Weekend Funnies

Well another great weekend was had by all in the Phillips family. On Friday, Matt and I enjoyed another date night. This time Rachel had a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's. It was still a bit hard for me to be away from her, especially overnight, but I knew she was in good hands and it was nice to have another date night with Matt. After we dropped Rach off at Grandma and Grandpa's we went to Partridge Creek. We had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen and then walked around a little. It was Matt's first time up there so I wanted him to get to see how nice it was but, man was it cold! (For anyone not familiar with Partridge Creek, it's an outdoor shopping mall, so we weren't walking inside). After that we stopped at our new Tim Horton's / Cold Stone combo store and got coffee and shared a brownie ice cream. When we got home Charlie seemed a bit confused since we had left with Rach but had come home without her, but Charlie quickly decided that she was okay with this and enjoyed having us all to herself.

Saturday morning I went and got my haircut and then went to pick up Rach. We hung out with Grandma and Grandpa a little bit (and I had actually planned to hang out longer) but we started to get an unexpected snowfall that was coming down fast and furious so I decided to pack Rach up and take our time braving the roads to get home. Yikes, were the roads ever bad! I'm pretty sure we got another 3-4 inches and there was no one out on the roads yet plowing or salting, so our normally 20-30 minute drive home ended up taking over an hour!

Sunday morning was our usual family hanging out time. In honor of the ND basketball game that afternoon Matt brought out his ND headband and put it on Rach. This girl is ridiculous amounts of cute! Here's a couple pics of Rach in her headband, enjoying cuddle time with Daddy and drinking her fruit smoothie. (sidenote: I made Rach's smoothies just a bit different this Sunday and she LOVES them, hurray! She downed two of them Sunday alone! Mommy needs to get to the grocery store and make bigger batches!)



Later in the afternoon after Matt had gone to work I decided to turn on the Puppy Bowl for Rach to watch a little. She loved it! This little girl loves dogs! Here's a couple pictures of her watching the Puppy Bowl. She was mesmerized! In the beginning they introduce all of the pupppies like a starting line up and each time they would introduce a new puppy Rach would wave and say "Hi!" at the puppy! So stinking cute! The photo were she is looking at me is after I had been laughing and telling her how cute she was! She's giving me the look like, "why are you laughing at me Mom? I'm just being polite." Also funny was that Charlie was nose to nose with the tv barking at the puppies onscreen!

After all of the Puppy Bowl excitement and Rach's afternoon nap she kept me company upstairs while I was cleaning the bathroom. She was playing in her room and after awhile I realized that it was really quiet, no toys making noise, no Rach talking, etc. So I decided to peek in on her, not knowing what to expect, and there she was, my little angel, sitting on her bedroom floor "reading" her books. There were a few on the floor around her and she was holding one, flipping the pages. Best. Kid. Ever.