Weekend

We left Friday afternoon for Lincoln to go to Lemon Days at the mall. They have a huge mall wide sale every year with 75% off lots of items. We did shopping Friday night and then went to our favorite place, Braeda, to eat dinner. We had plans to spend the night in Lincoln with all the boys, which was really fun and I think they loved it. We stayed at Country Inn and Suites for an amazing rate of $80 for the 5 of us...gotta love the "kids stay free" thing!

Saturday we got up and had breakfast there at the hotel. Then left to do a little more shopping at the mall. We got some great deals, for example, I got 3 pairs of dress pants from The Limited for $25 total, LOVE it! The boys did great, better then I expected actually. Except Finn almost lost it by lunchtime on Saturday because he wanted to run around the mall, but a quick stop at the cookie place calmed things down. We ate lunch and drove back home.

I had to be back in town by 1:00 for the "Knowledge Bowl" I helped sponsor on campus. We made it back in time and Mark took the boys home for naps. Poor Ethan wouldn't wake up to go to Beth's birthday party he was invited to...he didn't wake up till 4:30. So we got him and Finn ready instead for the "parents night out" babysitting at the church. It was a fundraiser for the youth mission team, so we gladly dropped off Ethan and Finn along with some money for the night. It started at 5:00 and went till 9:30, so Mark and I just spent a relaxing night with Beckett while Ethan/Finn played games, ate snacks, made crafts, etc. at the church.

This morning we went to church class and church. Finn didn't do too well during church. Beckett was given a few more gifts from church friends, we are so blessed with our church family. Our normal class teacher left last week for Haiti to help with medical issues there. He is an amazing man of God and Mark and I think of him daily now as he does what he can to help heal the Haitian people. I don't think I have the gift of foreign mission work, but I can give money and my daily prayers to those that do!

I'm spending most the day today working and getting ready for the week with lesson plans, etc. All three boys are currently taking their naps:) Have a great start of the week! I have a million pictures I need to do through and hopefully will post some soon.