A Great Day Off

I totally meant to get this post up much sooner, but this week has been crazy! with a cold, about 10 orders to fill, and just general family business, or busyness. . . but here it is a little late.

We had a fantastic 3 day weekend last week. On Saturday we headed down to Branson to the 4th annual Ice Scupltur Contest at the Titanic Museum. It was free :-) And actually fun to see how creative people are and the kind of tools they use to cut the ice. I leaned over to Chris as they broke up their mega Dremel tool and said, "I could get into this!" but I think I'll stick to wood for now. Maci's favorite was the Pegasus Unicorn, and Gavy liked a cool Gecko. The weather was really warm and windy, probably around 50 degrees, which is warm when you're carving a block of ice, so the competitors were struggling with that. But it was still really fun to watch. We didn't stick around to see who won. We took off to the outlet malls instead! I got a new pair of tennis shoes, mine were 7 years old and had holes in them, and of course I had to stop at the Children's Place and check out their deals. I got lots of stuff for Maci and Gavin for next fall at killer prices. Anyway, it was a perfect "vacation" day and we had a great time.




On Monday, we told the kids we could go to the Children's Discovery Center, we bought an annual pass so we can go whenever we want. It's a great science center and the kids love going. We got to do a couple things we haven't had a chance to do before, they let us light a lightbulb with our fingers when we touched the globe thing with the electric currents running through it? I'm sure that makes no sense. And then the thing that makes your hair all static-y and you can shock people when you get off it, anyway those were fun things we haven't done before. We walked around there for an hour or so, and then went to Lamberts for Lunch, where they throw the rolls. Yummo rolls. Then we went home to tackle some house stuff.
This is like a hamster wheel that creates energy when you run on it, I think we'll get one installed to run the washer and dryer!






Walking on the "keystone"

I've been working on my craft room since we moved in, but have never gotten it completely functional and "done". Well I think I'm about 75% there now, which is closer than before! It was in a complete state of disaster, with boxes and bins everywhere, stacked, unstacked, you couldn't even walk in the room for the most part. So we really wanted an Ikea piece with about 9 shelf boxes on it, so all my stuff could have its own compartment. But seeing as the shipping was as much as the piece, and we didn't want to wait till summer to get it cleaned up so we could buy it in UT and drive it home, we decided to make our own, less fancy but just as functional piece. Chris made me some shelves and we just put them on brackets. We got a ton of rubbermaids, all the same sizes and colors so they matched and looked nice. We got them up and filled on Monday and it looks SO much better! I even have room and bins to spare, so I can buy even more stuff! Just kidding. But it feels good to have a functional space, now I just have to keep it that way. There's one wall that still needs to be painted, and has space for a crib someday when we have another baby. It sucks the baby will have to share the craft room, but he/she won't mind for the first couple years I don't think!



So that was our fun and exciting weekend. It was the perfect combination of fun and productiveness, family time, and togetherness! Now that Chris is back in school, we take those weekends when we can get them!