Boyless Weekend

After a very long week of no babysitter, Mike traveling and Fall Break starting for the boys we were all excited for the planned long weekend at Papa's for the boys. They were chomping at the bit all week to go and got packed almost 2 days early. Finally on Thursday afternoon, it was time to meet him in Provo.  Papa wanted to take Faith too, but I just couldn't part with her for 3 long nights just yet.

They headed off with Papa and Uncle Ryan and Faith and I returned home. Mike was still gone so we ordered us a pizza to be delivered, watched a movie and played together until she crashed. I stayed up to wait for Mike to get home and tell me about his trip then we both were exhausted and went to bed.

Friday Mike took the day off to be with his 2 favorite girls and recover from his trip. We got ready in the morning and headed downtown for some shopping a the City Creek center. It went great and we enjoyed a little lunch at the food court while we shopped. Then we decided since we were out and about, we should take our rings in for a much needed cleaning and inspection that we were way past due on and drove to Shane Co. While we were there, we started looking around and ended up finally finding some wedding bands that would go with the new ring we bought me 4 years ago. It didn't come with one and we have been looking for something that worked ever since. So Mike surprised me by saying he would buy it for my birthday/Christmas presents this year. So we left my ring there to get it soldered together. After that, we then came home for a little while for Faith's afternoon nap and to relax. Then it was off again. We have been needing to buy some new curtains for our new master bedroom since moving in and decided it was time. We set off hoping to find a quick score at Target, but came up short. That then led us to Bed Bath and Beyond where we were only semi-successful. Mike then took us out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse for some yummy prime rib. We then decided to make one last-ditch effort and stopped by Shopko. Shopko saved us on the curtains again. So far, that's twice they have been the only ones that had the sizes and what we were looking for in this house curtain-wise. So we came home to hang curtains and started a movie together....and well, I didn't make it and was snoozing within the first 30 minutes of it. Good thing it was one from our collection.

Saturday, lucky Mike got to spend with his girls again. We did more shopping. The chore-kind and not the fun kind though. We got the groceries bought and had a little lunch at 5 guys. Then we came home, I made us a nice dinner of stuffed pasta shells and brownies for dessert. We then watched Snow White and the Huntsman together. I hadn't seen it yet and he had borrowed it from a co-worker. I really enjoyed it. After Faith went to bed, I stayed up making a couple loaves of pumpkin bread. One for me and one to share with Papa and Grandma Judi as a thank you for watching the boys.

From what I hear, the boys have been having a blast. They got to go hunting and watch Uncle Ryan miss an elk. They partied for Papa's birthday. They got to go to Grandma Nette's Halloween party. And they got to play, play, play with their cousins and of course get spoiled.

This weekend was a nice break for us and the boys. Little girl has been so amazingly happy. I think she was ready for a brothers-break too. We are missing them today though and excited to go pick them up and hear about their weekend. Papa says no if, ands or buts...he's taking baby girl next time too....we'll just see about that. :)

Thanks Papa and Grandma Judi. We really do all love it when they get to go on these weekends with you! You are the best.