Rare Fun Family Day

Today was a funfilled day. It started off with soccer games for both Jackson and Briana. They had been getting kind of burned out of soccer, but today they were in rare form. Jax scored 3 goals in 2 games and Briana scored 2 goals! Her first two goals! She was so excited and we are so proud of her. Then, after the games, Jerry got a little time off (which is rare for a saturday, so we took full advantage).

First stop - Mattress Shopping. Jerry knows a guy that comes out to the complex that owns a mattress store and he told us that he had some good deals on cal kings. We have had the same mattress since we got married and that was a hand-me down from Jerry's grandparents. So yes we are way overdue. We picked out a nice and inexpensive one. We cannot wait to sleep tonight! But while we were getting the mattress, the kids were having the time of their lives. They were having a "Glee" moment. For those of you "Gleeks", do you remember the mattress commercial they do on the show! Where they are all jumping on mattresses and jumping from mattress to mattress? That's what the kids got to do. Who doesn't want to do that? They jumped from mattress to mattress, running all along them. Laughing the entire time. The owner was so nice to allow them to do that!


Second Stop - Lunch at our Favorite place. By then, we were all starving so we decided to head to our favorite place to eat . . . Olive Garden. We are so predictable, but it is so good. Soup, Salad, and Breadsticks! That's all I have to say!
Third Stop - Movie. As you can tell, we don't have that much time to go do anything all together as a family. So we decided to go see a movie with the kids as well. We decided to go see "Despicable Me". This movie is absolutely hilarious! We were all laughing so hard. Who doesn't like Steve Carell?!?!? That's definitely a movie we will be getting for our movie library.

It was a fun family day and we are completely exhausted, but grateful for that time to be together. Now I can't wait to go try out that mattress! Good night's sleep here I come!

Super Fun 4th of July Weekend!

This weekend was so amazing. It was the first time both Jerry and I had the entire weekend off including the Monday after. We started off Friday night taking the kids to "Toy Story 3" and then had dinner at Costa Vida! Yummy! Then Saturday, we went swimming at Nana's pool at her apartment. Then later that day we visited Aubrey and Travis and their new baby girl, Molly. Josh and Stephanie came down as well, so we went with them and Nana and Bronti to "The Last Airbender" that night. Sunday night we headed to the Schaeler's for family night, shared thoughts about our country and freedoms, the kids sang a little song about the Fourth of July, we threw down some "Snappers", and then drove around on the way home and caught a few fireworks in the sky.



Then Monday, Jerry and I got a date night. We went to the Melting Pot, got sooooo full from the amazingly yummy food, and then got to see "Eclipse".








3 movies in one weekend, was really fun and we will probably never get to do that again. We spent so much time together, it was so great for our little family.