Bowling on Wednesday

 

 

Wednesday, I took all of yesterdays kids plus Mason to Bowl at Vestavia Bowl. Let me tell you, if I had longer hair and a long skirt on, I'm almost positive people could have mistaken me for Michelle Duggar. The kids were all so good though. I enjoyed our trip waaaaay more than the lady next to us, who looked like she missed her daily does of Prozac and couldn't have fun for yelling at her girls to quit touching the balls because they were filthy, Hello... You are at a bowling alley lady! I've gotten way off the topic of this post. Anyway, Austin and all the kids had so much fun. I won the first game (without bumpers I might add!) and Austin won the second game. I think we just might try bowling again next week. I really need to score over 100 to give up!

Marmaduke at the Movies

 

 

 

I took Austin, Madison, Micah and Landon to lunch at Chick-fil-A and then to the movies on Tuesday to see Marmaduke. Let me tell you, Tuesdays are the day to do to the Carmike on Lorna Road, assuming you get there 30 minutes before show time. We tried to go the previous Tuesday and both kid movies were sold out. Tons of day cares were there. This past Tuesday we go there right in time though to get great seats. For $13 all 5 of us got in the movies and all the kids had a popcorn and a coke. The movie was really cute. In the I'm-crazy-and-would-hate -myself-later kind of way, I left there wanting a Great Dane!

Alabama Adventure

 
 

I think we've gotten our money's worth this year!

My latest hobby

 

We've started building furniture. If you remember a while back I built the Pottery Barn bookcase for Austin's room. We'll we started another one and never finished it because my mom had to repo her air compressor from my house. So, my friend Hollyn was on fire to build something so we loaded up our 1/2 finished shelf and headed to her cousin's house who offered his basement for us to build and beat the heat. We built the Pottery Barn Hyde Side table on Friday night, then finished the 2nd side table on Sunday night. Last night we decided to build more and so we went to Lowe's (My FAV place to shop!) and bought the materials to build the Pottery Barn Hyde Coffee Table. I got a few cuts in before it was Saws-Off time. We are trying not to overstay our welcome so we quit cutting at 9:15. After we build the coffee table, that I hope is complete in the next day or two, we are going to start on the matching media center and the console table from the same Pottery Barn collection, then a 32x80 dining table, then a King Farmhouse bed, then a ohhh, I don't know, but I hope to build it all. I absolutely LOVE building. I can't wait to get all the pieces complete so I can distress & stain them. It's killing me to have raw wood sitting there but I want to wait until I have all the pieces complete before finishing so I can have a uniform look to all of it. I have spent a total of $44 for 2 side tables that retail for $199.99 EACH and spent $32.00 on a coffee table that retails for $499.99.

If you have a few basic tools in your garage and want to give it a try, go to www.knockoffwood.com and search for a beginner plan. I promise it's a ton of fun to build something from a pile of wood!

Change in Plans

 
 

We learned the hard way that Mondays aren't a good day to go to Alabama Adventure so we decided to spend the day swimming at Nana's house. The kids wanted me to take their picture as they jumped in the pool 1,057 times so while I thought I was going to sink a couple times, they still had fun, and I guess that's all that matters!

Olive Garden

 

This summer I've been trying to do as many fun things with Austin as I can fit into the schedule since this is the first summer I've ever really gotten to spend with him not working 50-60 hours a week. So the other day, he & Madison (his friend that I keep during the summer) were chanting "Olive Garden" right after they finished breakfast so I obliged and took them. I was laughing on the inside because I was sitting there envisioning him on his first date, taking a cute little girl to the Olive Garden for dinner. That's the first place Damon and I went (I think) for dinner when we started dating. They played tic-tac-toe and fought over who got the croutons out of the bowl for the majority of the time. I have a feeling his first date will be very very different!

Lemonade Stand

 

This weekend, we had the mother of all yard sales. Between the 4 contributors, we ended up selling close to $3,000! It was insane! In our efforts to keep the little ones busy, we set up a lemonade stand for them. Thanks to my new Cricut, we had some pretty cool signage for them! They ended up selling over $20.00 worth so they were super excited about that. Austin was flashing his dimples for tips. One lady gave him $3.00 for a glass of lemonade becasue she said he was too cute! That's my boy! I gave him Sales & Marketing 101 and he was working it!