Friday, February 23, 2018
Presidents Day Weekend, Part 3
And because we finished at Utz around noon, and I wasn't ready to be home yet, we went to Gettysburg. Like you do. We did the auto tour and the boys got the junior rangers. We pulled into the house just in time for a quick dinner and bedtime. Perfect.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Presidents Day Weekend, Part 2
We got some other tragic news late Friday night. By Sunday, I was ready to just get away from the house and our regular lives. After church, we hightailed it ALL THE WAY to York, Pennsylvania (about 1.5 hours). Our plan was to hit two different factories: Turkey Hill ice cream and Utz chips. The ice cream one turned out to be not at all a factory, but rather an "experience." Whatever. We ended up spending nearly two hours there and the boys loved it! We all designed ice cream and some of us (ahem, all of them) made commercials for ice cream. We ALL enjoyed four samples of ice cream because why wouldn't you?
Notice how alike Chuck and my containers are. Totally an accident.
After that, was dinner, swimming at the hotel pool, and a movie in bed. Nearly perfect. (Sharing a double room with two young children will never be perfect in my book.) Oh, at dinner, Ollie lost his first tooth! He even let Chuck pull it out.
Monday morning we started at the Utz factory. We couldn't take pictures inside, but it was so cool! We saw potatoes getting washed, sliced, go into the fryer, get sprinkled with flavoring, and get put into bags. So cool.
But almost as cool as the factory was the trip we took to the Utz outlet! What's in the box? Fourteen bags of the jalapeno cheese puffs. Guess how much all of this cost? If you said $12, you're correct.
And on our way out, we saw this place with a GREAT name!
Notice how alike Chuck and my containers are. Totally an accident.
After that, was dinner, swimming at the hotel pool, and a movie in bed. Nearly perfect. (Sharing a double room with two young children will never be perfect in my book.) Oh, at dinner, Ollie lost his first tooth! He even let Chuck pull it out.
Monday morning we started at the Utz factory. We couldn't take pictures inside, but it was so cool! We saw potatoes getting washed, sliced, go into the fryer, get sprinkled with flavoring, and get put into bags. So cool.
But almost as cool as the factory was the trip we took to the Utz outlet! What's in the box? Fourteen bags of the jalapeno cheese puffs. Guess how much all of this cost? If you said $12, you're correct.
And on our way out, we saw this place with a GREAT name!
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Presidents Day Weekend, Part 1
Rhett and I started the weekend by going shopping for glasses! We've thought his eyes might be less than perfect for a while, but finally got the energy (and knowledge of vision plans) to do something about it. We haven't quite picked out any, but hopefully that will happen this weekend. Baby steps.
Saturday morning I got to take Rhett to a hockey scrimmage. It was so much fun to see him just playing and not struggling with drills. Sure, I wish he was a bit more aggressive out there on the ice. But he enjoys himself. And it was just a different way for him to practice his skills, rather than just going around and around an oval.
Later that afternoon, if you can believe it, we got barely-measurable snow! I've been waiting to take out our new snow tube, so we did it, even if the snow was only 1" deep. I'm happy to report that they loved the tube and it performed beautifully.
Saturday morning I got to take Rhett to a hockey scrimmage. It was so much fun to see him just playing and not struggling with drills. Sure, I wish he was a bit more aggressive out there on the ice. But he enjoys himself. And it was just a different way for him to practice his skills, rather than just going around and around an oval.
Later that afternoon, if you can believe it, we got barely-measurable snow! I've been waiting to take out our new snow tube, so we did it, even if the snow was only 1" deep. I'm happy to report that they loved the tube and it performed beautifully.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Things Ollie Says
This child. As far as funny quips go, Rhett hit his peak around age three. Ollie, however, is just hitting his stride. The kid is hilarious!
- After talking about swim team he said, "I hate my future."
- After discussing doing things that we adults don't like but do anyway, he says, "Yeah, like having kids."
- "You're not like other moms. You go running. If the other moms would go running then they wouldn't be so fat and the kids could fit in the doors in the morning."
- "You shouldn't startle a young man like that!" (He was the young man.)
- Ollie and Chuck were playing Candyland and Ollie was three spaces from winning. He drew the cupcake and had to go back to the beginning. He dramatically yelled out, "Oh the humanity!"
- Ollie had a bag of loose Smarties. He ripped a small hole in one corner. When asked, "why?" he replied, "Because it's like a piping bag and now I can pipe them into my mouth."
- Chuck and I were discussing, but not arguing. Ollie says, "GUYS. Don't let this turn into a divorce."
Monday, February 12, 2018
Update
If I have to be honest (which I don't have to be), 2018 has not been great. It hasn't been all the way terrible, but lots of hard and boring things.
First the boring. We really are not doing anything. Our Saturdays are as open as they were when we had babies. Campgrounds are closed and it's just too cold to be outside (I'm a wimp now). We've had no snow, but somehow have used up three snow days, extending the school year by one day (which actually makes me happy). So what have we been doing? Ollie goes to school. Rhett has school, scouts, and hockey. Chuck has work and YM. And I run track every Thursday, plan girls camp, and organize the fiction book room at Ollie's school. That's literally all we've been doing.
What are the hard things? Ollie has had some issues at school. Not vice-principal-issues, necessarily, but ones involving a counselor. Rhett, for the first time ever, has had some school issues and MAJOR hockey issues. It's all left me feeling like a terrible parent; I just want to ignore it all and hope it goes away. And one Sunday I sang in Relief Society and it was TERRIBLE. I'm still so mad about it because I knew the song. I practiced the song probably 100 times. But I got nervous and then that was it. Blah. Embarrassing.
And then. On February 1 our dear stake president died. I have never had an actual relationship with a stake president until now. This man and I served side-by-side as ward YM/YW presidents, after which he was called to be our bishop. From there he was called to be stake president. So yes, we knew him and he knew us. We could talk seriously or just joke. I could text him pictures of faces-made-of-food and he would respond, "You're invited to my birthday." He really was a tremendous man and our whole stake is mourning him. I am mourning him. So yeah.
Has there been anything fun? Yes. One night Chuck and I went to see a live recording of a podcast we both enjoy, "Ask Me Another." Rhett made a super cool Zamboni for the pinewood derby. We've had a lot of fires in the basement and those are always incredible. My triathlon was cancelled. We had a lot of rain and the window well didn't flood (I will always be grateful when this happens).
Anything to look forward to? Yes. Next Monday I think we're going to take a driving tour of two factories. Thrilling. We're camping in March. Rhett and I are going to NYC for his 10th birthday, also in March. We're all going to Utah in April which will be amazing. And soon enough it will stop being cold for nothing. The end.
First the boring. We really are not doing anything. Our Saturdays are as open as they were when we had babies. Campgrounds are closed and it's just too cold to be outside (I'm a wimp now). We've had no snow, but somehow have used up three snow days, extending the school year by one day (which actually makes me happy). So what have we been doing? Ollie goes to school. Rhett has school, scouts, and hockey. Chuck has work and YM. And I run track every Thursday, plan girls camp, and organize the fiction book room at Ollie's school. That's literally all we've been doing.
What are the hard things? Ollie has had some issues at school. Not vice-principal-issues, necessarily, but ones involving a counselor. Rhett, for the first time ever, has had some school issues and MAJOR hockey issues. It's all left me feeling like a terrible parent; I just want to ignore it all and hope it goes away. And one Sunday I sang in Relief Society and it was TERRIBLE. I'm still so mad about it because I knew the song. I practiced the song probably 100 times. But I got nervous and then that was it. Blah. Embarrassing.
And then. On February 1 our dear stake president died. I have never had an actual relationship with a stake president until now. This man and I served side-by-side as ward YM/YW presidents, after which he was called to be our bishop. From there he was called to be stake president. So yes, we knew him and he knew us. We could talk seriously or just joke. I could text him pictures of faces-made-of-food and he would respond, "You're invited to my birthday." He really was a tremendous man and our whole stake is mourning him. I am mourning him. So yeah.
Has there been anything fun? Yes. One night Chuck and I went to see a live recording of a podcast we both enjoy, "Ask Me Another." Rhett made a super cool Zamboni for the pinewood derby. We've had a lot of fires in the basement and those are always incredible. My triathlon was cancelled. We had a lot of rain and the window well didn't flood (I will always be grateful when this happens).
Anything to look forward to? Yes. Next Monday I think we're going to take a driving tour of two factories. Thrilling. We're camping in March. Rhett and I are going to NYC for his 10th birthday, also in March. We're all going to Utah in April which will be amazing. And soon enough it will stop being cold for nothing. The end.
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