Connor Price Concert

Monday I took Lucy and Andrea to go get their hair trimmed at Grace's salon- they are both trying to grow out their pixie cuts. Grace did a slight touch up with Lucy's hair but her hair still has some more growing to do before she can really even out the layers. It was nice that I got to chat with Grace for a bit though.

Tuesday Penny had her first soccer practice of the season. Ruby had to try on Penny's soccer gear...

I decided to take Ruby with me to Penny's practice so she could get out of the house for a bit. It was cold outside though so we ended up hanging out at the Milford library which is probably the least exciting of libraries. It did not have much that entertained her so she started wandering the library which was not ideal.

Wednesday was a very rainy day and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to run a few errands with Ruby while the girls were at school. That was a poor choice because we got pretty soggy. Fun fact though, at all 3 places that we stopped at, Ruby got complimented by someone for her big eyes. After our soggy errands I had no desire to leave the house again but unfortunately the girls still needed to get picked up from school.

For dinner Wednesday we did our traditional April Fool's dinner- we were a day late since Steven has a night class Tuesday and we wanted him to participate. Everyone had a pretty fun first round. Steven got a bowl, fork and broccoli. Ben got a fork, spoon and a drink. Lucy got ice cream, a spoon and parmesan. Penny got ice cream, a fork and spaghetti. Dad got a drink, spaghetti and parmesan. The kids love this tradition but my brain struggles to get their orders right all 3 rounds with the code (like this year Elsa was ice cream, Ariel was a drink, Rapunzel was a bread stick...). 

Thursday morning the girls had a dentist appointment. We didn't get the chatty hygenist this time which was honestly ok. Ruby has a gray spot on one of her front teether to and I probably should have asked about it while I was there but it stresses me out since it is probably a cavity which means pain and $$$. Instead I just set up a dentist appointment for Ruby with her sisters in 6 months. I know, procrastination for this is probably a bad idea but it is going to be torture for so many reasons. Also Thursday the sun came out and the weather was beautiful so after lunch I sent a text to Julie to see if she wanted to get the toddlers together. She ended up coming by so Ruby and Asher got to hang out for a little bit. It's cute how they follow each other around but don't really play with each other.

Thursday night I had the joy of helping Steven with a big project on earthquakes for his college class that he saved until the last minute. He had written an essay but it needed quite a bit of editing. He also had to make a poster which he of course needed some guidance with. I really hate how he saves things for the last minute and then I feel like they become my problem. I wish I could just let go and let him fail but I really don't want him to fail.

Friday Ben had his friends birthday party. There was a lot of drama leading up to it because the 3 friends Ben had invited decided to invite people that he is not really friends with to his party. I thought it was super rude of them but at least they didn't expect me to buy these extra invitees tickets to the movie. Anyways, they went and saw "A Minecraft Movie" (Steven drove) and then came back to our house for pizza and cupcakes. After that they all worked together on their seperate devices to defeat an Ender Dragon on Minecraft- the dragon fight was honestly the reason for the extra invitees. It's funny that I had put some things from the living room into the guest room to get them out of the way and then all the kids ended up hanging out in the guest room at the end because that is where David had had to put his "device"- he had to bring his whole computer. 

Saturday was a low key day for me. I cleaned the house in the morning and then watched Conference in the afternoon. I liked the last talk by Uchtdorf that really focused on how the people in the church are imperfect but the message of Christ's love is what is most important.  There was also a beautiful message on the sanctity of life which made it pretty clear where we stand on abortion as a church. You can tell Steven was really spiritually uplifted by all the talks ;)

Saturday evening the 4 oldest kids and Tyler got to go to a Connor Price. We paid for the tickets with money Grams and Poppy gave us for Christmas. They all had a really good time and I think have developed a love for live music. Tyler took a fun video of them all singing and grooving along to a song. They also spent more total on merch than all their tickets cost so they will forever remember it. After the concert Tyler further spoiled them and bought them special Minecraft meals at McDonalds.

While they were rocking out at the concert, I was back at home with a whiney toddler who couldn't decide if she wanted to stay in the bath tub or not. Note in the picture she is trying to hold all the Barbies. This is her new thing to grab as many toys/dolls as she can when she leaves somewhere. Usually when I pick her up from her naps she will be holding at least 4 dolls, if not more.

After Ruby's bath, my friend Caroline came over and Ruby decided she did not want to go to sleep. She started saying "mama" pretty pathetically so I decided to go get her and she just laid on my lap while Caroline and I chatted. I wonder if she was just missing the noise of all her siblings.