Busy Month

I can't believe that we are over halfway through September! It's been a busy month!

Over Labor Day weekend Rich and I stayed busy assembling a playset for the kids. It took all day on Saturday (until time to go and watch the BYU game), and the entire day the next Monday, but we finished it and there were no left over parts! ;) (a few screws and stuff, but I think they sent extra's of those. lol!)

The weeks are starting to fly by really fast as well. With three kids in school all day, and Angela in school in the afternoons every day I feel like I've been able to get a little better balance on taking care of the house and having a little bit of quiet free time to myself each week.

The second weekend in September, Rich and I were able to take a little trip on our own without the kids. It was a great escape for us to be able to spend some time together and have some fun. We went to DisneyWorld and checked out one of the waterparks. It was sprinkling with rain all day long but it was a great day to go to the water part because your already going to be wet, and the lines were non exhistant! Rich goaded me into going on the scariest water slide I've ever seen... a humongously high water slide that goes straight down! They even put a radar gun on it to show you how fast you went on it! We were also able to enjoy some nice dinners without having to watch out for kids fighting and spilling their drinks and reminding them to use their forks and napkins. :) We even had to dress up a bit, and that was fun. Rich also surprised me with tickets to the La Nuba show at Cirque du Sole. It was amazing and so fun to watch! The acrobats were wonderful, the comic relief parts hilarious, and the music is all done live- live vocal, live instrumentals for the entire 1 1/2 hour performance! Very amazing and great to watch!

While we were out of town the kids stayed with our great friends, and so this past weekend was our turn to return the favor and we kept their 5 kids while they went off for a weekend. It was loud, and crazy at times, but lots of fun having so many kids in the house. They left yesterday and last night at dinner it was so quiet... even though we still had our 4 kids there talking. lol!

This week a good friend is in town visiting, and I get to go and get some dental work done, there is activities wed night, piano lessons, volunteering at the school, and I'm going to start a new goal... on Wed I'm going to start weight watchers. I just have not been accountable enough to myself, so I'm going to do this to get my weight back down. I'm also starting fresh with exercise. I'm not going to beat myself up for my past failings, and I'm just starting new and going to get my exercise in each day.

So... that's a short synopsis of our September... I will try and get some pictures put up on the Family blog sometime soon. I need to just take a bunch of pictures of the kids to show how much they've been growing. :)