Weekend o' Fun

Two weekends ago, we had a crazy time. We were actually home. You’d think that maybe we would just lay low, sit and relax right? No, not us! Ella had a soccer game Saturday morning. She played great! So proud of her. She really got in there and went after the ball. It's fun to watch her play. Even Lily likes to go to the games.

After the game and getting lunch, we headed home and proceeded to dismantle the guest room and our loft upstairs. We originally intended the loft to be an area for the girls to watch tv before they went to bed at night. But we haven’t really been in that routine for awhile now. We read instead (a much better routine!), so the loft was kind of wasted space and not really being utilized for anything. We turned it into my office/library. Now I have a really nice place to edit my photos and hang out in the evening if I don’t necessarily want to be in the bedroom when Andrew is working. And now our guest room is really our guest room and not a multi-purpose room like it was before. The project of course turned into a multi-day project and included a trip to IKEA for more shelving and accessories. Including a fun desk lamp that is solar-powered! How cool is that?! They come in lots of fun colors, you should be sure to check them out your next trip to IKEA. A great chance to make your office just a bit “greener”.



Saturday evening, Ella and I drove up to Anoka/Andover to see Emilee’s dance recital. It was very cute! Emilee did a great job in both her dances and it was fun to see her and Shawn in the father/daughter dance. Ella’s favorite part was all the sparkly costumes! While we were at the recital, Lily and Andrew had a date. They went out for dinner and then headed over to mini golf at Golf Zone. Turns out they had Cosmic Golf going where they had the lights off, music playing, and Christmas lights everywhere. They even had blue lights in the water, which really impressed Lily.

Sunday, Lily had her first birthday party for one of her little school friends, her best friend Hannah. She was sooo excited to get to go to a birthday party that was all her thing! The party didn’t start until 11am so we thought we’d go check out Schooner Days beforehand. Unfortunately, the website was wrong and Schooner Days didn’t open until 11. So we just walked around and looked at everything. Ella scoped the prizes and games out. While Lily and I were at the party, Andrew and Ella stayed at Schooner Days and had a good ol’ time. So good in fact, our house now contains a GIANT Scooby Doo—seriously, the thing is as tall as Ella—as well as a medium size purple Care Bear and three smaller stuffed animals.







Ella took these last two images. :-)
We’re going at Mach 10 pretty much through July 4th then hopefully, things will calm down a bit for the rest of the summer. Not sure when I’ll get everything updated again. But hopefully it won’t be that long between posts.