My week........ ( the highlights of each day)

Sat (9/20) Wake up and start getting kids ready for football, soccer, cheer. 10 min. before leaving for soccer, Jake gets his foot slammed in a bedroom door (Jayla trying to get her bros. out of her room) . Dan takes older 3 to soccer game; I go to ER to get stitches for Jake (5 in all). Get home in time to shove a chick-file wrap in my mouth and head off to football with the rest of the fam.

Sun. Get up and get stuff and kids ready for church. Go to 2 hours of church, leave early with my Fam and another Fam in the ward. Change and hook up with other said Fam. to go to the Broncos game (don't judge me!) Enjoy and bake in the sun at Broncos game, but I WAS at the Bronco game, and watch them beat the Saints.

Mon. Get kids to school, drop little one off at Aunts house and go volunteer at kids school. Pick up Zach and then Jake. Get home, try to get some things done. Pick up kids, get them home and turn into drill sargent barking orders "Get at least half of your homework done!", "Go get ready for cheer/ football!", "Come on! Hurry! We are on a time schedule here!", "Lets Go!" Leave for practices. Come home, eat dinner, do homework, bed.

Tues. Finish homework. Get kids to school. Run over to church and set up for HFPE (put everything I needed to set up by the door last night). Get home and shower. Pick up Zach. Feed the boys lunch in the car on the way to my eye appointment. Get new contacts. Go on a hunt for Cheer stuff for homecoming (yes our little league has their own homecoming) Hit Michaels, JoAnns, and Hobby Lobby. Pick up kids. Get home and get last minute HFPE things together. Dan gets home just in time for me to leave to attend HFPE (blog more about that later).

Wed. Get kids to school. Watch nephews for a couple hours. Get some things done around the house. Take Jake to Dr.'s to get stitches out. Cancel piano lessons for kids. Pick up kids. Then the drill sargent starts, again. Repeat of Mon.

Thurs. Get kids to school. Make sashes for cheerleaders for homecoming game Sat. (blog more later), and bows. Try to put the house back together. Pick up kids. Have a nice afternoon, no homework because there is no school tomorrow. Our quietest evening.

Fri. Get up and put the house in order before the 4 "tornado's" wake up. Watch my good friends kids. (she still had to go to work, bummer) Kids played all day, i made 19 individual football banners. Picked up my mess and the other messes. Time to go to practice. Uncle Dave came to watch kids so Dan and I can go out (as late as it may be).- THANKS! -Tanner spent the night at a friends, so he only had 3 kids.

Sat. Get up and go to target to get all the snacks needed for the day. Pick up Tanner. Get all kids ready for football/ cheer and soccer. G'ma and G'pa took Zach to soccer and Dan and Tanner head to football (the games overlapped). I finish getting ready and help Jayla, and then we leave. G'parents bring Zach and Jake to football-THANKS!-. Got home, and ate lunch, and got some house work done. Picked up Dan's dry cleaning. Got ready for R.S. broadcast. Met mom and sis. at stake center to watch the broadcast. -THANK YOU GUYS!-

Sun. Jayla and I got ready and went to church. Dan and boys stayed home; Dan had to pack for his trip to L.A.. Went to church for and hour and came home, ate an early lunch and took Dan to airport. Went over to friends house to watch the Bronco game they recorded. Came home and tried to get ready for tomorrow and the rest of the week without a husband (he gets home basically Fri.)

One day I will miss this chaos. So for now, I try to enjoy it and relish the moments before I become obsolete.(some days I am better at this than others).

FYI...

Here is a cool site i found for a General Conference kit

more funny things said....

Zach at lunch. He just opened his yogurt. I am in the other room.

Zach- Mom can you get me a spoon?
Mom- I'm in the other room. You can get it yourself.
Zach- I really wish the Incredibles were here. Then Elasti-girl could stretch and get me a spoon!

He did get his spoon.

(This is not my toilet)

Random...

So as is other posts I have stated my lack of being organized, and having a messy house. But I do fixate on weird things. I spent most of the morning yesterday cleaning toilets. Not just "cleaning" but REALLY cleaning. With so many boys in our house I hate not being able to get into the nooks and cranny's of the toilet ( I swear boys don't look where they are aiming, or maybe they do and that's the fun of it). So I literally took apart the toilet to get into those corners. I got 2 of the 3 toilets taken apart and cleaned and then put back together before I needed to go get child #3.

Other weird things I fixate on .........
Baseboards
sliding door tracks

More Crafting/creating

We had football/ cheer pictures on Sat before the game. I wanted the cheerleaders to have cute matching bows. So Fri. I frantically sewed these together. (Thanks Mar for the ribbon you sent a couple months ago!) I found these cute little football beads at Walmart. I just sewed and glued them onto alligator clips. They ended up looking like the bows you stick on presents. Oh well. I hope the girls liked them.
We won the football game so now we are 1-1.

Then here is the pillow case dress I made for Jayla. In these pics the ribbon is too long, but I have shortened it after the pics. I couldn't just use the shape of the pillow case cuz it was to wide under her armpits. To fix that I made it more like an A-line shape. When I have more time I want to sew the same celery green ribbon around the bottom hem.

All About Zach...

First was his soccer d'ebut. He has been anticipating this for weeks now. He woke up that morning and was so excited to find out that all of us (Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Ellen , Uncle Jason, Mom and Dad, Tanner , Jayla and Jake) would go and watch HIM.

It is the 3 on 3 with no goalie. Here he is practicing before the game (they practice 1/2 hr before the game with no practices during the week)

This was during the game. He is one of the smallest on the field and one of the youngest but is one of the most resilient. He kept getting knocked down, but would hop right back up.

Here's the half time oranges.
He was so much fun to watch! After the the game he asked me..."did you love watching me mom!?"

Zach started preschool as well. He is in the Colorado preschool program, so its FREE . Yah!

The school district renovated the old Hospital so the lower level has 4 brand new prechool rooms and a head start program.

When I took him in, he of course made himself right at home. He was building this tower, when one of the kids came by and kicked it down (we will be watching that kid carefully!) Zach yelled at him to go away and proceeded to tell me that he will NOT be playing with that kid. I don't blame him.

When I picked him up (he goes for 3 hours) he said..."Thanks mom for letting me go to school! You are the best mom ever! You are beautiful!" I will take those comments happily.
He can't wait to go back tomorrow.

Look what I made......

I made Jayla some pajama bottoms! Ya me! I found this pretty floral pillow case($3/love finding bargains-it is Waverly) and wanted to make something from them. My first idea was to make those cute pillow case dresses ( check here )
Before making that I remember seeing a cute pattern for making pj bottoms/lounge pants (check here), so I made those first. And I did it! Forgive me if I gloat a little. I made these using a template from some of Jay's current pj's. I didn't want them dragging on the floor, so I made them a little shorter. The waist is just a draw string type, so there is a lot of room to grow. The legs are wide cuz, I just did a straight leg. I think she will like wearing these for a long time since they will look cute as capri's.
My next project will be the cute dress, and making me some lounge pants, and the boys some as well. No dresses for them ;)