Friday thru Sunday

FRIDAY :  Annual free Chick-fil-A day w/ friends. The boys made their cute little "cow" shirts that morning together & the mommies helped out w/ the ears & tails.

  

Our Date Night @ Beaver Lake

 Our 1st visit to the beautiful Lake, just a 1/2 hr. away from our home.

We had fun play'n around.

And, no, we did not intentionally wear the same color shirt.

Jace pointed it out as we were walking into the mexican restaurant for dinner.

I guess great minds think alike! :)

Sunsets can be so romantic.

Yep! Definitely are!

I love my dear hubbie so much. We had fun chatt'n it up.

That one on one time is so important.

SATURDAY: Cole's Day Date w/ mommy & daddy to see Cars 2. After working hard on his chore chart for 2 weeks to earn it.

 Well worth it! He loved it! And was eating it up!

Having Cole there made the whole experience that much more fun.

He was so cute during the movie - getting so excited & making

such cute or funny comments occasionally throughout the movie.

He was making the people around us smile & laugh a little

at his excitement.

Kids are great at that.

Off to Braums afterwards!

SUNDAY: The boys were having a "tough time" in sacrament mtg. today, so we came home very early & created our own. To "practice" our reverence. I've recently started practicing w/ them during the week & setting the timer for 70 mins( the length of the entire mtg.- our longevity of making it til the timer goes off is increasing). I call it "Reverent Hour". Since all 3 boys were "in deep" w/ mommy today, I was pleased that they all made it through pretty dang good! After thinking about things & praying for the spirit for additional insights on how to best carry out our little "meeting", I had Cole come out of time out, help me pick up the family room, get the kitchen chairs into the family room (since the couch is a bit too "comfy" & "bouncy" I've found), & get a "grown up" church film on - no cartoon characters (to get as close to a sacrament talk as possible - I've done Gen. Conf. talks as well). And it worked out great that everyone was already in church clothes & I had the diaper bag packed w/ snacks, drinks, & church activities. So off we went! Still a bit of room for improvement, but you know what, not a bit of whining or crying & no one had to go back to time out.  We are going to continue w/ our "Reverent Hour" as much as possible during the week so that we don't have to "loose the privilege" (is what I told Cole) of getting to go to church, anymore.

So later in the afternoon, they did get to get their

energy out w/ some family time on the new addition

to our backyard "playground" that daddy picked up the day

before & reassembled on good 'ol Craig's List for an amazing price!

He even made an awning for the "club house" roof from spare boards off our new

fence we had put up last month ( that was a very exciting day. It's been so wonderful
to have that fence to help "corral" our boys in.).

He's a great handy man!

Mr. Grant picking up speed.

The "big kid" swings were a hit!

The twins entertaining eachother. Those little cheesers!

They're such hams!

Mostly Merrill(in blue) getting Grant(in green)

to giggle like crazy.

And there was a whole lot more giggling & laughing of course before

I decided to go get the camera.

What a FUN, BUSY, NICE, CRAZY, IRREVERENT TO REVERENT, & ENJOYABLE

weekend we had!