A Movie at Festival Plaza!

On saturday we decided to do something we hadn't done before. in a nearby town, they have what they call festival plaza. on saturdays during the summer they have a family night thing where they show a family movie outside in the park. this was the last one of the season, so we decided to do it. they were showing happy feet. it was actually ALOT of fun. we brought our chairs and some blankets and made ourselves comfortable. the extra kid you will see is cousin kylie (my neice on doug's side). i babysit her and her brother during the summer. we went and picked up kylie at her house about 2 hours (so we could get a good seat and set up our chairs) before the movie was to start, and on the way to the movie, we got a flat tire! it was just me and 5 kids, so, i drove it to my mom's and used her phone (we do not own cell phones ~ we're so old fashioned...lol). i had to call my hubby at work and he came home and changed it for us so we could go to the movie. we were early enough to get front row seats still. the kids did pretty well, i think the girls will do better next year. the movies didn't start till about 8:30, so that didn't help, plus the 3 younger ones have all been sick. here are some pictures (i only took a couple before the movie as it got too dark):





jordan went to the dr. on thursday and had swimmers ear, then kelsey woke up thusday night saying her ears were hurting, so i took her down friday morning and sure enough she has ear infections. we were given antibiotices for her. all three of them have had really bad coughs, so we are doing nebulizer treatments 3 times a day for all 3 of them, it's CRAZY! hopefully the next couple of days will have everyone feeling better. i also forgot to mention that doug also went to the dr.s on thursday morning and he had a ear infection too. during church tonight, toya said both of her ears were hurting now....will it ever end? winter hasn't even gotten here yet and we are already starting with the ear infections and nebulizer treatments. because of them being sick, we decided not to have them sleep at grammy's, so i had to get 5 kids ready for church this morning. we did really well though. all 6 of us ate, took showers, and got dressed in 2 hours!

after church this morning, we went to my mom's. when doug got out of work, we went downtown to get a tire. the guy at the tire place looks at me and says "if you wouldn't have driven it so long on the rim, we could've saved the tire". i said "i was by myslef with 5 kids in the car, i wasn't going to stop on the side of the road with no cell phone when i don't know how to change a tire!" he looked at me like i was an idiot. i'm not sure if it was because i didn't have a cell phone, or i didn't know how to change a tire, or if it was because i was driving alone with 5 kids....lol. i guess it could have been any of the three! :)

my parents leave to go visit john, sarah and baby grayson in n.c. on tuesday, so there should be a ton more pics of him, and maybe some video too :).

well, that's all for tonight. looks like i will be heading into the dr.s office for kaylee tomorrow. she has been coughing like crazy for almost 3 days now, and tonight it sounds like croup. i actually may have to go down tonight, we'll see. well, i'm off to bed. have a great week!