happy veterans day!

our veterans day friday started off nice and early.

to explain: addie has a bad habit of wetting her pull-up during her "rest time," even when she hasn't actually "rested." it drives me crazy when i know she hasn't slept, and she's still wet! or worse, which is often the case, ifyouknowwhatimean. anyways, i decided to try bribing her with a "potty toy" if she could stay dry 10 times. she got her first toy within about a month of the challenge. this one has taken a loooooong time, but she finally earned her second potty toy!

every day that i would go in and get her from her nap, and she would be wet, i would tell her, "that's okay, we'll try again next time." after about a month of that though, it got pretty frustrating. so lately when i go in and she's wet, she'll tell me, "that's okay, mama! we will try again! it's okay!"

anyways, on thursday night i went to a rs activity at church. it was all about getting the clutter out of our lives. i love spending time with such awesome ladies! after that, i headed over to target to find the perfect potty toy. since addie was already asleep, i put it on the table in her room so she would see it when she woke up. what i hadn't thought of was that she would wake up super early because she spotted it and couldn't get back to sleep. :)

so all of that to explain why our veterans day started so early. ;)

anyways, food lion was giving 10% off groceries for veterans, so my own special veteran and i bundled up some jammied girls and headed over to buy some on-sale cinnamon rolls and free eggs. (cause who am i to pass up a good deal and 10% off?)

food lion was an hour long fiasco because they're system wasn't giving the 10% off and it took for-ev-er for them to figure it out. thus is the life of a coupon shopper. by the time we got back home it was already 9, and with the parade starting at 10, matt the nay-sayer was thinking we should just skip the parade. never one to say no to a challenge though, i assured him we could handle it!

chris and i made the cinnamon rolls, hashbrowns, egg and cheese burritos, and hot chocolate, while matt got the little girls ready, and lexi got herself ready. ;) we parked at the bank and hustled over to johnna's to watch the parade.

soooooooooo glad she invited us over, because there was an accident at the beginning of the parade route (someone fell off a horse and had to get helicoptered out of there) and the parade started an hour and a half late. if we had been sitting (or standing) on the street, we would have been miserable! it was sooo cold and windy! but we were able to enjoy our breakfast in the comfort of the nelson's warm house and all was wonderful!

i forgot my camera, so johnna sent these to me from her phone.

in no particular order (cause i can't figure it out and don't care to try anymore).

franks kept it together for a long time, but finally around 12 she leaned back in daddy's arms and fell asleep. that never happens anymore! then she stayed asleep when he laid her on the couch, picked her back up, and put her in the stroller. she finally woke up when we got to the car, but she was happy as a clam with her little nap. :)

charlene, johnna, and i.

lex is such a princess. she totally laid on christianna, with her feet on josh, the whole time. i took them some candy we had collected down by the street, and she had josh unwrap a chocolate for her and put it in her mouth!

ugh, that girl!!!

we dropped christian off for a camp out and then around 3, matt and i left for a veterans day date.

we drove up to the temple, but on the way stopped at outback for a delicious dinner (and free bloomin' onion for my veteran!). we had a wonderful time at the temple, except for pregnancy discomfort. on the ride home i tried to stay awake, but after about half an hour, i crashed. love my sweet hubs for not complaining when i do that!

and we had a very happy veterans day, indeed. :)