Friday, May 29, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend

On Saturday we had a joint baby shower/bridal shower for my sister, Brooke and for my future sister-in-law, Nikole. The company was awesome and the food was incredible!


Shannon (my cousin's wife) and my aunt, Sheila.


My cousin, Amanda with her sweet baby, my aunt Arlene, and the beautiful bride-to-be, Nikole.

Rylee with my gorgeous cousin, Ashley.


The always fun, shoe-lovin' Marja.


Brooke opening some of her gifts. (She looks so darling pregnant, by the way!) The kids were so into this part! But can you blame them? Baby gifts are irresistible.

Along with the showers, we had some other excitement that weekend. We also bought a new van so that we could trade in our old one while it is still worth something. I had already felt like we had achieved our "Memorial Day Weekend obligations" by spending a lot of money on a car. (You ARE supposed to spend a lot of money that weekend, right? All the ads sure make it seem that way!)

If the new van wasn't enough fun, I went to start a load of laundry after the showers and my washing machine sounded like it was going to explode on me. We had a friend come look at it and decided it wasn't worth messing with. The sucker was almost ten years old, so we put it in it's grave (okay, the garage for now until this weekend when we can move it) and bought a new one. No, we will not be visiting the dump next Memorial Day to place flowers on the grave of our dearly departed washing machine. It has been replaced by a shiny new washing machine.

Whew, what a Friday/Saturday that was. I hope this next weekend is a LOT cheaper!


This brings us to...

MEMORIAL DAY

I had a bunch of costumes to make for Rylee's class opera. Rylee was watching me make the witch skirts and asked if she could help. HECK YES, you can help, sweetie! So I put her to work. She did a fantastic job and loved helping me. (And she looked so grown up doing it too.)


The afternoon of Memorial Day, we were able to have Bill's parents over for a BBQ. We haven't been able to see them much lately, and we haven't really seen them much at all since the holidays. So they brought over Christmas presents for the kids. They LOVED having Christmas in May. They were just like, well, kids on Christmas! ;)

They brought way too many gifts and spoiled the kids rotten. But the kids loved all of it. Hayden hasn't parted with his new Lightning McQueen sleeping bag and pillow since he got it.


Grandma and Grandpa got all of the kids some new PJ's, and they all had to try them on RIGHT THEN, so we took a picture of all of them together.


Thank you so much, Grandma and Grandpa. The kids loved all of their gifts and it was so good to be able to see you and spend time with you again. We hope to see you again soon!

5 comments:

Nicole said...

Once again, I have to say, I can't believe your baby sister Brooke is old enough to have a baby herself. It makes me feel too old!! Sounds like you had a nice weekend and helped out the economy too. Way to go!

Katherine said...

I like the idea of Christmas in May!

Candice said...

What fun grandparents and what cute kids! I want Christmas in May too. I'll just have to talk to my husband about that! :)

Picture Perfect said...

That is awesome!!! You know, I think it would be less stressful to have christmas now than in December. I might be able to enjoy the holiday!

Andrea said...

That is a great tradition!

I want to know how you made those skirts! Too cute.