Anything But Gray

I can't believe my lack of posting…grrr….

We've had a good week….last weekend was REALLY nice…

Saturday morning it was nice out…finally…it's been really crappy weather here…figures!!…..anyway, it's beautiful out so we all pack up to go to garage sales. Me, Zak, the kids and my mom. And I am really excited about this, I love garage sales and we have hardly gone to any since we have moved here. Jaime had five bucks from the tooth fairy (she lost another tooth…still no loose ones for Ben..what's up with that???…) so she was super excited to go, too. We find a bike for Ben for only $20, practically new. Which he desperately needs because he's been riding one of Jaime's old ones. It's a bad ass bike though…the purple paint job has been covered up with DUCT tape and he's been cruising the neighborhood on this ghetto bike..lovely! LOL So that was a major score that we were thrilled with….

Then Jaime scores a blender. A really cute red Disney blender. And I am THRILLED. Why? Because now I can make some yummy blendy drinks…ha!! My mother keeps telling me that I absolutely CANNOT make an alcoholic drink in the Disney blender…whatever…I'll just ignore her. LOL

.Jaime was thrilled too and she keeps saying how she wants to make strawberry shakes in her new blender….we tell her we have to get strawberries and then we'll do it. Jaime is saying she wishes she could pick her own strawberries and that got us adults all thinking, wondering if there was a farm or something that we could pick strawberries at. So we keep driving around, trying to find more garage sales and we come across a farm that has fresh eggs and flowers and stuff…so we stop to check it out. They have strawberries but they are super expensive, so we pass and figure we can get cheaper ones at the store. I'm all about supporting local business but these were just TOO expensive…But we did get a dozen of fresh eggs, which was really cool. 🙂

Now we're back to drivng around…and we come around a bend and there is a strawberry field with people picking strawberries and a sign advertising "Pick your own strawberries here!" SO COOL!  I swear it was like meant to be! LOL So of course we pull over and we all get out to pick our own strawberries. We get a ton of them and it was a super good price….and we are on our way to the store now to get ice cream for the strawberry shakes. We do that and come back home and make the shakes. So fun!!  

Such a fun day and the kind of stuff that I couldn't wait to live back home, to do. Watching Ben cruise on his new bike and Jaime drink her slushie and the sunshiney, hot day….it was just a beautiful, perfect day. Couldn't ask for better!

Sunday we went to a wedding and had a really good time! It was Brian and Mel. They are a couple that Shelly actually got together and is friends with. I met them through Shelly and have gotten to know them over the last year. We usually see them on our Friday nights out and they are an adorable, super sweet and fun couple. It was so nice to get to go to their wedding. I LOVE weddings and we had a really good time at this one….we all danced and danced and had a great, great time. That was one of me and Shelly's things, back in the day…we danced. Always. All the time. Anywhere. We made up dances at home, we went to clubs to go dancing…we would pull the car over if a kick ass song came on and get out and dance….that was just something that was so me and her. So it was really, really awesome to be back on a dance floor with her. I loved it!!  At one point we were all in a circle dancing and it was a bunch of us girls and each girl, one at a time, would take a turn in the middle of the circle and I'm like, yeah, I'll pass on that…I am not a great dancer so no way am I getting in the freakin' middle of this circle….I'd look like a moo cow having convulsions and I'm not okay with that….so I'm not getting in the middle. Well all of a sudden someone comes up behind me and starts dancing with me from behind….I figure it's Zak…I turn and it's Brian! LOL So cool!! So Brian and I go to the middle of the circle and dance a little and that was a blast!!  LOL Love little fun, spontaneous moments like that!   🙂 Shelly and I danced and danced and Zak and Scott even came out and danced too. Yay!

It was a beautiful wedding, touching ceramony and a kick ass reception! So happy we went to that….:-)
Oh and here is a picture of what we gave them for a gift. Shelly and I got them a frame with two openings in it. One side for the picture of them dancing and one side for this….the lyrics to their wedding song. What do you think?

The broken road lyric example

I love it! I was really happy with how it came out! I hope they liked it too!!
I'll find out when they get back from their honeymoon!! 🙂
Here is a pic of the newlyweds! How adorable are they??

Mel and Brian wedding

Brian and mel dancing

Tah, for now! I'm sure I'll have more tomorrow….it's Ben's last day of school and I'm gonna be a teeny bit sad…I hate endings!!! ugh!