It's been a busy weekend for us! The boys left to spend the holiday with their Daddy Scott and, as usual, I planned for way too much. I always try to plan our "fun" things and big projects on the days that the boys are gone, so that I can spend more time with them when they're here. Here are just a few of those things we got to this weekend...
Friday night we were able to go on an actual date! (Imagine that.) We went to dinner (ate too much) and saw the movie "The Bucket List". It wasn't our first choice of movies for the evening, but it happened to have the right showtime. We were pleasantly surprised though - it was a good movie with lots of laughs and a very nice ending (I thought).
Saturday morning I went ice fishing with my Dad again. It was good that Johnny was gone this week because it was FREEZING! The fish must love the cold however because we caught a total of 21 fish that morning! Dad won in the overall competition (he caught 11 to my 10 fish) but I won with the largest fish of the day at 22 inches. What a day for fishing!
Saturday afternoon consisted of sudoku races with Michael, watching "Becoming Jane" with Kristie, and making a fool of myself to get the attention of Kristie's little Vincent. That has to be one of the cutest babies I've seen in a long time!
Saturday evening was spent in the packed, screaming, "white-out" crowd at the Marriott Center cheering on BYU to a 29 point victory against UNLV with my sisters. It was a great game and we had amazing seats! (Thanks Michael!)
Sunday at church was full of scrambling. Michael was conducting in Elder's Quorum and there was no prepared lesson so he had to teach on the fly. A bunch of our primary staff ended up sick so we were all scrambling there too. I ended up throwing together a quick message, playing the piano for singing time, helping a teacher prepare for her third hour lesson, and sitting with a class to help out a substitute. Luckily we all made it out of there just fine.
Sunday evening we tried out the new "Transformers Risk" game that I got Michael for Valentines Day. (Romantic, huh?) Michael and I played with my younger brother Matt who made the best, most devious treaties anyone has ever seen to sweep the booth of us off the board! It was very fun though!
Monday morning was spent ice fishing again. It was beautiful weather! Too bad the fish like it when it's colder. We only caught 8 that day - 6 for me and 2 for my dad. (Hah! Beat you this time Dad! ) The beauty of the snow made up for the lack of fish. As we first drove in, the sun was just coming up and it cast the most beautiful soft-pink glow to the snow, along with making the snow sparkle. It made me feel like we were driving to some sort of Disney fairy-land. Then, as we were walking to our fishing spot, the lightest of breezes picked up these miniscule bits of snow and sifted them through the air. The sun, though not making it pink anymore, made those bits of snow sparkle in the air all around us. It was breathtaking!
Monday afternoon was spent resting (thank goodness!), ignoring laundry, and playing games with Michael. Then Monday night we had our last soccer game for this session. I was exhausted from the weekend, but still played pretty okay. Luckily the others on my team were playing better and we actually won! Kudos to Uncle Johnny for his amazing goal!
-Emi
The boys wanted to watch the "Pirate" movie today ("Muppets Treasure Island"). I forget sometimes how funny that movie really is! (The part where Kermit and Miss Piggy are strung upside down, about to die, and are singing "Love led us here..." always cracks me up!) After the movie there was a lot of pirate fighting with army action figures - which had to stop for lunch. Johnny ate as fast as he could then grabbed a paper and pencil and drew this picture all on his own. I thought it was great! There's a captain and a princess and a pirate all on a pirate ship. See if you can figure out who's who.... :)
