A week flies by

When you sit down at the end of the week and reflect (in my case this involves looking through iPhone pics from the week) It's crazy to think of everything that you crammed in - in such a short amount of time. In the heat of the moment and through the week I feel like the week is flying by & then when I look back at all of the events or memories that took place, it really does astonish me how much was accomplished and really how much time we had in the week. Here are just the moments that I actually snapped pictures of....... (thank you iPhone for begin so incredible handy and convenient!)

Monday - Cookie Dough Balls (Lance asked all vacation if we could make these and I didn't have all of the ingredients, so I made sure the Monday list included these!) After lots of practice with baking, he has finally mastered the skill of rolling a ball :-) Chase has a ways to go - he did enjoy making cookie dough "snakes" though!

Tuesday - The heated blanket! It might be the family gift of the year - EVERYONE wants to use the heated blanket. Especially in cold, -20 temps! And if we leave the blanket out (even when not on) Daisy finds her way to it too! I love Chase pretending to sleep with that BIG old grin on his face.

Lance had a 2 hour delay for school and enjoyed some extra TV time this morning.

"What, the red light is on & it's warm down here, come on?"

Wednesday - Lance's 1st NO SCHOOL day, due to cold temps. Amazingly enough, I didn't take a single picture this day. Although we should have stayed home, we ventured out for most of the day. First to the gym, then to play at the play place at Burger King (almost 1.5 hours, just the boys and they played so well together. It was to enjoyable watching them laugh and have fun together without the arguing and fussing!) Then to the library to get FOX books for Lance's 1st big school project - not sure who us more excited?!?! :-)

Thursday - No nap for Chase (We won't be doing this very often - talk about supper time crabby pants! - but he was SOOOOOO cute at the time and I gave in to his request) And then playing with snow inside! I forgot how much they enjoy doing this - Lance could have played for hours with it. Maybe Chase would have too if he weren't so tired. We did a little family weight lifting and exercise before going to bed...... Lance got a stopwatch for Christmas and we were timing each other on Mountain Climbers. The boys got hot, so decided to do them in their underwear! Giggle city let me tell you.

Chase really just wanted to eat the snow!!

And I can't leave out the fun Hangman game Lance & I played. I have to say, I am just loving watching him learn & grow & being able to play games with him! One of my favorite things about his age right now!

Friday - Chase now likes to read me books while I get ready in the morning - it really is the sweetest thing ever. He had a little trouble holding this huge book! 

& so I don't forget, he's obsessed with the Ghan train & is convinced we're going to ride it together in Australia some day - oh buddy, I can only wish for that moment! 

Lance had his last Tennis lesson and then it was Family movie night at his school. (Dad got pretty lucky finding a friend while walking into the school and he got to enjoy a couple of adult beverages off-site) While the boys and I watched Dolphins Tale 2. Busy, busy, busy day and night.

Saturday - Gma & Gpas house and  night out! We took donuts to Grandma & Grandpas house in the morning, where Grandma continued the teaching process of tying shoes (Lance is not at all excited about doing this - And Grandma has so much more patience with him on this than Keegan & I) -p.s. - Lance loves to wear his shirt & tie from his Christmas concert - maybe I should but him a few more? ;-)

Then, after my 1st photo session of the year in the afternoon (& a flat tire on the way) Keegan and I enjoyed an evening out with friends Brad and Sarah for Brads birthday. Always feels good to get time out together, and a nice sit down dinner without "kid-type" interruptions. Thanks to Sarah for arranging the evening & thanks to the cousins for babysitting!

Sunday - Christmas tree goodbye & a last minute photo session with the tree (including a few tears) Those pics to come later! Then the boys had a blast playing in the snow on the driveway and helping Dad with the chainsaw (Until he turned it on and it was too loud for them - ha!)

They each got a turn chopping with the Ax too.... Pretty cool stuff.

And this was our week - pretty typical really! It included time-outs, crying, laughing, yelling, reading, games, frustration, baths, points being taken away, picking up toys, family dinners (with no TV which is killing the boys), iPad, Leappad, lots, lots more..... & mostly - LOVE!

How did I get so lucky to call this MY life??? I need to think this more often throughout my week, that is for sure. I get so caught up in the "not perfect" moments of crying and hitting and whining & complaining - but when I look back to realize how little time those moments took up & what good moments took up the rest, I should feel nothing but JOY. What we're doing here is living - living each moment & each day that we have been given. It really is pretty amazing.