Man the time is flying here! I'm not sure if it's because we've had so much to do, or the fact that Maci's in school now, whatever the case this week flew by. Here's a small recap of what we did.
We finished unpacking most of the boxes and put a few more up in our newly floored attic. We still need to tuck the Christmas stuff away in the shed and put the rest in the garage in an organized way so we can actually park in there. But it looks much better and the pile is much less daunting. I got my craft room mostly painted, one wall to go, and got it pretty organized, although every time I do a project it quickly becomes unorganized again. Such is life. I went to one play date with some girls in the ward, which was very nice to invite me. Gavin and I had a great time. We went to Branson on Friday and got signed up to do a craft booth at one of the 3 craft malls they have there. I'm very excited and have been busy working on stuff to get in there. Vinyl is not a big thing here yet, so I'm doing lots of tiles and boards, and a few other things here and there I'm sure. I've been busy tonight making cute burp clothes out of cloth diapers, embellished with fabric and ribbon. Very fun!
Then Saturday was Gavin's big #3 birthday!! He's been waiting for this birthday for some time, as we told him his birthday was after we got to Missouri. We talked about MO a lot before we got here, so he was constantly saying, "My Birthday is after MO", yup yup yup. So I was afraid once we got here he would be really disappointed he had to wait another couple weeks. But he was a good sport and didn't make a stink about it. He was also very against saying that he was officially 3. He loves saying that he's two-a-half. But by the end of the day we had him convinced it was ok to say he was three. I tried to make him a big breakfast, but he said over and over he just wanted a pop tart, ok, easily done. So we let him open his presents after breakfast so he'd have something to do till we did our big activity in the afternoon. He got a lovely pair of dino pajamas and a new dinosaur for his growing collection from the Boren side, and a really cool crashing truck rally car thing and various other fun things from Grandma W, and a ride on the ducks in Branson from Grandpa W, (which we haven't done yet but we will soon! We got him a pair of Hulk Smash gloves that he has been wanting for a while, and Maci got him a Batman mask, so he would have some type of manly dress-up apparel. He wears her dresses far too often! He loved all his presents and was quite content playing with them till his nap. After he woke up we went to JumpMania, a Kangaroo Zoo type bouncer place in Springfield. The kids had a blast, and we had to drag them out 1.5 hrs. later. We went to a place in Nixa called Bud and Walt's for dinner, it's a pizza/pasta place. It was really good, they have huge big screens everywhere and some with cartoons on them, so the kids were transfixed. It was fun, but I wouldn't want to eat that way every night, everyone glued to a huge tv :) But the kids thought it was cool. Then we had pake (cake) and ice cream at home to finish off the night. Gavin had a great day and I was glad we could make it special for him. We love you buddy!!!
He kept running around saying, "You want a piece of me?" Very intimidating!
Crash 'em!
He even wanted to wear them to bed!
Weeee! Not as big as the one at Kangaroo Zoo, but it'll do :)
Sunday we spoke in church. It went pretty well I think, I'm just glad it's over!! I only lost it once, when talking about going to the dump with my dad, who knew it could bring up such emotions! Chris did a great job, and I think it was nice for everyone to see who we were and where we came from, etc. I got up the guts and invited two families over for ice cream on Sunday, both have been very nice and invited us to things and helped us move, one of the guys got Chris a part-time job, just have gone out of their way to be very inviting to us. It was really fun and we had a great time. Both of them have girl's Maci's age, though neither of them go to her school. There were 8 kids here in all, and they all had a ball outside playing for 3 hours while the adults talked in the house. We had a great time and hopefully these friendships will continue on.
Chris did get a part-time job offer from this guy. He is an intermediate company between large corporations and the hospitals in the area, working out what kind of insurance they need, plans, etc. Chris would be cold calling new businesses seeing if they'd like the service, so not a fabulous job, but a job nonetheless! He also has an interview with a local behavioral hospital that works with troubled teens/adults who are having mental issues. So we're hoping he gets that one too so it would be in his field. He'll work both till school starts on the 25th and then probably cut the insurance one and just work part time at the other. So that's great news!!
I've got to start writing more often so these posts aren't so long! Sorry :)
1 comments:
And life just keeps on moving! Happy Birthday Gavin! Those fists look AWESOME! I need a pair! You really need to pull Chris away from the phones, I knew too many phone 'lifers' at Nu Skin, it would be a shame if he ended up doing that with his college degree :)
Things here are the same, don't worry, nothing is new or changed. I'm still not married.
Post a Comment