last weekend we went to dinner at the yardhouse with dave and christi. grandma carter wanted the kids for the night, so after school on friday, kobe and i delivered them. kobe was not too happy about returning home kidless. dinner was very good (as usual - because i got the usual - so did darric). on our way home, after dropping off the potters, we swung into cold stone and got a treat.
saturday, before we picked up the kids, darric and i went to the greek bistro for lunch. the food was yummy and so was the baklava i ordered to go. i ate the entire thing myself.
the bertrands and jesse were at g+g carter's. we visited for a little while and then headed home. madi and i ran over to bath and body works to get some new fall goodies. i got a haunted house wallflower, some wallflower refills, a fox wallflower for fall and a glow in the dark skull car scent thing. oh... and 4 different hand soaps. that evening the bertrands and jesse came over to our house to visit. we ordered 24" pizzas from angelinas and none of us could get over how big they were. it was pretty funny.
sunday, madi and i went to check out target's halloween stuff and then over to michaels for a couple things. we picked up firehouse subs on the way home. we wanted cafe rio, but they didn't open until 11.
tuesday morning was super dark outside. it was rainy day schedule when i dropped the kids off. i was a little worried about max knowing where to go, until argenus came running up yelling his name. made me laugh. by the time i got my pumpkin crunch bagel and got back out to the car, it was pouring. the lightning was going off everywhere and the thunder was getting louder and stronger. i couldn't wipe the smile off of my face. kobe on the other hand, acted like a total tard when i let him out to go to the bathroom. he came back in and ran around the room like a pinball that was just shot out.
at school, max got a card color change. once because he was on the wrong page and the second day because he was goofing off with some other kids. he assumed he was going to have to stand on the wall for 5 minutes during recess on thursday, so thursday morning was miserable. he started at home. complaining about those 5 minutes. then in the car, he said he wasn't going to school. i tried to be nice, i tried to joke around, i tried to distract and i was at some points.... mean. he refused to get out of the car, so i helped him. then walked him up to his line and stood there with him. while he punched his backpack and jumped on his lunch box. the bell rang, the kids lined up and his teacher told him to get in line. that didn't happen. his teacher told him again to get in line or he was going to have the assistant principal come walk him to class. he didn't want to listen to either of us and when i walked towards him, he walked away from me. so i snagged him and dragged him out to the car. i don't do well with an audience and there were plenty of parents standing around. i was furious. heavy breathing and my heart was pounding.
i warned him not to talk to me anymore and he didn't, the entire time we waited in the long starbucks line. no complaining from him that i didn't get him anything either. when we got home, i informed him there was no tv or electronic games to be played. and surprisingly, he entertained himself all day long.
the next day (friday), he was a little stressed about those 5 minutes on the wall, but he walked up with madi that morning and madi stayed with him until the bell rang. he ended up not standing on the wall and even had a great day.
after school, we took kenzie to babysit baby paisley. the three of us stopped at purple penguin on the way home. (probably our last visit for this summer) we had faustos/mcdonalds for dinner, then drove up in anthem to drive by a house. darric was very impressed with the mile long park. kenzie got home just before we did.
satuday morning darric had to go run a couple calls. when he got home, we went for a little drive up in anthem again to look at houses (just from the car). matt dropped jodie off at our house and then the two of us left to drive out to cindy's house for rayanne's baby shower. we were late, but they hadn't started anything yet, so we were ok. heidi, andrea, chris, liz and ben were all there. andrea had her new baby. he's just as cute as her other boy.
i love getting to see family. so i was excited to come today. i actually won a game (probably a first for me). it was the "guess how much" game. i felt guilty for winning. liz was off just a few cents more than me. we had to leave early. before she got to our present ;( because i had to be to dan's birthday dinner at dessy b's. i was a half hour late, but at least matt came and picked jodie up from there so i didn't have to drop her off.
sunday, we drove back up in anthem (twice actually). we went to jen + dave's for jacob's birthday dinner.
and that's all i typed up. :)
