Busy Saturday

We started our morning with waffles and strawberries! Hoping to start doing more special breakfasts on Saturdays. Trying to fit in a little more simple fun around the house.








Then Brad and Lorelei headed over for their first Home Depot workshop. They have these the first Saturday of every month for free. We thought this was a great chance for some father/daughter time each month, and its something they both really love doing. It didn't take nearly as long as we thought, but they really enjoyed it! They decided to paint it at home as Brad wanted to wait for the glue to dry, and there were 40 kids were around each of the three paint stations, so they did not think it was worth waiting. Brad said Lorelei's favorite part was being able to hammer the nails in. :)


Oh and they picked up a baby swing for Makin too! (I'm sure you will see it later.) How nice to have one errand off our list without me even asking!

Makin and I stayed home for our mother/son time today. We read books, played with toys in his room and then tried finger painting. That was not a huge hit with him. It lasted all of 5 minutes. He would barely rub the paint in (after insisting I show him that I would do it first before he dared try it) and then point to another color, also barely rubbing it anywhere after I gave it to him. :) Will wait a while and try again...I'm sure he would be more into it if he watched Lorelei do it, but like to see what he does without following big sisters lead!

We still had plenty of time to burn the rest of the day and Brad got some great time with the kids while I got a few jobs done around the house. Love just listening to all of them playing and laughing together. :)

Brad had to get a haircut and got the oil changed at the same time, so we had to keep occupied around the house for a little extra time than planned this afternoon. (Yeah, trying to do those two things on a busy Saturday afternoon takes a while.) So we did pasta with glue...which eventually turned into pasta with water (Makin's suggestion)...oh well, I got some chores done and they were happy!



Brad has been itching to start the family tradition of a movie night. I kept telling him that I was fine with this, as long we had not watched T.V. the rest of the day. Well, this was the ideal day for this to work out since we were so busy! (Eh hem, already decided before said afternoon solo, but I powered through!) Plus he was extra motivated as we knew Lorelei would love to see the new Treasure Buddies movie! :) (Makin ended up going to bed, so it was a most-of-family movie night ;) ) She loved having her special movie night with popcorn! :)