Duggars and Bates

I have really been enjoying watching The Duggars and The Bates TV shows. It has been more fun to watch these shows now that some of the kids are older and are married and starting to have children. It is nice to be able to watch wholesome shows. I would love to get to meet them one day.

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I think it will be neat to see if any of the Duggars and Bates kids will marry each other. I want to see that on one of their shows.

What I am eating lately

Glimpse of my weekend

We began our weekend on Thursday when we met our cousins for lunch at Wendy's. These are some crazy kids.

saving seats for everyone

the nutty kids

We then headed to Target to do some grocery shopping. We also went to Best Buy. The boys played some games and looked at computers.

We then headed home for the rest of the day. They played guitar, computer games, board games, and watched some of their favorite short videos on the computer.

the ride home

The boys played basketball for a while...

Of course, they got hot playing basketball...because it was 65 degrees outside...stifling. So, this happened...

And, because squirt guns are not enough for teenage boys, dunking in recycling cans is a must.

After dinner, some Wii games happened.

On Friday, we went to Panera Bread for breakfast...we met Grandma there.

Then we went to Old Navy. This happened...

And with 4 music playing teenagers, we had to stop at Guitar Center.

While they were at Guitar Center, I headed to Ulta and Marshall's.

Then I came back to Guitar Center to see this...

After all of that guitar and drum playing, the teenage boys needed a snack.

We then stopped by the theater to pick up our tickets for Saturday.

Then we went to the mall to walk around. Here they are in Rue 21.

Then we came home, and the boys played some games upstairs. After that we went to the baseball field for the boys to play baseball. They played for about 40 minutes, and then it just poured rain on us suddenly.

That evening we had Little Caesar's pizza and watched Interstellar. We all really liked it.

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We went to see Insurgent on Saturday at noon. The other cousins met us there. It was a lot of fun.

After the movie we went home, and the boys all went to play baseball and then skip rocks in the river. They all had a great time.

They came home and played some Clue, and then we ate dinner (goulash). The boys then played some computer games, played guitar, and then played Wii Jeopardy. 

They were all so glad that they got to spend so much time together. We dropped them off to their dad on Sunday morning.

Happenings around here

This is what was happening around our house this week:

• I began organizing the dining room...I could not take it any more
• I had to go through everything. I made piles on the table of things I needed to go through

• this was my finished dining room. I was really proud of what I was able to accomplish
• I had another cabinet in this empty space between these two pieces of furniture
• now it does not look so cluttered

• I completely cleared off the top of the desk. I also put a lot of stuff in this black bin
• here is a cleared dining room...and clear dining room table

• the boys did some organizing as well
• they both cleaned out their drawers in the filing cabinet in their college room

• the boys also cleaned off their desk
• this is a look at Jar's area on the desk

• Cam finally has a clear spot on his side of the desk
• he was excited about this magnetic holder for his pens and papers

• I made the boys and I roasted chicken and BLT sandwiches. They were delicious

• the sun was shining brightly every morning...so nice
• Lily has been doing good sleeping in her spot every night...now if I could only sleep in MY spot

• Mom got Michael a Starbucks card and some Reese's peanut butter cups for doing her taxes
• I burned the Christmas candle set this week...it smells so good

• I read some new blogs this week
• this person travels to Europe a lot...I want to go

• I love the idea of using a map as a photo background

• I love pens...I use these all of the time
• I also love cute spatulas...Rachael Ray spatulas are the best

• I got this new cross body bag to carry only my keys, wallet, and phone to the mall
• the boys are tired of my purse beeping every time we go to the mall
• I got some new tea...it is really delicious...kind of flowery tasting

• I love these kind of Brownstone houses in New York City...this was on a blog I was reading
• I have this same container and almost the same flowers in my bathroom

• I made a delicious salad with lots of avocado
• Jar did his school reading while Cam was taking his piano theory test

• I cleaned out the books on my bookshelf in my room
• I put some of my beauty products on the shelf

• We got the original flavor of Mochi at Trader Joe's
• I picked up a couple of packages of these rolls at Trader Joe's...to use with turkey burgers or chicken sandwiches. They only have 4 ingredients

• I picked up these meatballs at Trader Joe's...I love meatballs
• I also picked up this beef broccoli dish for the boys

Some other things going on this past week:

     --Michael had 2 interviews on Tuesday

     --We watched Night at the Museum 3

     --We had fun watching American Idol and The Voice

     --I cut Lily's hair, and we cut her nails

     --I cut Michael's hair

     --Cam took his piano theory test

     --We went shopping at Trader Joe's

     --We had the best popcorn ever from Target

     

we use this to cut Lily's nails

The spring flowers are blooming...

Cam took his piano theory tests. He feels like he did really well.