This has been one up-and-down week. My grandpa took a turn for the worse on Monday so my parents decided to head to Texas on Tuesday (getting there Wednesday afternoon). The whole week and weekend was up in the air at this point since we were supposed to go to Minneapolis on Friday for the Garth Brooks concert. We no longer had a sitter, so Steve was going to stay home with the girls. My sister-in-law Christie agreed to watch the girls overnight if Steve wanted to go, but it was just going to be too much of a pain in the ass trying to get her all their 'stuff' and having her pick them both up from daycare. So I was able to get my friend Amy to take Steve's ticket and be my date!
My grandpa ended up passing away Wednesday :( I was thankful that my mom was able to spend some quality time with her siblings during this time. All Wednesday we tried to figure out what we were going to do. Should I drive down with P and my sisters? Should we fly? Should we go now or after Garth? Plans changed about a million times and finally by 4:00 that afternoon Holly and Sam decided they were going to leave Thursday morning and drive down. I decided to NOT go, after talking to my mom she convinced me that I shouldn't feel bad for not going (hopefully she really meant it!), there wasn't a funeral or service for him, the family was going to get together Saturday night for dinner. It would've been awesome to see everyone but it was hard to justify driving that far for 1.5 days being there.
My grandpa couldn't remember from one day to the next, but he could always remember the words to You Are My Sunshine, so now every time I hear Piper sing it my heart breaks a little more.
Samantha found 2 people to take her tickets, but then we had Holly's tickets to give away. My friend Jen was able to go and then she was able to find a coworker of ours Kirsten that lives in Minneapolis to go with us too. SO things were coming together!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Random Reader
The lucky 'L' name..............Lyndsi! My girl Lyndsi! Oh my.....where do I start? It's been 9ish years?! She was dating a friend of ours, that didn't work out...but guess what? We got to keep her as part of the break-up (sometimes that is hard to do when you are friends with both)! HAHA! Win for us!
Then she became good friends with Lisa (Random Reader #2) and it's one of those awesome friendships where we see each other every couple months and it's always long over due and we get to catch up over dinner!
My first memory of Lyndsi, when I really began to think...'wow! this girl is a good time' was her birthday during the middle of a snow storm in February at Down Under and she smashed her face into her birthday cake! Then began my obsession to always be with Lyndsi at her birthday celebrations! Even after P was born on February 3rd, we went to Lyndsi's party at 3rd Base 3 weeks later!
Lyndsi, you are a amazing, funny, sweet and you gotta stop the glitter Christmas cards! :) I'm so happy that we have remained friends after all these years! More girls nights out are a must!!!!
When is our next Mexican night out?
Then she became good friends with Lisa (Random Reader #2) and it's one of those awesome friendships where we see each other every couple months and it's always long over due and we get to catch up over dinner!
My first memory of Lyndsi, when I really began to think...'wow! this girl is a good time' was her birthday during the middle of a snow storm in February at Down Under and she smashed her face into her birthday cake! Then began my obsession to always be with Lyndsi at her birthday celebrations! Even after P was born on February 3rd, we went to Lyndsi's party at 3rd Base 3 weeks later!
Lyndsi, you are a amazing, funny, sweet and you gotta stop the glitter Christmas cards! :) I'm so happy that we have remained friends after all these years! More girls nights out are a must!!!!
When is our next Mexican night out?
Monday, November 3, 2014
Weekend Update
So Friday night, last minute, we decided to try to have another dinner night out without the girls. My mom agreed to watch the girls for a couple hours, so we headed to Jethros for a casual-sitting-at-the-bar dinner and then stopped by the Boat House for a drink before heading home. Thanks mom!
Saturday we did nothing, well the girls did nothing and I ran to the mall for 2 hours alone! Except, in the moment of enjoying a nice solo Target trip all I hear around me....crying, screaming kids with parents yelling at them. Every where I turned there were kids and parents and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........everyone SHUT UP! It was stressing me out the amount of crying, screaming and yelling that was going on and MY kids weren't there!
Saturday we hung out, played, cleaned, I did 5 loads of laundry and put 8 loads away (you know, the 3 loads I didn't put away last weekend!). At one point, Steve went ran to work real quick, Piper was watching Baby McDonald on the laptop, Presley was watching youtube vides on the ipad and I was reading my book....we had a nice 10 minutes of silence. Ahhhh.....10 whole minutes!
Sunday the girls slept until 8 (really 9 with the time change) and we decided to get them out of the house and ran to Costco. It's amazing how 1/2 hour out can change my mind in taking them anywhere and we headed home.
While Piper napped, Steve watched some football and got some stuff done around the house and Presley and I went to the basement and played (while watching The Wedding Planner, which she was actually really watching with me!). Good afternoon!
Presley and I had some issues Sunday, at Costco she was mad at me for something, then she was mad when we played games, then she was mad b/c it was my turn to put her to bed and she wanted daddy. So I decided that we would have a girls night and go to dinner together....no daddy, no Piper. So I picked her up from school and we went to Texas Roadhouse. She was good and we had a good dinner, just the two of us.
Saturday we did nothing, well the girls did nothing and I ran to the mall for 2 hours alone! Except, in the moment of enjoying a nice solo Target trip all I hear around me....crying, screaming kids with parents yelling at them. Every where I turned there were kids and parents and ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........everyone SHUT UP! It was stressing me out the amount of crying, screaming and yelling that was going on and MY kids weren't there!
Saturday we hung out, played, cleaned, I did 5 loads of laundry and put 8 loads away (you know, the 3 loads I didn't put away last weekend!). At one point, Steve went ran to work real quick, Piper was watching Baby McDonald on the laptop, Presley was watching youtube vides on the ipad and I was reading my book....we had a nice 10 minutes of silence. Ahhhh.....10 whole minutes!
Sunday the girls slept until 8 (really 9 with the time change) and we decided to get them out of the house and ran to Costco. It's amazing how 1/2 hour out can change my mind in taking them anywhere and we headed home.
While Piper napped, Steve watched some football and got some stuff done around the house and Presley and I went to the basement and played (while watching The Wedding Planner, which she was actually really watching with me!). Good afternoon!
Presley and I had some issues Sunday, at Costco she was mad at me for something, then she was mad when we played games, then she was mad b/c it was my turn to put her to bed and she wanted daddy. So I decided that we would have a girls night and go to dinner together....no daddy, no Piper. So I picked her up from school and we went to Texas Roadhouse. She was good and we had a good dinner, just the two of us.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Random
- Miss Presley's kindergarten picture. Love this girl!
- Presley has had 2 full weeks of good drop offs, hopefully this continues (and maybe without having to bribe her)
- She is all about boobs lately, which I'm guessing is fairly normal for little girls. She told me that I had fat, chubby boobs. Well, no, I really don't but whatever. Then she says 'Look at my boobs!' and she even said 'I pledge allegiance to my boobs, of the United States of America'! OMG!
- Piper now doesn't want to leave GN when I pick her up. She sees me and runs and hides in the corner and then I have to carry her out kicking and screaming. I'm sure none of the other parents really think twice about it since they have probably dealt with the same thing before, but when she is screaming "Help me, mama" as I'm trying to get her in the car seat.....I literally have to get into the backseat of the car and push her body down to try to get her strapped in!
- The one day she didn't cry this week, she crawled out. With her tongue hanging out of her mouth said "I doggy! I doggy"....so she continued to crawl and pant on her way out of the building. Awesome.
- My grandfather isn't doing very good these days. He's old, we haven't seen him in 2 years, he doesn't know who we are. It's sad. But honestly, I'm mostly sad for my mom.
- P had a dentist appointment this week, this is Steve's new duty as a dad since she was good for him last time. And she was good for him this time too! Woohoo! The dentist said she has perfect teeth! So maybe we'll be able to avoid braces with this kid (cuz I think glasses are inevitable for our kids).
Halloween 2014
Thursday, Beggars' night Boston came over for the third year in the row to go trick or treating with us. He looked awesome!
Presley was Elsa (along with almost every other 5 year old girl around, she even let us spray her hair white (though it looked gray) and Piper, refused to be Olaf, so we settled for a Hawkeye cheerleader (she has too much of an opinion about what she wears for only be 2 years old!)
This was the 3 of them from last year!
and P and B two years ago! Man, they are freaking cute!
Pumpkin carving
This was as close as Piper got to touching the inside of the pumpkin.
Presley loves it!
Like father, like daughter!
Our finished products! (yes, P was cold. It was cold outside and she had a tanktop on....what did she expect?)
Rewind
Man, where has the last week gone? I can't say that we have been that busy, but I guess some busy and me just being lazy. Anywho.....the weather last weekend was great, maybe our last weekend of great weather for 2014. We got up Saturday morning and headed to Adel for the cystic fibrosis waffle breakfast that we usually attend this time of year and after that we headed to Earlham for Brant's Great Pumpkin Race, which is a great race/carnival/fundraiser that we have attended for the last couple years too. Steve had actually made a kids picnic table for the silent auction and the girls played pretty good on the bounce houses! We are used to Presley NOT joining in on the fun, but once we could convince Piper to play, then Presley was more willing to also. We got home, Piper took a nap and then we got ready to head to other Goodrich's in the neighborhood for a Halloween get-together. It was a lot of fun, the food was awesome, the kids played good (It was weird having both Piper's in the same house!) and it was nice hanging with others in the neighborhood that we haven't spent a lot of time with.
Sunday we got up and decided to get out of the house, we found a park and let the kids run around for a while. They had a blast! And I think we were able to wear them out a little too!
We actually had Carlyn come over to babysit the girls that night so we could go to dinner. Steve has been stressed at work and the weather was nice so we decided to just have dinner on the patio at El Bait Shop and then headed to Saints to watch part of the Packer game!
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