The Ray's Days: middle of january

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

middle of january

life is busy and good!

i got a new calling (2nd counselor in rs) and i still have my old calling (vt coordinator) so between those two things, + the new presidency *got* to give talks on sunday, it's been kinda busy.

but good, all good.

christian went to the dentist. this made up the day that he would have gone with the girls but was home throwing up instead. for our next dental trip i will have *4* kiddos for them to see. little franks is growing up! christian didn't have any cavitites, so today we created a teen savings and checking account for him with his dental $.

my afternoon schedule lately has been to leave to pick addie up from school at 3:30, go straight from there to the hs to pick up christian from conditioning (m,t, and th), get home by 4:30 and then straight outside to "pitch" a few buckets of balls. laney likes to watch us. :)

my day pretty much ends at 3:30. at least anything really productive. :)

it's been pretty cold! cuddly mornings are bomb.com.

until the giant blond one gets a little carried away.

speaking of carried away, matt and i were reading one night and delaney was crawling around the bed with us. so she totally lunged forward and poked her eye on my book. poor baby and injuring her eyes! thankfully they heal quickly.

i had some disney $$$ so i ordered the girls each a backpack. addie a new one (her zipper's been broken for awhile, supah classy!) and frankie her first ever.

so we head to drop addie off at school and when i get back in the car frankie starts screaming and crying not to leave.

"don't leave! i'm a big girl! i have my backpack! i ride the big girl school bus!"

poor baby thought she had a backpack and she was ready for school.

she was m-a-d that she couldn't stay.

for about 10 minutes and then she did this.

and yes, i am a super safe driver.

yes, those are underwear on her head.

on saturday matt and christian went to a large court of honor all morning.

then in the afternoon i got to drive up to the temple with this fun crew.

this is their awkward family photo.

the fireside was awesome and as soon as it ended all the boys ran up and shook the general authorities hands. those boys never cease to amaze me. love it!

christian and addie made cookies together and it was super sweet.

lexi and frankie danced and frankie's head lost.

it's bruised now.

dancing can be dangerous at our house, what can we say?

we had the missionaries over for dinner on sunday and elder watson taught the kids some pretty rad card tricks. after they left christian got online and watched a bunch of youtube card trick videos.

coolness.

on monday it was our turn to host our second round of kids day out.

we did some valentine crafts.

and had some lunch.

the kids were really good and it all went really smoothly.

the last few days that we've picked up christian from the high school addie's needed the bathroom asap. there's not much that's grosser than high school bathrooms, so i hope we can kick this habit. but in the meantime, potty shots are funny. ;)

and then she can help christian carry his backpack out.

and yes, i'm letting her help dress herself.

biiiig breath.

this morning we had a presidency meeting, dropped addie at school, then at 2:30 took lexi to the dr.

she's been complaining of a sore throat for, like a month, so when she woke up this morning not wanting to go to school (again) i told her (again) that she could stay home but we'd have to go to the dr finally. of course, today was also the one day that frankie actually slept at naptime. always the way for this mom, always the way.