What have you been up to this week?

This week has been an unusual one. Rayden went to Falls Creek with the youth group from our church AND his parents were gone on their 40th wedding anniversary trip to Boston. So, me and the kids were home alone this week. I intended to get all sorts of house projects done....and....well....that just didn't happen. Here's what happened instead...

-the boys fought
-Nathan messed with a piece of metal sticking out of our house causing our crawl space to flood about a foot deep which required us to lose water for a day and hire a plumber to come out and fix it on a holiday (more on this is a separate post)
-Aubri whined
-Kaleb played in his last baseball game (which was delayed 40 minutes because of thunder)...he lost....resulting in devastation of a 6 year old who didn't win the "world series"
- Tilly peed and pooped all over the house
-it rained....nay....poured over and over again (hence Tilly peeing and pooping IN the house because she refused to go out in the rain)
-we drove to Rolla to have lunch with my dad and brother and then brought my brother back to spent the week with us
-the boys fought
-we went to Bass Pro and had Moon pies and looked at fish, turtles, and alligators
-we ate at Nakato (I deserved a treat I think)
-we went to CVS to try and get free Sobe Lifewaters, but they were sold out...boo!
-the boys acted like little crazy people
-we played the best game of hide and go seek....the prize went to Aubri for hiding in the dryer
-we went to Play4Fun....best 13 dollars I spent all week....the kids bounced and ran and sweated for 2 hours....praise the Lord for a great naptime that day
-we missed Rayden like CRAZY!
-I worked on a secret project....I'll tell you all about it later
-Jake and I put together two puzzles (one was 300 pieces and one was 1000 pieces)
-I worked on cleaning out the garage (my goal was to finish, but I am no where near that)
-we took 3 boxes of stuff to good will
-Aubri threw fits
-the boys fought
-we took sonic ice cream to my mom and watched a music performance with her at her assisted living facility
-the kids played in mud with Tilly....resulting in the dogs first bath (oh...I should not fail to mention that they did this about 10 minutes before we were to leave for Rolla)
-we wished the week would go by faster so that daddy would come home
-we went to the library
-I finished reading "Financial Peace" by Dave Ramsey
-and did I mention that the boys fought?

It was a full week....and it's almost over. Praise the Lord! Rayden is on his way home now from camp. T minus 5 hours and counting. Oh how I love that man. Oh how I need him to hurry home....I'm not sure how much longer I can make it!