Long week - lazy weekend

This has been a long week for everyone around our house. Due to circumstances at work, Barry has had to work nights this week, and also this weekend. By the time next weekend rolls around, he will only have had 3 days off in 3 weeks. Great for overtime pay, but not great for family time. He is off tomorrow (Sunday), which will be spent sleeping, then has to be back at work bright and early Monday morning... and he will be there from 5 AM-5 PM. This will be his schedule all week, then hopefully he will have a few days off. That could just be wishful thinking on my part, though!

Due to all the rain we have had, the kids did not have any soccer this week. Games were not scheduled for today, but even if they had been, I doubt that the fields would have been in any shape to play. Everyone is hoping that next week will be their lucky week, and they can finally get out on the fields and run! I am hoping this too, as I am tired of kids in the house with pent-up energy. They are driving me a bit bonkers!!

I think I will spare you the details of my week at work. Let's just sum it up by saying that I HATE severe weather during school hours. The first drop of rain, and the phones start to ring off the hook.

Last night was my sweet nephew's birthday party. We were headed there, but Josh was feeling really awful, and my momma-instincts started yelling to go home and put him to bed, so I did. This morning he work up feeling fine, but Megan has been running a fever all day. I hate that we missed wishing Noah happy birthday, but I'm glad that we didn't go share our germs with anyone.

Kyle is a member of his school's Destination Imagination team. Never heard of it before? Neither had I until I started working at Liberty, but here is a website with more info: http://www.idodi.org/. Anyway... his regional competition was a few weeks ago, and his team came in second place in their challenge. Today they got to participate in the State Tournament! They had a fun time, but once again they came in second. Only the first place team will be able to advance to Global Competition, and Kyle is hoping that something happens to the first place team, leaving them unable to compete, so LMS can participate! He's not a competitive kid at all, now is he?

After Kyle's competition was over, the kids and I planted an herb-container garden and some flowers. Every year I let the kids pick out some flowers, but this year I decided that I would rather have an herb garden. We still picked out a few flowers for the porch, but we mainly got herbs... rosemary, basil, oregano, thyme, dill, Italian flat leaf parsley and cilantro!! I also got Barry some strawberries. The front porch smells so good, as did the car on the way home with them. Josh complained that the combination of basil and oregano was making him hungry for pizza!

Kayti and I went on a walk this evening to take some pictures of some of the beautiful tulips that were recently planted just down the road from us. The storms on Thursday night damaged some of them, but they were still pretty to look at. We also admired a near-by tree that is in full bloom right now. We took the camera along with us and were able to get a few pictures.


And in the middle of everything else, we were able to watch some of General Conference today. I really enjoyed all the speakers, and I am looking forward to tomorrow!