Week in Review (Aug. 3-9)

I have been getting serious about getting caught-up on blogging/pictures from this summer. The trouble is, I took an awful lot of pictures this summer, and several are for other people. (Jared, I will try and have Lake Powell pictures posted/emailed by the end of the week--I am still editing them). In the meantime, I don't want to get behind on what is going on here and now. Maybe I will do a weekly review of what is going on now, and do catch-up posts during the week. (Ah! The best laid plans...we'll see if Tessa and the rest of them want to cooperate).Here are the three monkeys, now! It is amazing to me how fast Tessa is becoming one of the kids, instead of just a baby. You should have seen her laughing as she attacked me tonight. First she tried to eat/slime my nose, and then she would stick her fingers up my nostrils. Ouch! (Time to cut those nails). She thought she was hilarious. Particularly because I was laughing too hard, I was too slimey, and in too much pain to effectively stop her. Anyhow, I don't know what is on Trenton's mind in this picture or why he is playing with scissors. I don't think I noticed them until after I had taken the picture. I was in too big of a hurry to capture this fleeting moment of sibling love and harmony, before it dissolved into tears or discord.

So here's my wrap-up of the week:

MONDAY: The first day of school (see previous post). We were also invited to a Diamondbacks game that night, by our Realtors, Tyler & Sarah Whitmore of O48 realty (btw, they love referrals, so tell them we sent you, if you are in need of a realtor).
It was fun to go see the game as a family and to hang out with so many of our friends. Thanks Whitmores!
Kira picked out this t-shirt for Tessa to wear to the game.

TUESDAY: Our anniversary (see previous post), but not the day we celebrated it. I took Tessa in for her 9 mo. check-up (see previous post) and then met up with Barry's mom, Mikelle, & Jackson, since Jackson had just gone to see Dr. Struble, too. Jackson is trying to catch-up with Tessa, but she still has him by a good 3 lbs. We went to lunch and then found a lesser-known fabric store in Tempe, that has a lot of decorator fabrics, some as cheap as $1 or $3/yard. Hard to shop at though, since the swamp cooler doesn't work well. I left with lots of swatches to play
with.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Kind of a blur. I made Alicia's yummy salad for our behind-the- back-fence neighbors, who just had a baby. For our anniversary, I had requested that we get the electrical issues in the bathroom fixed, so we could enjoy our jetted tub. Barry had the thought to call the original electric contractor who had done the work on the house. They sent someone out the same day, and didn't charge us to fix it. Yea!
Trenton got to be the first to try it out. I think Tessa was jealous. And just to clarify, Yes, I know he needs a haircut (it's on the list), that is a sucker in his mouth (lap of luxury for a kid) and the tattoo on his arm is temporary.

FRIDAY: We got word that Milo, had been born, early that morning. I spent the day cleaning, moving furniture and boxes, and unpacking candles in an attempt to turn our master bedroom into a resort for the weekend. It wasn't quite perfect by the time I had to give-up and get ready for our anniversary date. But it was a huge improvement over the chaos it had been. We took the kids to Amber's place and went to Carrabbas for dinner. Amber had given us a gift certificate for Christmas (which included babysitting). If you go, the pollo rosa maria is fantastic! And I am still mourning the fact that I left my doggie box at the restaurant. :-(

We returned to Amber's and picked-up Tessa, but left the other two to spend the night at Amber's. After we got Tessa down, we enjoyed our "free resort" with a jacuzzi tub, fireplace (like we needed that!), and in-room movie.

SATURDAY: We would have had an even lazier morning, if Tessa would have let us, but it was still nice to sleep in little and not have so many responsibilities. Barry did spend a bit of time doing yard work. We met Amber and the kids in the early afternoon after they saw "Space Chimps" They had a fantastic weekend with Amber and weren't too excited for it to end. We all went to IKEA for a new computer table for Barry and let the kids play in the play center while we decided what we wanted, and I pitched many of my other decorating/organizing needs/wants to Barry. A couple of other errands, put us getting home not too long before bedtime. We did get to watch some of the Olympics before bed.

SUNDAY: I've been dragging today as Tessa had a difficult night. We taught primary and I have been working on blogging. We heard from our renter that the washing machine over there is leaking. It did one time for us, too. So we probably had better replace that asap. Anyone have a reliable cheap washing machine they want to get rid of?

So I'm not sure if this week in review format is going to work, if I continue to be this long- winded. Maybe this will be a nice boring week. When was the last time we had one of those?