[.Weekend Get-a-ways.]

Having the busy lives that we do, weekends are a nice chance to get to spend time together and to be with our families.

Friday night consisted of doing laundry, playing basketball games with friends and neighbors, and sleeping over with Jake.
The laundry got done while the boys were trying to get a few people together to play some ball over at the church. Well after about 2 hours they got 10 people together and went over to get all sweaty! I think lance felt like jello after 2 games but they all kept going. I went to watch them all and one of my neighbors little girls came with me. So she kept me occupied the whole time by playing tag and running around the entire church. I had to keep making up excuses to go in the gym just to sit down and take a break!! My calfs are still sore! But getting better! The boys finally decided they'd be done after 5 games to 21! By that time it was a little after 11:00 pm and all Lance and I wanted to do was relax! Getting back to the house Jake talked us into staying the night to keep him company. Jake always gives me crap for being the first one to fall asleep when he comes to our house to stay so I proved him wrong this time, and he was the first to snooze!

Saturday morning came along and the two of us woke up to the wonderful smell of cooking bacon and breakfast burritos!
MmMmMmMmMm!
(This would be the beginning of the extra ten pounds!)
Then sat around to have some lazy time.
Soon after we got ready for the day and headed home to pack up for Randy and Jenny's house! We were trying our best to hurry to be there in time for the RoDeO.
We've come to the conclusion that trying to hurry at the last second isn't such a good idea. We forgot jackets, church clothes and pillows!
[Thank goodness for family to be able to provide us with these things!!]
Lance suprised me on our way to their house by taking me to the Bluebird resturant!
It was delicious!
(once again, another ten pounds!)
We arrived at their new house! Gave ourselves the grand tour [their house is amazing by the way] while Jenny was still entertaining her family, and then off to the Rodeo we went!

You can see just how much fun it was!
(I wanted to try and get a picture of all of us together but we scattered out too quickly)
We then went back to the house and had some eggs and toast, set up our bed, and all talked after putting the kids down!
I can't believe we got to sleep in til a quarter-to-ten! It was so nice!
This time we woke up to Brad and Claire under our covers and the smell of German Pancakes!
(Oh, did I mention..I'm starting to not fit in my pants!)
Jenny is such an awesome cook!
We watched Sesame Street with the kids and listened to Brad while he was preparing for his talk in primary!
Later on Lance and I went for a drive up the Cub River Trail. We love going for rides up in the mountains. Whether its in the car, on bikes or on four wheelers, we love to just take the time to enjoy the quality time together. Our favorite thing to do when going for rides is to turn the radio off and just think. We think about how peaceful it is when it's quiet, how there is no chaos around us and how closely we can feel the spirit.
[I usually get teary-eyed around these times!]

We headed back to the house to meet up with them again!

It smelt amazing.
Jenny had a roast cooking, we all sat down for dinner then had cookies and cookie dough shakes for dessert!
(see what I mean)
Since it was such good weather outside the back porch seemed like the best place to eat cookies!
We met their neighbors Todd and Melissa, and their dog Sammy! Or as Claire calls her Nammy!
Oh, and also..we met Grizz!
Maybe you'll get to meet him one day!
It was nice to spend the weekend in Richmond with them and hope that we will be able to again sometime soon!