Saturdays and Sundays

Let's start with Saturday.

I love Saturdays. It's the one day a week that we are together as a family all day (most of the time). Yea! We can be lazy or we can be super productive. We can run errands or we can just spend the day at home. This Saturday was a combination of all. We started out the day somewhat lazy. The weather forecast said it would be warm and sunny, but the morning (okay, so until about 3pm) was overcast, so I think that added to the laziness. Anyway, we did some things around the house, like clean out drawers/closet and try on vests over jammies:And then once the sun came up in the afternoon, we decided to spend some time outside. It was great! Jeremy mowed the lawn for the first time this year and although it isn't quite green yet (we live in Utah, people), it sure looks a lot better.

While Jeremy mowed, I pulled weeds in our front yard with Eli's "help". Haha. He started off chillin' in his stroller eating Cheerios, but then he wanted in on the action, so he came out and started "helping" me pull weeds. Then I started having to fish bark out of his mouth every 2 seconds, so that was less effective. :) He did pull on a few weeds though, and some flowers, and then he just started taking all the bark and putting on the grass. Very helpful. That's probably what it looked like I was doing, so I guess that's kind of cute.

Flowers blooming in the front (there are still weeds in the grass, but there were a lot more around the flowers; and I love the little munchkin in the background; he loves the freedom of the outside)"Give me that camera!"
Anyway, so then we got all cleaned up and then we went to Cafe Rio for dinner. Yesss! We are big Cafe Rio fans, especially when we're due for a free meal. Woohoo! So that ended our family date, and then we went home and put Eli to bed and Jeremy and I enjoyed a nice relaxing night vegging on the couch.

Now we come to Sunday. I love aspects of Sunday. (Am I going to get struck down for saying that?) I think every mom will agree with me here though. Sundays are hard, and they get harder every week! Eli is getting so wiggly at church, and I know this is just the beginning. He's happy, but he just wants to crawl everywhere and get into everything, so I'm always chasing him or restraining him, etc., etc.

And besides the church part of Sunday, it's pretty busy. This morning Jeremy got up at 6 something and was out the door before 7 for his early meetings. So Eli and I got up about 7:00, got breakfast, played, napped, got ready for church, prepared for choir, etc. and Jeremy came home at 11:00 for a short break at which point we ate lunch and got ready to go out the door. We left at 11:45 for choir which starts at 12. Then we had church from 1-4, Eli and I came home, I got dinner ready, Jeremy came home at 5:30, we ate, played a bit, got Eli ready for bed, and then sighed a sigh of relief as we plopped ourselves on the couch.

Through the craziness of it all though, I do love Sundays. I know it's hard for it to feel like a day of rest, when by the end of church I'm exhausted (and I only have one kid! My sister Wendy, who has 3 and her husband's the bishop is probably laughing at me right now). But I am grateful that we have a day set aside for worship. With Jeremy gone all day, it can be easy for Sundays to feel like any other day, but I do love going to church and choir and feeling the Spirit there and feeling it stay with us through the entire day. I love listening to my CD of sacred music I compiled from many years in BYU choirs and I love the quiet I feel in my home even among the sometimes craziness. No TV, no working, no worldly influences. Ahh. Speaking of, I think I better go enjoy my quiet evening with my hubby now.

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We have another storm coming, so we were grateful for our 4 hours of sunshine yesterday. :)