So today was a great day and I am feeling lucky.
Last night was Open House at school and with it a gift basket fundraiser. I bought six raffle tickets and let Max, Mer, and Jack each choose which baskets to enter for the drawing. We must be lucky because we actually won.
Our basket was "Christmas in August" for a boy. I think that actually Jack and Max both put a ticket in for that one. We picked it up this morning and they were all in heaven opening everything up after school. Inside we found a fox and iguana Webkinz, 2 lego sets, a remote control kit, a nerf dart gun with extra bullets, Connect Four, and a super soaker water gun. Meredith was extremely bummed that we didn't win the Hannah Montana movie basket, but her one request was that she could put one of the lego sets together all by herself. I should have taken a picture of the "Christmas mess" we had going on over here after they had opened everything.
After we dropped the kids off at school this morning we headed up to my friend Kristin's house and she watched the little boys and I actually got to go shopping alone for the morning. I browsed Ross and a couple other stores and found a few things I just had to have. Okay, I seriously need to do that more often. When I got back, we all went for a swim in her pool. How lucky I am to have such a great friend. Thank you Kristin, next week it's your turn. My luck was holding out because as I pulled up both my little boys were sound asleep. I couldn't help but think "this is the greatest day ever". See how easy I am to please? Jack did only sleep for about 30 min, but hey a few moments of quiet is enough. I hope this good luck continues!
Here are a few show offs. Last weekend, I spent some of my hard earned purse money and bought curtains to replace our vertical blinds in the kitchen. This was a little bit of a tough purchase for me because I am always plagued with the thought that I could make them for
sooo much cheaper. I put them up a couple of days ago I love them. How did I not do this sooner?
because I always thought I could make them for sooo much cheaper. Good bye disgusting blinds, I will not miss you!
They look so pretty I'm thinking I need to work on the view (do something with my back porch) and redo the valences that are still there from the previous owner. I'm working on this little project at my friend Ronnie's request.
It soon will have a matching little pair of jammie pants like these.
We emptied the car, vacuumed it, and unpacked...and we have not stopped running since. Friend preschool at our house, Swimming lessons for Jack and Luke, and finally an almost finished bathroom. If there is one thing I've learned from our many do-it-yourself adventures, it is that everything takes three times as long to do as you might think it would. So, we have been working on finishing our bathroom for quite a while (I think we started it in June). It took almost all day to put in the faucet and put up the refinished cabinetry. And while the baseboards still need a couple of coats of paint, it is time to show off our almost finished project. Here is a before...
And after...Ta Da!!
I love it, and while those cabinets took a while to do, the finished product is worth every moment of effort that I put in. Good work Doug! Thank you for all your help!! We make a great do-it-yourself team!!
In the evening Mike and Sher came over and we met our newest little cousin Waverly Hall Markos. She is 6 weeks old and absolutely precious! We love her Mike and Sher.
Mer loved holding her of course.
We brought her a little blanket and a sweet pillow that Mer made (thought we had a pic).
The kids played with silly uncle Mike.
We saw them all again on Sunday night. At the end of the evening Mike was a little worn out, being a Dad is hard work.
Today, Mer, Grandma and I spent the morning at the mall checking out the American Girl store where Mer got to do a craft and figure out who her favorite American Girl is. (Josefina)
