Jury Duty, Dinosaur Museum, LSU football, & Family FUN!

Monday, 8/26: My day started early (for me) with being at the court house by 8:15 for jury selection.  I was there for 5 hours and wasn't chosen.  They chose 9 people out of 47.  It was for a 3-day trial for a guy being charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, and domestic violence in front of a child.  Scary!  I was relieved not to be chosen to sit through that trial and hear all the details!  The whole process was very interesting and thorough, though.  And I didn't know who was gonna watch the girls on one of the days, anyway, so not being chosen solved that problem.

That night, Kiki had her graduation from the Utah Institute of Healing Arts.  The girls and I went with her family and Timmy to Magleby's for some chocolate cake afterwards.

Wyatt is CRACKING ME UP in this pic, ha ha!!

 

8/27: Since I ended up not having jury duty on Tues., I brought the girls to the dinosaur museum because it was $2 Tuesday.  I won't be doing that again.  It was really busy and not worth saving a few bucks.  There were so many kids in the quarry (where the kids can dig for dinosaur bones) and Avery got a whole fistful of sand thrown in her face.  :(  They had fun for the most part, though, but it was a little too stressful for me with that many people.

 

 

 

 

They have started holding hands more and more and I love it. So cute.

 

 

We then went and ate at Culver's with some friends, who we then brought to the airport. The girls slept all the way there and back, worn out from the museum.

FB post on Wed., 8/28: I looked high and low this morning for one of the girls' sandals before going shopping and finally just had to put a different pair of sandals on them. Evidently, I didn't look low enough because, come to find out, the sandal, along with about 60 wooden puzzle pieces and some play food, was all shoved into an a/c vent in the floor (they had taken the vent cover off). I'm pretty sure it was Avery. Thankfully, I was able to get it all out but I sure was mad!

Makenna is always saying the phrase, "Don't be shy." I don't think she knows what it means.

8/29: Makenna: "Squishy fish needs a check-up." Then, "Mommy, my pet fish is better." We've watched a few episodes of Doc McStuffins lately.

8/30:

Makenna lines up her fruit snacks before eating them. Avery just eats them.

I need to print this and pass it out to all of my neighbors. :P

8/31: Makenna is acting like a kitty, meowing and all, and she said, "I don't have a tail. I don't have foot paws." She so cute and funny!

8/31: We went to a neighbor's house to watch the first LSU game of the season.  We beat TCU (ranked #20) 37-27; we were #12 (jumped up to #9 after that game).  It was so fun to watch the game with other LSU fans and a Louisiana native.  He made gumbo and I made jambalaya.  So good!  The game didn't start until 7 here and, by the time we got home, it was 11:00; Avery practically ran to her bed to get into it, poor baby. 

I put the girls in their tiger suits and took some pics in my LSU rocking chair on the front porch before we headed to the neighbor's house

My nails for the game

9/1: After going to bed so late the previous night, the girls woke up at 6:45 (about an hour earlier than usual), of course!  We were all so exhausted for church.  We spent almost half of sacrament in the hallway and they were a little crazy during my lesson in nursery.  I was planning on taking a nap when they took theirs but Timmy texted me and wanted to come over.  So that's why I uncharacteristically feel asleep on the couch that night and didn't do the blog last Sunday.  Timmy brought some bubble machines from his job for the girls and they had a blast playing in the bubbles that evening:

9/2: Silly girl!

 

9/3: My favorite Daddy phrase of the day: "Don't stand on your sister!"

Avery didn't really feel well most of the day, probably from being constipated--it had been close to a week since she had last pooed so I gave her a couple of suppositories, lots of prune juice, and some Dulcolax over the next two days and she finally let loose, ha ha.  Poor thing.  She uncharacteristically fell asleep on the floor before naptime that day, with Daddy snoozing on the couch.  Notice the bells still tied to her ankles.  :)

9/4: We had yet another weenie/s'mores roast in the back yard, then played with the bubble machines Timmy brought the girls earlier in the week.

This cracks me up!

Trying to eat the bubbles?

That night, Jared decided to have a camp-out with the girls in their train tent in the living room.  They loved it!

This is how Jared slept all night, ha ha!

9/5:

Creating masterpieces to send to Uncle Jason in Scotland.

I made eggplant-crust pizza for dinner and Makenna cried for at least five minutes before she would even try it. Then she liked it. Little stinker!

9/6: That morning--another example of how Makenna organizes stuff, this time by color.  :)

 

One of Jared's sisters just adopted a baby and the sealing was in the Salt Lake temple and the blessing was in one of the theaters in North visitor's center.  We took the girls.  Jared went in the temple for the sealing while I stayed in the waiting room with the girls and some of their cousins.  We then went to the blessing, after which we took photos with everyone.  We had a snapshot taken of us:

Everyone went out to eat at Chuck-A-Rama afterwards.  The girls had fun hanging out with cousins all day.

The next day, we drove up to Grandma's house to play with everyone.  We all drove to Jared's grandpa's house and hung out there for a while.  We were just planning on playing outside at his house but a storm blew in.  He was saying that he hardly got any rain all summer so, of course, it rained while we were there and wanted the kids to run around outside!  They still ran around the porch and a little in the light sprinkles.  We got home at 11:30 last night.  This time, the girls slept until I woke them up for church.  They did OK in church today but were ready for their naptime, once it came!

Jared left for another trip this afternoon after the girls went down for their nap today.  Timmy came over again this evening and hung out for a while.  We played with the bubble machines again out on the deck.  We are looking forward to hanging out with cousins some more this week, since they will still be in town all week.  I'm sure I'll have plenty of photos to share next Sunday! :)

Oh, and I didn't get to watch the LSU vs. UAB game last night, since we were at Grandpa's house, but they won 56-17 and are now #8.  GEAUX TIGERS!!!