great weekend...

Mondays are always so tedious for me...laundry, picking up, errands, etc. -- all the things that take all day and when you're done you feel like you have nothing to show for it. Oh well, such is life. Hopefully Monday will slip by quickly and we'll be to Tuesday before I know it!

The weekend, however, was nice and productive and fun. I spent a good portion of the day Friday shopping -- picked up some supplies for some scrapbooking/paper crafting projects I'm working on, bought some cute framed prints for the kid's bathroom, along with a fun green rug and some cute towels, picked up some new clothes, and a cute little baby shower gift for a cute new mom-to-be. After we came home I decided that it was the day I was going to tackle the playroom...it took a good 5 hours, and lots of help from the kids...but it's clean! LOVE it! I have a huge box of garbage to get rid of, and another huge box to take to the D.I. Now I want to get some fun things to hang up on the walls down there.

Saturday was busy as well. I got my hair done (which ALWAYS puts me in a good mood) while Brad took care of the kids. He took them to Dairy Keen and to Grandpa and Grandma's while the sprinklers were being repaired. Brad sold his fishing boat, I cleaned the kid's bathroom and put up the new pictures and accessories, and went grocery shopping. I spent some time preparing Sunday's meal and preparing my Primary lesson...and then I couldn't go to sleep...so I spent a few hours editing photos, watched a movie, and finally went to sleep at 6 am...only to get up at 8am Sunday morning to get ready for church. It wasn't bad though, the exhaustion didn't hit until late Sunday afternoon, so I was fine.

Sunday mornings always fly by -- getting the kids ready for church seems like it takes way longer than it should, but we managed to do it with minimal yelling/screaming/fighting from the kiddos. My friend and her family are staying at a condo in Midway, so they came down and went to church with us and then came over to our house after church. I have known Tiffany for several years, she's one of my good friends that I met through the channels of scrapbooking -- a wonderfully friendly and kind woman who is also very talented and organized. We had never met her husband and four kids, but I have to say they were just as fun and easy to get along with as she is. The kids all got along great, the husbands seemed to enjoy visiting with each other, and of course Tiffany and I had lots to talk about! We had a nice lunch and then spent the afternoon relaxing and visiting. We went to my parent's house and spent some time visiting, then came home at 7:00 to meet with our new Home Teachers. By the time they left, I was completely exhausted and crashed into bed.

This is the part where I get to brag a bit on my sweet husband. Not only did he take care of the kids most of the day Saturday, and when I crashed into bed early on Sunday, but he cleaned up the kitchen, finished washing the bigger pans and bowls that wouldn't fit into the dishwasher, got the kids into bed and got up with any of the night-time wake-ups, and still got up and went to work early this morning. And this isn't just a one-time occurance. He does things like this all the time (well, I don't usually crash into bed early, he does things even when I'm awake). He is such a good husband and dad. He works hard at his job to support us, and when he comes home he works just as hard at being a super dad to the kids. He always find the energy and time to play with the kids, even if he's exhuasted from a long day at work. He always supports me in whatever I'm doing -- whether it's taking care of the kids so I can work, or going shopping with me, or getting my wedding ring repaired (*wink*), or just doing whatever he needs to do to make our home a better place. Sometimes I have to just sit down and pinch myself...he's such an incredible person and I'm so lucky that he's my husband -- it's been almost 14 years and I love him more and more every day!

Wow, this turned into a bit of a rambling novel. If you read the whole thing, wow! and thank you. I think if you made it this far, maybe you deserve something special. Yep, you do. If you read this entire post, leave a comment telling me one GOOD thing that happened or one FUN thing you did that made last weekend a great one for you, and I'll draw a name and send you something fun from my stash of scrapbook supplies! I'll pick a name tomorrow evening. :O)

**I had to come back and edit my post to add a layout I created a while back...it just doesn't seem right to post without a project or photos or something fun to look at!! And now I'm going to leave my office and try to have a productive day -- hope you do too!