Brothers Fishing
All the fishers on Michaels Bday
Alli caught her first fish!
Happy Birthday Michael
Daniel showing off his stitchesCan you believe it's the end of August!! Well, I can't! We started off the week with Michael's birthday. Mike got to be off work so that made it extra fun. Brittany still had to go to school but the rest of us went fishing for the morning. Before we left we said we were going to open presents and had Michael open his gift from Hans because it was a fishing lure and then we said we changed our minds and would open the rest after Brittany got home. We headed off to the three Kettle lakes on base and we had a really slow time of it but Alli caught her first fish ever and it was all caught on tape so that was cool. I think the kids had more fun playing in the water with water bottles than fishing but we had enough working poles for everyone to fish when they wanted to. It was really great. We then came home for lunch and then played Monopoly. That too was great fun. We didn't quite finish the game before we had to stop for a fun dinner of steak and eggs upon Michaels request and then we opened the rest of his presents and had cake and ice cream and then were off to the Sky Sox baseball game. It was still a school night so we couldn't stay for the whole game but the Sox were winning by a pretty big margin so we were ok leaving early. It was really a great birthday for Mr. Michael.
Tuesday we started off by finishing the Monopoly game which unfortunately Michael didn't win, and then had breakfast and school. Well since the previous Friday ended up being a bit of a play day and Monday was all a play day, we had a bit of catching up to do. We did pretty well and are still making little modifications to our schedule trying to figure it all out. Tuesday evening, Michael had soccer practice and Brittany had YW and I had a VT come here so that filled our evening.
Wednesday, we had school and did a little more catching up and then as soon as Brittany got home from school I took the rest of the school kids to a track practice and left the little boys with Brittany. The kids all had fun running and are looking forward to being a part of this elementary age running club. As soon as we got home from track we started fixing dinner and then our piano teacher arrived. The four oldest had piano lessons While we had dinner and cut out a hole for a door in the new room we're making upstairs.
Thursday we had school all morning and then Orthodontist appointments. Mike dropped in for a quick visit in the morning which was nice. It's always fun to get a few extra minutes with Dad when we can. I loaded up all the kids and we went and got Brittany from school and were off the the ortho. We then dropped Britty back at school and then with our library coupons, took the rest of the family to Chic-fil-a for lunch. It was in the mall so we decided that "while we were there" we'd get Alli an outfit for school since she was the only one we didn't find anything for last week at the outlets. Well we got her outfit and got home just a little after Brittany. Mike came and got Michael for soccer practice while I fed the rest of the kids and then I took all of them to the field where Michael's practice was, took the car and Brittany and left the van and the rest of the kids with Dad. Brittany and I went to back to school night while Dad was to take the rest of the family to pack meeting. I had forgotten my cell phone so we went to the office and called to see if we should meet them at pack meeting or just head home. When Mike answered he informed me that he had no keys to the van and so they were still at the park. At least it was nice weather and there was a fun playground there. Brittany and I went and gave them keys to the van but we were sad that Michael had to miss pack meeting cuz they were going to do a special little welcome into bears and he had earned six more arrow points. Oh well, what's done is done. Well we got home and because we'd missed the refreshments at pack meeting decided to have our own. We had some ice cream and then put the kids to bed. Mike and I than foolishly went and watched the Silver Surfer movie. Mike had to have some cookies for work the next day so we figured we'd just watch a movie while they baked. It was a fun movie but we should have just gone to bed. Well after the movie, Mike was gathering his stuff for the following day and couldn't find his wallet. We searched for a long time and Mike even drove back to the park, a 20 min drive away, with no success. He called and canceled or blocked all his credit cards and reported it missing to the police and finally came to bed only to have to get up a few hours later to teach Seminary.
Friday we were VERY tired but the day must go on. We started off our morning by looking for Dad's wallet which we did find and then I met Mike at the car repair place to have a lock fixed on our van. Brittany was off to school so Alli took care of the kids and did a great job seeing to it that they ate and did their morning jobs while I was gone. Mike brought me back here and headed to work. We had school, he had work and then he got home, picked me up and we went and got the Van. As soon as we got home, Mike and Brittany went out on their Daddy daughter date and the other kids and I had our pizza and movie night. We had our pizza and then the girls went to our neighbors for a girl movie while Hans and Michael watched Bob the Builder followed by Star Wars. I read a book. It was a very nice evening. The kids were all tucked in and then Mike and I watched The Great Debaters and then we too were finally off to bed.
Saturday morning, Dad and Michael worked on the new wall a little while the rest of us did a little work and then we took off to go to the Air Force Academy opening season football game. We were in the "cheap seats" but we had a really good time anyway. It was certainly an all day affair. AF won big time and so that made it just that much more fun. We came home and fixed dinner and realized we had more than we could eat ourselves so invited some neighbors over to eat it with us than got the kids bathed and in bed and then Mike and I went to Freys for our weekly game night. It's just in the back yard so we feel very comfortable putting all the kids to bed and then going and playing games each week. It's great fun. Well we were up WAY too late Saturday night which made for a tuff day today. We had a good Sunday though.
After church we had lunch and I got a short nap and than Mike and I went for Stake presidents interviews for renewed Temple recommends We got back and Mike and the kids watched a seminary movie while I read a book for a while and then we played more games. Mike and Michael then went Home teaching while the rest of us had dinner. Just in case this week doesn't sound busy enough, we add Home School Academy and 5 dance classes to the mix this week. We'll see how we fare. Really though, I think when it's all written out, it sounds worse than it feels.
So as Myna has detailed for you here - this is the kind of moss gathering prevention that these Stones do each week - just no time to sit still and a whole lot of fun and memories mixed in to keep us pushing on forward. We hope that this finds all of you happy, healthy and well! May the Lord bless you according to you faith and prayers.
