Snowman Snow!

This week has been good. It was definitely time to get back to our regular schedules and routines.The Bachelor started again which I am very happy about, not because of the show so much (it's stupid and yet I watch it) but because I go to my friends house and watch it every week. I so look forward to that! So hooray for a new season and a weekly date with my friend. On Wednesday night we had a girls night. We haven't had one for a few months. That is always a good time, we usually just eat snacks and chat late into the night. On Thursday it was my sister-in-law Katie's birthday and all the Beal wives and myself met at Red Robin for lunch. We hardly ever all get together so that was a fun time.

It finally snowed perfect snowman building snow! I really hoped that it would. We woke up to several inches of wonderfully wet snow Wednesday morning. After lunch the kids and I played in the snow. It was a warm day too. I'm telling you perfect conditions!

The indoor park (i.e. a church gym chuck full of toys) opened for another season of cheap indoor fun. I took the three little ones to that on Thursday while Corbin was in school. I try to go there at least once a week. On Friday I ended up babysitting most of the day. A four year old girl was over for 3 1/2 hours in the morning and then in the afternoon Corbin's friend McKay and her 4 year old sister came over for a couple of hours. Their mother is my visiting teacher and she is pregnant and she gets more miserably sick than anyone else I know. She is "fiercely independent" as Scott likes to call her. I was able to convince her to let the ward bring in dinner once a week and she let me take her kids off her hands for a few hours on Friday.

On Saturday I went with a friend to a baby shower. We had a fun time talking there. We talked a lot about labor and delivery which is one of my favorite subjects. Ha. Afterwards we made a pit stop at my house and snagged some lunch. I fed Ryan and then I left with her for a couple of hours to help her shop for a dress. It was fun to get away for a few hours. 

Piper is so happy to be in the big kids' bedroom. I cannot even believe how smooth that transition went. Amazing! All three kids go in their room and go to bed. In the afternoon Piper goes in on her "purple bed" and lays down and takes a nap just great. On Friday while I was babysitting I had her take a nap on my bed and she just laid down and went to sleep great! I think there can be some real lessons learned and skills developed having to adjust to living in a small house. Ryan has been moved into the closet now and let's just say having four kids in this house is just peachy. I mean hopefully we will move into a bigger house someday, but for now less house for me to clean right?

My cute boys.

I love how Ryan is looking at the camera! So cute!

My reading buddy.

Piper did not want to be in this shot. In fact I took her right in the house after I took this picture so she could take a nap.

When I came home from girls night at 12:30 am the snowman was leaning. No surprise it didn't survive the night.

Cute bubba sucking his thumb at church. This little buddy has started sucking his thumb again. I think I'm doomed!

You can't really tell in this picture but Piper has a mouthful of snow. She loves to eat snow.

Cute, wild Piper.

 

Thumb sucker! I have another picture showing him sucking his thumb right next to his binky. He actually pulled his binky out and started sucking his thumb.

Piper with some serious bed head. Gabby's hair looks like this in the morning as well.