For the Love...

Crazy, crazy week. I have never in my life had to keep a calendar to remember the things I have going on. I typically don't forget things, but with the addition of my new calling (wowsers!), babysitting everyday, two of Tom's work activities, a birthday party, my own work, a girl's night out, an Enrichment activity and a few other things, I felt like my head was spinning. I forgot things right and left. I used to laugh at my mom and her giant planner, but now I'm understanding...and I only have 1 kid. (Does the line "go get me my green notebook" sound familiar to any of my siblings?)

Here are a few highlights of some of the fun things that I did remember this week.

Have you seen the 80's movie "Mannequin"? It's only the best movie ever! hehe The movie is about a guy and this mannequin that only comes to life when he's around and nobody else. He gets so frustrated that nobody believes him and that nobody ever gets to see this person be animated. Well, I was thinking the other night after Reese sat on Santa's lap, "Oh my gosh, that's my little Reese." She can be so shy as soon as we step out the door. It's fun for me to be able to show the silly, fun side of her that we see at home on this blog though.

Thursday afternoon Tom's work had an afternoon reserved at the Children's Museum. We were positive that she would scream her little head off as soon as we put her on Santa's lap. Instead, she sat there and wouldn't look at anybody. Not Santa, not Tom, not me. Nobody! She looked straight forward totally expressionless. We got a big kick out it. Here's some footage of our little mannequin.

A few other activities at the Children's Museum.

Trying to remember what else was on her shopping list.

First art project. She's a natural!

And now brace yourself for "Nerdfest 2007!"

Tom and about 10 other guys got together to play Risk on Friday night. I think they're going to make this a monthly thing.

Kassiah, Hollie, and I just put the kids all to bed upstairs then headed out for a girl's night (of course I mean the kids were in the same house as the guys). We did a little shopping then saw "August Rush." It was so cute when I'd call Tom to see how things were going. His responses were super abrupt and he was always in the biggest rush to get off the phone. I've found that Risk is a very intense game.

We finally got snow this weekend. This is pretty late for our first real snow fall.

All cozy and ready to run errands.

Last night was Tom's work party. It's typically a pretty fancy shindig with good food.

This year, not so much. There were just little appetizers and none of our friends were there. So instead of staying to make awkward conversation with people we really didn't know we took off after only 20 minutes and went out to dinner by ourselves. It ended up being the perfect date night.

All in all, it was a busy week, but pretty fun! But here's to a much more mellow week!