Things Worth Noting............

I think this may have been the last week of our nice days. The kids tried to take full advantage though, and played outside everyday. Bailey had Thursday and Friday off from school for parent teacher conferences so she was glad she was able to be home to play. Ellie still had school on Thursday and when we picked her up she told us that school was bad because she had to be on Time Out. Lovely. I am not sure what happened the teacher didn't say anything to me about it, but we had a little chat about behaving at school. Who knows if it will help, not sure what to do with her most days. She has also started to develop her own sense of style, which is fine when we are not in public :) Anyway, here are a couple of photos of the nice outfit she chose on Saturday. In Ellie land all outfits must include a skirt in some way shape or form. This is a daily argument, which I use to have with Bailey as well, but I think Bailey is finally starting to out grow it a little, hopefully Ellie will too. After I made her change out of this outfit she got pretty upset while I was doing her hair because she wanted a short ponytail and not a long ponytail........ yeah I don't know the difference either and she was to upset about it to explain. Aghhhhhh life with Ellie, everyone should have to experience it.

Bailey's teacher said she is doing very well in school the only little complaint was that sometimes when they are in their reading groups and one of the other kids gets something wrong she gets a little "frustrated" and usually sighs and puts her hand to her head. Lovely. So, lecture number two of the weekend was treating others with respect. Hopefully that will not be happening again. I can say though that I think the light is finally on in the reading department. She was been reading like a mad dog this week and doing VERY well. Her teacher sent me home with three pretty long books for her to read, and that is all she has been doing all weekend. I think she has finally got it. YEAH!!! Part of me was worried this day might never come. This has always been one of our favorite books. Now Bailey can read it to us.

The rest of the weekend was pretty relaxing and uneventful. We took the kids to see Ratatouille on Friday. Yes, I am aware that this movie is old news and that Bee movie is the one to see, but we hadn't seen this one yet and it was still at our dollar theatre. So for 10 bucks, our whole fam saw the movie plus got our choice of 4 snacks, popcorn, nachos, candy, soda, you pick. Not bad for 10 bucks. We probably will be seeing Bee movie here as well :) Bailey has been practicing spelling it all weekend so she can write it at school for her Monday memories.

The best part of the weekend was the fact that we had Stake Conference today so at 4:00 on a Sunday, I am home blogging instead of at church. I have forgotten how nice it is to not got to church at 3:00 in the afternoon. It was a really good Stake Conference too, it was a broadcast from some of the General Authorities. They all gave really good talks, and the girls were pretty good so we were actually able to listen.

P.S. This just in..........my sister-in-law Mindy had her twins today. They were planning on inducing in the morning, but her water broke. The baby boy was 6 lbs and the baby girl 5 lbs. Everyone is doing well. Names are still pending............possibly Brodie for the boy and Gracie for the girl. I will post photos and official names when I have them. Congrats Aaron, Mindy and Trae!!