Ka-Blooey

That kind of sums up the weekend right there! The rain on Saturday put a damper on both our weekend boating plans and our firework plans. However, being the astute meteorologist that she is, Mom talked Dad in to taking us to a small display on Friday night in a nearby "town". Town is in quotation marks because it is probably more of a village, but we get in, we see fireworks really close-up, we get ice cream, we get out. Easy cheesy. We were hoping for the grand display on Saturday, but we didn't want to chance the rain/storms, although they did end up going off in the end.














Firework viewing in the trunk, woot woot.








Instead on Saturday, we went to see Ice Age in 3D. Mom is not a fan of 3D. She's very flinchy and her eyes water. BUT, this was really cool and we all had a great time. Zach wouldn't keep his glasses on, so it was more like fuzzy-D for him, but he sat very still and laughed a lot. We managed to salvage the day and have some fun family time.

Today, we went to see Grandpa D in the hospital. He had a bout of stomach pain which turned out to be nothing major, but still enough to warrant a hospital stay with antibiotics. Even though it was more time in the car than actually visiting, we were glad we went and they were too. It was hard for me and Zach not to jump on Grandpa, because that is kind of our thing.

Last week was kind of nutty. Had playgroup here and it was utter chaos...over a dozen kids and the house got pretty trashed. Zach was not having it and I was a little moody and mom was all sorts of stressed out. The rest of the days were spent schlepping around town and trying to keep busy during the cold, rainy week. Mom was moping around alot since Ryan and Leah left. I did go to a really cool place on Wednesday and make a Jurassic Garden, which was a plastic tote filled with ferns, plants, rocks, bark and of course, dinosaurs. We love the local nature center and need to make it a priority to go more often.

I will start swimming lessons tomorrow. I would love to tell you that I am excited for them, but I am not. Not a big fan of the water. Actually, I like the water, just not going under it. Hopefully, we can gain some ground, er, water, this week.

The moron neighbors are STILL shooting off fireworks and keeping me up each night. Didn't they get the memo that the Holiday is over? Oh well, can't beat a 2 for 1 sale I suppose!

Hope you had an enjoyable weekend. Thanks to the new wave of troops in Afganistan right now fighting for the independence of us and others, we hope they are safe.

Ciao bella!