A Big Father's Day Weekend

This has been a very busy weekend for the Ouren household. It started off on Friday when my physical therapy got cancelled so we were free that afternoon. We were able to meet Dad at the mall for a couple errands and then went and had a nice family dinner at Hoppers. After that it was off to the bowling alley for Allison's bday party. Mike and Caleb bowled 2 games and the hat was a hit! I watched boys and visited.

When the boys got too fussy around bed time we headed out. We had separate cars so Mike and Caleb went to rent some movies and I took the babies home and got them ready for bed. Mike came home with 7 movies for us to watch in the next week (yeah it's been too long since we rented any), plus Caleb picked out an Elmo video. We got Caleb in bed and we stayed up to watch the first one. We watched "Slumdog Millionaire." And I have to say it was really good. Much better than I was expecting.

We started off Saturday morning early with running a bunch of grocery shopping errands. We had put off shopping for quite a while so we needed tons of stuff. We started out at Walmart for some items. The boys got tired after about an hour of being there and fell asleep. I love the pic of Zaden. I bought some batting and when I sat it in the cart with him he took advantage and just laid his little head down on it and was out for the count.

After Walmart, we came home to unload and put away the groceries from there and let the babies sleep some more (which of course they did not). Then it was off to Costco for a few more grocery items and then to Harmons, where they were having a great sale on cereal plus I had some coupons on top of that, so we stocked up.

We came home and did a few chores then took a little family power nap. Then it was off to a picnic with the Salt Lake Mother's of Twins group. It was pouring rain, so not many families ventured out. Maybe only 10 or so. But I got to meet a few people and get my name out there to volunteer to help in the future. We also bought some raffle tickets. We spent $15 on tickets and ended up winning a $25 gift card to Chili's and a $20 gift card to Pizza Hut. So the way I see it, we went in with $15 and came out with $45. We trippled our money and now we have some gift cards to use on those nights when neither one of us feels like cooking.

After we got home from that Grandma Nette and Papa Kevin came to our house. They had driven up to spend the night and get away for their anniversary. So after a nice dinner, they stopped by here to play with the boys for a while before heading to their hotel. After they left we put in movie #2 "Marley and Me" Also very good. It made me cry twice. We had anticipated that Caleb would fall asleep during it given the hour but he fooled us and watched the whole thing. Not getting to bed until 11 pm.

This morning we got up early and went to breakfast with grandma and papa. Then they came back over for a while and watched "Marley and Me" again with Caleb upon his request and grandma cried. I made Mike some brownies with famous Grandma Gert frosting. He already bought his own present a couple weeks ago when he bought himself a new cell phone. But he did sneak in this nap with Zaric while I was baking brownies and the others were watching the movie. Much deserved and needed on Father's' Day.

Happy Father's Day Mike. We love you and think you are the greatest "DAH", "Dad", "Daggy", "Daddy" ever. And Happy Father's Day to any other dad's that may happen to read this blog.