bedtime

bedtimes have been rough around here lately. my girls have shared a room most of their lives, which i know is apparently good for them. but i am not sure it is a good thing for ME! those two stinkers together are a dang handful, let me tell ya. they feed off each other.....and they are clever as heck! they keep me on my toes, that is for sure. last night we put the kids to bed at 8 and surprisingly it was a pretty easy task. that rarely happens. rhett and i hung out for probably an hour in the living room and then headed off to bed to watch some tv. still, the kids were being nice and quiet so we figured they were all asleep. i'm pretty sure rhett and i were out cold by 10:30. but holy cow, i was woken up by the loudest, blood curdling scream! it was awful. i am pretty sure i was in the deepest possible sleep. being woken up by screaming is terrifying and very confusing. i was positive somebody was dying. turns out the girls had never gone to sleep and had played all night. and then they had a very dramatic, very tired fight and decided to come tattle on each other.....at 2:30am!!! what the heck? i put the girls back to bed and they fell asleep super fast. as for me, not so much. it took me forever to fall back asleep. all i kept thinking last night was how badly i am ready to put those two back into their own rooms again. i miss quiet, peaceful bedtimes. but then after a rough night of fighting them to go to sleep i normally find this when i go check on them.

even though they have their own beds they almost always end up sleeping together. they look pretty sweet when they sleep. haha. i am hoping tacey is doing okay at school today. she is probably exhausted!

sunday afternoons

my favorite weekends are the weekends we don't have anywhere to go or anything to do. they don't happen around here very often. but this weekend was one for the books. it was super low key and just the way i like it. we spent the whole weekend together with no hustle or bustle. just good, quality time together. sunday we had a regional conference for church and it only lasted an hour and a half so we basically had the whole sunday off it felt like. so we all took a nice, long nap.....actually just rhett and riggins did. and then we loaded up in the car for a sunday drive. rhett took us to warm river to feed the fish. i thought it was going to be freezing but it actually ended up being a gorgeous afternoon. and the fish were definitely out!! we fed the fish and just let the girls explore away. when we do things like this i notice how much rhett is in his element and how much things like this make him happy. it was a perfect afternoon with some sweet memories made. we then headed home to watch a family movie in the basement with some gooey brownies.