dancing fools

Last weekend I found someone selling a game for the wii called dance dance revolution 2. I thought it would be a pretty fun game for the girls especially and so Laurel and I went and picked it up. You play the game by watching the screen and while the music plays you step on certain squares on the dance matt attached to the wii, and have to shake the controllers in your hands at certain times too. The kids played a little on saturday and laurel has played a little here and there throughout the week. Tonight I played with the girls before bed, then later when all the kids were in bed I went downstairs to lock up and thought 'what the heck'. It's a really fun game and Nathan is away so I let loose looking like a crazy person who isn't in control of my limbs. The last song I did on expert level, and man is it hard, so I thought I could pass the level if I just ran in circles really fast on the matt, and wave my hands really crazy above my head because I couldn't keep up with all the arrows coming up the screen. And what do you know I passed the song! Haha! I was laughing (and sweating) by the end of that one. Sometimes its fun to be a little nuts.

runners

Every year some of us do the Sheep River Road Race here in Okotoks. It is a chaotic and fun morning, where usually mom gets a break from running after the kids to run for no good reason at all! This year Laurel and Will ran the 2k kids race and did great. William actually came in 8th place, he was pretty excited about that. Then mom ran the 10k and finished with an okay time of 52 minutes.

The next weekend we also did the family fun run our church put on. Laurel did amazingly well finishing the 5k run in 33 minutes! She did better than most adults. Way to go Laurel!

first day of school

It has finally come! School is back in. I have to say I was really looking forward to this September as the kids are all so young and this summer seemed like day after day of barely organized chaos. Having one of the young women in our ward was a great help in a couple of ways. First, I had an extra set of hands to help the twins go to the bathroom, get lunch, and not get into so much mischief. Secondly it made for a better summer, as I felt like if I had the help I needed to go do things with the kids more often, so it was a field trip summer.

Emma started kindergarden, Will grade one, and Laurel grade four. The twins (particularly Alli) had a hard time with Emma leaving for the day, but they soon got over it and were happy to play with everyone's things while they were away at school. I will say it is easier to enjoy the twins when there are fewer of us around for me to watch.