Weekend Wrap-Up



Weekend Wrap-up at a Defined Life

I KNOW there are some of you out there who write a weekend wrap-up on Mondays.  Why not join A Defined Life and see what others did during the weekend? It's a quick way to wrap it up!  
Click on collage for a bigger view!

~  YS came back from band camp on Friday.  It's a tradition for the band to perform their show for parents & friends after camp, followed by a dinner and pool party.  Yep, that's him on the stand: this year's drum major!  It was such a proud moment to see him up there for the first time!  I'm so proud of him!

~ 3-2-1 cake.  If you haven't heard of it, here are the details:  Get a cake mix.  Any cake mix.  Mix an Angel Food Cake Mix with it, and store in a ziplock bag.  When you're in the mood for cake but don't want to make a whole one, take 3 Tablespoons of cake mix, 2 Tablespoons of water, and stir it in a microwavable bowl.  Put it in the microwave for 1 minute.  (That makes up the 3-2-1.)  The directions say to let it sit for 15 minutes, but I wanted mine pretty warm, so I left it for about 12 minutes.  Then, you can top it with whatever you want, or not top it at all.  It was really good!

~  Laika and her "bottle toy".  She ripped the velcro off of it shortly after she got it, so it only takes her about 10 minutes to get the bottle out of the raccoon and demolish it.

~  Saturday I went to 10 stores looking for a comforter and came back with nothing.  Well, except for a couple of shirts, a jacket, a toothbrush holder for the boys' bathroom, and some stickers for school.  Sunday I went back to Target to see if I could find something, and this is what I came out with.  I wanted something that looked decent but wasn't expensive because of the dogs.  I'm pretty happy with what I found.  

~  CH arrived home from his big bike ride.  He's been gone for 16 days riding up to Newfoundland/Labrador.  With him & YS being gone last week, I had a nice quiet week pretty much all to myself.  It was nice, but I was ready for CH to be home.

~  Can you tell somebody else was happy for him to be home?  She has hardly left his side since he's been home!

~  I completely forgot to put this one in my collage!  Friday night I met one of my sisters and one of her friends to hear my oldest brother's band.  This was the first time I stayed for the whole 3 hours!  It was like a semi-high school reunion; there were a few people there from school.  It was a good time!

Okay, head over to Stefani's and join up!  The format is up to you, and obviously you don't need a "big girl camera" to participate!

Friday Frags

Mommy's Idea

~  After the door debacle, I did some looking online and found out how to "fix" it.  What did we do before internet? Here's a before & after:
Not perfect, but with the towels, you can't tell:

~  Then, I decided to tackle a bookshelf that we got, oh, about 20 years ago that had never been stained:
Geez, if I had known how easy it was, I would've done it YEARS ago.

~  After lugging the bookcase up & down the stairs to the basement, then rearranging some furniture just to rearrange it back (because I didn't like the way it looked), I noticed a nagging in my back that was very much like the pain I had the day before my sciatica attack. Off to the chiropractor!  My back was fine the next day.

~  Probably not a great idea to watch a lot of HGTV when I have a week to myself!

~  The exciting news around here:
You can't tell who the guy with the swim cap is, but...it's Michael Phelps!  The USA Swim Team is in the big city practicing at the university.  The first lucky 1200 people got to go in and watch practice yesterday, and my SIL & their 3 kids were 4 of them!  (Shout out to my SIL who allowed me to use her picture!) There is a "local" (meaning area around big city) on the men's and women's team.  The guy on the men's team originally didn't think he made the team...in fact, he was in Charlotte on the way home when he found out that Phelps decided not to swim in one of the races, which meant he was in!  Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions!

~  I just had to laugh about an area boy winning gold in gymnastics during the Jr. Olympics.  In his interview, he said that his inspiration for wanting the gold was the promise of a pig.  I'm sure his parents didn't think he had much of a chance, and promised him a "teacup pig" if he brought home the gold.  I can't make this stuff up, folks!

Have a good weekend!

Thursday "Things"

Here are a few of my favorite things I've seen on Facebook the past few weeks:




Hope at least one of these made you laugh!

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