We started our weekend off by going out to eat as a family. This is not something that we do often for a few reasons. It can be difficult to entertain the children during a long time waiting for food at a restaurant and also it's not in the budget.
Derek and I aren't sure of this fact, but we think this may be only the second time that we've gone out to eat as a family (just our immediate family). The first time was New Year's Eve 2010, right before Maverick joined the family. I looked back through pictures to see if we had any photographic evidence, but couldn't find any. Just to give you an idea, Chandler and Brighton were about this old:
With the help of a gift certificate from Christmas, we managed to go to a nice Chinese restaurant and the boys behaved very well. We even managed to last through dessert! The car ride home was another story. It was like they had to get all their silliness out that had been bottled up for the last 90 minutes!
Saturday was spent assembling the various baby paraphernalia that we had gotten down out of the attic earlier. Derek spent most of the morning putting together the bouncer, the baby bed, and the swing.
He also put together our new outside toy box (Thanks Granddaddy Bob & Mimi) that was a combined gift for C & M's B-days. We are hoping this will keep the outside clutter to a minimum. Frankly it was starting to take over the yard!
I've been having major hip/back pain lately and somedays are better than others. Luckily this was a good day and I was able to be outside in the afternoon with the boys and Derek and we managed to clean up the back yard some. We cut down the monkey grass border around the pool, cut the grass, spread some pine straw, and trimmed some bushes. The next major project we need to do is get some mulch underneath the playset so it's not so muddy. I do wish the weather would hurry up and get warm. I'm ready to start enjoying our yard again!
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