Crazy weekend

To start things off I would like to a huge thank you to anyone who has served our country.  For those of you I know I am honored to have you as part of my life! For anyone who may read this that I don't know thank you as well.

So we had a long weekend... Why is it we always seem to think that because we have one extra day off we can fit an entire weeks worth of activities into the weekend?  It may have been crazy busy and I may feel like I need a vacation from my long weekend, but it was wonderful none the less.

Saturday morning started at 8:30 a.m. and I didn't get back to my house until 11 p.m.  I can't complain about the start of the day considering my first activity was getting a pedicure.  Nice start of the weekend! After that I met Todd at the church where he had been once again working on the food pantry garden.  (If I haven't mentioned this Todd and I took on organizing a garden to supply fresh produce to the food pantry our church has started) At church we had a luncheon to go to.  I then left the luncheon a little early and took Savi out to the country side to a birthday party at a horse farm.  She was in heaven!  Each girl got to ride for almost an hour.  She loved it of course an even got to ride bare back for a little while... something she has always wanted to do.  If you ask her what her favorite part was though she will tell you it was when she got to ride the birthday girl's horse for a bit.  They had painted it's hooves hot pink, it had a pink saddle blanket and pink  halter with pink jewels on it.  She also was wearing her own pink riding helmet given to her by her uncle Pete a while back. I was kicking myself for forgetting the camera.  Another mom took some pictures and is supposed to get me copies.  Each guest at the party got a silver necklace with a horse pendant, now one of Savi's most prized possessions. After that birthday party we drove back into town met back up with the guys and went to a pool party at Bryan and Linda's condo.  We had tacos and swam all evening.  Then to top it all off we had a huge chocolate cake and played Wii well into the night.  As we carried Savi sound asleep from the car to her room she woke up just enough to say, "Wasn't this just the most splendid day?!" And then she was sound asleep again.

Sunday we got up early and went to both services at church. After that they were serving root beer floats out in the oak grove so of course we stuck around for that.  We followed up the floats by going out to eat with a bunch of friends.  By the time we got home it was almost 3:30.  We rushed around to get the house and backyard ready for the small group we host most sunday evenings.  It was a lovely time of friends and good food!  I then headed out on with out the family to meet a few friends at a "girls night out" after hours event at Nordstroms.  Not something I would normally go to, but it was nice to get out by myself for a bit. 

For Todd and Daniel the next day started at six in the morning.  The got up early and went to the church to plant 65 tomato starts for the garden.  We are doing the big plant this weekend but didn't want these plants that had arrived early to die in the meantime. Around eight I started pulling stuff out of the garage.  Todd got home at 10 to help and we spent all of the rest of the day sorting out the disaster area called our garage. We sorted into three piles, keep and put back in the garage organized, toss and garage sale.  We had so much stuff sitting out that a few people actually stopped thinking it was a sale already.  I made $15 while cleaning out my garage! From about 11 a.m. to 4 the kids did a lemonade stand.  I admired their persistence.  They were out there for five hours straight not taking any breaks.  They earned seven dollars each.  At the end of the day we can now walk from the front to the back of the garage with ease and we can actually find anything we may need out there! Once we get the garage sale stuff out we will actually be able to park a car in there! Todd finally has an area to store his tools, so now we can get them organized so we actually know what tools we have and where they are.  

So that was our weekend.  Busy but good.  I hope yours was just as wonderful as ours and once again thank you to all those who serve or have served our country! As my daughter said so well, wasn't it just splendid!