A couple weeks ago, I got to go spend a week with Camille.  Kellen was going out of town for work  so I was glad I could be there to help her out a little bit.

We had such a fun time together.  I just can't get enough of this little bug. She is just so happy and  pleasant to be around.  It's a good thing cause if Camille had another one with Sam's temperment, I think it would push her right over the edge.  He can be the sweetest little guy, but then he can be the most difficult, unreasonable little stink you ever saw. 

Sunday morning, we were all getting ready for church.  Camille is really organized and  has the kids clothes all pressed and ready the night before.  It was the Primary sacrament meeting program so she wanted Liv and Sam to be ready to go and dressed nice.  So battle number one started before we even began to get dressed.  When the kids had had their practice for the primary program the day before, Sam had a bad experience.  When he said his part into the microphone, it came out really loud.  All the kids laughed at him and he got really upset.  He decided then, that he wasn't going to talk into the microphone again.  Camille talked to him till she was blue in the face trying to get him to understand that if he just talked normal, it would sound just right in the microphone.  He just kept saying he was not going to do it.  It wasn't until Olivia and Jordan talked to him and told him they were sorry they had laughed at him and that it would be ok when he talked into the microphone, that he said he would do the part.

Then It was time for him to get dressed.  For some reason, he has serious issues about wearing church clothes.  It's pretty much battledome every sunday when it's time for him to get his clothes on.  Camille and I had gone shopping saturday and found him some nice pants but he wouldn't have anything to do with them.  He busted out a full on tantrum, screaming and fighting with Camille.  She stays very calm....I don't know how she does it.  I tried to help her reason with him, but he wouldn't listen to me at all.  Camille said she knows how to handle him , so I just left them alone and got the other kids ready to go. I don't know what she said to him, I think some ninja turtle bribes were involved, but after a few minutes,(that seemed like an eternity) of listening to him scream, he settled down.  Camille got his pants on him and we were off to church. Suzanne and Jordan came and sat by us in Sacrament meeting.  Camille has done such a good thing with Jordan.  She picks her up for church every week.  She always invites Suzanne too, but she will never go...only to this program where Jordan has a part.  Suzanne came to the primary program last year too and was really touched by the spirit she felt there.  Camille said she bawled through the whole program.  She is pretty set in her ways though, and won't have anything to do with the church.  Jordan, on the other hand, has blossomed in primary.  She loves to go with Olivia and did a great job with her part on the program.  Anyway, after the sacrament, all the kids were supposed to go up on the stand.  We were holding our breath, hoping Sam wouldn't freak out.  He headed up to the stand, but then then came running back and said he needed his sun glasses!  Ha!  Thank goodness Camille had them in her bag!  I guess he must have felt safe behind them cause as soon as he put them on, he was fine to go up there and sit on the stand.  He was a pretty good boy up there...(as good as a three year old can be) and marched up there when it was his turn and said his part into the microphone just perfect.

   

 We went shopping on Saturday while Kellen was home to watch the kids.  When we went in the store, it was nice and sunny.  When we came out, it was pouring rain...I mean buckets of rain!  We made a run for the car but were absolutely soaked by the time we got there.

 Other fun activities...

 Bubbles

 Bowling

 Trying on masks...I love Emily's face!

 Baking

 Camille had the sister missionaries over for dinner Tuesday night. We made a nice dinner...(Camille's  yummy chicken cordon bleu, and I made some rolls ( the kids will always eat those)   We made apple pie for dessert and it was delish!

 Emily is so funny and cute.  Everytime she would put her blocks in the right hole she would raise her arms up and say Yeaaaaaaa!

 Camille was wanting to change her one wall around a little...one of her shelves had fallen down so things were kind of off balanced.  So we took everything down and patched the holes in the wall. (toothpaste works just fine!) She had some paint she had saved from when they painted  earlier, so we covered the holes we patched and it looked pretty good!

 After everything was dry, we hung up a new arrangement  (how does it look? stupid?..oh dear...I was laughing so hard I about wet my pants)with these coolest hanger things that just stick to the wall...then when you want to take it down, you just pull on it and it un-sticks from the wall!  These are my new favorite thing!  It doesn't even leave a mark!  I think it looks  real nice!

We started talking about me going home and how dumb it was for her to stay there alone while Kellen was out of town and Olivia had the next week off of school for fall break so we decided she should come to Utah for the week!  So we got Liv out of school early on Thursday and headed for home.  The ride went really well.  The kids were great so we powered through and got home by about 11:00.