Crazy Fun Weekend

On Friday we had planned to get together with our friends, the Gennings, to have dinner, play games, watch our kids play, etc. On Thursday Jenny Gennings called to confirm that we were still getting together and she reminded me that this was the weekend that Brian's old roommate, Jeremy, was coming to visit. When Brian came home from school, I informed him that Jeremy was coming to stay with us, and he informed me that his other old roommate, Paul, was in town with his girlfriend and wanted to get together. So a dinner party set for Friday evening started out with seven people and after a few brief conversations, jumped to ten people. Brian thought that if we were all getting together we might as well call Drew, another old roommate who lives in Salem. When he talked to Drew, Drew said, "Great, my cousin Dave is in town with his family. He was Jeremy's roommate too, and would love to see him." Then Paul's sister called from Seattle, said she heard we were all getting together and was wondering if she could come too and bring a birthday cake for Paul. So all in all we prepared or 16 people to come to dinner on Friday evening.


Drew's family didn't show up, but we still had a full house, and we had a great time. Brian bought 20 large baking potatoes, that everyone cut in half, so we had about 14 left for hashbrowns the next morning. (We sent some home with the Gennings, too.) And we still have baked potatoes in our fridge. It was fun to see everyone and to meet spouses, children, etc.

On Saturday morning Alyssa had a Primary activity. They went to a retirement home and sang songs to the grandmas and grandpas. Alyssa was so excited for this activity for the whole two weeks prior to it. She was so cute singing all of the Primary songs. I was going to put a clip in her hair, but Jeremy was in the shower when we were leaving, so I didn't get to it.


Then we headed to Jenny Genning's vocal recital, then made a quick stop at McDonalds for lunch. Alysssa and I got our food to go, because we had to head into Portland to see the ballet Sleeping Beauty, Act III. This particular ballet was about Aurora's and Prince Florimund's wedding. It was a little boring. The scenery was beautiful, the dancing was beautiful, the costumes were beautful, but there was no plot whatsoever. The only plot line I could see was, "The king and queen come in and sit down, the court comes in, Aurora and Prince Florimund come in, various people dance for the king and queen, Aurora and Prince Florimund dance, ballet is over." But before Sleeping Beauty we watched the ballet Firedbird which was fun and exciting. It was about Prince Ivan making friends with the firebird, then falling in love with a princess and defeating the evil guy with the big bushy grey hair to save all the princesses. Alyssa and I both liked that one.

After the ballet we walked across the street to the bubble waterfall. Alyssa loved that! We played there for a little while, then headed to a hotel by the airport to go see Jeremy's nieces and nephews perform in an irish dance competetion, which is why Jeremy was in town. We showed up just as it was ending, then we went to IHOP for dinner and the Gennings' soccer game, which we missed. So we went to the Gennings house instead and played Nintendo games until way late.

Sunday was church, and on the way home we stopped at Brian's school to show Jeremy around, and Brian doing an almost-thorough eye exam on him. Then we went home for lunch, and Jeremy took off to go pick up his sister, her husband, and their six children to come stay the night at our house.

Just after he left, I was about to start cleaning our house from Friday night's party to be ready for Jeremy's family to come over, when I went in Ethan's bedroom and found this:


Yes, a naked boy with poop all over his crib. I cleaned everything up, stuck Ethan in the tub, washed my hands real good, then heard Alyssa call from the bathroom, "Mom, can you come wipe the poop off my bum? I didn't get it all." When I was done taking care of Alyssa, I told Brian that if any more poop happened, I was going to leave. Wouldn't you know that one of Jeremy's nephews went to the bathroom and put poopy toilet paper in the garbage can and left a chunk of poop on the floor. Guess who cleaned it up.

But overall, it was fun having Jeremy's family over. The kids had a blast running around the yard together, and Alyssa had so much fun having her first sleepover. We put the two girls in her bedroom, and she even slept on the floor with them!

Everyone left early this morning, and we are all exhausted. As soon as Ethan's down for his afternoon nap, I'm going down too.