Lynnwood...if you're wondering. :) Then I loaded up the kids and went to Winco to get some things for the ward picnic (Kyle's in charge of getting all the food for it). After lunch while the younger kids were napping, I got out the pool for Kate and Preston (brrr, but Kate wanted it, whatever), organized my emails and did some laundry. After dinner, Kyle took the kids, minus Chelsea, to the Church to pick up paper products for the picnic tomorrow. Then later, some young women and leaders met here so we could make a poster and take it along with cookies I made to one of our young woman who is moving away. After that I ran to the mall to pick up some things. Now it's the weekend. :)