crawling and weekend recap

i was really nervous for audrey to start crawling. finley never crawled. he went from sitting to walking. and i just always assumed the crawling stage was horrible and they got into everything and ate outlets and just major chaos. all the time. well, let me just say, i was wrong! audrey is the cutest little crawler! i love the crawling stage. she is so much happier because she can get to where she wants to go. her and finley actually play together now! wowza! there are the quite often occurences of finley throwing toys at her head, but otherwise, it's just about the cutest thing. 

we had a pretty nice weekend! the first actual weekend since we've been here. friday night jake and i had our belated valentine's date. ooh lala. we went to red robin...! ha! i know, so romantic, but we just love it. my friend, becca will probably be laughing about that... :)  we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and then went to see the new movie, "safe house". with denzel. we looove denzel movies. it was action packed the whole time! and we enjoyed it, too. all around, successful date night. even though anytime we're alone without sippy cups and diapers it's a good time. 

saturday we layed around in the morning, watched our niece bella, while josh and joy had an appointment, then we all went to lunch at chick-fil-a. yes. that's right. cfa. love having it so close. then we did nap time. jake did some stuff around the house. we skyped with my mom and step dad (meema and "gampa") which was really nice to see them and catch up a bit. and then we went to sam's club. got some good bulk food items. came home. fed the kids. did baths and bedtime and then jake and i had pizza and watched "moneyball". it was good! very interesting. and brad pitt did awesome, i thought. 

sunday we went to check out this church called, kinetic church. and loved it! it was really great. it's a smaller church, but still "cool". ha! we're going to go back next week. they're having their 7th birthday as a church and there's a... drumroll please.... a potluck afterwards! yes! a potluck! we can't wait. ha! everyone was super friendly and they knew we were visitors which we liked. so we'll see how that pans out.  came home from church, we all took naps, and then i made chicken pot pie for dinner. josh, joy, bella, and juliana (their 2 daughters) came over for that. it was a nice evening. jake and i watched an episode of house and went to bed at 9:45! it was beautiful. 

monday now. so far today, both kids have had blowouts requiring baths, finley has dumped out the trash can, he's dipping his bagel in orange juice as i write this, and audrey just woke up early from her nap. it's 10 am. 

well, i'm sure you wanted a full play by play... hope you had a good weekend too. 

love.