I've been meaning to bring our pictures from the weekend to work so that I can post them on the blog. I forgot two days in a row. :) There's always tomorrow. We had a fun weekend with Rebekah and Ruthie (when she wasn't working). Bekah was a HUGE help in getting me organized. We tackled the scariest room in the house (the office area). It has basically looked like a tornado ran through the room for as long as I can remember. I am so glad to have it organized and feel so much better when I pass through the room. Cause that's the catch -- I have to pass it all the time as it is an open room that we walk through to get back to the bathrooms or bedroom. You can imagine my anxiety when company says they have to use the bathroom. :) ha ha... Anyway... it's clean now.

What else... we went to Sam's to price food for Bekah's wedding. Still nailing a date down, but it's looking like Friday, May 25. I'm helping her cater it. Basically just appetizers -- definitely something that we can handle. I love stuff like that. She has a lot of great ideas and it is all very do-able. I'm excited about the chance to save her money.

On Saturday we also raked leaves in the backyard. It was a family affair with Bekah, Ziggy, Tony, Kaiya and I all out there working hard. Took some fun pictures in the leaves (which will be posted when I remember my usb cord for the computer). We were SO tired when finished... the back yard is huge!! And Tony took a huge chunk of time out of his schedule to help with it. And for those of you who know how much Tony hates yardwork, you know what a gift that was to me. My two favorite quotes from him for the day -- "maybe if we leave a small layer it will stunt the grass growth next spring." That's Tony... always looking ahead to the future. And the second quote: "When we move we are either living in a forest (because it is natural to have leaves on the forest floor) or not having neighbors." (Because truly, the main reason we were raking the leaves is because our neighbor is a lawn-mowing nazi. He mows his grass constantly -- always making us look like slackers. So of course, he had all their leaves raked 2 weeks ago. I told Tony we had to rake them before they all blew over into the neighbors yard.) I think Tony would have been secretly delighted if they had blown into the neighbors yard. :) After all -- our neighbor has a riding lawn mower w/ a mulcher so it's an easy task for him.

Anyway... pictures are coming.

Other exciting mama news is that I am about to ask Santa for a night of uninterrupted sleep. This parent stuff is exhausting and I am nearing a breaking point with K waking up in the night and wee hours of the morning. So... the new plan is this (thanks to Jen for the suggestion): When Kaiya wakes up in the middle of the night, leave her in the crib while heating a formula bottle, then take it in and feed her in the dark w/out talking, burp her and then put her down right away. We did pretty well with it. I took care of the bottle and burp, then Tony put her down. We have been making the mistake of bringing her into our room when she cries in the middle of the night and then I nurse her and we both fall asleep in our bed. So no wonder she cries in the middle of the night. It's mama at her complete disposal -- meanwhile I am sleep deprived. :) So hopefully this plan will help break the bad habit that we created. Time will tell! And I'm pretty determined.