Thursdays are one of my favorite days of the week. After having my busiest day on Wed., I don't have anything that I really have to do on Thursdays except get the kids to school.
Many days, Hannah is already up before I am, but today, I had to wake her up. I did my usual get the kids going and walked them up to school. Then I got home and got Owen up and got him a waffle with jam, which has been his latest morning staple. While hanging out with Owen in the family room, I noticed an interesting impression in the carpet, which I quickly realized was an impression of Dale's hands from doing pushups there the night before. He has been doing some little project that a coworker at B&C has a bunch of guys doing where they do so many pushups each day.
I got Owen dressed and we went to Fred Meyer to pick up stuff to put in the BOO bags. I went ahead and grabbed candy for Halloween. We picked up Justin and headed home. I got them lunch and then they managed to get ahold of big tootsie pop suckers. Owen's new thing is to push the dining chairs all over the kitchen to get what he wants, so he managed to get up into the candy jar. After getting a sugar high, Owen got ahold of the toy Home Depot drill and did laps up and down the "Alley" from the family room, through the kitchen and into the toy room. This is a common activity for Owen and Justin. They like you to see how fast they can run. After getting Owen down for a nap, which is unfortunately becoming a more difficult task lately, Justin wanted to play Mousetrap. We've never actually played the game--just put it all together and watch the ball go through the obstacle course and set off the trap.
Today is (was) my best friend, Annaliese's, birthday, so I made her a gift. I started with a blank white canvas and painted it a buttery yellow and then added brown and burnt orange to simulate fall colors and put on a Uppercase Living expression that said Happy Harvest. Dale and I actually went to see Annaliese in the play Arsenic and Old Lace. She is part of the Magenta Theater group and was in her second week of playing the part of Elaine in the show. Dale had been working in Vancouver for the day and made it home relatively early. I made a quick dinner of Trader Joe's (I love that store) gnocchi in tomato sauce and then Hannah, Justin and I quickly took our BOO bags and dropped one off at the next door neighbor's and then ran down to Ashley and Lindsey's house to drop one off there. The kids had a great time ringing the bell and running away as fast as they could. Then Aunt Katie came to babysit the kids, and Dale and I actually got a night out. The play was very good--extremely funny, although Annaliese told us that we were the quietest audience they had had. They were used to many more laughs. It was very funny, but I am just not a real vocal public laugher (is that a word?) and apparently neither was the rest of the audience. We really did enjoy the performance my friend.
After we got home, I actually had Dale take some model pose pictures of me that I needed to use as an avatar for an online scrapbooking contest I was doing on www.allyscraps.com. It was an America's Next Top Model themed contest. Since I was actually dressed in something other than sweats and had makeup on, I thought this would be a good time to do it. Photos of me are not really my favorite thing, but some of them turned out okay.
Here is the slideshow for the day:
2 comments:
This is awesome! Can't wait to see this is album form too!
so glad you liked the show :) and you look super sassy in that modeling shot! love it!
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