fun day

so today was "fun day."

we tried and tried to come up with a good plan...
skiing? snowtubing? right...not with sawyer.
go stay in a hotel with a pool? that's fun til bedtime.
it's hard to come up with a fun idea with 4 kids {with 1 baby!} in the middle of winter.

so this is what we came up with::

last night we put slips of paper with "breakfast" "lunch" "dinner" on them.
let each kid pick one.
they got to pick where we would eat that meal.
the only rule was NO CHUCK E CHEESE! {aren't we mean??}

so...joshua picked Panera for breakfast



and we played in between meals
{it was insanely freezing and windy today! a miserable day to be in and out of the car a million times...}


bailey picked red robin for lunch
{sawyer was already over it all...he is impossible lately...i basically want to throw him out the window right now...kidding...totally kidding...}



we went overboard and gave them each $1 to play one of the games in red robin.

came home and had quiet time.

then we went bowling!
pat and i took turns holding the wild bull...i mean, sawyer.

i really think everyone had fun!
SCORE!




then rebekah chose IHOP for dinner.

{all 3 dining choices were within 2 miles of our house...that was nice!}

but...honestly...by mid-afternoon i was done.
it felt like maybe it was too much.

pat redeemed it a lot by asking some "quality" questions at dinner...we went around and said what we were most thankful for and then said what we loved the most about each other and then what we struggle with the most {arguing, hitting, talking like a baby, being tired and being impatient were our answers} and he encouraged us to pray for each other for those things.

i hope it was a fun day for them.
maybe not the most quality, inspiring day...but is that maybe ok sometimes??

i need a run badly...