What a weekend! TGIM!

We had a busy, crazy, and very unpredictable weekend!  It was one of those weekends where we just couldn't win in some ways.  But I know that those happen sometimes and we did some fun things in between and we are looking forward (and hoping) for a non-eventful week!  

The Good!

• Carrie and Josh came to town for the weekend and we were able to see them Friday night and Saturday during they day
  
• We went to our neighborhood PTA kickoff party on Saturday and had some fun!  Will got a "tattoo", a giraffe balloon animal, and played with friends in the bounce house.
• We went to Will's friend, Kate's, Birthday party and he had a blast!
• The Cowboys WON!
• We went to dinner with Kristi, Chris, and Avery at Gloria's and had a great time.
• Kristi and Chris were lucky enough to see us again on Sunday and have us as overnight guests (see The Bad below for more details)!  We had a great time hanging out with them and THANK them so much for their hospitality!

The Bad

• Car died at the mall on Saturday.  There were 1,000,000 people at the mall due to the rain and it was a ZOO.  Chris and Josh were going to take Will home to nap and let Carrie and I shop more.  Well, 10 minutes into our shopping we got a call from Chris saying the car was dead.  We had to get through the mall - no small feat - and drive over to them.  Chris moved the car seat to Carrie's car (which was a daunting task in a parking garage where people were willing to kill for parking spots) so we could get Will home and then had to go back later to jump it.  Luckily it was just the battery and Chris and Josh were able to replace it on Sunday morning!
• Will hasn't had a good run with bumps and bruises lately - black eye last week, big bump on his head on Friday night, and then a leg injury in the bounce house at Kate's party.  Poor little man wanted to keep playing but got so upset when he put weight on his leg.  I am happy to report he is OK and his leg seems fine.  It took a long nap and lots of walking around holding our hands to "walk it off".  He's done this once before, I hope his knees get stronger!
• Our power went out on Sunday at 3pm and didn't come back on until today at 6am!  That is right, 15 hours!  Will was napping when it went off and we were watching football.  We decided to do some things we needed to do around the house.  Chris put together our new stroller, we cleaned out the inside of my car and put the car seat back in from the fiasco the day before, and played with the dogs some.  Around 6, when Will was awake, we decided we needed to get out!  We went over to Kristi and Chris's house.  Will and Avery played and the Poteet's were so nice to let us stay for dinner.  Once dinner was over Chris came back to the house to check on it and decided after talking to the power company (who finally started working on the outage around 8pm and at 10pm said they had determined it wasn't an above ground issue and they were going to have to "thump" the ground to figure out where the issue was, dig it up and fix) that it wasn't going to be anytime soon.  We put Will to bed in Avery's pack n play and we slept in their spare room. We all slept VERY well and we can't thank Kristi, Chris and Avery enough for having us!  Chris came home at 6am and the power came on shortly after.  He came back and picked Will and I up at 7:30am.  We now have power and except for all the unfortunate groceries I had to throw away, all is well!  What an adventure!  

The GROSS!

• I just put on shoes to go outside and throw all those groceries away I mentioned above and there was a gecko in my shoe.  Yes, it is now squashed!  YUCKKKKKK!!!!!  

I think it is time for a nap and some quiet time at home!  Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Will after dinner on Saturday night.  I was trying to get him to show me his tattoo.

If you look under his right eye, you'll see the black eye is turning green now.  The tattoo is a baseball with flames.  He specifically asked for a baseball tattoo.

Chris with the double stroller after he put it together.  Hmmm...check out who are in the seats.  Our first two kids.  We have a similar picture of Abby in the single BOB, but you can see her better because it was orange.  You have to look very close to see her in the left seat.  You really only see her gray beard.  And Murray HATED it!  He looks so tense.