Idaho -- Monday

Monday morning we took the kids back to school shopping.  My mom took Ellie, my dad took Nate and I took Sadie.  We all went to the mall and split up.

Sadie and I went to the one store, bought everything we needed and  BOOM!  We were done.  It's very similar to my personal life.  I just want to get everything done as quickly as possible with as little effort as possible.  We did do some window shopping to make sure the back pack she ended up with was what she wanted but the most we bought after the start was one water bottle.  Since we go to uniform school we couldn't go crazy with colors of patterns, but Sadie managed to make navy blue look fancy.

My dad has one true love in this world and that is nice shoes.  So of course Nate ended up with a few pairs of really really nice shoes.  He was slightly concerned because one pair of shoes has red on it and what if people think he is Ute fan?  Add in a Super Mario backpack and lunchbox and the boys were officially sick of shopping.  (You can see him in his new Friday shirt and one pair of new shoes in the background below).

I think we were both done within about 30 minutes, so we headed over to the play center to hang out.

40 minutes later, we catch a glimpse of my mom and Ellie.  They just needed to hit a few more stores.  The two of them are the shoppers of the group. What were we were thinking pairing the two of them up?  Ellie ended up with 3 or 4 pairs of shoes, 3-4 pairs of shorts, a bunch of tank tops, layering shirts, a cardigan . . . who knows what else. . . and a Vera Bradley back pack.  Oh well, the two of them had fun and if anyone can appreciate all the fun it's Ellie.  The two of them have always been tight.

We headed over to the hospital because Kristine was back at work.  Luckily it's 5 minutes from the mall.  The best part was that they had soft pretzels there!  I guess one night the crazies spent all night trying to track down soft pretzels for a midnight run snack to no avail.

I also got a FB from a girlfriend that it was National Sugar Cookie Day.  So of course we had to get some sugar cookies.  They were amazing.  And my kids thought that since the hospital had a gift shop they should probably do some shopping there too.

For Family Home Evening we went back to the Matsuura's for the Dusty vs. Meg showdown.  Dustin did pretty well for only playing tennis every 2 years and Meg just coming off the State tennis finals.  But I think we all know how that went down.  At least he had his Yuki victory.  And he came away with an invite to the 2013 Yuki Invitational.