Weekend Recap

It has been an event-filled few days, to say the least! Firstly, it turns out we did not make it out of the Pink Eye Warzone unscathed. On Friday, Thomas stayed home from school with me, and Sarah picked up Lara early from school because she was complaining about her eyes as well. It's ridiculous how stuff like that can just go around and around inside of a school if we aren't careful! But don't worry, at least our family is being very VERY careful. Hopefully we've seen the last of those crazy swollen faces! They're much cuter without goo running out of their eyes, aren't they?

With breakfast and some remnant goo

It's a progression of cuteness, as he gets more and more awake.

Playing a really neat game that's on Seussville.com based on Green Eggs and Ham.

And then we watched a Veggietales movie!

And thennnn....

Well, since Thomas and I had such a long day to hang out together on Friday, I was going to devote a whole post to the fun stuff we got to do. That's not how it worked out, though, since Lara came home from school two hours early. So now I'll just show you/tell you about the nifty stuff the Three Musketeers did together on Friday afternoon!

We made bunches and bunches of cookies. They were soooo good. Green in honor of St. Patrick's Day on Saturday! But then we ran out of green icing, so we switched to pink...in honor of Lara! She likes pink! As you can see ^_^ They sort of turned into "The Cookies for Boys" and "The Cookies for Girls," and everyone kind of forgot about the St. Patrick's Day aspect. That's okay though because they were probably some of the best cookies I've ever had. We did well.

Saturday came around quickly thereafter, as it so often does! I got another full day of one-on-two time with the FSB's (Future Step Babies) - actually it was only a half day technically - because Matthew had to go to Wal-Mart for his orientation. This gave Thomas and Lara and I some wonderful opportunities for unbridled playtime on the Kinect Adventures game we all love, and outside with bubbles, and Play-Doh: all the things that Matt doesn't really enjoy the mess of or the hassle of getting out! That's what good babysitters are for, right? Matthew arrived back at the house for a late lunch before Nanny came to pick up the kids for a grandkid sleepover night. Sleepover Night is code for Thomas and Lara are sleeping at Nanny's house to give Matt and Mary the chance to do something for grownups on a Saturday night. Which, to be honest, we don't ever have much desire to do, but we had scheduled grown up fun last weekend anyway. Grown Up Fun for us meant going on a long motorcycle ride with Matt's cousin Wheeler, his wife Amanda, his stepbrother Jay, and his girlfriend Holly to Jackson where we got Chili's and just hung out without having to worry about bedtime or the kids staying up too late. It was jolly good fun! I hope we get to do it again soon. Wheeler and Jay are hilarious...poor Amanda and Holly weren't feeling to well, so they seemed a bit out of sorts. I'm sure they're crazy fun when they're at full health though! You'd have to be to be married/dating those guys :) Slash friends with my fiance, because he's tons of fun.



Sunday was the day to really get stuff done. "Day of Rest" applied only in that we didn't go out grocery shopping or anything! Matt mowed his whoooole lawn while I washed the weekend dishes and cleaned up the house in general. It feels so good to walk into a clean room sometimes! I'm the first to admit that tidiness is not the most important priority in a household, but when it finally gets reined it, it just looks purdy! We also took apart the engine block on the Datsun (I helped, oooohhh yeah - say it like the Kool Aid guy), and Matt took that to Dyersburg with him yesterday to get it repaired or parts for it or something that it needed. I can't quite claim mastery in engine mechanics yet. I'm so totally getting there though. As an example, yesterday I watched the movie Keith because Netflix told me I should. In the film, Keith is a high school senior, classic truck enthusiast who wins the heart of Natalie by...well, by being really weird, basically. Anyway, one of the ways that he courts her is by taking her to the shop where he has some work done on the his old Chevy truck. Natalie is unimpressed, so Keith sends her an engine-related gift in the next scene. And believe you me, I ALMOST shouted at the TV, "That's a carburetor rebuild kit!" but I didn't have time before the girl on the movie screen read the note from Keith saying it was, indeed, a carburetor and a rebuild kit. I was really, really impressed with myself. Ask me what a carburetor does, and I've got nothing. But I can identify one! So that's something! By the way, the Datsun is just a shell of a car right now - in case anyone was wondering. There's nothing under the hood, no hood for that matter, no wheels, and no interior. I think that's probably good because now the only direction to go is to put stuff back in! Which gets it closer to being driveable. Terribly exciting.

That was the weekend guys! I have two more whole posts to write, but they're about yesterday and today. I don't wanna crowd this post with any of that Weekday Junk! It's called a Weekend Recap for a reason. Don't be so greedy :)