Well, I took a week off from blogging, apparently. I didn't intend to, it just worked out that way. Dustin was on call last week, so he worked every night and I tell you, I was exhausted each night from having the kids sun-up to sundown by myself. It had been hard because the kids were REALLY missing Daddy. On the worst day, Carson stood in the middle of the yard screaming and crying for him as he left. It broke my heart. I tried to keep the kids busy swimming (when it wasn't storming) and doing other things to distract them. They were SO glad to spend time with him over the weekend.
Actually, he and I went on a "date" Saturday for our anniversary. We spent the whole day together, my dad and step-mom had the kiddos. We had a delicious Olive Garden lunch, and did some shopping without distractions. Dustin's choice of store was Bass Pro Shop, mine was Hobby Lobby. It doesn't take much to make us happy! We had lots of laughs-it's nice that we enjoy each other's company so much (in my opinion). For instance, he may or may not have squealed tires going into the Wendy's drive-thru for a frosty. (Don't dare mention I told though!). It had been raining, in his defense. We were both so hysterical laughing he couldn't order. Of course I missed the kids the whole time we were gone.
We spent part of our day shopping for a Puddle Jumper for Carson. I don't know if you are familiar with these, but they are great for kids learning to swim. We found one for Emilynn at Target, and then checked two more Targets for one for Carson with no luck. Finally, Bass Pro had them. They are Coast Guard approved, so that made me feel better. Emilynn does really good with hers, she will go under and pop right back up. Carson is much more cautious but he is starting to swim like a fish too! Hunter has a big inflatable slide for his pool, so they were all going down that like crazy. It actually does look like a lot of fun! I may try it one day myself. :-) Carson kept saying, "I fimming Mama, I fimming." I love his pronunciations of words and he was SO proud of himself.
I canned some tomato sauce last week. It is still on my counter because I just like looking at it. I also took pictures of it, so I can post on here. Yes, I am strange sometimes! Canning makes me happy!
I have cut myself off from reading. Yes, you read that right. Even good things can be bad if you aren't careful, right? I am ashamed to admit I stayed up till 4 am one morning last week reading a book. I just returned a stack of about 12 books to my sister that I read way too fast. I have not been getting as much done around the house because I was anxious to read in bed, so I am taking a break from the Nora Roberts' novels. For now. I will still read my "educational" books-haha! I have two more novels waiting....so I'll probably start them in a few weeks.
I picked up the pictures of the kids' that I had done at Walmart today. They turned out so cute!
Henry is still sleeping in the cradle in our room. I have to say....it's really hard for me to let him go to his room. I didn't realize I was having a problem, until today. I have put it off and put it off moving him to his room. At first I hadn't put the monitor in there, so I had to do that. I did that a few days ago. Then the mobile batteries went dead. I changed them Saturday night after I got more batteries at the store. I thought we'd start this week with him in there, but today I realized there was another big problem. The door squeaks! Yep, it squeaks and that could wake him up when I check on him, so it needed to be oiled. I sprayed it with WD-40 tonight, but I wouldn't want to chance him smelling the fumes, so he's sleeping happily in the cradle beside me right now.
:-) Right where I want him to be!!! We'll see how tomorrow night goes!
Oh, and we went to TWO cowboy birthday parties for cousin Hunter. They were both a lot of fun. Amanda goes all out for parties. I put her in charge of games for our parties now, she really enjoys it. My kids both keep saying "I want to go to Hunter's cowboy". I think they think Amanda and Wayne have turned the place into a dude ranch or something. They had a hay ride, pinata, scavenger hunt, awesome party favors, swimming, a bounce house, I can't even remember what else. Then on his real birthday we had a campfire with hay to sit on and roast marshmallows and cook hotdogs, another pinata, silly string, lots of swimming, just lots of fun!
Well, I think that's all we've been doing lately.....I've caught you up on our past week!
More soon with pics!
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