Veg Day 8/11/08

Since Natalie and I both have Mondays off now, we are beginning to refer to Mondays as our family "veg day." Its our day to veg out, do whatever we want - to relax and do something fun together as a family. As a pastor I obviously have to work on the weekends, so we are going to be very intentional about making Mondays our day just to ourselves.

So today was our first veg day together as a family. We took it easy this morning, not getting around to do much until 10 or 10:30. We got around and took Elias on a little road trip. We had to go to Target to return a few items and to buy a few more. We purchased a toy box for Elias to store all of his toys in - even at only two weeks old he already has so many. We also purchased some picture frames to put Elias' twenty-four hours old pictures in (the ones that we had professionally done at the hospital). They look great. I don't have a scanner at home, otherwise I would post them here. You'll just have to visit our home or my office to see them - amazing!

After Target we came home for a little while before taking Elias to his two week check-up with the pediatrician. Everything went great...I have included a more detailed update on his blog. We came home afterward and took a nap together. We put the travel bed that Grandma Holly bought us on our bed and all three of us enjoyed a good hour of snoozing. 

The rest of the night has been great just relaxing at the house. Elias is very content. We are so glad to be home. Tonight some friends from Pathway Community Church gave us a gift card to Casa for dinner - we couldn't use it though because their computers were down. So we pieced together a dinner from some leftovers. Afterwards we enjoyed some sugar creme pie from Natalie's Grandma Mary - it was awesome. Now Natalie and Elias are sleeping and I am watching the Olympics.

It's been a great day - a great start to our Monday Veg Days. No work, no major agenda, just some great family time together.