Week 22, May 28-June 3

Sunday, May 28th-

• Some church clothes were wrong sizes but we managed to all get to church anyway.
• Deni’s family came over in the evening for dinner and “birthday” cake.
• Opened the stinky oysters with the pearls

Cleod building with the robot set

Monday, May 29th-

• Sour dough again!!
• Cleaned up
• Park time, played, helped Grandpa
• Left after dinner time and got home late

Grant taking over the phone

Fun at the park

Silas and Grandpa working on Grandpa's website

Hanging out 

Tuesday, May 30th-

• Ryan piano with Peggy
• Ryan's first day with Clarica for piano lessons (He will have 2 teachers for the month of June)
• Home teaching with Silas to Baxleys and Smiths.

Molly & Cleod playing catch at piano lessons

Wednesday, May 31st-

• 

  Swinging at the park

  Playgroup at zip line park
• Wal-Mart with everyone- stocked up on tons of stuff for summer
• Pack meeting and Cleod to YM

Watermelon relay at Pack Meeting

Thursday, June 1

• Chores and computer time
• Babysat at gym and trained new girl (Yea!)
• Late for book club, but had a good visit with the ladies
• Silas went to sleep early with headache

Friday, June 2

• Chores
• Cleod and I went to gym
• Math games instead of regular computer games
• Play date with Warbys
• Mom date with Ryan and Cleod to get baskets for the baby's room and to get ice cream for Ryan’s reward from our reading chart

New baskets from TJMaxx

Saturday, June 3

• Grant to Cub Scout Day camp
• Cleod to gym by himself (he thinks he's awesome)
• Chores, computer time
• Organized the playroom, now baby’s room!!!
• Went through kids shoes, got rid of some gross ones and got some out that fit Cora and Molly
• Rested
• Date night with Josh and Cassie Meredith to Pizza Factory and a walk around SUU
• Tiki Shack with the kiddos for a late treat

"Where are we going for a treat...at 9:06pm?" -Grant on the way to tiki Shack. This made up laugh because it was kind of late for a treat but also because Grant recognized that it was a little crazy.

Week 21, May 21-27

Sunday, May 21st-

Good day. The morning went really well and it was mainly because I woke up earlier than the kids and was all ready before having to help them. This is what I used to do all the time but it’s been hard for me to wake up early since I’ve been pregnant. But today it worked again and we didn’t have any fights and even got to church 5 minutes early. Yea!

This evening we had Deruchette and some of the kids and Josh and Tina and their kids over for cake and ice cream for Molly. We had a good time. Molly is a crack up. She kept trying to take pieces of the cake to eat and then even licked it. When she blew out her candles she spit on the cake (not on purpose). Oh and when we sang to her she was embarrassed, but in a happy way. It was adorable.

Holding Tina's baby girl

Hiding during the singing because

she was embarrassed

Cutting the cake

Monday, May 22nd-

Had to tend this evening because the Monday night girl quit and is really sick with morning sickness so I didn't want to ask her to work the 2 weeks while trying to find someone. People just keep quitting. It's crazy!

Tuesday, May 23rd-

Tonight Silas took charge like a champ because I wasn't feeling well. We were supposed to go on a grocery shopping date because this morning Grandma Warby took too long for me to do my normal shopping. Once Silas got home from work I had a headache and my tummy was rumbling (in anger with me-a normal response in the evenings). My nice husband fed the kids, washed the dishes and put the kids to bed. Then he ran to the store for milk and a treat for Ryan's class. He's a keeper.


Wednesday, May 24th-

Last day of 6th grade

Last day of 5th grade

Last day of 2nd grade

Last day of Kindergarten!

• Kids to school...LAST DAY!
• Gym- talked to Lasse about daycare concerns
• Cora to school
• Teacher gift cards
• Help with Kindergarten party
• Gave teachers their gift cards
• Boys stayed to play kickball with friends
• Cleod home, picked up kids and went to orthodontist- paying less for Cleod’s upcoming braces than I originally thought (YEA!)
• Dairy Queen with Silas to spoil our dinner
• Cleod to Kyle's and me to the Verizon store (for 2 hours)
• No scouts (because I was gone and Silas forgot)- so sad
• Kids stayed up late and I asked Katie to do Grandma in the morning so when I told them they could sleep in they were so happy. I am too.

Some pictures Ember's mom took after school

Thursday, May 25th-

SUMMER! Today was so nice! We leisurely got up and started the day. I did have the kids do their chores but I didn't hound them to get them done quickly. Ryan had piano with Peggy at 11am but that was the only place we had to go. I got laundry done, we had quiet time (reading and writing in the afternoon) and then I let them watch a movie while I worked on the program and did some genealogy.

There was a little more bickering than I expected but overall it was a good day. Silas and I went on a date when we got home from work. It wasn't magical. We got Thai food at Sweet Basil and did wasn't very good...and it's always good so that was a bummer. Then we got ice cream from a new place on town and it was kinda gross. And then I got another headache. Haha. Poor Silas.

Friday, May 26th-

Cute Molly asleep on the way
to Vegas

On our way to Las Vegas right now (I'm writing on my phone). This morning the kids and I went to the gym so I could train a new girl and Cleod got to work out for the first time because I just added him to our membership. He was pretty excited.

I also chatted with Lasse again about the daycare stuff again and agreed on a new arrangement so that I get paid a little more for doing extra shifts while I'm waiting to fill positions. And I made a plan to try to help retain daycare workers.

For lunch the kids scavenged (they have been getting really good at that since I've been pregnant) and I went to Sarah Hopkinson’s house for lunch with a few ladies from the ward. It was really fun.

Now we're on the road and excited for break from life. This might be the only weekend for the whole summer that we can go to Vegas with Silas so I'm glad it worked out.

Opening a present from Grandma and Grandpa Rowley

Saturday, May 27th-

• Target for clothes and swimming stuff for Cleod (I had the kids pack their own clothes and it wasn't a huge success with the girls so we needed some clothes and I realized that it's the first time we've been swimming this year and Cleod has grown a TON.)
• Picked up Nothing Bundt Cake
• Lunch
• Swimming with Deni and Jeff and the kids at the family pool at in Grandma's neighborhood.
• Hanging out and showers
• Dinner

Week 20, May 14-20

Sunday, May 14th-

Mother’s Day started out a little rough… but ended up being a fine day. Sometimes I hate holidays like Mother’s Day because I think everything is going to be wonderful or that the kids won’t fight or whatever. Then when that doesn’t happen I feel disappointed in the day. After church I took advantage of both being pregnant and it being Mother’s Day and I slept for about 3 hours. When I got up Silas was just finishing making dinner.

In the evening we were going to watch a movie or something but I decided I wanted to catch up on organizing photos and getting more done on the blog so the kids watched more Relative Race and I worked on the computer.

Monday, May 15-

Peeked at the baby during my appointment today with their old ultrasound machine. It made me so happy! I'm 18 weeks so we were actually trying to see what the gender was even though my normal ultrasound is on Wednesday. I sent a quick text to Silas and he was over at the office in 5 minutes which was super cute. We didn't end up seeing any boy or girl parts but it was fun to see the baby anyway!

Spring Arts Night

Tonight was the dreaded Spring Arts Night, but it actually went really well this year. The kids and I went early and got good seats so we didn't have to shuffle around much. We did lose a seat in the shuffle after one of the performances so Silas and Molly wandered around a little bit that might have been better for her anyway.

The choir was so great and all the kids’ grade performances were fun to watch.

Ryan's selfie during Spring Arts Night

Instead of eating food at the school we went to Lin's and let the kids pick out their own dinners. It was pretty funny. Cleod picked a personal lasagna, Cora got bagel bites and the other kids got lunchables. I got some sweet potato fries and Silas bought a steak. They got to pick out drinks too so they were all really happy.

Tuesday, May 16th-

Found Molly sleeping under her bed today when we were
trying to leave for piano lessons

On the way home from Cleod's piano lesson Grant was talking about what he wanted to make himself for dinner (we have a lot of random dinners since I've been pregnant) and then Molly remembered that I told her yesterday that I would take her to the kindergarten park. So we got home and got a bunch of random food together and headed over to the school for a random/chilly picnic dinner. When Silas got off of work he came over and played catch with the kids (more like threw the football at the boys) until it got too cold. It was fun to do this spontaneous thing tonight.

Picnic dinner at the park

Wednesday. May 17th-

• Been doing more Family history lately, just a few minutes here and there
• Gabe over to play with the boys
• Helped at cub scouts

Thursday, May 18th-

• Poor Grandma Warby- she was in so much pain today
• Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day...
• Rested a lot
• Ryan piano
• Home teachers came for a visit

Friday, May 19th-

• Babysat at the gym- French Braided Cora's hair without a brush or comb. haha
• Cora went to the Aquatic Center for a field trip
• Molly and I visited Silas at the bank
• Cleod went to Paxton's birthday party
• Silas took Molly to get a smoothie and to buy Trolls
• I took the other kids with me to pick out birthday presents for Molly's birthday tomorrow

Cora's braid for swimming and Cora adoring her daddy

Saturday, May 20th-

Molly is FOUR! She was so happy this morning because 4 is her favorite number and she has wanted to be 4 for a long time. Haha. We ended up doing a lot more cleaning today than we were planning but we did take the kids to the cheap theater to watch "Boss Baby" and Silas took Molly on some errands. She asked for Mac and cheese for dinner so we made her that. Both dinner and lunch were picnics on the floor in the living room too.

Admiring the photos of herself from
Grandma Rowley's card

Happy birthday to Molly!

Molly and her daddy

Selfies from Grant from this week

Week 19, May 7-13

Sunday, May 7th-

Overall today was a successful day. Not perfect but it was good. I am happy to be home with the kids. Silas said he got right into the swing of things at church and had more energy than normal.

After church we were pretty lazy together and watched some things in BYUtv.

Molly wearing Cleod's track shirt

Monday, May 8th-

• Morning went well
• Exercised at gym
• Trained new daycare workers
• Helped in Cora's class
• Helped Silas get chocolates for the ward for Mother's day from Deseret Book
• Short nap
• Track clinic
• Shay and Steve’s birthday party

Me and Molly hanging out during the track clinic

Playing games at the track clinic

Tuesday, May 9th-

New stroller!

Track clinic inside due to rain and lightning

• Put together new jogging stroller!
• Molly played at the Shirley’s for about an hour while I cleaned the house and showered
• Track clinic- had to go into the middle school because it started raining a lot
• Took Ryan to a friend’s house to help with a Battle of the Books poster and I went to about an hour of Relief Society
• Pres. Rau came to our house for a visit instead of Silas going to his office for his monthly PPI. We had a good visit and he talked to the kids about how they can help our family and help Dad while he’s the Bishop.

Wednesday, May 10th-

I had a great workout this morning at the gym. Then I had a great visit with Lori at the school park after dropping off our Kindergartners. She makes me laugh!

Tonight the boys at cubs but Cleod wasn’t able to go to mutual because of some poor choices he made this morning.

Thursday, May 11th-

Wrestling match with Dad

Selfie at the park

Big girl on a scooter

Silly daddy with Ryan's founding father wig

This afternoon I grabbed some food from Honolulu Grill and Amber came over for lunch. It was nice to be home because Molly could do her own thing and we could visit.

Ryan with his Battle of the Books team

During school Ryan had Battle of the Books. This year they only had one student team against teachers. I didn't get to go but a mom sent me photos. Ryan had a great time and was super happy about winning!

After school both of the boys had piano lessons at the same time (Cleod had to make up a lesson he missed because of the track clinic) so Silas got off of work a little early to take Ryan. Peggy is retiring soon which is a bummer FOR SURE but it will be nice to have the boys go to the same teacher too.

Friday, May 12th-

This morning I babysat at the daycare at Spirit. I am going to try to tend Fridays for a while. I don’t love the idea but I am having a hard time finding people who want to tend for a membership. On the other hand, I am having a hard time getting some of my “daycare coordinator” duties done so if I am actually there once a week I can do some paperwork and clean the bathroom and such. The girls LOVE being there so that’s not an issue.

This afternoon Molly and I went to a special assembly at Fiddlers that the 5th grades prepared. Ryan had a part in it as Thomas Jefferson and was super cute. He enjoyed learning about US History so much this year and worked hard to earn the Patriot Award. He sure is a nice boy!

After 5th grade US History Program and Ryan with his Patriot Award

Saturday, May 13th-

Tonight was Ward Temple Night. We thought we were going to be driving people down so Silas spent over an hour cleaning the van...something that hasn’t been done for a while. The kids dried the van and even Gabriel joined in. We ended up driving down with the Slades but at least the van is clean. Haha

Kids drying off the van

The session was good and we got Five Guys for dinner with Rusty and Emma afterward. Yum!

Natalie came and babysat the kids which they were pretty excited about. We love that she is fun and reliable so we don’t have to worry about leaving the kids while we go to St. George to the temple. We were chatting with her when we got back that we wouldn’t need her after the Cedar temple was done but then quickly realized that we would have a new baby so we probably will still have her tend while we go to the temple in Cedar, at least until the baby is old enough for us to leave with the kids.