A Whirlwind Weekend

While the main event of the weekend was Christian's Birthday, we certainly had plenty of other events to keep us busy. It was one of those weekend's that events just kept piling up on the calendar and even with Reed in town we were stretched to make it work. Completely exhausting, but such wonderful times watching the boys learn and grow.

We started the "weekend" off early with a trip to the Art Barn with G's class. I overcame my reservations about touching farm animals to show this little chickie to the kiddos. 

I'm glad I took the little guy.

His visit to a farm only instensified G's random obsessions with pigs. He wants a pig, he needs a pig, he's written and illustrated and entire book about "unipiggie". It's kind of strange.

Next, G was thrilled to have Little C and I helping at Field Day.

Unfortunately, we had a neither short, nor brief, intermission Friday night from midnight-5am when Christian was miserable with a double ear infection. 

We even resorted to a night time stroller walk around 3:30. Which, was only ironic because some of my good friends were running Cape Cod Ragnar at THE EXACT SAME TIME.

After a day of highs (winning bball) and lows (losing FB) Matts begged Reed to do Sudoku and the USA Today crossword puzzle with him to unwind. They were successful and so the day ended on a high note.

G got to participate in his first lacrosse tournament. They tore it up the first game, winning 14-3 (G scored 4 goals) and then went on to win their next two games handily, with G scoring a goal in each. He did learn an important lesson about resting and refueling as he partied it up Friday night and was definitely sluggish for his Saturday games.

G had to, once again, face the challenge of not playing on Sunday. Thus far, he's struggled with it (Mom-if we weren't Mormon, could I be playing my game right now?) but, it's been a minor issue as his coaches have been supportive and respectful. But, the stakes were a little higher this time and being undefeated going into Sunday, Gray definitely felt the pull to play. So, it was awesome to sit in Sacrament and hear the youth speakers announce their topic of "keeping the Sabbath Day holy" and proceed to give great talks that emphasized the ways our abilities will increase if we honor the Sabbath. Add to that an incredible musical number by 6 of the big, cool YM in our ward and G leaned over and whispered- "Mom, I think my prayer was just answered."