conference weekend

hurray for another fantastic weekend.

Friday evening wasn't a great start to the weekend.  I planned a great family evening, homemade pizzas and game night.  But my plans fizzled when Daddy had to work late, the girls got sassy and I got cranky.  So we made it through the make-our-own-pizzas, (which the girls loved) but didn't accomplish much after that.

The rest of the weekend was pretty perfect though.  Saturday morning we woke up, lounged in pajamas and made omelets piled high with veggies from our garden (which we had picked a few night before via flashlight because we lack proper garden diligence and heard last-minute about the impending frost).  I diced up not one, but two, habenero peppers to hide in my heat-loving husband's food (and then laughed triumphantly when he began sweating on the first bite).  But the joke was on me twenty minutes later when I rubbed my eyes and realized I still had habereno pepper juice on my hands.  It was not fun.

Once I recovered, we spent the morning playing dress-ups.  I may or may not have fit into one of the dresses I found in the box of costumes we borrowed from my mom.  Then we headed to grandpa's house to help dig up his garden.  The girls had a ton of fun searching for the "buried treasure" (potatoes) and hiding them before Captain Hook could get them.  Even Lovely had a good time, crawling around the driveway, chasing the cat, playing in the dirt and tasting the potatoes.  She was eager to help and found a pile of potatoes that had been set aside since they were deemed too small for the collection bin.  She tossed each one into the bin, mimicking her sisters, giggling the whole time.  Then at one point, I caught Ladybug playing on the patio furniture, mimicking a bench press and she declared that she had to do her "exercisings".  We made lunch together and then shipped Daddy off to an afternoon scout activity while the girls and I returned home to get cleaned up and settle in for naps.  I watched conference, reviewed choreography for work and then rejoined by Daddy, we spent the evening playing, having dinner and watching a movie.

Sunday morning started with my favorite breakfast (honey wheat waffles, nutella, strawberries, bananas and whip cream).  Then we settled in to watch conference.  Copying an idea from pinterest, I filled several glasses with different types of snacks (pretzels, cereal, marshmallows, goldfish, m&ms, skittles, swedish fish) and labelled each with a key word (Jesus Christ, prayer, faith, family, church, etc.) Each time the girls heard a key word, they could eat the corresponding snack.  It was great!  Even better than I expected from my 3 and 4 year old girls.  During each song, we got up to dance (not the most reverent but we needed a wiggle break) and then the girls generally returned to their seats quickly and were ready to listen again.  They napped through the second session of conference, allowing Husband and I to listen more attentively.

And then we had a great evening playing wii games and having dinner.  We don't play our wii as often as we used to so it was a fun treat.  We played Toy Story Mania (Butterfly is getting better, she actually understands and interacts and follows directions they way she should) and even played a few songs on RockBand while our crazy girls danced around us.  Lovely jabbered nonstop (my new favorite is her frequent "tickle tickle tickle") and demonstrated her growing possessiveness of her favorite blanket by demanding it back from her sisters and nuzzling her face into it whenever someone else tried to play with it.