Nice Weather!

It was so nice and warm yesterday! I'm not sure what the official high was, but we were supposed to hit 70 degrees!

Kayla and Kyle ended their basketball season, Kayla's team won and Kyle's team lost. Kayla had an end of season pizza party with her team and they all got trophies. Kayla's coach told her that he had coached her 2 years ago and he is very impressed with her basketball skills, that she has become a very good basketball player!

Kayla's self portrait.

Kyle's team party is this coming week. And speaking of this week, Kayla and Alyssa are going to start intramural basketball at school. They are excited for that. I don't know if I'm quite as excited with more running around, but I thought it was a good opportunity and the school is close by.

Also, later this week, my Mom is supposed to be coming for a visit. We are looking forward to seeing her. She lost her husband in December and I know life is still difficult for her. I'm sure it will be a switch being the only one at home to a houseful of five kids and two other adults!




Yesterday the weather was so nice that after basketball we told the kids if they got busy and did their chores (rooms cleaned, each folding and putting away their own laundry, and one other chore like vacuuming or dusting or cleaning a bathroom) that we would go on a picnic for dinner.



The kids were very excited about that! And so they played beat the clock to get their chores done and listened to Radio Disney on the XM Radio while they worked.

Laren and Kyle playing catch at the park yesterday.

I was feeling a little achey and yucky. I think I've mentioned having the Mirena IUD. Well, after having it for 15 months I decided to have it removed this week because it made me feel blue-sy! I noticed a marked difference in my moods when I had it in. The nice thing about it was that my bleeding was almost nil while I had it, after the first 3 months when I had continuous spotting. But I'm not characteristically depressed and I didn't want to continue on that route if there was a way around it. After 15 months of feeling like I had a cloud over me, I finally had it removed! So, I'm hoping that helps.

Kayla and Tyler at the park yesterday.

Despite feeling under the weather I sucked it up and made a picnic dinner with sliced oranges and a big huge Sub Sandwich made of French Bread. (Something quick and easy!) We took a few other things as well, like Lemon Girl Scout Cookies, snack crackers and Soda Pop.

Two of my kids and I at the park yesterday. Notice I'm wearing my jacket, I'm a little bit of a wuss when it comes to being cold and there was a slight breeze so I kept my jacket on!

It turned out to be a lot of fun to get out of the house! It was just what we all needed! The sun was about to go down as we were leaving the park. We came home and got our kids bathed for Sunday and Laren and I sat down and watched National Treasure for our date night. He had seen it previously with the kids and I hadn't. But it was a great movie, pretty intense! Now we need to go and see National Treasure 2 at the theatre.

After yesterday's great weather we woke up to snowy and windy conditions this morning! And I realized that we had signed up to have the Elder's over for dinner today and I had completely forgotten! Since it's Sunday, we won't go to the store to buy anything but I'm totally kicking myself for not checking my calendar ahead of time!

And to top it off, one of the Elder's (who has served in our ward for 11, yes eleven, months asked me if it's okay that they invite another set of Elder's who don't have a dinner appointment. I told him that would be fine and of course panicked on the inside!

So as soon as I got home from Church I got busy trying to figure out what to fix for all of us! I'm sure you're wondering what happened to my monthly menu....I went back to doing it every 2 weeks and I was just due to do another menu! So tonight we are having Spaghetti (with a homemade sauce I cook in the crockpot), Homemade Bread and I'm not just sure yet what else?!!

UPDATE:
We ended up having just one set of Elder's over but I had to go and pick them up and bring my husband along. They wanted him to do it, but he cannot drive. Luckily my kids are old enough to be home if at least the oldest one is home with them! But it was quite busy to spend all afternoon in the kitchen and then have to turn around and go and pick them up and then turn around and drive them home.

They have a car, they just wanted to save miles...they live about 3 miles from us. Oh well. It all turned out very well! And we ended up having the Spaghetti Sauce over Angel Hair noodles (I prefer Angel hair to regular spaghetti, I just wish I could find it in whole grain.) We also had the homemade bread and green beans and lemonade and eclair cake for dessert.