Our Weekend

My MIL came to pick up the kids this last week, so Ben and I were childless for two full days. It was kind of nice. At first I did not know what to do with myself. They’re usually there to entertain me during the day and keep me going. When they were not here, I was a little lost for a short period of time but managed to deal with it and move on. Plus the other added advantage was that Ben and I actually got to spend time alone, together, without the kids asking a million questions or wanting something. We went to the movies and saw Get Smart, so funny. And we enjoyed a night at Shakespeare in the park. That was so much fun. We have not done that since before we had kids. We never did make it down to Cedar City to see the Shakespeare festival, while we were in Utah. Then on Saturday we did go and look at houses; the first time since we have been here to have a chance to do that. Nothing really knocked our socks off, so we’ll see what happens. Then after looking at houses and lunch, we made our way out to the kids. They were great, and had so much fun playing at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Isabelle did not want to leave. I’m sure if I let her, she would have stayed.


While we were at Grandma’s house, we all did so much fun stuff. Isabelle played outside in the water and did really well at entertaining herself. Then on Sunday, after it stopped raining, we went fishing. I must say this is the first time that I actually had good fun fishing. Usually I do not like to fish because it is a slow process and I just do not have the patients for it. But this time it was actually fun. Isabelle actually caught the first fish, and did really well for the rest of the day. I mostly fed the fish, either with worms or minnows. I could not get a fish on the hook to save my life. But finally I caught my first one. Then the second fish got away, and the third fish was discovered to be the smart ones that were stealing all my bait. Who would have thought? This time we actually brought fish home to eat. Although for some reason we did not have fish Sunday night. I think Grandpa wanted to share with Grandma, but she was not feeling well. Then after lunch we went to play golf. The kids and I only made it through about nine holes, Bear was really tired. But they had so much fun. Of course since it rained, Bear and Isabelle found all the puddles to play in and were messy wet in a few minutes. Bear kept calling the club a bat which was really cute, and Isabelle kept trying to hit the ball left handed. Thanks dad for that one, he’s trying to teach her how to be a switch hitter. They had so much fun.