8-31-08 Week in Review

Well, we're back to school!! Sunday night it suddenly hit me! I realized I hadn't made sure all their laundry was done or that we had everything together for the morning. I had a ton to do to get ready. Monday went great except that I woke up every 10 minutes between 4:30 am and 7 am. That's not counting the half hour I took at 6 am to drive Dade down to the bus stop. We had about a 20 minute wait but since we weren't sure when the bus was coming we went early. During all that waking and sleeping I kept having crazy dreams about taking Dade to the bus. In one of them Ryan's dad showed up at 5am to watch the kids while Ryan drove Dade down and I walked (guess I needed the exercise). There were about 20 elementary school kids waiting with him at the bus stop. It was weird, most of my dreams are. Corben was VERY excited to get to school and "not be bored anymore". I love that he loves school. The house was quieter than usual (though not quiet) without the boys but it sure was a ton easier to keep clean!! The boys came home and both loved school. Several kids commented on Dade's new voice. For dinner we met Ryan's family out at Golden Corral. I really do enjoy the time we spend with them. The boys loved that they had so many options to choose from and Corben found out he loves breaded catfish!

Tuesday I couldn't sleep again. I guess I'm worried that the alarm won't wake me or maybe that it's going to wake up Sylvie so I have to be awake to turn it off before it scares her. I had Dade walk to the bus stop but tried to listen for it so I'd know he made it safely. Of course, I couldn't stay awake and ended up having more weird bus dreams. Let's see, the bus came but as it was pulling up Dade ran in the house because he forgot something. So I'm yelling for him to go and suddenly the bus drives down our street and stops in front of our house to wait for him. I think Wow, what a nice bus driver..and yell to Dade to hurry up. Then the bus leaves. A few minutes later it arrives back at our house after dropping off the other kids and the bus driver comes up to help Dade get his school books together. For some reason Dade's room was covered in Disney characters and I laughed because now the bus driver knew Dade liked Disney. See, my dreams have been weird this week! So then, I'm so tired from all this up and down that I oversleep and only leave Corben with 10 minutes to get ready when I wake him up. He's not a morning person but I managed to get him and the girls in the car and to school before the bell rang. YEAH! Anyway, the boys had another great day at school. So far so good.

Wednesday Dade overslept and only left himself 10 minutes to get ready. Luckily with my constant waking I was able to get him up before it was too late. I told him about Another crazy dream I had where we started excavating the rock and found out that it held the remnants of a medieval castle and some skeletons. I also found a bracelet that was silver, copper, and gold and shaped like a snake. Then I found old documents deep inside the rock that told the story of King Jared and one of his sons, Ed. The bracelet belonged to the Queen who had died when Ed was born. I was trying

to find a way to preserve the documents and keep them from the open air so my mom was helping me look for ziplock bags. Anyway, I apparently thought this dream was so cool because when I got back to the house and went back to sleep before getting Corben up, I dreamed that I was telling someone about my dream. See....weird. Anyway, after getting the boys to school I headed over and took some pictures of my friend's new baby girl. The kids were going nuts so we didn't get as many shots as I would have liked but we did get some really cute ones. Wednesday night, Dade had court of honor with Boy Scouts. He got his Nature badge, his Fishing badge, and his Environmental Science badge. Way to go, Dade!

Saturday we just hung around the house getting chores done and yard work done. Ryan took the girls outside for about an hour and I got some fun pictures. They'd been out there for 45 minutes before I did and since it was so hot out they were dripping in sweat. They didn't seem to care a bit, though!

Ella running to greet me!	Sylvie going for a ride.	Ella dancing
Ella got dirt on her and was upset.	Sylvie loves to hug Ella!	Ella running from Daddy
Sylvie loved running around	Ella played in the rocks, as usual.	So did Sylvie
Sylvie has really gotten the hang of walking.	Who needs a playset when you've got rocks?!	Ryan was swinging Ella around and throwing her up in the air!
She was really loving it!	(I laid on the ground for this shot.)	Ryan didn't realize he was throwing her up so high!
Ella jumping over a dot on the ground.	Sylvie's "concerned" face.	Sharing Ella's love of rocks!

Making sure no one's sneaking up behind.	Just hangin' out.
Running...	Thinking...
And finally....just two more	pictures of Sylvie!

We got some more chores done and then headed out for some more time in the yard. Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE my yard?? We put the girls in the pool and the boys played with the newly fixed go-cart. What an enjoyable evening!

Okay, now that I've flooded you with pictures, I'm done. I'm posting this Saturday night because I've found I enjoy not being on the computer on Sundays. Enjoy!