Saturday September 21

 

We had hopes of finishing the stairs today.

And we were close, oh so close....

More on that later :)

The big girls mowed lawns this morning while we worked on the stairs.

All the kiddos played really well together, which was so helpful.

The Youngs came over to visit for a little bit.

It was a good break for the kids.

It was fun having them over.

While Drew was here, he helped Brent load up Jenni's framing stuff so we could take it over to her house.

While we were in the garage, Porter found our Christmas blow up Santa, plugged him in and he blew up.

Fun for the kids right....

Well, for some reason, Mater was spooked by the Santa.

He got spooked while he was on the stair treads.....which were in the garage.

There are claw marks all over all but about 3 of the steps.....not cool.

Don't even know where to start with them now.

May have to sand them all the way down and start over.

Which I do not want to do :(

We will see what happens.

Frustrating...cause we were so close to be DONE.

Well, then we got kind of cleaned up and then took Jenni's framing stuff to her.

Then we went out to eat.

Elsie's teacher called at the end of last week and said they were having a hard time getting Elsie to finish her work.

She was being very social (which is better than her being stubborn!)

But her teacher had an idea to have her either earn a green card at the end of the day for doing her work and getting it done, and a red card if she couldn't keep to her class work.

Well, she earned a weeks worth of green cards....so we promised her dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings (where she always orders Mac and Cheese :)

So we got there and she was squealing all the way to the door, then we were told it was an hour wait.

Oh man.....bummer.

I should have gotten a picture of her face when we said we would have to pick a new place.

That frown makes me so sad.

But we knew they weren't gonna last an hour.....

So she decided on Red Robin, with the promise of going to Buffalo Wild Wings at another time.

We waited for a little bit at Red Robin, but not more than 15 minutes.

They all were happy with dinner....and Elsie got her Mac and Cheese anyway :)

It was a fun evening and a good day, except for the marks made on the steps.

Maybe they will be done, someday.

Maybe....

 

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(these are all out of order....)