No dinner and a movie here

We had an eventful week. We started out the week going to the open house for the new Provo City Center temple. Here's what I had to say about it that day:

I wasn't going to post about it, because it was rather disappointing--NOT because the temple wasn't beautiful. It was. The problem is, we went as a family and I was expecting the kids to be on their best behavior--to reverence this sacred place. No. The younger two were the trouble-makers. The ones who kept trying to pull the plastic booties off. The ones who made sure the ushers were paying attention. The ones who held up the line 43 times, spoke too loudly, and climbed things they weren't supposed to climb. I probably shouldn't have let it bother me--they're only 4 and 2. But it did. I was so stressed by the time we finally left because I had to constantly be on guard for 45 minutes and I felt like I failed as a parent. I'm *that* parent who has no control over their children. *sigh*

I wasn't completely better this week from feeling sick. There were two days where I sat around for most of the day again. That probably contributed to my crankiness about the temple open house. The days I felt sick, the girls and I hung out. They watched a lot of television. I tried to write. We played some games. We were a bit goofy. It will all work out.

Thursday night, Steve had friends over to do roleplaying. They got done about midnight, at which time we realized it had been snowing really hard. We ended up having to go and and dig and push and improvise our way into getting two of the three cars unstuck.

Friday night, we watched the new Cinderella movie with the older girls. I'm always surprised at how Mira is more willing to sit through non-cartoons than Emilia who is almost three years older. Mira thought it was great and Emilia wanted to go to bed about 2/3 of the way through.

We took the girls sledding on Saturday. There are some great spots up Hobble Creek Canyon and the snow was super deep. Everybody got a workout going up the hill after we went down. Steve and I mostly because we had to carry the girls and the sleds up 1/2 the time.

That night, we were invited by some friends to go to a school fundraiser called a "Quiz Night." That couple, us, and another couple were at a table and there were 20 tables. They had 10 rounds of 10 questions each. Each round, the table that got the most right got a prize. And at the end, the table that got the most questions right overall got a prize. Our table won three individual rounds and the overall prize. Steve is kind of a trivia genius. Just ask anybody in either of our families. (My family won't play trivia games with him anymore unless it is him against everybody else.) So it wasn't surprising to me that we won. But it was still super duper fun. I love those kinds of not-a-dinner-and-a-movie type date.