Golden Corral

Ok let's see. Mostly usual happenings around here. Last week felt really long. Partly because I've been pretty bad with sticking to our grocery budget (which Scott increases every year and I still go over). I was trying to do better but I was already over pretty early on. I tried to just eat food we have around the house so that makes an already hard job of deciding what to make for dinner that much harder. I wasn't as hard core as I used to be years ago when I would use powdered milk and powdered eggs if we were out of the real stuff. Barf! I did go to the store and buy a gallon of milk, a carton of eggs, and some cheese to get me through the rest of the week and that definitely made a huge difference. Good news is it's February tomorrow. Can't wait. January is not my favorite, there I said it.

On Wednesday I decided that Scott and I should take the little two with us out to lunch. I figured taking two kids on a date was about as convenient/annoying as having to wait and arrange for a babysitter for all 4 kids. We grabbed a gift card and went to the Olive Garden. It was fun. The little two kids thought it was a pretty big deal too.

On Friday my parents and my sister Trisha came to town for Jory's brother's open house (they didn't have a formal funeral). I went to that and just ended up staying there for a few hours and talking to my family. It was kind of weird not having a funeral because funeral's help me to mourn and really cement it in my head that the person is not alive anymore.

On Saturday morning my parents took all of us to breakfast at the Golden Corral. Corbin especially loved it and said he wanted to go again as we were leaving the parking lot. We went out in celebration of Alex and Lance's birthdays last week.

After breakfast my parents and Trisha came over to my house. I asked my dad if he could help Scott put in a new bathroom sink because our old one was gross. The weather was good so my mom was willing to hang out for a bit while my dad did that. Meanwhile I had my sister and my mom help me figure out decorating one of my walls. After we got our new TV part of the old picture arrangement was hidden by the giant screen. So we went to Hobby Lobby and figured something out. So glad they stopped by, new sink and new wall. Hooray!

Piper quote: "I'm going with mommy, just me and not the beast." (Ryan). Ha.

Cool dude.

Piper making a home or a castle or bed or something for her animals.

These two kill me!

Old yucky sink I couldn't get clean.

Ahhh...new sink!

New wall arrangement.