Our Wednesday and Thursday

Yesterday I took all 3 kids on Kyri's field trip to Black Island Farms. AKA The Pumpkin Patch.

Here's some of Kyri's preschool class...and some of their siblings

Right after I took that picture the battery in the camera died. I was SO sad!!

The kids had SO much fun and could have stayed ALL day!!

Even Tanzi had a good time. She got to hang out in the baby bjorn...and LOVED it!!

The kids got to go down huge slides, play in a bounce house, play in a corn (instead of sand) box, go on a "train" ride, go through a corn maze, swing on huge different shaped tire swings, and check out the animals.

SUPER fun!!

Oh, and let's not forget that we got to go on a hay ride and the kids got to pick out their own pumpkins. I remembered from when we went last year that they said these pumpkins are good to bake with and there's a TON of recipes from this website that call for pumpkin puree that look super delicious that I've been wanting to try.

So, I told the kids to pick the biggest pumpkins they could find. And, apparently, they did because all the other moms were saying things like, "Wow! Your kids both got BIG pumpkins!!"

What good, obedient children I have.

This morning Kyri asked for pumpkin muffins....I guess I better make some pumpkin puree soon :)

Tanzi showing off her new trick: holding her bottle by herself.

(she doesn't do it as much as we would like, though. She likes being spoiled....or she's lazy, I'm not sure which)

Last night Tanzi did a little better than the night before. But I got up at 4:00 to feed her and change her diaper. This is our norm and then she usually goes right back to sleep, but this morning she decided to "play" in her crib for about an hour. She was happy, but, still, if she's not sleeping I'm not sleeping. I thought maybe she had gone stinky because that's what she does in the morning. She wakes up, goes stinky, and plays for about 20-30 minutes before fussing and wanting to get up. So, I went to change her, but she wasn't stinky. I sang her a song and put her back down and she went RIGHT to sleep.

What a silly girl!

It's like she thinks, "Well, I didn't keep mom up all night crying, so I'll keep her up with my jibber jabber!! hehehehehe!"

I just KNOW that's what she thinks :)

This morning Kyri wanted muffins for breakfast. It seems like it's been a while since I made muffins (like a week or something) so, instead of getting some out of the freezer we made some.

Chocolate muffins.

The perfect way to start our morning!!

Today the kids were really good to help me clean and vacuum the house.

Then they got to have a babysitter!

(Our neighbor, Jessica)

They were SO excited about that.

And Gary took me to The Outback for dinner.

We ordered an appetizer (which we don't normally do, but it WAS my birthday dinner), but they didn't have the one we wanted and the other ones didn't sound as good, so we ended up not getting one.

However, that was one of the best dinners I've had...in a LONG time.

I got a Mahi dish that was topped with sundried tomatoes and artichokes, mixed veggies on the side, and rice pilaf. Oh my goodness...so SO good!!

Gary got a steak dinner (which I had a coupon to get it for free, of course) and I think he really liked that. I mean, it IS a steakhouse so the steaks better be good, right?

Then we got a sundae for a free birthday dessert.

YUMMY!!

And it was just SO nice to go out to dinner without the kids.

So peaceful...and enjoyable.

THANK YOU, LOVE!!

Tonight I took dinner to our neighbors.

I made Creamy White Chili, biscuits, and took them a bag of salad and bottle of salad dressing. Oh, and I gave them some of our yummy cake bites for dessert.

It was for a family of 6. Three adults, 2 teenagers, and a pre-teen. And half of them are Polynesians! I'm a little worried I didn't make enough food for such a crowd.

But I LOVE taking dinner to people. I feel like it's the one, simple way I can serve. I sometimes feel bad for not serving others more because I get so busy with my own little family. And so I will always be one to volunteer to take a meal to someone....

Let's hope they like it!

A while after we put the kids to bed I needed to go downstairs for something and I realized that the light was on in Kyri and Graysen's room! Kyri was already asleep when Gray went to bed, so I was a little suspicious about what Gray might be up to, but when I went in there he was nearly asleep in his bed. Not sure what that was all about, but I do know that he can barely reach to turn the light on and can't quite reach to turn it off :) He may have needed it on to see his "workbook" that he just had to sleep with, which is actually a funny cleaning how-to book!! Hahaha!!

And right now Gary is downstairs doing homework (supposedly) and here I am updating the blog while watching The X Factor.

What a Life!!