What a Weekend

What a whirlwind of a weekend - I'll give you the breakdown.

Friday:
Wes & I went to Costco. Filled up TWO flatbed carts full of food storage. We have NEVER have had so many people staring at us! We were asked the following questions during our little jont around the store:
1. Do you own a restaurant? (no, but it feels like it...)
2. A man pulled up in a wheel chair and said "You must bake a lot, what kind of flour has the least amount of glutton? (No clue what glutton is,and if I;m spelling it right) I said honestly I don't do that much baking so I'm not sure. He said "than why do you have 150 lbs of flour in your cart?" How do you explain....in case we have a disaster and I have to make little flour cakes so my family won't starve on the prairie!
3. Do you guys have 10 Kids? my response..(although I might look like I have 10 kids because of the beautiful bags under my eyes...we really only have 3!)

The best I might add, is after we were done I needed a treat, like usual (we seriously filled Wes's entire truck bed - honestly it was unreal) We went through a drive thru, I ordered a shake, went to the pick up window and the guy took my money, looked in the back of the truck, did a double take and then opened back up the window and asked if we were preparing for the Apocalypse...I just busted up laughing. If Wes & I were in Utah, Idaho or even AZ people would know we are getting our food storage, but here we are freaks preparing for the Apocalypse.

After unloading we headed off to the Boo and the Zoo, which actually turned into BOO ZOO, until the haunted hay ride. Seriously we went to the Zoo and there were no animals, I was starting to think what a waste of money I think I can count how many animals we saw on 2 hands, and five of those were little animals in glass exhibits. Anyway afterwards we went on this hay ride. I had NO idea it was haunted, but I learned the hard way. I hate scary things....HAtE scary things, they scare me! But I was tough because my kids were scared, once I caught on I was fine...but the first couple people...weirdos! It turned out to be a really fun night.... (Notice the picture to the left...I'm wearing my brand new Parka..I look like I'm in a Fat suit, but I'm going to be warm!)

Saturday:
Of course our usual Sat. Morning Football games, the boys played great and Tate caught his first kick off return and ran it back to the 50 yard line...pretty good for little Tater bugs. Afterwards came home and Wes & the boys went Riding. Every since we got the barn done, the kids ride the horses all the time, which I 'm happy about. Around noon we had some friends over and BBQ hamburgers and then headed to a festival in Little Chutte. It was a little Danish festival. They had a little carnival, cotton candy - which we inhaled -and a bunch of little booths about the Dutch. Later that night I didn't want to cook so we headed to Texas Roadhouse for Dinner - which turned out to be a mess - our kids were tired and Tate literally fell asleep in the restaurant, probably not the best idea of the weekend -I didn't even enjoy my steak dinner that I have been craving!

Sunday - I woke up at the crack of dawn - notice the picture of the sunrise - (not sunset) and started making Carmel corn for all of our neighbors. I found these cute bowls at Target, but needed something fun to put in. I then got a whim that I wanted to make Sugar cookies and started them. Around 10 I realized I had ward council meeting, break the fast potluck dinner after church and a lesson to prepare and had 1 hour to get out the door. Big Mistake...huge....church was terrible, our kids were so bad in Sacrament meeting and everyone was in a bad mood.

The night just got worse, definitely not a Sunday "Love at Home" kind of night!

So today started....Disastrous! I got so tired of fighting the kids to get ready for school that I chased them out of the house with a broom, threw their backpacks, shoes, lunches out the door and told them to find a new ride to school that I was quitting being a Mom and they were in charge of their selves. I knew they would walk over to the ranch and Wes would take them to school so I wasn't too worried. I spent the next couple hours listening the BYU radio network putting myself back together, Wes came home for lunch....made everything better, I spent the rest of the afternoon on conference calls with our Corporate Office proposing a new payroll policies that will help our employees and still be cost effective.....(I won, it's a good thing....I might loose my mind again and pull out the old broom!!!!)

And here I am, past 10 o'clock (which is pretty amazing for me) and trying to figure out how I am possibly going to accomplish everything that I have scheduled to do in the next 48 Hours!!! Mutual, scouts, field trips, dance, presidency meetings, helping a friend and my list goes on and on, even at dinner tonight I telling everybody what we have going on as a family and Tate turned to me and said "Are we done with your schedule, I want to play!" I just looked at him and thought, so do I...so do I!