Author: Rebecca

My Birthday

Today is my birthday, and Kyle took the day off from work to spend it with me instead, as he usually does. I told him that for my birthday this year I would like some shelves in the laundry room. We went to Ikea earlier in the week to see if we could find anything there that would suit the purpose, but didn’t find anything that would work for what I wanted to do. So today we went to Home Depot to pick out some shelves. We didn’t like what they had in the shelving area. They just weren’t deep enough. So we went to the lumber area and picked out a piece of wood that was deeper. But it was super expensive so we weren’t super excited about this one either. When we were about to get an employee to cut it down for us, he asked what we are trying to make. We explained that we are making some shelves, and then he took us to another aisle of the lumber department, that had more options for shelves. These we liked better so we put the expensive pieces of wood away. We got the shelving we needed had it cut to size and left.

I also bought myself some vinyl lettering to put up on the wall, but since Kyle worked on the shelves for the better part of the day, we didn’t get it up. I took some before pictures, I’ll have to take more pictures when it is all done.

This is where he is putting up some shelves:

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This is where I will put the vinyl lettering:

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Father Daughter Bowling

As the leader of my girl scout troop, I decided that I wanted to have a father-daughter activity this year. We do a few family activities throughout the year, and we have a mother-daughter cabin trip every summer and I thought it was about time that we should invite the dads to attend an activity with their daughters. I found some cute father-daughter bowling patches and so we decided to take them bowling. Here are some pictures of my girls with their dad:

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Apparently Dinah wasn’t with Kyle when I took these pictures. You can see just part of her legs and her feet in the second one…

Here’s a shot of Kyle when it was his turn:

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We had about half of my girl scout dads show up with their girls today. I’m kind of sad that more of them weren’t there. But it was our first time ever doing something like this and I hope we will get a better turnout next year. 🙂

Flies?

Lydia must have sung The Wise Man and the Foolish Man in nursery today. She is still singing it, but when she gets to the chorus she sings “…the rain came down and the flies came up…” instead of “the rain came down and the floods came up”.

I tried correcting her but she told me I was wrong. 😛