While Mana's Away...

My mom and sister left to go to Yellowstone on Saturday morning. So while she has been gone we did a few things. We took our friends Kenny & Susan and kids to our cabin Saturday night to stay over. It is always nice to be there and even better with friends :) I didn't take many pictures (which is weird for me), but Saturday night we ate at T-Cee's then stayed up late and the kids watched movies and we just hung out. Susan had about 4 chapters left in 'Breaking Dawn' so us girls stayed upstairs (I cross stitched while she read) and the boys took care of the kids for awhile. We ended up going to bed about 11, which is so late for my children, but they both did really well once they got to sleep. Then Sunday morning we got up and had breakfast. The boys went outside to catch bugs along with Mara & Livvy. Pat said that they were holding hands walking around with each other :) We really didn't do much other then relax. Here are the girls on our huge fish pillow:

It's good to always take a group picture to commemorate the trip. Too bad I didn't get more pics :(

Thanks again guys for coming with us. And as Susan mentioned to me, one of these days we are going to have a girls getaway. Too bad it's already the end of the summer, guess it'll have to be next year :)

While my mom has been away it's given me a taste of freedom, LOL. That sounds bad. It's just that we have been living here for 3 1/2 years, so I forget how it feels for it to just be us (me, Pat & kids). Usually once we get the kids to bed, Pat & I stay in our room and watch TV or movies or whatever. So while she's been gone we have stayed up in the kitchen and watched the Olympics! (We have a DVR, so we have been recording them and watched stuff after the kids are in bed) So after 2 nights of sitting on hard stools, Pat moved the nice chair into the kitchen and watched. It was so funny that I had to take a picture:
Pretty much we have been doing our regular routine, except that Pat has been a little sick and came home from work yesterday. It was nice for me to have him home an extra day this week, but not fun that he was sick. He pretty much slept all afternoon anyway. But I was able to pull out my scrapbook stuff, Yippee!!

Then today was Pat's monthly hair cut and he decided that he was going to shave his beard off too. He just looks so weird to me this way. I'm used to the facial hair and I love it. Needless to say he likes it too, so it was just the one time shaving and the beard will be back in a few days time :)

And thus ends the "alone" time. My mom & Karri just pulled up to the house. Their time away gave me a little more yearning for a place of our own. All in good time.