Family Night... Sonic & the Park

Today Luke was in PJ's all day...it was just one of those days since we had another sleepless night last night! So I decided we needed a trip out of the house for family night!

You have to admite if your going to sport PJs all day....these are dang cute! 

We took a little drive to our favorite park and let Luke loose! :) Sadly its so dark so early Luke doesn't enjoy it as much but we still had fun! I think hes a little scared of the dark these days. 

On Sunday I over heard someone say they went to Sonic Drive In this last weekend...I did not realize we had one close by! During my first Trimester I was craving Sonic's or hospital ice! I got it once when I made a trip to the ER but that trip was a little too expensive to keep quenching my craving for ice chips! We had a sonic in Idaho but our last year we were there it sadly closed down and I thought my sonic days were over!

Hearing the news we had a sonic close by I was determined to go for FHE tonight! We got our strawberry limeades and guess what .... THEY SELL BAGS OF ICE FOR $2! We definitely couldn't leave without a bag! Luke loves to chew on ice so he was in heaven too....Scott on the other hand told me we just waisted $2 on frozen water we could get from the tap...but he knows there is value in having a happy prego wife and for only $2 it's well worth it!

We ended the night with Scott giving Luke a fathers blessing to help him feel comforted at night since he hasn't been sleeping and has molars coming in! We felt his molar which has finally popped through the skin for the first time tonight, I was glad to finally feel one so I know I am not crazy in thinking that has been the problem the last few weeks that he has been extra fussy and miserable at night. What a blessing it is to have the priesthood in my home and I am grateful for a husband who lives worthy to perform those blessing when needed. Hopefully tonight Luke will feel a little better and be able to get the rest his little growing body needs! 

It was a great Family Night! I am very GRATEFUL we have been blessed with the direction to hold family night! I kind of feel like most nights in our house are family night since Luke is young and we are home most nights with him but I know as my kids get older that wont be the case and the busyness of life will get in the way of family time so I look forward to always making time on Monday Nights to put aside the daily tasks and distractions to enjoy time together as a family! I already have thoughts of things I want to plan on doing for family night when the kids are old enough to understand whats going on like take each month or week to talk about a conference talk and keep a quote from it frames in our house some where to see during the week to remind them! kind of like this one...

 I also want to make sure I make moments that will leave lasting memories on my kids... when I was growing up we lived about an hour from Disneyland for a few years my family had yearly passes so we would go on Wednesday nights a lot as our family night... my mom would always try and get us to talk about a spiritual message in the car on the way there to make sure we covered our lesson portion of the family night and then the activity would be Disneyland, we would always make sure we made it on Space Mountain and we had to spot the "cookie" (a planet that looked more like a cookie than a planet), for refreshments dad would always buy a bag of green sour apple chewy candies (I dont think they sell them any more other than in an assortment of flavors which is disappointing), and every time we would walk by the dumbo ride my mom would remind me that I screamed and hated that ride as a young kid.  I will always remember the feeling of being happy, away from the stress of work and school, and most important being together!