Our weekend wrap up...

Since I decided to start my gratitude post yesterday, I thought I should just post what we were up to this past weekend today. Friday I was able to get a little Christmas shopping done, thanks to my wonderful mom for watching Leah for me while I did that. She always has so much fun with my mom. I was able to buy four of my nieces part of their gifts and get some ideas on my other family's gifts. We really have to stretch it this year, but we have sooo many people to give to. It's sort of a curse and a blessing at the same time, hehe, just kidding. I love my family tons. While I was out I was able to finally get Leah's snow suit and got her some more dresses for church I found some at, of course, Kid to Kid,and then at a regular store for almost the same price as the secondhand dresses! They're having a huge sale. Super cheap.


Love the fluffy little ball on the hoody of the sweater dress. Not bad for $6.00


I have always wanted dresses like these for my little girl. So festive.


She looks so cute in this, like a pink marsh mellow!


On Saturday I made a huge pot of homemade chili (Chris insists I make tons, he would eat it everyday for every meal if I let him) in the afternoon so dinner would be out of the way and the flavors could develop more. Then later on in the evening,it hit me. I do not want chili tonight. It just didn't seem too appealing to me. So I looked around in my pantry, fridge etc. And I decided I really felt like homemade manicotti. I didn't have any manicotti shells so I just used lasagna noodles and whipped out a huge pan of manicotti. I actually liked the lasagna noodles so much better than those shells. It was so much easier to fill them too! Chris came home and before he even came into the kitchen he said really loud, "Mmm, smells like my baby's been cookin all day!" Yeah, he was in heaven. He ate two servings of manicotti and a bowl of chili. Plus I had dinner made for three nights this week already because of the huge batches I had made. Gotta love leftovers. Whew, that takes a load off of my mind.

I really enjoyed our Sabbath day yesterday. Chris was able to get the day off and I love Young Women's. We have the sweetest girls! Leah was getting so rambunctious, and three of my friends said I should take her to nursery just to try it out. So I asked the ladies in nursery if it would be okay, and they said yes. Well, let me just tell you that she had a blast! I was so worried that she would be sad or scared, but she was so good. I would go and check up on her and my friend Teri said she was so good and didn't cry, or throw a tantrum and played so nice with the other kids. And she even colored a picture for me. I just wanted to cry! My baby's getting so big.