A Good Day with Sore Arms

Today was a good day.

(Minus my sore arms....I'm sure I pulled my arm muscles.)

I told myself to be me and be brave.

Don't care so much about what others think of me.

So, I wore my bright red lipstick and proudly marched through my day!

I didn't take any other pictures today.

I figure that it's because I was too busy having a good day.

Leila and Molly had devotional today with Kirsten.

I'm not sure if I mentioned that I combined with a friend and we take turns doing lessons on Fridays.

This month we are talking about love, being Valentine's Day and all.

Leila found some wood projects, so today we built little wagons.

I went through a bunch of toys in the girls closet and did some minimizing.

I found out about a consignment type place where I can sell some stuff we are getting rid of.

I just want it out of the house.

The weather was fabulous, so we played at the park WITHOUT jackets.

We made an Oreo lovers dream dessert for family movie night.

Watched The BFG.

Eden finished reading the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

So the other girls went to bed...

...and Eden, Tyson, and I watched the first two episodes of A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix.

Eden's School Student Led Conference

Today Eden had a student-led conference with me today at her school. 

She showed me her desk, what she's been working on, her goals, things she's done, etc. It was fun to see what she does in school all day. 

She has been loving school. It has been a really great experience.  

She has been the AM announcer for the past month or so where she gets to create a video with the announcements and other fun things like "Throw back Thursday" where they get to show a picture of a teacher when they were in elementary and have students guess who it is. 

She's also been working hard on her Kenya project and fractions. 

The librarian recently told her that she now knows more about what books Eden reads and her reading level and introduced her to higher level reading material that she is excited to read.  At home, she's been reading A Series of Unfortunate Events and loving it. She's become quite a bookworm.

Today's other activities:

Exercise at the gym

Mailing Valentines to family

Costco for a car tire check

And a Lipsense party

Keeping Busy

Breakfast.

Core exercise class.

Zumba class.

Kids "Totsercise" class.

Lunch.

Gymnastics.

Valentine's card making.

Dinner.

Relief Society activity.

Home.

Kind Notes and LEGOS

Found this little note written in the middle of my dinners/grocery list.

I can always count on Eden to make me feel better.

Not a lot has happened these past few days.

I went to the gym yesterday for the first time in a very long time.

I'm ridiculously sore.

I cleaned the house today.

It was WAY worse than I care to admit. Now it is manageable.

I got my tires rotated.

And Leila used a Target gift card she's been saving.  New LEGOS.

There's been a lot of Lego playing and dragon play going on at my house.

It has been fun.

Still Recovering

Obviously the sick are still in recovery mode.

How can I tell?

These pictures were taken at 6pm as I was calling them to come eat dinner.

Eden came home from school saying, "I'm tired. I'm gonna take a nap."

Dad came home from work saying, "I am so tired, I need a short nap."

And Molly uncontrollably cries for no reason until she falls asleep on the couch.

Three of the six people in our family were fast sleep. I was the only one sick that wasn't asleep...at six. I admit that yesterday I took a nap mid-day. Yesterday must have been my recovery day.

I wasn't sure what to expect tonight when bedtime came.

So, we rented Pete's Dragon and had a late night movie and dessert.

Eden and Paige fell asleep mid-movie.

Molly and Leila decided they wanted to sleep in the family room.

Tyson's already asleep.

Now it's time for me to head to bed.

Goodnight.

Outing Day

By the looks of things, we probably needed to get out of the house...

Everyone has been doing much better. 

Molly's sickness came and went pretty fast...thank goodness.

So, today we did our regular outing day Thursday.

We kept it simple since I still didn't want to risk spreading disease or overdoing ourselves.

So, we went to the pet store to look at the animals.

The girls even got to hold a rabbit.

It was a great day.

Getting Out...Well, Not Everyone Went Out...

Eden was able to go to school today.

Leila was able to go to gymnastics today.

I was able to go to the store and car maintenance shop today.

Paige was able to play at gymnastics and outside today.

Dad and Molly spent most of the day in bed.

At least some of us are on the mend...