Such a busy weekend, it was...

Ashlyn and her friend McKenna cooking

I'm so tired. It was a pretty busy weekend...which is pretty abnormal in the Todd and Hyo household. We like our weekends to be low key where we just hang out and take it easy. It all started last Friday. We had our friend's daughter, McKenna, over for a playdate while her mom manned a booth at the Christmas Gift Show held at the Southtowne expo. Ashlyn had so much fun with her. It was great! Later that afternoon, I packed the kids up and headed to the Gift show to meet up with her mom, Marcella, and to just walk around and see what was there. I really thought that I could handle a 6 month old in a bjorn and keep up with 2 girls. Right...McKenna had all the energy in the world and would be running ahead of me while my daughter (who refused to take a nap that day) was DRAGGING her feet 10 feet behind me and all the while she would say "I'm not tired." Oh dear. Well, we finally made it home from the show just in time to get dinner ready.

When Todd came home, I told him that I wanted to go back to the show with my SILs (Sister-in-Laws) the following morning since Marcella would be able to get us all in for free (gotta love that!..thanks Marcella). To my surprise Todd actually wanted to come along (I was planning on taking the kiddies with me so that I can give him some R&R). So off we all went Saturday morning to the Expo center to meet up with Alice, her son Devin and my other SIL Stephanie. It was fun and tiring at the same time. THEN, the DirectTV guy came that afternoon and he didn't leave until 7-ish so Todd stayed home with him while I again packed the kiddies up and headed off to my mom's for a family dinner. Todd later told me what a horrible experience it was to get DirectTV installed downstairs...poor honey...oh, and all the while, we had Melanie (my SIL on Todd's side of the fam) and the kids come for the weekend from WY.

Then on Sunday, we had the Primary Program (I'm the 2nd Counselor). That's always a little stressful but the children were amazing and I was very proud that my daughter of 2 years knew all of the songs to the program - way to go Ashlyn!!..oh..and did I mention that my kids are sick too, especially Ethan-poor dude, he's so miserable. So that's my story. As I'm writing all this, I'm wondering if I'm just being a whimp but really, the weekend was crazy. It was just nonstop. Todd did give me a break Sunday after dinner so that I could take a little nap - thanks honeybuns (hee, hee!!). So that's my story. I'm sure you all probably had a great weekend full of...funn-ness?!?! I guess at the end of the day, it's nice to know that moms are needed everywhere and that our job covers just about every aspect of our kiddies/family's life. I must agree with my SIL Melanie when she says that Heavenly Father has a great appreciation for Mothers. I really needed to hear that.

Pics of Ashlyn and Kyle (sorry Elise and Dallin that I didn't get you in the pics)