Catching Up

Sorry it's been awhile, especially for me. But on Friday, instead of blogging, I had Lauren come up to babysit the boys and I went out to take care of a few things. Lauren is looking for extra cash to pay for the make-up she's looking to buy for her future career training and I took her up on it!

I went out and got my hair cut, did some shopping for my free Clinique gift with purchase, and then went to get my brows waxed. Good times.

Here's my hair the way the hair dresser did it:


And here it is today in the "wash and wear" laziness I'm known for:


I don't love it, but it's fine. I liked my 'do in February (the last time I got it cut!!!) much better but that salon disappeared and I have no way of finding that fab hair do-er girl. :(

Friday night found Jason hosting a poker party here at the house with 8 of his closest work pals. We've never been big entertainers so I'm proud of J for doing something like this. Because of the cigar smoking they had it in the garage. Jason brought out lots of lamps, they set up four card tables to make one big table. Rob wisely bought a tablecloth to put over all of them. Someone brought poker chips, lots of them brought cigars, everyone brought beer. We got chips and dip and pretzels and J played some music from his mp3 player through his truck's speakers and they had hours and hours of fun coming inside only to use the bathroom.

The boys and I stayed out of their way. J got home from work a little early to set up and see us:




Then he went to set up and the boys and I went to Noodles for dinner. Both boys were so well behaved and ate so well. We got a Rice Krispy treat for afterwards and I pulled off a big hunk to give to Easton. He must've thought I'd given him the whole thing because he pulled off a chunk and gave it to Dalton and another chunk for me. What a sweetie!!! We called Jason at that point to see if they wanted us to pick up pizza while we were out versus paying someone to deliver it. Easton said, "Who are you talking to?" and I told him and he said, "You can't talk to him! He's eating pretzels!" which is basically his way of saying..."Daddy is busy having a party that we bought pretzels for." Anyway, we ended up swinging by the pizza place on our way home and picked up their pizzas before bringing them to the garage. We said a quick hello and then a quick goodbye and I got the boys off to baths and bed and settled in with some onion dip I'd reserved for myself to have with my Grey's Anatomy.

It was weirding me out to have people (some who I did not know) coming in and out of my house. I had the boys in their rooms with their doors shut and I was in my room with the door shut. I was so afraid two people would want to use the bathroom at once and someone would come upstairs or something. So I closed the baby gate. That made me feel safe enough to finally fall asleep, I guess. :)

In the morning Jason offered to take us out for breakfast and took the boys to go get dressed:


After breakfast we all headed to E's swimming class. He did well:




After class we did nap/quiet time and then we decided to go to Elitch's. These pics are all with J's camera phone:




We were finally brave enough to let Dalton do the airplanes. In the past we'd been afraid he'd get tired of it and stand up while way up high in the air and fall out. But he's been doing well on the lower-to-the-ground rides so we let him do it:

As they were flying by the ride operator was like, "Look at your little son" in a "he's so cute" way. Then he added, "I wouldn't have trusted him on the ride". Oh, thanks for telling us now that he's all the way up there, dude. But luckily D did just fine. Whew.

Then we went to check out a brand new ride. It's called "Ghost Blasters" and it's similar to the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin at Disney. Except without all the cool Disney stuff. Mostly it's "scary" stuff that you "blast" with a laser gun in a black light environment as your car goes through the house on a track. Both boys were able to ride it and neither was scared or even used their guns (we're anti-gun, here). We had to wait for SO long to ride it...because it's new to the park, everyone and their mother was in line:


After that Easton and I did a spin on the Spider. It's one of the few rides in the main part of the park that he's tall enough for:


We came home and did dinner and bed. Jason watched LSU win.

Sunday morning found Jason back at the church he'd tested last week. The main pastor wasn't there last week (that always seems to happen to us!) and so he went back. He liked the main guy too so I'm going to check it out next week!

Stuck back at home, the boys and I made muffins. For the first time I let them both help:


Then Easton took some pictures:








The boys and I ran to the store after our muffins, mostly to get me a newspaper full of coupons again--and hey...anyone who gets coupons, doesn't use them, and wants to send them to me feel free ;)

We met up with Jason back home to watch the early Broncos game. Cannot believe they lost!! Oh well. We ran to Guitar Center after that because we had yet another coupon and Jason was able to get a little something for himself.

Came back home for dinner and then Easton proposed a quick trip to the park so we did that before bed. Fun.

This morning was doughnut day...and I've been catching up on a little laundry. And we sat to do some crafts from G-Ma and July:


Dalton's got his first Foamie and got to try his hand at that:








Easton's robot in a spaceship craft is a little more complicated than we thought so parts of it are drying during quiet time. But he was able work on the robot part. "Let's give him some nipples!" he said:




I have to figure out tonight's dinner still and then we'll probably go buy the stuff for it.

That's about all that's going on over here. But before we go, here's a silly video of Dalton from the weekend. Watch his eyebrows...he'd started raising them to the beat of the song causing me to crack up. It wasn't quite as funny or in time with the music once I'd whipped out the camera, but they're still little cuties:

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Till next time!