Shopping, Swimming, and Pizza!

Today was a busy but enjoyable day – even for me who had to go to work.  Brittany and Zachary both had to go to the doctor for their school physicals (Brittany for sports and Zachary to start Kindergarten), and Brittany also had an Orthodontist appointment to have her braces adjusted.  In between all of that, Angela took Carmen and Kirstyn shopping at Boomer-T’s to find a hooded sweatshirt while Brittany tended the sleeping boys.

It took Carmen awhile to decide what kind of hoodie she wanted, but finally decided on a gray one with the Neuqua Valley Wildcats printed on it in Navy.  Sarah will freak-out at that when she gets home because she thought Carmen should get a Metea Valley High School one (where she is going this year).  Neuqua is a rival high school in our district!  🙂  Oh well, Carmen likes it and that’s what matters…

After shopping for the sweatshirt, Angela took them food shopping at Costco, and as a reward, bought them Churros.  Carmen said that these are not at all like the Churros she is used to in Spain, but she really liked them.  After all, Churros are a dessert, and we all know that Carmen LOVES desserts!  🙂

After finishing their shopping, Angela took Brittany and Carmen to Phillips Water Park to swim and go on the water slides.  They had a great time hanging out at the pool and enjoying themselves.  While they were swimming, Kirstyn, Zachary, and Benjamin did a little bit of getting wet themselves in the back yard.   They put the hose at the top of the slide and went down it wet and fast.  They also got sprayed a bunch by their dad.  While they were playing, Angela cut the grass in the back yard, and Kirk pulled out some bushes and weeds.  It’s funny to watch Benjamin.  He doesn’t care if his clothes stay on or not.  I had to take a picture of him as his swimming suit was about ready to fall off!  🙂

At about 6pm, the girls were starting to get a little cold, so they called us and we picked them up a little early from the pool.  On the way back home, we went by Giordano’s and picked up 2 Chicago stuffed pizzas as we promised Carmen we would do.  We got 1 large pepperoni and 1 medium Canadian bacon.  We brought them home and dug in.  Carmen couldn’t believe how thick these were.  After a couple of pieces, she was totally full and couldn’t eat any more.  We put the rest in the freezer for re-heat later.

After we filled ourselves with pizza, we all sat down in the family room for our weekly Family Home Evening.  We sang songs, had family scripture study and family prayers together, and had a lesson on the beginning history of the Church.  We watched a video about this (The Restoration).  Carmen thought it was very fascinating.  During the time we were reading the scriptures together, Zachary wanted to read them in Spanish, so Carmen helped him pronounce the words and he read a verse.  He had absolutely NO idea what he was saying, but it sounded cool to him!  🙂

After Family Home Evening, we got the boys to bed and then the rest of us watched most of another one of our yearly family DVDs (this time the one from 2006).  We ended up only watching about half of it since we were dead tired from the days activities and all needed some good sleep!