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Down to two

After dropping off the kids to their new family for the weekend, we took these two out to dinner and a movie. You know to soften the emotional blow of missing our peeps.

I gotta say Inside Out was just perfect for all of us tonight. It was just so great at explaining why it’s okay to be sad and that ALL the feelings have a purpose. And tonight we all have some pretty big feelings. Like all of them, all at the same time. Plus it’s 9-11 on top of all that (talked about at school and home). Hello hot mess!
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After the movie we went and got some FroYo. Regan had TWO dairy free options tonight. YEA! Also table games are the best.DSC00815The kiddos had a “sleepover” tonight. Their rooms are just to quite and lonely without their room mates. I have a feeling that we will be having lots of “sleepovers” for the foreseeable future.

Family date night.

I would like to start by saying that I didn't have my camera. (I will now hang my head in shame and cry.) I wanted to at least write it down since it was so fun. A couple weeks ago after Jon's health fiasco we got a note from Grandma Sapp. A card for Jon, and a note for Kaylee to be more precise. The note came with a twenty, and instructed Kaylee to take the family out for dinner. She was SO excited to plan out a family date night.

Kaylee indded planned it all out. She was so excited to take us to Red Robin. YUM. And were all looking forward to a night out. And then our plans got postponed a week. And patience is not a strong quality for an excited five year old. We herd about family date night every day leading up to it. So a week later when the day came she was almost bouncing out of her converse on the way to school.

Right after school, and I do mean right after we got buckled in and stuck in exiting traffic, Kaylee announces that she needs a toilet NOW. So instead of going home, and since we couldn't turn around to get back into the school we headed straight to Aunt Shannon's house and made it just in the nick of time! And then instead of going home we stayed to visit. Which is why Kaylee didn't get her outfit change, and I didn't have the camera for our family date night.

Why didn't we use our phones? In an effort to save money for our adoption fund we have downgraded our phones. They do take photos, but they are SUPER horrible.

Jon met us at Shannon's after work and we visited for a bit before heading out to dinner. Jon on the drive to Red Robin. YUM. decided we should also take the kiddos out to the movies. So after dinner we went and saw Planes. The kids did great! AND it was Regan's first movie theater experience. His eyes were bugging out of his little head taking it all in when we first arrived.

All in all it was a very successful and fun family date night. We are all looking forward to the next one.