Looking back at the BAR months

I'm finally catching up on some of the posts I've wanted to do since I have a little more free time. We're glad Taylor's done with the BAR but looking back it wasn't that terrible. Okay so they got to watch a little more TV than normal (mostly in the evenings when I needed a break). But see how cute they are together?
We did lots of baking together but that can probably be blamed just as much on my pregnancy as the BAR.

And whenever Taylor was around the boys followed him like little puppies and insisted on being included in anything he was doing- even if it was as boring as putting together a shelf.

Their favorite thing with him though was playing Guitar Hero. His normal schedule was to be up by 6, ready by 6:30 so we could do family breakfast and scriptures, and then he'd be to work by 7am where he'd put in 1-2 hours of studying before starting to work. He'd work from then until 6:30 and then come home and have dinner with us and play Guitar Hero for a few minutes with the kids, and then at 7:30 when they went to bed he'd head back to the office to study more, usually until after 11 sometime.
So even though I think there are better ways to interact with your kids, in his exhausted state, needing to just veg for a little bit I was fine with the Guitar Hero. And the boys fell in love with it.

Some of the good things about studying for the BAR were that he enjoyed doing almost anything but studying and so he'd procrastinate in fun ways like playing the piano.

And he started the tradition of making french toast for breakfast every Sunday morning. This seems like such a luxury since we were always rushing and invariably late to church in DC. Here we have an extra 20 minutes just because the church is around the corner! Love that! Okay so the picture is pancakes but you get the picture. Now that we don't have a gate up blocking our kitchen (which would be impossible since there are 4 entrances), the boys have taken to pushing chairs over to the counters to "help" with the cooking.

All in all we're glad it's over and that Taylor has a lot more time with us. Last night he was home at 5:30 and it seemed like we had so much time before the boys went to bed. They wrestled on the floor, read books together, and of course begged to play Guitar Hero which we obliged them and I even joined in a little on the action- although I played on the easy setting. This video is from June. Ethan cracks me up.