Spring Broken

This has been a frazzling kind of week.  The house has been an abomination, bedtimes have been almost non-existent, and the weather has been less than cooperative.  Spring break has most definitely broken ME.  All in all, it has led me to think that boarding school sounds like a really great option.  Hahaha.  Just kidding, just kidding.   Although only kind of.  :)

While we didn't have anything "big" or "fun" planned for the week, it seems as though our "vacation" was still jam-packed with all kinds of things we needed to get done.  In hindsight, I'm realizing that scheduling all of the appointments I did during spring break week so that I wouldn't have to pull them out of school was not the best idea of all time.  Luckily, the week ended on a better note than it started, when Scott took Friday off at the last minute and I got to attend Women's Conference last night with the oldest of my little women.  Just call me Marmee.  Hahaha.  I was also able to FINALLY sit down and write out my talk for today by parking it in front of the computer for most of yesterday while Scott entertained the masses for me.  This week has been rough...

Here for your viewing pleasure are the highlights and the lowlights of our week.  And just to make it extra fun, I'll let you guess which ones are which.  

Up first?  Snow! Yes it's true we had an actual, real live, honest to goodness mini-snowstorm on one of the days this week.  Thankfully, it all melted as soon as the snow stopped, but still.

 My gourmet pizza lunch.  Seriously SO good.  And you would never believe it, but it's made with a cauliflower crust.  I pretty much follow the recipe here, but for this particular pizza I skipped the sauce and just sliced tomatoes to put on top along with a couple of pepperonis and a few bell peppers. And cheese, of course.   Then I sprinkled it all with a little bit of basil, oregano and garlic salt.  It was EASILY the highlight of that day.  :)

 IKEA

Kids Eat Free Tuesday!

{Not pictured:  Our failed attempt at going to an animal shelter for Grace to find a dog.  We were running late and got to the place 15 minutes before closing where we then discovered that most of the dogs had just been taken off for fostering.  To ease the pain of this discovery (along with the fact that we will most likely NOT be getting a dog for a trial run any time soon), Grace picked out "Stacy" at IKEA to take the place of one of her Christmas presents.  It's complicated.}

 Swiper swiped a WHOLE lot.

 Jane created some more artwork.

and WARNING! WARNING! GRUESOME PICTURES AHEAD!

 Jane had a dentist appointment.  After we were home for a little while, she asked for a snack.  I gave her one not thinking about the fact that her mouth might be numb still.  Jane obviously wasn't thinking about it either.  The end result was a huge chunk bitten out of the inside of her lip while eating her bell pepper snack.

The horror, the horror.

This happened on Thursday afternoon, and if anything it looked WORSE the next day.  Her lip is still swollen to twice its normal size and it looks absolutely terrible.  :(

Off to the Mingle and Treat before the Women's Broadcast last night.

And that was basically our week.  Interspersed amongst all that is pictured were appointments with the counselor for both Ethan and Grace {which went very well, thankfully}, an excursion or two to get ice cream, an EXPLOSION of rainbow loom rubber bands ALL. OVER. THE. HOUSE. thanks to Lover Boy, and a ton of other messes thanks to Alex and Jane as well.  Not to mention lots and LOTS of TV watching, Wii playing, and Movie Nighting.  

Now that Spring Break is over, my talk is done, and there's no Relief Society lesson for me to plan this week thanks to General Conference next Sunday, I am looking forward to a relaxing and stress-free week.  And hopefully lots less frazzle!  Hahahaha. Here's to the start of a GREAT week.  :)