Dress fitting and a London visit
Friday night Brian came home from Georgia after being away on training for work for the week but with a LAN party previously planned, I had the house clean and the fridge stocked. So after a two hour visit with him we headed to Listowel to stay over at my dads house so that we could head out early to Elmira for Hadley's dress fitting for Adam and Krista's wedding. The drive there was okay. One white out on 86 and some blowing snow but not too bad. My dad had his driveway clean when I arrived at 10pm with both kids which was really nice!
So in the morning I got up at 7:30 am and was ready to go by 8:30 am to be at the appointment for 9 am. HOWEVER, overnight a foot of snow arrived. So after my dad blew out the driveway and took a broom to my van, we were on our way. We only arrived about half an hour late. However the others were also a few minutes late so it was okay.
Hadley loved getting all dressed up and it looked like she truly felt like a princess. Nora was a great help with Easton as I helped Hadley try on dresses. I was privileged to see Krista's dress. I love weddings.
After our busy morning of trying on dresses we got McDondalds for lunch and the headed to London so spend the weekend with Jenny, Owen and Spencer. Ryan was at our house with Brian,
The kids played Wii for a few hours, and the babies played with toys, Jenny and I got her coupons organized, fixed her heat settings and talked. We tried to take the kids to a clothing sale that Jenny heard about but we had the hour wrong. So we got Chinese food and took it back to the house.
At bedtime we tried putting Owen and Hadley together knowing full well that it would likely not work out and after 15 minutes or so Hadley was on a mattress on the floor and Owen was in his bed. Easton magically fell asleep in this tiny window. So Jenny and I played Dominion and Blokus while we waited for Owen to fall asleep. We each won a game of Dominion and Jenny won Blokus. Then we were tired so we moved Hadley and Easton into Jenny's room on the bed with me and closed the door while Owen and Jenny shared a bed with Spencer in his crib.
It didn't matter though, the kids woke up within a minute of each other anyway so it was full steam ahead in the morning. Jenny hopefully enjoyed a shower while I watched the kids and then she made us a wonderful bacon and egg breakfast, again while I watched the kids.
We decided to take the kids to the children's museum in the morning which I know my kids loved. Then in the afternoon we were crazy enough to take all four kids to the movies to see the secret world of Arriety. Easton fell asleep 5 minutes into the movie and woke up 15 minutes before it ended. Jenny didn't have it so easy. She had both kids awake during the entire movie.
After the movie we went back to Jenny's for some homemade Mexican chicken. SOOOO GOOD.
Then it was time for the trek home.
Good times!