Super Sunday.

I don't often say this. Well, actually I never say this....today was a good day. AND it was a Sunday. Around our house these two things are never combined together or so it seems. But today was different.

I got ready for choir practice and asked the kids if they wanted to come early with me or come later with daddy. Everyone wanted to come early and get in extra coloring time. Even Sidney was dressed and ready to go by 8am. I know! Miracle, huh?

So I hauled them all with me picturing in my mind the seven million times I would have to leave the choir seats during our practice to go remind my kids not to fight in the chapel.

But, I didn't have to. They were quiet and wonderful and definitely not my kids! Anyone know where mine have run away to? Seriously if I believed in alien abductions, I would bet my life that that is the reason for the strange behavior from my children.

And guess what is even better? I came home from church without a headache caused from fighting with kids, and the day has progressed with still not much fighting. Hooray for whatever drugs they have given themselves. It seems to work. I would blame the Halloween candy, but I just can't fathom that sugar is helping them to be nicer. That just seems impossible. Of course, so did well behaved kids.

Maybe I should just count my blessings......

Saturday...

Saturday we got to drive to Logan to see this beautiful niece baptized. And we saw this handsome nephew blessed. I got to hold him and he is so precious!
Also witnessed Brecken dipping everything into the frosting on his cake because he just really wanted to eat it!!!
Grossed out watching Mikaela shove a WHOLE PIECE OF CAKE into her mouth! She's gorgeous otherwise!
And see the beauty of nature in the trees changing colors. It was beautiful to see the reds and oranges and yellows amidst some greens. Beautiful drive and fun day!

Friends are a blessing.

They totally are, you know. My best friend Deanne visited me on Saturday. This is a big deal to me because she has been my friend since we were 5 years old. Seriously, she is the first friend that I remember. Our moms carpooled us to Kindergarten together. She was with me through the rough years of junior high when I was a brat and thought I was too cool for her. She was still my friend. In high school she kept me grounded. Not "grounded", but normal. She was the one that I could watch old movies with (Sabrina, Seven Brides...., Scarlet Pimpernel), and we had the BEST personal jokes that no one else understood- "It's the Schwans man!" :) Anyway, she moved away to go to school at Purdue lots of years ago, and eventually she got married and started a family, but she always makes a point of stopping to use the potty and visit with me when she comes out west to go home and visit her folks in Idaho. I love her to death!
Our boys are 3 months apart in age. They see each other once a year and play like they are best buds and see each other every day. I love that! We miscarried a couple of years ago around the same time as each other, and then we were both pregnant again at the same time. Our baby girls are 4 months apart in age and were so cute yesterday when they were checking each other out for the first time.
Deanne's hubby is so awesome! Here is Deanne, Andre, Dallin (son), and Avery. I am so grateful for true friends. She is a soul sister, a kindred spirit, a better friend to me than I have probably been to her. I love her!