I hope that everyone had a happy and safe Memorial Day 🙂 We enjoyed a nice long weekend, and a little BBQ yesterday. The weather wasn’t cooperating at all, and it rained all day, so I decided to have a little cook-out indoors.
We had hamburgers, hot dogs, chips & dip, corn & cucumber salad, fruit salad, and vanilla cupcakes too. I served the salads in Glad Ware, just like a picnic. It was fun to have the BBQ indoors, and both of the boys were thrilled with the cupcakes 😉
Yesterday was my Mother in laws birthday, and I was planning on taking the boy’s to visit her. She had a few places in mind to take the boys, and I had a few errands to run while I was in town too. We both decided to meet at Payless Shoes and do a little shopping. Thade found a pair of Transformers tennis shoes, and I picked up a pair of Summer shoes for Dylan. It was buy one get one half off after all 😉
After the shoe shopping it was getting pretty close to lunchtime and both boys were hungry. The birthday girl suggested Chili’s and that sounded great to me too. We ordered Chips and Salsa to munch on while we waited for lunch, and Thade happily colored on his kids menu munching away on chips. Lunch gave us plenty of time to catch up on all of the gossip, and I ate way too much tasty Margarita Chicken 🙂
We then headed to Grandma’s house, so I could change Dylan and get Thade ready to go to the park. Thade was so anxious to get to the park, he just couldn’t wait. Grandma had a great plan to head over to Lincoln Park and visit Kiddieland, a mini-amusement park just for kids.
We were all excited to go and visit, this was my first time there too. Grandma got a few tickets for Thade and we were ready to go and have fun!
Thade was a little nervous at first, it was his first trip to an amusement park, and he wasn’t too sure about the rides. He got a little bit of courage (and a Ring Pop) and he was ready to ride the boats. After the boats, he was ready to ride every single ride in the park 🙂
The park even has a Train that you can ride, and it was Dylan’s favorite. It is a small train that takes you all around the park, and it was so much fun we rode it twice 🙂
Dylan had so much fun riding the train, and waving at everybody as we went by. Thade thought the train was a little loud…
We all had a great time at the park and Thade is ready to go back and visit again soon. Kiddieland even has a Roller Coaster and a Small Ferris Wheel to ride too!
It was a fun trip to Grandma’s, and I think that she had a great time too 🙂
Today I’m taking the boys to Grandma’s 🙂 It is her birthday, and we are all going out to lunch to celebrate. I have so much to do this morning. It looks like it is going to be a fun day, as long as the weather holds out. Here is the plan for this morning:
It looks like it is going to be a busy day around here, and I’ve got a migraine to boot. I woke up this morning at 2:30 a.m. with the evil headache, and I finally got up officially at 6:40 a.m. to take some much needed medicine. I just hope that it kicks in soon, my noggin hurts so much today…
Yahoo my camera is back, and I’m back to sewing too. I’ve been making Reusable Grocery Totes, and I hope to get a few more made this week. They are super fun to sew, but now I’m in need of more fabric 😉
Well I put aside a few chores today, and spent a little quality time with my neglected sewing machine. I decided to set up shop in the utility room, in hopes that I could sew while Dylan was napping, and it worked 🙂 Thade wanted to help too, so I put him in charge of the pedal and keeping the kitties off of my project. He did really well, and has excellent foot control.
I wanted to sew a few reusable grocery bags, and I managed to get 2 1/2 finished today. I still need to sew the handles on one of them. I’m hoping to get to it this evening, but most likely it will be tomorrow before Dylan will let me sew again. I have a few more projects that I would love to start and finish too. I still need to make 3 curtains for the dining room, and finish the laundry organizer. Maybe I’ll make another grocery bag or two 😉