Action Packed Weekend

It started Friday with dinner and a sleepover for Dallin's birthday. He invited some friends over and we had pizza and watched Wall-E. In the middle of it all I left and went to my scrap club, which I love!

Saturday we got up and went to the primary quarterly activity. The kids had so much fun. They had breakfast and got to play games. After that I took the kids to Jungle Playland, great place!, while Eric went to get a new piano. We have great friends who helped him move it and it was a deal because it was freeeeeee! Here he is unloading the piano from the truck... yeah, via remote control, which he says is the "only" way to move a piano! It is a great player piano. I guess the thing didn't even work but within an hour of getting it home my fantastic husband who doesn't know anything about pianos, let alone player pianos, had it fixed and it plays beautifully. People who know stuff tell me it needs to be tuned but my undiscerning ears thinks it sounds great. So far we only have one piano roll: "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans." As you can see, the kids absolutely love it.

Later that night we were supposed to go to dinner at a friend's house but she had other visitors stop by and it got late so we rescheduled and lucky for us our friends the O'Neils stopped by with their beautiful twin daughters and we got to hang out with them for a while. It was really nice because we haven't had many chances to hang out with them since they got the girls.

Then on Sunday we went to church. I was asked last minute to substitute Dallin's class. I was kind of bummed because I had actually read the Sunday School lesson and I love Charles' lessons, but it was ok. At least I got to learn on my own a little bit. I taught the kids a lesson on repentance. I don't think they heard much of what I said though. It is a very easily distractable age and there was one girl and five boys in the class. I do love their regular teacher though. She has a way with them. Dallin loves her too. Then after church I got to have a nap, Eric had a presidency meeting, is it terrible that I have already started counting down, well the months, till he reaches his 3 year mark as president? I believe 3 years is the norm for a calling like his but I know that nothing is definite. I don't know why I am counting down, I really don't mind him having the calling. He gets a lot out of it and I think he does a great job leading his quorum. Anyway, after the nap and the meeting we had the Shoops and the Prasads over for dinner. It was lots of fun. I hope I didn't dissapoint too much in what I served. I just did Hawaiian haystacks. It isn't my favorite and I consider anything with a Campbell's soup in it to the the antithesis of gourmet but Eric loves it and it is really easy. We love hanging out with friends. I would redo my teenage years of having very few friends for this any day. We have so many wonderful friends that I have a hard time figuring out who to invite over and I often get overwhelmed when I want to invite everyone at the same time. I love the house we are in now though because we can have BBQ's in the summer and overflow into the adjacent park. Then I really can invite everyone and still have space.

Anyway, we ended our Sunday in the most perfect way. After our friends left we turned on the player piano and danced. Eric danced with Sophie and I danced with Dallin and Gavin watched us all from the couch. It was wonderful and the kids were asleep within minutes of hitting the pillow. All in all I would say we had a pretty great weekend and my little baby, my very first is now 6 years old. Can you believe it?!

These are just some random pics of Sophie and Gavin that I took while I had the camera out to take pictures of the piano today. I didn't have the batteries charged to take pictures of Dallin's party. I know I am terrible huh?