Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
Dropping off the girls from preschool, Emma and Lexi were out of their seats while in line. Lexi was in the front passenger seat beside me and Emma was standing in the back between us. I had given Emma my iPhone and she was looking at YouTube videos and saw where I had looked up some American Idol videos. She leaned forward to show me and Lexi caught a glimpse of the screen..
Lexi: I wanna see Jesus!
Me: That’s not Jesus, honey, that’s Jason Castro.
Um yeah, forgot to post about this but on Friday Scott and I were on the way to Mom’s and both mentioned a truck we saw for sale in someone’s yard. Well, let’s just say less than an hour, the guy had a deposit check in his hand. The guy brought it by after work today. Scott is going to get tags tomorrow. I have yet to actually take a drive in the thing. It’s just one of those things I felt peace about and knew it was the one. Dad felt good about it and Scott seemed excited so I hope it doesn’t disappoint! So here is the picture from the ad although I think it looks way better in person:
A busy, busy night but here’s some quick (but badly lit) photos. The dining/living room is complete.
I just found this note of a conversation between Emma and Lexi on the way out of the awards ceremony on Thursday. They were galloping through the parking lot in their dresses and Lexi had stopped and was walking…
Emma: Lexi! Ride your horsey!
Lexi (matter-of-factly): My horsey’s dead.
Yay!! Last night we tore the carpet up. And I loosely use the term "we". D came by to help Scott take up the carpet and just for the record, I’m the one that got to clean up after them. And of course I had to show pictures because hello? It’s a makeover.
Here the first part of the carpet is coming up.
Emma and Lexi get freaked out when we tell them to be careful of nail and staples and Emma goes into "mother mode"
The carpet is up…
The plastic and red spongy stuff goes down. You like that terminology??
And voila! The first pieces of our hardwood go down!!
Yay!!
So our all-day event Saturday was our spring festival. MIL ended up keeping the kids Friday night and took them downtown about 10. I got there about 11 since I slept in from my late night of work the night before. This festival thing was different than our previous ones. This one was held at a really big walking park/playground in town. They roped off part of the field and had a main stage and then booths all around the field. The really limited who could be there and there weren’t annoying circusy-type things to buy and the food was provided mostly by local churches or community groups. They had a local American Idol type contest, a magician and local bands playing. It was really cool. We were there until almost 9pm only leaving for about 45 minutes to pick Scott up from home after he got off. Our church was able to make a nice chunk of change to help our youth go to camp as well. So here are some pictures from the day…
Emma got fitted for a new helmet which they GAVE them and got to ride a bike through a course.
Lexi did too!
The park…
The food! That cotton candy is almost as big as her!
We watched the hot air balloon…
Said hot air balloon….
The magician. He really made a rabbit come out of a hat. I’m still trying to figure that out!
Then guess who fell asleep?
Emma hung out with Heather while we watched the band Parallel play
Here’s the concert….LOL. That is HILARIOUS because it looks like absolutely no one was listening. But really, there were a ton of people beside us and around us. Parallel is an AWESOME band. We grew up with 3 of the players including the lead singer and he is a fantastic singer.
Anyway, so that was the day. It was perfectly 80 degrees and overcast and just fun to be hanging out at a park all day.
One reason I was able to stay up and busy myself while I waited on stuff to run at work was I rented I Am Legend off PPV. And people, let me tell you, it was a fantastic movie!! Now, I don’t really want to tell you about any more of it unless you want to be spoiled. If so, click on to Read More.
I want to write more later but just so you know I’m still here…last night I ended up staying up and working and therefore did not have to work this morning. Four people I work with were very happy with me. Today I spent the entire day at our spring festival. It was a perfect day for it. Plus, it meant I didn’t have to scrub the bathroom floor. And that’s always good.
Later.