Busy Week!!!

What a busy week and weekend it has been. As I prepared for our big trip to Kansas for my Grandma Seymour's 80th B-day (I am in charge of the invites and making the video of her 80 years), I've also had to make my next 30 meals (in 3 days no less; I dedicated a post to this topic about 2 months ago if you would like to know what I'm talking about) and I've been trying to get my body back into swimsuit condition by going to the gym religiously. I've done all of this while also trying to keep my social life going. So here's what's been going on this week.

Here is the invite I made for my G-ma. I wrote this poem:

The back and front of the card. Wasn't she a doll, and such a gorgeous woman! And may I also mention that Costco is the best.
Then on Wednesday, Lydia got to hang out with her cousins Will, Lizzie and Matthew for a little play date.Since Jake and I won't be here for Father's Day, I went ahead and gave him his present. After a lot of peer pressure from people who's names will remain nameless, I caved and got Jake a Wii for Father's Day.
Here he is as happy as ever. The pic on the right is an action shot of Jake's face when he saw for the first time what he got.

Then on Friday Lynette invited us to see Madelyn's last dance performance at Lagoon. And of course none of my pictures turned out, but just know that she looked so adorable and she did an awesome job. She's such a cutie!

Then after, a lot of us stayed and rode rides for a few hours.

Here are four of the girls' riding the bumper cars.

Lincoln and Lydia on the whale ride...Lynette and Maddie on the Dino Drop.

Then on Friday night we had the Watts and Davies over for dinner then we went off to our very first family outing to the Drive-in. For the first time, we got to put our Pathfinder to good use. We flattened out the back and turned it onto a bed so we could lay back and enjoy the movie...or so I thought. On the way to the drive-in, Maddie fell asleep, then Lincoln fell asleep while watching his own little movie in the car and our cute little Lyddie stayed WIDE AWAKE the whole movie (it didn't end until 11:30pm) and wasn't on her best behavior, to say the least. She was so wild and would not sit still for one minute so I didn't get to see much of the movie! Why in the world would she not fall asleep. Oh well, maybe next time.

Here we are cozy in our little suv bed.

The whole gang, minus the 2 sleeping kids (why me?!)

On Saturday, I met up with my friend Michelle from my old job and we had lunch at the Dodo (Gateway). And let me tell you, they have the best sandwiches. So yummy! I think we've turned this into a tradition. The past few times we have done lunch, we've gone to the Dodo. Why not? It's delicioso!

Lydia loves her Aunt Michelle.

On Sunday, we had our montly Family Home Evening with the Johnsen's...lesson, dinner and then we just hang out and talk.

Here are just a few of the cousins eating dinner.

Uncle Bones playing tag with the kids.

Dog pile on Bones.

Thanks Duck and Bird for doing it at your house. We had a lot of fun and as Jake would say,

"We love backyards!"