Hanging Together

We had a fun weekend hanging out together. It was laid back, but had some small fun events going on as well. This was a very not-like-us weekend that we loved! Usually we always find a place to go or something to do which requires an over-night stay. Last weekend was actually really nice as well with the maple syrup festival and all. Below are some small craft projects I put together on my day off last week. The first is our new "Wii-Supply Box". I took a cardboard box that our Melaleuca order came in and attached some extra cloth that I had lying around. Then I folded two of the flaps to make a small shelf on the front half, and covered it with cloth too - and WA-LA! My second project I did that day was take some emptied candle holders and made a shelf decoration. I used some 3-d paints, though I'm not sure what to fill them with yet, I thought of those decorative glass rocks, or just cotton balls, or some fake potting stuff and flowers (though it's fun to toy with the thought of real flowers- but that be long-term work that I'm not willing to commit to.)






As for this weekend, we worked the entire 80 degree day on Friday. In the evening it was still warm, but we went to see Fast & Furious. We were planning on going to the drive-in, but as soon as I saw it was no longer F&F, but Hannah Montana - no thanks. We opted for the five buck club here in town. Saturday was a little stormy with scattered showers and some thunder. We enjoyed the warm breezy day by walking the downtown strip. We went to see what Truffles had to offer hoping it would be similar to Amanda's- Reuben's - but no, it is just cakes and pastries. We hear they have excellent cakes though. Sometime we'll try them. We saw this little squirrel on our walk. It was sooo cute because he looked like a statue, then finally moved just an inch, so I took his picture just cause.



Chris took the jeep to get a quote for a new muffler - $800 dollars! Apparently everything needs to be replaced and it needs a converter. So yeah, the guy kept telling Chris, "We can work with you on this, we have financing." Chris said, "Do you see that hunk-of-junk? It's not even worth 800 dollars!" ... I snuck away to do some clothes shopping and everything at the SA was $1!! - I got a cute NWT (yes, that's NEW WITH TAGS) White House Black Market dress ($168 retail!!).

We spent most of our Saturday sitting on the porch listening to the scanner. It got pretty exciting with a woman passed out on a toilet down the road from us, and the other direction of the next road had a mom and daughter fighting and mom was throwing the daughter's stuff on the yard. We walked down that way, but couldn't see it from our road and decided to just go back to our positions on the porch. In the evening, we went down the street to watch out neighbor's daughter Mikayla perform as an Ompa-Lompa in her school's production of Willy Wonka Jr. She was great, watch out hollywood- she's your next Halle Berry.



Sunday I did laundry and Chris did his homework. We did not leave the house until it was time to head towards South Bend to meet with Darrell for a late lunch/early dinner. We ate at Ponderosa's! Yum, it was good. We have not eaten there in a VERY long time. We both tried out the new semi- looks good. I took a picture of the drawing Lizzy made for Darrell a looooooonnnnnng time ago. He still has it hanging in there. As we were driving through the toll booth to get on the toll road (love the IPass) we had to stop for a family crossing the road. Hahaha! I love it.