Sunday, September 23, 2007

Our Weekend at a Glance

You know how sometimes you just have those weekends where there seems to be more scheduled that you have time to do? Well, this weekend seemed to be one of those...Here's what our weekend looked like:

Friday
8:00 a.m. - Brady laid $150 worth of sod on our money-pit side lawn
2:00 p.m. - Brady finally finished the project and went to work
4:30 p.m. - Stephanie takes four youngest kids to church for primary program practice
5:00 p.m. - Meghann arrives at church for youth temple trip
7:00 p.m. - Brady who is already at the church leaves to go to the stake center for the institute council meeting and dance
8:00 p.m. - Stephanie takes three kids home, plus two neighbors to watch a movie. Courtney goes to a friend's house for a "half sleepover."
9:30 p.m. - Two neighbors go home, Courtney comes home, four kids go to bed.
10:30 p.m. - Meghann comes home, talks about temple trip, goes to bed
11:00 p.m. - Brady comes home. Two parents go to bed.

Saturday
8:15 a.m. - Brady takes four girls to Stake activity on his way to the temple to fill a veil assignment.
9:00 a.m. - Stephanie drops Spencer off at birthday party on her way to a baptism in the ward.
11:30 a.m. - Stephanie picks Spencer up from birthday.
12:30 p.m. - Two girls come home from stake activity.
12:45 a.m. - Stephanie leaves for sewing class, Meghann babysits.
2:30 p.m. - Brady heads home from temple.
3:30 p.m. Brady takes three boys to UCF football game (free tickets!)
5:30 p.m. - Stephanie comes home from sewing class. Brady begins trek across campus to car.
6:30 p.m. - Everyone finally home, kids scarf down dinner so they can go to a neighbors and play their Wii.
8:00 p.m. - Brady and Stephanie attempt to round up kids.
8:30 p.m. - Finally head home from neighbors, bathe boys, put everyone to bed so we can watch a movie together.
9:30 p.m. - After wasting an hour on a dumb movie ("Catch and Release") we turned it off. Brady works on stake business, Stephanie finishes preparing a sharing time.
10:30 p.m. Two tired parents go to bed.

Sunday
5:30 a.m. - Brady leaves for stake meeting
8:30 a.m. - Stephanie takes rest of family to church
9:00 a.m. - Primary Program! Courtney sings solo, does GREAT job!
12:30 p.m. - Home from church, quick snack, quiet time.
3:00 p.m. - Lunch at Natalie and Steve's.
5:30 p.m. - Brady goes home teaching.
6:30 p.m. - All go to church for Activity Day recognition night.
?? - Collapse in bed from exhaustion!

Okay, I'm sure we're not unique in our busy weekend. Just glad that EVERY weekend isn't like this! We are getting ready to take off for Atlanta this week for a husband/wife convention. I'll be glad for the get-away!

1 comment:

Brady Nixon said...

Hey Steph, You forgot to mention that I woke up this morning at 4:40 in order to be to a seminary class in Cocoa by 6:00 a.m.! :o)