Labor Day Weekend

Well, unfortunately we don't have a bunch of fun or cute pictures to prove our weekend, but it was good none the less.

I think as I said before, I worked on Friday and Saturday, so those days weren't especially fun. Sunday was pretty good. Most of our class was gone, with the exception of Spencer.

However, the CTR7 class's teachers were gone and so their class got combined with ours... bummer, cuz with only one kid we were hoping to skip out on teaching and let him join one of the other classes-- apparently we weren't the only ones to think about that, as the CTR7 teachers bailed on teaching/ finding a sub. Oh well, it's not like we haven't done that before.

We didn't mind, though the kids were a little rowdy. I taught this week, a lesson about Obeying the law. What a difference 1 year in age makes in our classroom. The older kids were much more vocal in answering the questions about different laws that we have and why. Some of the things they said were funny while others had absolutely nothing to do with the question I asked. One of the little boys in the CTR7 class named Brady, was talking up a storm... eventually I'd just have to cut him off in order to get back to the lesson.

Our whole class lesson lasted most of the class time, with a couple minutes to spare before primary.... which NEVER happens in our class. Our class doesn't really have the attention span to sit and answer questions the whole time or share personal experiences. I guess teaching the other kids gave us a good perspective on our own class. Sunday after church I decided to invite our friends Conner and Lindsey over. We seem to get along with them really well. We played a game they brought called Settlers-- which is totally a strategy game-- and got killed. Lindsey won. It was funny to see Conner and her compete... especially as they are newl-ier weds than we are. Conner even tried to bribe me into helping him make Lindsey loose. I decided against it... friendship is more important than winning. :) We had a blast and it was fun to visit with them.

Monday was fun. We sort of slept in, if you could call sleeping in until 8:45AM sleeping in. Poor Quincy has come down with a cold; He has a runny nose and sounds pretty congested. We bought some cold medicine for him, which seems to be helping... but I still feel bad. It's not a great time to have a cold either because the weather had been cooling down. We just have to bundle him up more if we're going to be outside.

Monday afternoon I got a call from Lindsey, inviting us to a BBQ and to play some volleyball with them and some other couples. We of course said yes and I volunteered to bring a dessert over. We were the first ones to get there, seeing as how Tyler wanted to watch the Tennessee/ UCLA game with Conner. I didn't mind, because I could visit with Lindsey during the parts which I wasn't interested in watching.

Quincy was such a handful. Despite being sick with a cold he hasn't slowed down a bit... in fact he seems to have taken his trouble up a notch in speed, since discovering how to run. I felt bad, and slightly embarrassed when we had discovered him getting into their room and taking stuff out! I caught him with a small baseball bat, making a run for the bathroom in efforts to get away. Lindsey is such a good sport... she will be a great mom.... she just laughed and said not to worry. Other young couples came over around 6:00PM and we all visited, ate some yummy food, and played the game Balderdash. I think most everyone headed out around 8:30 or 9:00. we stayed though... because the football game was almost over and the score was close-- so of course Tyler wanted to see it, especially since we don't have ESPN. The game was pretty good, being close until the last minute when UCLA pulled ahead, and even went into overtime. Unfortunate for Tennessee, they missed a field goal and UCLA, the under dog team, won. Tyler was so glad that we stayed to watch! I was glad that Conner and Lindsey didn't seem to mind us staying a little later. Quincy was finally glad to go home at 10:00, he nearly passed out in the car, and once we set him in his crib he was out!

It was a great Labor day weekend...thanks to our friends the Maclennans!