another weekend.

lately this blog has become a once a week sort of deal. i admit, it's partly because i spend so much time playing on my new phone. so, we have yet another update. mostly photos.

i finally got to use my mother's day gift. 2011-2012 season tickets to the opera. heather, my mom and i went the first of the season, fidelio. and i loved it, of course. it was beethoven's only opera, fyi. oh and we had the most delicious three cheese cauliflower soup at kneaders before the opera. it was amazing. you need to try it.

on saturday we spent 2 hours at applebee's waiting for some mediocre food, but enjoying some great company. then we went to thanksgiving point to the corn maze and haunted houses and realized what a huuuuuge, awesome production it is over there and wished we hadn't wasted 2 hours at applebee's and had instead had hot dogs from the concessions stand. aside from my getting genuinely freaked out by the "least scary" haunted attraction, and the make-up stain on my white jacket from the actor in said haunted attraction {who, by the way, we were told "wouldn't touch us if we didn't touch him"}, it was really fun. serena would have had a blast. next year we will definitely bring the kids.

harper woke up reeeeeal early on sunday. we made pancakes. the whole family played in serena's room. the girls played nicely with each other for a minute. serena and i did a pumpkin craft. we went to church, and had dinner & cupcakes at my parents' house {cute cupcakes made by my sister, annette}. i'll spare the details about how much i dislike sundays. i'm so glad i get to go to young women's in the third hour of church with no kids. it's the one hour of church that i'm aware of anything besides my kids and their messes and tantrums.{THANK YOU, SEAN. really. thank you.}

i live for the weekends.