Back to it...

I know it's been a while...hopefully I can make up for it with a bunch of pics.

First of all, you know G is tired when he's too tired to play with his cars. I think it was Wednesday last week when I didn't make him even have a rest time because I was busy fighting the clutter battle in my house and the boys were playing so well. So when I was making dinner, E comes in and says "Mommy, G is asleep!!" I walked into the front room, and sure enough, crash city, right there in the middle of the floor. Why are they so blasted cute when they're sleeping?

We got away for a 24 hour + date on Friday to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. That's right.. TEN YEARS!!! I can hardly believe it. God is so good and our life is so wonderfully blessed. Anyway, we dropped the kids off at T's brother and sis-in-law's house and headed on to Omaha. The kids seemed to do fine -- it was the first night sleeping away from home without us, so, ya know, we wondered, but it was fine. They love it there with cousins and such -- they have horses, goats, cats, and cows there (all theirs except the cows, which belong to someone else), so it's pretty much a paradise for G. LOL He seriously loves animals.

Anyway, back to us...I'd reserved a room at a hotel that was supposed to be like a 'mountain retreat', which I thought would be fun because our honeymoon was in the mountains. I don't know how 'mountain' it was, but it was a nice enough place. We relaxed a lot, had a nice dinner, shopped some on Saturday. It was great...not long enough, but great. We headed back to where the kids were and stayed the night and headed back here yesterday morning. Below is a picture of us at dinner, at Brother Sebastians, which is a restaurant in an old monastery building. Good food, interesting atmosphere...and hey, the chant 'music' was only being piped outside, so we didn't have to listen to that the whole meal, which I would NOT have found nice at all...

Okay, so we got back around noon, and got everything carried in, and then I had to get busy making E's birthday cake, as his 'kid' birthday party was scheduled to be at 3. It was my first attempt at a birthday cake for a kid (always have called upon HyVee before). I realize it wasn't anything sophisticated, but still, I'm reasonably proud of my first attempt...I'm kind of thinking of finding a cake decorating class. It might be fun!

And yes, I realize the number 6 candle is backwards in the second picture...and I'm irritated with myself for it, but what do ya do?

Anyway, I hired a balloon twister for the party and he was FABULOUS. He's a college student (I think maybe even just a freshman), but he has quite a little small business around here. Nice kid, very talented. We chose his newest party 'package', the Ben 10 party. Ben 10 is a cartoon network character that is part alien and uses his watch, or omnitrix, to transform into 10 different alien forms that fight the bad guys. Below is my son, as Ghost Freak. LOL Gotta love it...And here's my other boy, XLR8!!! :)
After all seven costumes were made, they all suited back up and played a game. Quite a little crowd of aliens!!!
And finally, here's E with "Ben 10", his 'surprise' at the end of the party.

It was a great time. Can't say I'm not glad the parties are done for another year. Well, his actual bday is Thursday (do I really have a 6 year old? I'm not old enough for that am I?), and I suppose we'll go out for dinner or something...placing bets on Carlos O'Kelly's again...

So it was back to life today. We got school done this morning, had co-op this afternoon, and took our turn watching our friends' kids -- we do a childcare trade with some friends so that each of us couples get one date per month in which we don't pay a sitter. Our boys match up really close in age, and it works out great. It's been a busy day though. I didn't try to do laundry today. Just couldn't fit it in, but I'll need to try tomorrow. It's library day tomorrow, and soccer practice in the evening. Busy busy. G and I have some sort of cold thing going on. Nothing crazy bad, just there.

Okay, so that's a pretty good update I hope. :)