Showers and dress fittings or: how I've used two tanks of gas this week.

After a quiet Saturday at home we had a pretty crazy busy week.  We spent Sunday in Champaign for their alumni open house and picnic.  It was really good to go back for a visit; it has been a long time since we were there.  Way too long.  They made us wear name tags with the years we were in C-U at the picnic so Bob made Cecily one too.  Poor girl.  She's doomed to be an Illini. 

Michelle's showers started Tuesday night.  woot woot.  We all know how much I adore going to showers... or something.  I dropped Cecily off at Fred and Dianne's so she got to play with Tate, who is pretty much her favorite person right now.  "Wo Tate?  Nice."  She even voluntarily gave him a kiss when I picked her up.   He made her a bucket.

 It came complete with rocks, and has since been banished outside (rock grit and wood floors do not mix).

Wednesday I got another cavity filled.  I've had about enough of those.  The numbness is no fun and the smell of the filling stuff gives me a headache and then I feel sick to my stomach the rest of the day. 

The W-ton church shower was Thursday night and Cecily got to come with me.  She got to play and I had got to write all the gifts down.  She got a Brother.  It was hilarious.  (for the uninitiated, that's a sewing machine brand)

Friday afternoon Cecily and I headed to the farm to help pot up terrariums for the reception.  Fun times.  Sorry Shels, but I'm kind of getting tired of wedding.  hehe. 

And then finally, this morning I drove to El Paso to try on my bridesmaid dress.  Eeeee.  They are going to be so cute.  (And slimming!  Great rejoicing from me!!)  Shelly tried her dress on and kept looking at herself in the mirror and making funny happy noises.  It's gorgeous.   *sigh* *sniff*  I think you better put kleenexes in our clutches because I'm going to need them... 

Oooo.... so this afternoon Bob's dad came over and he and Bob replaced the lights in what is going to be a playroom/family room/ sewing room in our basement.  They are much brighter and they are all on one switch!!  No more random pull chains!!  Yay!  Next up:  getting carbon fiber reinforcement on the bowing wall next week. 

Wyss Vacation 2013

27 years.  Approximately 4,212 hours of togetherness.  189 homemade breakfasts.  2 Grandparents.  1 Great Aunt.  14 Aunts and Uncles.  25 cousins (+8 in-laws).   11 Great-grandkids.  We are blessed.

 

We stayed at an old inn on Lake Michigan this year.  It was huge and old and cool and the walls were definitely not plumb, but hey, our room had bead board on the ceiling and I'm not sure it gets better than that!  Plus there was a pool, and a grand piano, and the beach.  *grin*  It was a lot of fun. 

 

 

We checked out the beach the first night and she decided that she liked the sand, but the water was scary and noisy.

The water was super calm the next night.  Lena, Kendra, and Shelly decided to go swimming and Little miss was pretty sure she wanted to be in the water with the girls so since I'm such a fun mom we waded in with our clothes on.  Ok, fine, I kind of wanted to get in too.  We didn't stay in long since the water was pretty cold.

The other days there were waves and she wanted nothing to do with the scary water.  So she wandered around the sand... towel... 

 ...laying out...

...off I go again... 

 
 Shelly made life size clue.  I don't remember who killed the mouse. 

 

Grandma and Grandpa awaiting the outcome.

 *grin*

 
Grandma bought her new shoes for fall and she tried them on every time she saw them.

 When there are waves I'd rather just play in this sand hole...

Cecily had no fear of the water at the pool; therefore, I have no pictures at the pool. 

It was a great week.  Some Highs:
-beach time
-playing in the waves
- cousin time
- lots of good food
-singing around the piano
-ice cream, Uncle Randy's treat

 and Lows:
-a very clingy little girl who wouldn't let me out of her sight for very long at all and didn't even want Daddy
-holding said little girl constantly; my arms got sore
- finding a sippy cup full of sour milk that got knocked out of the fridge and rolled underneath... yeah...
- sunburns
-the drive home...  2 hours of crying and fussing and a very nasty McD's bathroom
- my garden looked great when we got home today until the storm came through; half the corn is knocked over and everything else looks pretty bedraggled. 

Blessings.

T-fest

 Last weekend was the Turkey festival...  I'm so glad we don't live right next to it anymore.  It's much more fun from a short distance.  *grin*  Little miss and I walked up on Friday evening to look at everything.  We saw Mike and Katie and then we discovered the book sale.  There were lots of cool kids books and we brought home a big stack that I'm pretty excited about. We stopped at Pinky's for ice cream on the way home; I ended up eating it all by myself because all she wanted to do was look at the carnival lights.  Silly girl.

Saturday Bob walked to the park with us and let Cecily play on the play ground while I worked piecing and scrapping turkey again. 

 

 

When I was done working I got a lemonade shake- up and went through the Turkey express and brought home turkey sandwiches and shortcakes.  Not quite the full food experience, but still yummy and much less crowded.  *grin*

 

Little miss and I have been spending lots of time at parks... during the T-fest we tried out the other park in town- we had it all to ourselves.  

 

Somebody loves to "schwide!"

 

And she loves to go "bye-bye side!"

 So Jamie was working on a science object lesson this morning that she needed for bible school tonight and she was having trouble getting it to work.  She called me for suggestions and I ended up pulling out my hot plate (and goggles of course!) to see if I could get it to work.

 

It did...  woot woot!  I haven't lost my touch yet... how to crush a can with air pressure...

 

Maybe it's because my little assistant was still in her cute fishy jammies.

So she stopped by and borrowed my hot plate (haven't heard if it worked tonight) and then Cecily and I headed to a hot windy picnic in the park with some of Bob's cousins.  She had a great time until she got really hot and crabby.  I really hope tomorrow is cooler- there's lots that needs doing outside and I dislike heat and despise humidity! 

Blessings.

Thursdays

My house is mostly clean... if little miss decides she's going to take a nap today I might even mop the kitchen floor yet.  I'm losing hope...  she's sitting next to me on the couch talking to her bear....

I feel like we had a busy weekend and are still recovering, aka, being quite lazy.  Sort of.  Thursday Aunt Shelly came over to watch Cecily while we went to a marriage night at the fellowship hall.  Friday I had a dentist appointment....  I have another cavity.  Woot.  I don't quite understand how I went from having one cavity in a baby tooth, to three in the last six months! In the evening Little miss and I went to Dale and Meg's for supper because Koch Cousins Camping got rained out for the second time. 

Saturday we got a bunch of sand for her tire sandbox and stopped at Charlie's Aquarium just to look at all the cool fishies.  *grin*   Little miss went to the farm for the evening while we went to testimonies.  I hear she got to stomp in puddles and got her feet licked by a cow, among other fun things.  hehe.   She learned how to say 'hippo,' which comes out 'hee-poo,' which I think is hilarious and I've maybe found pictures online just to get her to say it...

She still likes books.

And being silly- check out that pony tail!  It's cute while it lasts.

I ordered two more yards of mulch and it came early Tuesday morning.  It was enough for the flower beds behind the house, but not quite enough for the far back along the fence.  I am tired of mulching, and I am not getting anymore.  At least this week.  With all the fresh mulch, and freshly mowed grass it practically looks like a park around here.  *grin*  I like our back yard. 

Anyway, I feel like I've been really lazy the last two days, but hey, I'm still recovering from all that mulching, right?  I'm actually not that sore and my thumb doesn't even hurt from getting smashed between the shovel and the wheel barrow.  Maybe I'm just resting up for the Turkey fest this weekend.  haha.

Well... she's still awake... so much for mopping... o well.

Blessings.