We had my brothers three little ones for 4 days this past week while they enjoyed some time away in St. George. It was so much fun to have little ones in the house again. Taya and Ian were left home with me on Friday while everyone else went to school. They were such enthusiastic little helpers with doing the breakfast dishes, laundry, grocery shopping, etc. I forgot what it was like to have little kids that still "like" helping around the house. We made it a big game and really had a great morning! Samples at Costco were especialy fun. Saturday Noah had his first soccer game, but it was windy and freezing so we didn't make it a family event. Brendan and Jake went to cheer him on and it ended up being a tied game 4-4. We spent the weekend playing with legos, eating, watching movies, eating, coloring, playing outside, staying up late, and eating. Not that these little ones are big eaters by any means, but it seems like we were always sitting on the kitchen counter eating SOMETHING! We watched "Dennis the Menace" with popcorn Friday night. The plan was to stay up till midnight and then have a huge sleepover together in the family room. We made it to 9:30 and then everyone, but Taya, decided that it was bedtime and sleeping in comfortable beds sounded much better. What party poopers we all are! Brendan was the best! He had them all on Saturday evening while Allison and I went to her first Young Women's general conference. He had them laughing all night long! Sunday morning was a little crazy with church at 9:00, but we made it with 10 minutes to spare and took this cute picture of "my six kids" on our way out the door. Well, cute except for maybe Jordan. He said that he doesn't smile so early in the morning! I was able to manage them all ok and know that I could handle having them all, but I felt that I was constantly torn from one to another and because I am such a helicopter mom, I felt bad not being 100% there for each one of them. I guess that is why Heavenly Father only sent me 3. Noah, Taya, and Ian are such little angels and we're so lucky to have them in our family.
We got tickets to go to the Conference Center for the Young Women's General Conference Saturday night. What a blessing that was considering it was Allison's first time. We rode Trax to downtown 1. for the experience, 2. we knew parking would be crazy, 3. mainly because Mom is a wimp driving to SLC in traffic! We got seats in the terrace (2nd balcony) which gave us a great view of the choir! Allison said her favorite part was at the beginning when everyone was getting seated and it was loud with lots of talking and then it instantly became silent as President Monson walked in. She was looking forward to hearing him talk in person, but President Eyring spoke instead. It was a wonderful meeting in which we both felt the spirit. We had a long, hot ride back on Trax. We stopped by Paradise cafe and each got a bowl of their amazing tomato soup and a roll. Then we shared a huge cream cheese brownie and ordered a few cookies to take home. It was a great night with just the two of us!
