Friday, April 25, 2025
Easter Baskets
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Easter Egg Hunt
Sunday I attempted to put Ruby in an old dress of mine but it went above her knees, it was just too short and I didn't really have any cute tights or leggings that went with it. So we just took some pictures and then changed her into something else.
Sunday after dinner we did our traditional Easter Bunny Cake. Steven even joined in the fun. It is tradition to make it look like a disaster so it turned out perfectly. The kids gave it a third eye, a unibrow and yellow teeth. We shared our awesome creation with the Jones family when they came over that night.
Wednesday I had Ben drive to soccer practice. Rush hour is not a good time to drive with a new driver. A lot of yelling occured as he turned left on Union Lake. Man left turns can be so terrifying. Thankfully we both survived. I had him drive me to Krogers later that week, a similar drive, and he redeemed himself. I think we will just avoid rush hour if we can. Speaking of teens driving--- apparently Steven hit a brick building? by a stake center and didn't feel the need to tell us. He said he didn't know it had made a mark but we had no problem spotting the new scratches. I wish this teen would be more honest with us.
Thursday after the kids did their school work, I skipped my work out and we went to the mall to look for Crocs for Lucy. She was really desperate for legit ones this year. Thankfully I managed to find both her and Ben a pair on the clearance wall. Ben's are a bit big because the ones in his size were not the manliest of colors so we had to go a size bigger. We also managed to find an Easter dress for me while we were at the mall. It doesn't match the style of dress the girls are all getting for Easter, but the girls were insistent that I should buy it after I tried it on- they said it looked good and I did NOT need to try on any more dresses. I am pretty sure they just didn't want me to try on any more dresses but I liked the way it looked too. After shopping we let Ruby play in the play area, got a pretzel and then went back home.
Thursday night we had nothing going on so I picked up "Sonic 3" at the library for the kids to watch. I was busy getting some things ready for the Easter Egg Hunt the next day so I did not really watch it.
Friday everyone was home because it was Good Friday. I had a lazy start but then did a work out to make up for skipping the day before. Then I worked on more Easter Egg Hunt preperations. I had hung out with Grace Wednesday night and learned they have high party standards so I sort of get into my head about it and felt I needed to do more- not like I could ever throw a party quite as fancy as their parties.
The Easter Egg Hunt went ok, I guess. We had the Bloomfields, Mays, Townes some of the Eakins, some Cherish's family, and Claire. It was definitely a full house. I had bought a paper table cloth from the Dollar Tree that had Easter themed activities and pictures to color and so the kids colored on that while the teens hid their eggs.
About the time I gathered all the kids to give them directions before sending them out, my IBS started to kick in. I would've loved to go die on the toilet but I was in charge of all the things so I suffered. Plus I really didn't want to miss out on all the things I had spent so much time planning. It is hard to lead things and be a good conversationalist when your stomach is major cramping. It was in the 70's and the warmth and tummyache made me sweat bullets. I really wanted everything to go fast but the teens did too good of a job hiding eggs. Ruby was really cute collecting eggs. She could care less about what was inside of the eggs, she just wanted to put them in her basket.
After the kid hunt the teens had their hunt for letters to spell out names of prizes. I had Melissa and Caroline hide their eggs and they did too good of a job as well. My boys were the ones looking for the last 2 letters and it is clear my boys stink at finding things. For some reason Melissa ended up telling her daughter where the last egg was, even though her daughter had already won a prize, that was irritating. Her daughter took the good prize- the Amazon giftcard- and gave Ben the candy she had won. Whatever. Steven got the Lego set. The teens seemed less into their prize hunt this year and so I might have to change it up next year. I am not sure it was worth all the money spent. After that I had Jason throw eggs and the teens tried to catch them with their baskets. When they caught one, they got to pick out a candy. I did this because Ben was sad about not getting candy. Ben said this was his favorite activity. When this was done I ran upstairs to die in the bathroom- at long last. Then it was back outside to finally try to socialize without feeling awful.
Anyways I am glad it is done,and I hope people had fun. I spent the whole night after the party overthinking what a terrible conversationalist I was- it was really hard to focus when I felt so awful- but that isn't unusual for me.
Monday, April 14, 2025
Permit for Ben
Sunday was more General Conference. There was a great talk that morning by Tamara Runia about repentance and our worth. Half way through the last Sunday Session Ben had a driving lesson so Ben and I listened to Conference on the way over and I listened to it while he drove with the instructor. He got a lady as an instructor this time and she was a real character and after his drive she made sure to tell me multiple times what a good young man Ben was(he was the only driver that day). He said he was often confused to what the lady was asking him to do but it didn't seem to affect her opinion of him. He got her again for his next drive and this time there was another driver with him and apparently she just speaks really positive to everyone she works with.
Friday afternoon Ben and I went to the SOS to go get his permit. It is nice that they do appointments so we didn't have to wait too long but we got a hispanic lady with a thick accent and I didn't always understand her questions. I hope I got the right type of permit for him- one that he can use as ID at the airport if needed. I asked her if he could fly with the one I chose for him (because I know there are new regulations) and then she told me I could fly with mine (she had my license too for confirmation purposes). I asked again for HIM and she told ME mine was fine. *sigh* Anyways he has a paper that gives him permission to drive with an adult now and he'll get the real permit in the mail at some point. Unlike Steven, Ben willingly drove me home from the SOS. I may have had some heart palpitations with his braking and turning on curves but we all made it home in one piece, as did the car.
Saturday morning Penny had her first soccer game of the season. As per usual with the first game, it was cold outside. But the sun shining made the 30 degree temps a little less freezing. The triplets were on the team opposing Penny's team so that meant Julie and Asher were there. I found her and Asher at half time and we spent the rest of the time chatting instead of watching the game, while the babies walked around. Penny's team ended up beating the triplets' team 2 to 1.
That afternoon the girls got to watch "A Minecraft Movie" with Tyler. They tried to leave super early to go to it because they were so excited, so I had to convince them to wait a little longer. They ended up really enjoying the movie. From what I hear it sounds like it's a great movie for people who play Minecraft so I am not sure it would be one I love.
That morning we found out we had to clean the curch so after the movie, and after a plumbing job for someone in the ward, Tyler took all the kids to the church to clean. Sometimes I wish they would just use my tithing money to pay for cleaning. It always feels like such an ordeal. When they got back from cleaning, Tyler took me to our favorite burger joing- The Filling Station. It was a delicious way to end the day.