Our weekend

This weekend we had a good balance of work and play. Normally when Andrew's home, I have a tendency to just have fun. I was a good girl on Saturday and we actually got some things done.

On Friday night Andrew's church b-ball game was cancelled. Only our ward didn't find out about it until all seven players were already at the church. Darn. We went out for ice cream instead. :)

On Saturday morning, we painted the kids' playroom. It was the first big step in trying to get our house ready to sell. I love our little house. It has been perfect for us. But when we bought it, we thought we'd only be here 3 years or so. Now it's looking like it's going to be several more years and we don't really have any room to grow here. I've been talking about this for the last six months or so. Started getting a little more serious before Christmas, but thought I'd wait until after the holidays to do anything about it. Well, now it's January and I've still just been sitting around, waiting for some little fairy to come fix all the little flaws in our house so it will sell. I finally realized that's not gonna happen. If I want to move, I'm going to actually have to do some work. We painted it a nice, warm brown. I love it. We're going to get rid of the playroom and move Whitney into there and leave Brandon where he is. He is pumped about having his own room. I don't think Whit really understands. We'll see how the transition goes. They're each napping happily in their own rooms for now. (I'll post pictures after we get all the furniture moved around. We ran out of time on Saturday.)

Anyway...Saturday afternoon, Brandon his basketball game. We don't have a full-sized hoop at our house, but our next door neighbor does and he said we could borrow it whenever. So, before the game Andrew took Brandon over there and they worked on some things. It totally helped because Brandon made two shots! A free throw before the game started(that counted toward the score) and one shot in the game. He's wearing black shorts this time and even dribbles the ball for a second before he shoots. :)

Way to go, Buddy!

On our way home from the game we walked through some model homes that are a bit out of our price range, but it was fun to dream for a minute. :)

For our date on Saturday night, we went to a local improv comedy club called the Idiot Box. One of the co-owners is a friend who comes to my Girl's Nights Out. She's also a performer and is hilarious. We double dated with some friends who know her, too. We had a great time. I love that there is a comedy club here that is clean. I thought Johnny B's in Provo was the only one I could ever go and not be too worried about what I was getting myself into. We went out for cheesecake afterward. It was scrumptious. Very, very fun date. We almost always plan our dates last-minute, so we rarely go on double dates. I liked it! It's fun to talk to other adults in more than five minute blurbs of conversation. It seems that's the way things go when the kids are around, which they always are. We'll have to do it again sometime.

I got released from my responsibility of leading the children's music at church today. I was pretty sad about it. I LOVED that calling. I will get a new responsibility soon(which I am excited about), but it didn't happen yet, so I had a week off to just listen at church. It was wonderful! Good Sunday School lesson on the Nativity story and great Relief Society lesson on Discipleship.