Wow... really. We had a good busy weekend.
Friday... Friday evening we stopped by some friend's of our Open House party. It was so good. Lot's of food, lot's of friends. We didn't really want to leave but our special needs group, Hearts and Hands, were having a parents night out and me and Jeff were going to take full advantage of it. That is the one thing we have learned is that mom and dad have to have dates. So, we got 2 1/2 hours to ourselves. It was much needed. The kiddos had fun too. They made pictures and ornaments and then watched a movie. There was also games in the gym they got to play and the older girls were playing pool with some of the older kids. (Advantage to the parents night out being in the youth center at church) Afterwards we dropped Britt of with her dad for the weekend.
Saturday.. Me and Kimmie got up ridiculously early to get to McGavock High School in Nashville. Her band director nominated her for mid-state band. We had to be there by 8:50am... 1hr 15min drive... I had to get up at 6:30am... anybody remember that I don't do mornings?
While we were at midstate, Jeff, the boys and Allie decorated one of our outside trees with ornaments and lights. It was cute for the boys to do it. I think even Scrooge had fun. :o) Check out
Benji's blog for
Jingle Benji... I promise they had way too much fun with us gone.
Thankfully at mid-state we had the "golden" ticket and got to skip line... there were over 150 Clarinets. We had to be back into White Bluff for the parade at 4pm.
We went to the parade that was VERY cold. Thankfully we were able to stay close to the truck and stay warm. Kimmie went to her friend's sleep over party afterwards. During the parade it was cute, the kids were grabbing gobs of candy and because we forgot a bag they kept stuffing it into my pockets in my coat. I gained like 15 lbs standing on the side of the road. LOL.
After the parade we stopped over at Nana and Papa's house to warm up. It took a good 30 minutes to be able to feel my hands again! About 5:40pm we remembered the Saving Little Hearts Christmas Party... that started at 6pm.
Better late than never...
The kiddos had fun, especially Benji. The other 3 enjoyed eating pizza, cookies and watching Santa Claus is Coming to Town (the old one with Mikey Runey) For Benji's fun see his
post about it.We finally got home about 8:30pm and we were all wiped out.
Yesterday we had a wonderful church service even though we missed Sunday School. The message was Have a Mary Christmas. (I will link to it once they have it up on the site)
For the afternoon, we stopped by Goody's since the y still had the sale on the purses. I was really hoping that they would restock the one I saw on black friday. Well, they didn't restock, but one was returned! So I got my $30 purple purse for $12 PLUS... Ms. Murphy got her Christmas present of a brand new nice and warm cat bed for $5. Two happy customers.
We got Benji's swing fixed and re-hung once we got home. Let me tell you. Talk about a happy customer. LOL
When we picked up Britt she wanted to get the pitch back with her allowance/Christmas money... so we went in to Walmart. This was when my head said enough and unleased a nasty migraine. Before walmart though we stopped by Claire's with my $10 gift card. Got another purse (lol... I buy maybe one a year... plus it is SO cute.)
I spent the evening in the dark and in bed. It was a crazy but mostly good weekend. And oh... Kimmie didn't make the mid-state band. She's a bit upset but realizes she didn't really practice enough too. There is next year.
Labels: Christmas, family life
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