A perfect Sunday Night

Like a lot of other families with young children, Sunday morning do not necessarily bring out the best in us. Rushing around to get everyone ready for 9:00 church and usually arguing with Chase over proper church attire (shoes, ties, etc.) This last week we pulled in to the parking lot only to realize we'd left the ipad at home (needed to keep Chase quiet during sacrament and for Ben to use in his lesson for Sunday School) so we turned around and ended up walking in to sacrament during the opening announcements. And then as soon as we sat down realized that Hudson had a stinky diaper, so out went Ben and Hudson before the opening song even started. Hudson, at almost 16 months, is in that hard church age- not old enough for nursery, but definitely doesn't stay with us for our meetings. We've resorted to just going to nursery with him. We laugh about why we even go to church sometimes, because we don't necessarily get a whole lot out of the talks and lessons while wrangling our kids. But we go because it's what we do, we want to teach our kids that we go to church and someday we'll be able to really listen again!

 So after a couple of stressful hours on Sunday mornings we have the whole rest of the day together, with no commitments or projects or errands. It is wonderful! This past Sunday was absolutely beautiful weather, so after dinner we took the boys outside and they just generally had a wonderful time. Ben worked with Chase on batting and then they played soccer for a good 30 minutes. And Hudson worked on his own type of athleticism- learning to walk on grass. I'd say he set a personal record this night. The weather was gorgeous, my kids were happy, and I loved just soaking it all in.