Alright, so you may have been wondering what the heck happened to me. Well it was an extremely busy and stressful weekend, and I'm still trying to play catch up!
Day 13: We had Adam's brother, Ben, and our friend Jackie over for dinner. I made a BBQ turkey pizza, and side salad. For dessert we had a pumpkin layered loaf that I made and then the Heet family nutroll! My father-in-law has taken up the tradition of making his mom's famous nutroll and boy does he do a good job. After dinner and the kids went to bed, we played Jenga and Uno. A good time was had by all!
Day 12: What a crazy day! We headed out to my mom's house 1 1/2 hours away for breakfast with Santa. Adam stayed at a coffeeshop to do work while we went to the breakfast. Long story short, he had my phone, I left my mom's house to go get him, the kids were sleeping in the backseat, got a flat tire, the spare was flat, I had to call mom's boyfriend to save me. My mom came to get the kids and I, while Jerry worked damn hard to get the tire off to find out that both the tire and the spare were trash. So they bought us 2 new tires! We headed over to a friends house that night to watch 2 horrible movies, and spent the night out there. Didn't do much just the 2 of us but we spent tons of time together!
Day 11: My brother-in-law Tom graduated with his Master's degree. We are all so very proud of him. It was a long day and we didn't get home until late. We were happy just to spend the night in our own bed!
Day 10: I had a Mom's Night In with the moms from my mom's group. So no real togetherness this night, but after the weekend we had I think that was alright!
Day 9: Brother-in-law Ben came over for dinner. After he left Adam and I made some applebutter again. Don't tell anyone, but that is what they are getting for Christmas from us. I am using recycled glass jars, and made a tag and everything so they look really nice. I will put another post up with all the pictures because I'm jsut too lazy to start all over again!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Where I have been
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Day 19: Playing games
Day 19: Adam and I played 2 games of checkers and 2 games of Jenga. It was fun, and it made my brain hurt. The last time I think I played checkers was when I was in high school playing my brother who was in middle school. No need to really think. Not so when playing games with Adam. He takes everything very seriously so that means I really have to think. The games of checkers was really intense and was a very close call both times. He won the first and I won the second. Then we moved on to Jenga. The first game was really awesome! We got it 26 levels high, and most of the bottom was only 1 piece left. I ended up tipping it after some really crazy moves by the both of us. The second game didn't last as long, because Adam made a really nuts choice and toppled the entire thing relatively soon. Overall it was a blast.
Car update: Adam went this morning and picked up a starter. It took him 4 hours but he changed it all by himself. I am so proud of him. He has now changed the radiator and the starter in our car in the past few months. Not bad considering our 1998 Honda CRV has hit over 210,000 miles!! We do still need to replace the distributor cap, but the part store was out of them right now. When he takes the old starter in and gets a refund on part of it, we can pick up the cap then. Thank goodness! Hopefully that is all that needs to be done for the time being. Cross your fingers for us!
And here is a funny anecdote from L: I was in the kitchen making a pumpkin cheesecake when he came running to the gate at the door. He asked what I was making and I told him it was a pumpkin cheesecake. He told me no that I was making a muffin pie! It was too cute since he must have remembered helping me make the muffins the other day.
