"Please bless Nephi to find the plates"

Saturday night, John and I babysat 2 of his nephews while our sister and brother in law went out on  a date. I will be the first to say that I hope we do not have boys. Growing up in a family of 4 girls, I have absolutely NO idea how to handle boys. Luckily, John has around 70 nieces and nephews and helped raise 4 of his younger brothers, so he has plenty of experience working with little boys. I was completely baffled as to how to entertain them. With girls, it's easy! You sit around playing with dolls, or playing house, or dress up. With boys, you have to play Legos (which for some reason just does not come easy), or build a train track, or have a sword fight. And I lose every time to those swords. They must have taken lots of sword fighting classes because they were killer....literally.

Anywho, John and I were watching Mason (4) and Jimmy (2). I destroyed so violently (in their words) the Lego house that they built. So I proceeded to build them a newer, bigger house. While I was constructing this house, they decided to be police men. VERY LOUD SIREN NOISES PROCEEDED TO BE MADE. And when I say loud, I mean LOUD. I couldn't help but just smile at John with my head tilted like I was going crazy. Because I was.

After they had their kick of being cops, they both attacked John with their swords. He sure is a great guy around kids. If we have boys, he will be a much better father than I am a mother. Girls, different story ;)

To wrap up the evening, we watched Shrek and read a bed time story about Thomas the train. I do believe that was Mason's favorite part of the night. After story time, it was time for prayer. I helped Jimmy with his sweet little prayer. He is such a little angel. Next, it was Mason's turn. He said his own prayer because he is such a grown up kid. Everything was going great, until I had to hold in a vein from laughing when he said "Bless everyone to go pee." The things little kids say is just so innocent and can only be said by little kids. It seriously was the highlight of my night.

When their parents got home from their date, we chatted for a little and told them about Mason's special prayer. They told us that he also will pray for "Nephi to find the plates" and that they just don't have the heart to tell him that he already found them. At least he prays knowing that the Lord will take care of it, right?

I had such a fun night with those two. I can't wait to have kids, but I think that babysitting will get me by for now ;)

On Sunday night, while watching a movie, I decided to paint my nails. And I wanted to do something different than my normal one color boringness. I remembered seeing something about scrapbook paper and rubbing alcohol to add cool designs to your polish. I looked it up, and got right too it! What I hate the MOST is how misleading some blogs can be. After probably 4 coats of new nail polish after taking it off, I finally got it down. It took MUCH longer than the blog said and was a lot more work. But here is the end result!

I think they turned out pretty great for my first try!

Question time!

What do you and your spouse do to determine who does what when neither of you like doing it? John and I normally do best two out of three in rock, paper, scissors. But he is just SO. DARN. GOOD. at it that I can never win! I need some new ideas :)