Last Week

I was so nervous for last week.  I had a week off from work and was planning to spend every waking second with the boys before they head back to school.  The only problem with that is figuring out activities to keep them occupied... minus the bickering and fighting and what-ever-else-naughty-boy-things-they-can-find-to-do.  Yep, I think that sums it up. 

But then the course of our week changed right off the bat.  On Monday, Aaron found out he had business to do out in South Dakota.  And we had nothing planned, so we grabbed Noah's best friend and met dad out in the middle of no where. 

Now, those who know me know that I do not drive anywhere.  Aaron is the driver.  But, this was very exciting to me because I got to drive.  Me and three boys in a car for multiple hours.  Great.

Actually it went really well.  I only got lost once because of poorly marked road construction detours- we will blame it on that. 

While dad was at business during the day, we spent time at the zoo and chilled out at the pool and explored the area a little bit. 

The life guard at the pool in the hotel let us do pretty much whatever we wanted.  We played tag and buddied up going down the water slide.  Most of the time, because it was during the work week (and it is South Dakota) we were the only ones in the pool area.


When we headed to the zoo... we found that we had pretty much the entire zoo to ourselves.

At the end of the week, we weren't home for a total of 24 hours and we were off again.  This time we headed to Aaron's brother's house and then to a family reunion in southern Minnesota.  We finally made it home to stay on Sunday and I was exhausted. 

But my sink looked like this...

A weeks worth of canning, in an attempt to catch up. And it still does look like this--- and it will for weeks to come.

Next week school starts.  The boys (big brother is excited to see his friends) are super excited to start.  I have a feeling this is going to be a good year for them.