Saturday Swimming and Brunch?

After swimming, we went to J.B.'s for lunch. The kids really had a good time. I was afraid the waitresses would be upset, but as we were leaving, they told us what well behaved kids we had. We just kind of looked at each other, we thought they'd been a little bit roudy. Maybe they just wanted a big tip!

They all ate about 6 oranges each.

A trick even I remember doing as a kid.

Mandy ordered a salad bar for each of the kids and they literally cleaned them out. They had honeydew, cantalope, oranges, and really had a good time. When they say "all you can eat", these kids went crazy.

Emily has four more weeks. She is so swollen (you can tell by her face). She has pitting edema in her ankles (when you push on them, your fingerprint stays pushed in). She's ready to deliver that little boy now!

Sarah about died when she saw all this food. She's been dieting and exercising every day at lunch time (the hospital has a great facility). She ended up taking most of it home.

The grandkids always know where to go for paper and supplies.

If only I had more room, I could do a better job of organizing things. But they say, the smaller the space, the more need for organization, right.

Pull apart shelves, bought one at a time at Wal-Mart, but they work great.

This is the "poor man's" system. Plastic drawers.

You know you are old when you have to label your drawers. hahahahahaha

I don't know if this really runs in the family, but I know it's easier to keep neat when you live alone.

Well, we had a good day yesterday. It started out really busy, I had to run about 15 errands, including to the distribution center to return some clothes for DnD. They ordered some temple clothes, but they were a bit small. The pants I got for Doug, I can't imagine them fitting him, especially with the name "portly" in them, but that's what they wanted. We took the kids swimming again and everyone had a blast. Even Emily came in with us. She wore a teeshirt and Scott's swimming trunks to fit around her belly. hahahahahaha Not that she's fat, she's only gained 24 pounds this whole pregnancy, but she didn't have a suit to fit. We had a great time, did some laps, sat in the hot tub, and tried not to stand next to Sarah in her bikini (her diet and exercise are working, she's getting pretty buff).

After swimming, we went for brunch at J.B.s. Stef and I were in the mood for Mexican, but we got out-voted, so we went along. I didn't get very many pictures this week, because no one wanted their picture taken since we had just been swimming (no make-up and hair kinda rough). However, they all looked really good. They took a picture of me and Stef and Stef looked good, but I didn't think a blog was any place to post a picture of me without hair and make-up done. Yikes, I'm scary enough with it.

These other few pictures are especially for Andrea, "the organizer", just to show her she's not the only one obsessed with oraganization. I'm not this organized in every room, but my office stuff is different.

Anyway, we are all doing well. The weather changes every single day here, one day freezing cold and the next kinda warm. Saturday, it started out freezing, then in the middle of the day the sun came out and it warmed up. By last night, there was a freezing wind and rain. WEIRD. Anyway, it's better, from what I here, than Alaska or NewYork, so I'm not going to complain. Hope you are all well. Leave your comments. I promise to get some better pictures next week. Love, Helen xoxoxoxoxoxox