family fun Friday

Over the last several months, Fridays in our house have become an important time of spending time together as a family. Fridays are no longer just Fridays,
they are family fun Fridays. The kids always ask on the way to school on Friday mornings, "is it movie night?" I am so glad that the boys know that this has become a family tradition and that it is something they can count on happening from week to week.

To begin our family fun Friday this week, we headed to Clark's Pastry Shop after school for some yummy frosted pumpkin cookies to celebrate the beginning of Fall and mommy's love of pumpkins. Oh, who am I trying to fool...we just went there because we really wanted a cookie! After satisfying our sweet tooth, we headed to the local library so that Connor could get more A-Z mystery books as he had finished reading the ones we had picked up last week. As he told Darren tonight, "I am a reading machine!" I am so glad he is. There is just nothing better than curling up on the couch and enjoying a good book.

The boys spent the rest of the afternoon playing outside, riding bikes (Cale learned how to pedal today!), sidewalk chalking, and a few of Connor's friends dropped by to hang out for a bit.

After our usual Friday night meal (Papa John's Pizza) we settled in for our movie. Tonights feature was "The Wild" and we all enjoyed it. However, any time a part came on that would make most 2 year olds nervous, Cale would turn around and look at Darren and me and say "I okay." You know, like I know I should be nervous and I am a little bit nervous, but I have two older brothers so I'm going to pretend like I'm not nervous! It was so cute. I just love these times with the boys.


This pic of Coby was taken last Friday while getting ready for bed after our movie. I just have to write down what he said that night. We were all hanging out in his bed just before our family prayer time. For some reason we were discussing what the boys want to be when they grow up. Connor wants to be a professional baseball player. Connor then said that Cale looks like a truck driver, so now Cale says that he will be a truck driver. When we got to Coby, he told me very seriously, "when I grow up I am going to be a Chinese guy!" Oh, how I laughed...I have never laughed like I laughed that night.

We try to always tell our boys (just as most parents do) that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up. Poor Coby, he can be many things, but a Chinese guy he'll never be! I hope he won't be too broken hearted when he finds out. ;)