What a weekend

We've had a very productive weekend - YAHOO! It's been nice that we haven't had to go anywhere (as in a road trip); it's amazing what you can get done :)

Friday night my Mom & I went to a craft show - it was a little on the pathetic side but she did buy me a really cool Birthday present (I'll post about that another time since my birthday isn't until December) After the craft show we went out for a bite to eat & a drink. It was nice to be 'out' :)

Saturday rolled around and we headed out to do some errands. We took our laptop in to get new hinges. The poor thing - wouldn't even stay open anymore because both sides were now broken. We also had a list of things we needed to get - Rachel needed new running shoes (AGAIN) and some winter boots (the ones from last year fit her right now but I have visions of them not fitting in December and then having a hard time finding some). Natalie needed some food (what else is new? lol) and we needed to get our rings inspected (in order to keep the lifetime warranty on the diamonds, we have to get them inspected every 6 months...a bit of a pain but I guess it's worth it). We had lunch at the mall and then headed for home. The girls fell asleep on the way home and we had no problem putting Natalie in her crib when we got home. Rachel though - that was a different story. She didn't want to sleep and she was having a major freak out. I thought she might just eventually give up and go to sleep. Not so much. She's stubborn (wonder where she gets that from ha ha). My friend Annette came over for a little while and Ron was busy vacuuming (good man). After that, we decided to clean the carpets. Well, Ron decided (I've been bugging him for weeks now though) and I was the lucky one who cleaned them. We dropped the girls off at my parents while we did this since it would have been a little crazy around here otherwise. All of our family room furniture was in the kitchen eating area and the toys that are usually in our living room were shoved to the foyer. No place for 2 little girls to hang out. Anyway, the carpets and our kitchen chairs, our couch cushions and Rachel's little chair are super clean now - I love it! Let's see how long it lasts :)

Rachel must have been excited about the clean carpet - she laid here for a few minutes this morning.

Do you see what's wrong with this picture? I'm convinced the reason why Ron dropped the eggs is because I washed the floor last night :)

Grandad & Natalie. She loves the 'water bed'

I love this picture of the girls reading a book

Playing together this afternoon. So cute!

I will apologize in advance if you don't see me on Facebook, or leaving comments on your blog, or even replying to email. We are using our desktop and while it's a great computer, it's not as convenient to use as the laptop :)

Here's hoping the original estimate of '2 weeks' to get our laptop back isn't true!!! :)