Monday, yuck

And it is another Monday morning. I woke up at 4:45 and headed to the fitness center to do my 3 miles of intervals. I like doing those, it mixes things up a bit. I'd prefer to do them on a track outside, but ours is still covered in snow. So the treadmill it is. Allyson was there, and we had a good time, it's always nice to have someone to talk to at the gym. The kids were a little sluggish this morning. To much fun this weekend I guess. Friday we were bowling till late, on Saturday, Amber had to leave in the morning to go to Des Moines for a Jazz band competition, and wouldn't be back until 8pm. By the way they got first place!!! Bret had to leave at 8am to go to Omaha for a certification class for teaching the hunter safety courses. He would be done at 4. So Allyson, bless her, offered to take my boys so I could meet Bret and have dinner with him and then go to the adult session of Stake conference. She also offered to pick up Amber when she got back to the school. So nice of her, I do owe her for that. But Bret and I had a great time. Our second date in one week! That so never happens. The meeting was good. Nothing earth shattering, but I'm glad I went and was able to get some great parenting advice. You can always use that. When we picked up the kids at the Bendorfs, they looked like they had a great time, and they didn't want to leave. Sunday we kind of did a bad thing and stayed home from church. Stake conf. is hard, I hope we can do better on getting to that in the future, but it's hard when only one parent feels the need to go. I won't name names here.......
The kids had a piano recital at 3 and it was at the First Baptist church here in Harlan. It was Sam's first one, and he did great. Amber and Ben did very good too. Keaton fell asleep in my lap for about 20 minutes. I think the weekend had caught up with him. We ended our Sunday with a great Family Home Evening, and all went to bed a little early. All except Amber who for some reason feels she can't go to bed before 10:00! Just like her father!