Ryan, Janelle, Kayson & Cora: Night Out/Busy Saturday

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Night Out/Busy Saturday

Friday night we went out with friends... Ryan unfortunately had to be out of town Thursday through Friday, and he got home later than we had thought, but he was a sport and came out once he got home and cleaned up. We got together with Carpenter's, Nielsen's and a few other couples, including our friends, Jessica and Steve. We had a great dinner out... enjoying not being rushed and just having some great laughs. We had a really nice time.   Ash stayed with the kids, which was great too.

This morning Miss Cora was up at 6:15. UGH. It makes me tired just thinking about it... ha. We snuggled for about 40 minutes... and she did snooze for about 5... then she was ready to start the day! I got cleaned up and her and I headed to Gilbert to watch Hope play some volleyball. I hadn't seen her play yet this AAU season, so this was the closest location... we had a nice time, Cora did really well. We didn't stay too long due to Cora being tired and the weather was starting to get crappy. Meanwhile, Ryan had taken Kayson to swimming... He called while I was watching Hope... and he seemed upset. Kayson had had an incident at swimming... Ryan said he was doing really well, and 'swimming' and apparently Kayson got a little more 'brave' and tried swimming and wasn't doing well. The instructor had his back to Kayson (working with the other little girl), and Ryan jumped in the water to save Kayson. (Clothes and all... and a ruined cell phone to boot.) I, of course, was not there... so I can't really imagine how everything happened, and how Ryan felt at the time, but I'm so thankful that Ryan was watching... and knew that something wasn't right. Kayson of course was scared to death... but seemed actually ok once I got home. Ryan had talked with him and said that we can't be scared and we'll be going back to lessons next week to try again and learn more. Kayson seems ok with it... I am just hoping that Kayson isn't completely terrified and we can just move on and he'll do well next week. [Lots of thoughts here...]

Anyway... the afternoon, the kids took great naps... I did some cleaning and started 1 of 5 loads of laundry!!! Ryan messed with his cell phone and eventually got an old one of his to work... so we can at least communicate!!

After K woke up, Ryan and him headed over to Pella to watch Ryan's cousin, Colby, play in a big basketball game. Colby goes to Central (he's a freshman), and has been doing really well and playing a lot... this was a big game tonight (which they won), and Ryan really wanted to watch him play. They are on their way back now... in this crappy, snow, windy and cold weather... can't wait to have them home safely.

Cora and I hung out tonight and had good time... she wasn't too whiney! We played, read LOTS of books, colored, cleaned a little (yes, she helps!) and even snuggled.