08.08.11  monday jodie talked me into starting back at the gym this morning... i showed up and did elliptical and treadmill, her alarm didn't go off... haha... went to walmart for a couple things and then went to trader joe's for groceries... picked up a box of chocolate chip cookies while i was there and me, madi and max finished them off in just a few minutes... kenzie didn't even know we ever had them... later, i took madi and max to the library to get the prizes for the reading program... a tattoo, a little toy out of the treasure box, a book and a pass to the shark reef... we got some new books and then ran to costco for prints... picked up capriottis/sonic for lunch... max had boxing tonight with a new teacher... he did good... they did a lot of kicks on the bag that left a lovely red mark on his shin for two days...

08.09.11  tuesday jodie joined me at the gym today... i did a little elliptical and then walked on the treadmill... we planned to go to the green valley ranch pool... then jodie called to say dad was going to the hospital because of a red line going up his arm... my mom was on her way to utah with jen, so jodie and i were going to go pick her up and bring her home... then jen decided to just come all the way back to make sure everything was alright... we hung out at jodie's for awhile before heading back home... max went to his jiu jitsu class tonight... did the first part of it until they started the actual jiu jitsu-ing... we sat and watched... i think it's very entertaining and when we get home i show darric the moves i learned and he helps max work on them... at 7:30, darric left to go to work in st george... he was there all night...

08.10.11  wednesday just as i was getting up at 4:25, darric walked in the door... he went to bed and i went to the gym... just walked on the treadmill again... it is no fun trying to keep kids quite... darric didn't get to sleep too late... when he woke up, i took a trip to micheals and picked up lunch for all of us... the mixter had jiu jitsu again and he did the WHOLE thing... i think it helped that there was a new just-turned-six year old boy starting tonight... max kinda felt like he had a partner in class... i was very proud of him...

 

  
08.11.11  thursday we went to the green valley ranch pool... kenzie stayed home to watch piper... mandi and her girls joined us and eventually bobbie and megan (teara's friend) came too... the kids made a wall of sand and a hole behind it... we ordered lunch... and left around 2... after jodie picked up piper... we all loaded into the car (with kobe) and went for happy hour drinks at sonic... max wanted to go to boxing tonight and when we got home we made pizzas on the bbq... we used wheat pizza dough from trader joe's and on one of them we used spaghetti sauce, pepperonis and cheese... the other one i tried pesto, tomatoes, mushrooms and mozzarella... i had that one all to myself because i was the only one that liked it...

08.12.11  friday darric had the day off... he left that afternoon on his guy's camping trip with brian and mike... i snuck a little ladybug magnifying glass in his backpack... he was joking that he'd need it to start a fire... i hope he finds it... i took madi to old navy with me to get a couple things... we stopped at hallmark for gift wrap... i love that store... the kids and i had panda express for dinner... we watched diary of a wimpy kid (the 2nd one - the first one was better)... madi and max shared my bed with me...

08.13.11  saturday me, madi and max ran to einstein bagels to pick up breakfast... we got kobe a doggie bagel... which he scarfed right down... at 11:20 we left for the other side of town... we arrived a little bit after noon to millisa's house to help celebrate joel's first birthday... (kenzie stayed home with kobe)... the ausmans were there too... max made a couple friends upstairs and didn't really want to leave when it was time... on our drive home, we stopped at sonic for drinks... albertsons for ice-cream + cones... then ordered angelina's pizza for dinner when we got home... we totally pigged out... then i sent the kids off so i could watch a movie... source code with jake gyllenhaal... i really liked it... once again, madi and max squeezed into bed with me for the night...

 

08.14.11  sunday cleaned up the house... did my two loads of laundry... made a sonic run with everyone, including kobe... designed the halloween subway art... darric got home around 2-ish... then around 4, him and max went and picked us up cafe rio... we were going to watch AFV, but something else was on, so darric found some dance movie on netflix... max practiced his moves as we fast forwarded to all of the dance scenes... the robot moves were a favorite...