Last week when we went to the temple to see the lights with cousins we didn’t get out of the car. And that made some of our children very unhappy! So we told them that we would come back and get out of the car next time. 🙂 All week we’ve been talking about going to the temple to see the lights. We decided to make a night of it by leaving early to go out to eat first. We went to Chuck a Rama since Ethan was very disappointed that it was too late to eat there last week after our temple trip. The kids were CRAZY. Our usual routine for a buffet is to get everyone seated and situated, then Kyle will take a couple of kids at a time to go get some, then it’s my turn, and then it’s Kyle’s turn. Every time Kyle left the table, ALL FOUR KIDS that were not strapped in a high chair, insisted on going with him. I had to sit there and guard the inlet to our booth to keep all the kids at the table! Dinah ended up not eating the food she told Kyle she wanted (actually I think he was kind of silly for believing that she would). I think we need to switch things up and *I* take the kids to get food. I mean I feed them every other day of the week, Kyle is never home, he has no idea what they will actually eat and won’t eat!
Tyra ended up spilling her slush (she is ALWAYS the one to spill). I looked at her and asked her why the lid was off the cup. She said “I was stirring it”. I just had to tell her that the lid was there so that if the cup fell over, the drink wouldn’t spill OUT! Jeremy only asked for a slice of ham and a roll, and he did a pretty good job of eating that. Ethan actually finished his first plate of food and Kyle took him back for a second plate. Tyra ate SOME of the food she selected, but really not enough to call it a meal. All in all the kids were also very rowdy. Kyle made the comment “I know we don’t take you guys out very often, but when we take you out, you remind us WHY we don’t take you out very often.”
Anyways an hour and a half later we were finally ready to leave the restaurant! We walked across the parking lot to the See’s store, and got chocolates and lolly pops for dessert, then we were on our way to Temple Square. There were actually a LOT more people there this week. Huge amounts of people everywhere! We drove around looking for a parking spot for at least half an hour. Dinah kept asking why we weren’t getting out to walk. We had to keep telling her that we had to put the van SOMEWHERE to wait for us! We finally just decided to suck it up and pay to park in an underground parking lot. At least that way we were able to finally get out and walk.
So pretty. It wasn’t super cold out, but it was drizzling a bit and we did get wet!
Dinah was SO happy to get to get out of the car and see the lights up close. I think she was the most upset last week when all we did was drive around the temple block twice.
