Presidents Day is celebrated by a whole week here (teachers furlough days) and unfortunately Ben was out of town for a couple of those days. The first day, I got creative with Xander's consequence. He hasn't kicked a ball since. :) And then the next day, we went and decorated Grandma & Papa's car while they were working in the temple. The kids had a lot of fun being 'sneaky' and the folks in the parking lot were all jealous we weren't decorating their car with homemade signs.
oh, and she got plates & forks on the table too. She knows how to get down to business. 
What a whirlwind weekend though. We decided to go the Tuesday before. I called Mrs. Laura Hobson and she said we could stay with her. I did NOT tell my sister we were coming and we just showed up in her house on Friday. It was so fun. My kids picked up where they left off with their Felix cousins in November and it was awesome to see. It was really cool to see Laura and her 4 kids too--we haven't seen each other in 4 years (that was 3 children ago). And our boys (who are the same age) totally hit it off. We also got to see the Robbie & Lindsay Thoreson and meet Officer Rodriguez. Who would've thought that a deserted road in between Eagle Mountain "the Ranches" and Eagle Mountain "City Center was 40 mph? ReallY!? That's ridiculous. Thankfully, he offered to give us a lecture instead of a ticket. But even though Ben was driving--I got the lecture. Why? Because Ben said he was going that fast because of our misbehaving child in the back (no names mentioned-but really Eliza putting boogers on your brother is NOT nice) and the officer said that it was my job to deal with that and NOT Ben's. Thanks Ben. I failed as a co-pilot. But we had lots of fun and the drives weren't too bad. Violet got to fly home with my folks because she is not 2 yet so we were down one on the way home. I'm super glad we made it and glad that we could be at Ryan's baptism..
