Our Crazy Busy Week

This week was another crazy week for our family!!! It started out with Mack starting preschool on Monday. We had to wait all of the way until 12:00 to go and I about pulled my hair out listening to him ask me when we could go to school! It is horrible to wait for the afternoon, but he went right in and didn't even flinch when we told him goodbye. He is so excited and I was so excited for him and for me too. His teacher is really cute. Her name is Miss April and Mack asked her on the first day if she was a mean teacher or a nice teacher. What a silly boy. He even has his own locker outside his classroom. He HAS to hang his back-pack up and he won't let me help him at all, but that it part of this whole thing of new independence.

Quentin had his Birthday on Wednesday and we had a fun night. I was supposed to make him rice and meatballs for dinner, but when I went to the freezer to pull out some hamburger, I didn't have any so we went to Pizza Hut and Grandma and Grandpa met us there on her way home from work. The night before, he had purchased (with our help) the last Wii in Idaho Falls. We looked all over and called everywhere to get one and no one had one. It was quite the adventure when Jeff and Quentin went into Toys R Us and they found that there was one there that they were saving for someone, but ended up giving it to Q because the guy had never come back to claim it. He had saved really hard all summer for that with working, mowing lawns, and allowance. We were so proud of him for saving that much. He and Calli have played it all week and have gotten some good exercise from it. I have been tempted to try it out sometimes because they get such a good workout.

Calli's end of the week activity tops off our week for sure. Calli turned eight in June and decided that she wanted to be baptized. She had a really beautiful service yesterday and was just glowing all day. Her grandma had made her a beautiful white dress that she just loves!!!! She looked amazing. She didn't even mind being the center of attention. We had a lot of family there which was so much fun for us. I just kept looking around being so grateful that we lived by our family and that we had some family that traveled to be there for it. It was such a fun day. Both grandparents were there, Jon and Kyla and their children, Michael and Rachel and their three boys, Joe and Bethany and their two children, Kylee Nelson & Becky and kids were there. It was great! I love surrounding us with our families especially on such an occasion. Jeff baptized and confirmed her and gave her a really nice confirmation blessing. She was the only one from the stake that got baptized yesterday so it was really special that way. I of coarse was teary all through because I am just a horrible milestone mom. I am so proud and I guess a little sad that they are growing up, but mostly just so proud of their decisions and the steps they are taking in their lives. What a beautiful day!!!

Later that night, grandma and grandpa got a sitter for all of the grand kids and "Just adults" had a night out on the town. We went out to dinner and had some fun being able to discuss topics without children there to interrupt us and then we headed off to a Shakespeare Play that was being put on by the local community theatre. It was soooo much fun. They had three men who comically put on an act depicting all the Shakespeare plays in a condensed version and it was so much fun. We sat right in the front row and got used a lot throughout the play. Jeff even had his own solo version of part of Ophelia's ultra ego. He was so embarrassed, but it was fun for the rest of us. Afterword I took this picture of my brother's in some of the props that were thrown out into the audience. I just loved the whole night!

What a busy week for us. I even started helping out at Nelson's apartments up in Rexburg. I have really enjoyed doing that. It has been a good experience to get out there and start doing a little more than just being home all day with kids. Mack gets to come with me and he doesn't do too bad. He gets a little impatient, but I just need to be a little more creative with what I take up there for him to do.

I hate to end the entry with Jeff, it hasn't been all sunshine for him lately, but we keep venturing on with the next doctor's visit. He had his EEG this week and it came back abnormal which neither one of us were expecting. Therefore he still can't drive which he is starting to hate me driving him all over. We now have an appointment with a neurologist this week. We are grateful up until this point that we haven't found anything too serious, but are praying and hoping that we are lead in the right direction for us to find out what is wrong and what we need to do to get him back to "normal".