We have survived...

... our week from hell. And it was a doozie! I worked until 4pm for two days... til 5pm for two days... and then I ended up working Friday too. It went really fast but I wasn't getting home until after 6:30pm! I really don't know how people do this.... try to work full time and have a family. When do they have time for their kids? How do they fix dinner each night (we ate out three nights last week!!)? When do they have sex? When do they work out? When do they do anything for them like watch TV or read a book or magazine? Ugh. I just have to say I'm glad that's over!!

Shawn had a crazy week too... It was his finals week for his first class. I think he did pretty well on it. He also worked some crazy hours. He had (software) testing all day on Thursday and worked from 8am until 1am. Can you imagine? He did get to take Friday off (which is why I worked) and then turned around and worked 8am-4pm on Saturday. Hopefully his testing will slow down for a bit.

On Friday we decided to do something fun and took the kids to dinner and a movie. (by the way, I think I have fixed my link problem... it should be safe to click.) The movie was long and we didn't end up getting home until almost 10pm!! It was cute though - they liked it a lot. Oh, and we had some time to kill before the movie and happened upon The Children's Place, where they are having a Monster Sale - 30% off clearance prices. I got jammies for $7 and T-shirts for $3.50! Sweet! I usually buy clothes at thrift stores for the boys - it just makes more sense in a lot of ways to me - but with jammies, as much as they wear them, I like to buy them new.

Yesterday I mostly worked on my new project. I have only told a few people about it - I'm still trying to get it up and running... I'll share more when it's ready to go. We also picked up some fireworks for the 4th. Last year we bought a package and it ended up only being poppers - not even the kind sparking fountain or sparklers or anything. Oops. This year we're doing it right though. I also got the house cleaned. I had good intentions of taking the boys swimming but that didn't happen. Today some friends are coming over for a cookout, so they are looking forward to that. Also, our neighborhood is doing the annual Independence Day celebration, which includes some activities for the kids, a live band and the best fireworks this side of Denver!

Oh and let me just share with you how cool my boss is... You know how I said I worked Friday? Well I only actually worked a few hours of it. You see, today is our anniversary - we opened our office on July 1st, 2004. I was pooped on Friday from a loooong week of work and my boss was pooped from a long week of vacation. And since we had some celebrating to do, it being our anniversary and all, we decided to skip work and go gamble. We went to Black Hawk for the afternoon. And she gave me $120 to play with. Of course, I ended up losing it all. I have no luck where slot machines are concerned. But Robin did really good! She ended up winning $480 on a $1 slot and $250 on one of the penny slots. So when we left she had won back what I'd lost (whew) as well as what she'd spent. I felt better then!

And now my friends... I'm off to walk. I have not seen a gym or worn a tennis shoe since Monday, and I'm not happy with the scale's response to that plus eating out. So this week I have some making up to do.