Austin had slept over the night before and spent the day going back and forth from playing with Landon to playing with Whitney. (Notice Whitney's homemade castle creation in the foreground, complete with Lego ladder and cardboard slat bridge.)
Landon's friend came over to join the boys (the three of them have played together multiple times) and they ended up playing Sing Star, football, video games, and hide and seek. (And yes, we STILL have our Christmas stuff up.)
I spent most of the day organizing my studio and reconfiguring one of my stamp shelves. I recently visited Jenn's house and saw that she had taken off a bunch of her stamps so she can sell them, and then put a various fun supplies and decorative items on the shelves instead. It was so fun doing the same thing on mine (we have the same shelves, Randy built them for us years ago).
I haven't dusted the stamp shelves in years because the stamps are placed on their so
precariously that moving them means a stamp avalanche. It was disturbing and satisfying to clean the dust away, ew.
I listened/watched Season 3 of The Office while I worked, and loved it. I had totally forgotten about Dwight taking Ryan to his beet farm for a sales initiation and having his bizarre cousin Mose come out to wrestle him. I watched that part over and over.
Hours later, here is the finished shelf.
Randy was nice enough to go to Xpedx for me to replenish my cardstock and envelope supply. I hate running out of that stuff because it's pricey to refill, but I have etsy orders to fill so I had to do it. I love seeing my full inventory.
We had game night on Saturday instead of Friday, so we had a serious house full.
Robyn and Lori had gone to a movie with some book club friends, so only Adam, Amy, Jared, Randy and I started out with nachos and Quiddler.
The boys did their thing.
And the girls did theirs.
After Robyn and Lori came over we took this temperament test.
It was funny, enough said.
We did this about 10 years ago, but the results were pretty much the same.
Megan (aka queen of crazy faces) sidled up next to me to request another granola bar. There is just so much Megan!
Adam did this drawing while we totaled up our scores.
This is a random shot I took at the end of the evening when Adam and Jared were trying to wrangle the kids so they could go home, I always find this funny because the kids don't want to clean up, they're tired, they can't find their shoes and we're all just "done" for the night.
**What did you do on Saturday?
Have you ever wrestled "fear"?
Do you have a crazy face maker at home?**
Have you ever wrestled "fear"?
Do you have a crazy face maker at home?**
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22 comments:
I am so sad it is monday again. I need another saturday to sleep in!
My saturday stunk bad, as bad as bad can be. Enough said.
I think all of my kids are face makers but Blake. He's now too cool for that.
I REALLY like your header!
Saturday Kim worked 1/2 day and I stayed home with the kids, then I worked the 2nd 1/2 of Saturday and she stayed home. Sometimes I hate working just about every weekend but it's worth it because that means one of us is always here during the week to get the kids on/off the bus and we never have to use aftercare at school even thoughnwe both work full time.
I die everytime you photograph kids in your bedroom like that. Kim would stroke out if she saw that. Luci and Griffin have never been that close to my bed, muchless been on it! You are a nice mom. I love how it seems like your house is the fun house where all the kids always want to be.
That Whitney is so creative!
Looks like a very satisfying Saturday -- a little relaxation, a little work, a little fun. Keith and I took that same quiz. I can't quite remember what he was, but I was an INFJ, which made me feel like a freak because the results thing we read said it was the rarest type, being less than 2% of the population. Maybe that explains some stuff!
On Saturday we ran errands, and caught an afternoon movie (sans kids). I could go for that all over again.
Looks like a DREAM Saturday!!!
How do you feel about your personality profiles?
I took that test about a year ago and while it was pretty accurate, it kind of made me depressed to find out I am an INTP which is the most rare peronality type for women. Only 1% of the whole population and of the 1% 60% are men. All of yours look pretty normal (and I mean that in a very good way.)
p.s. I am LOVING your new header and seeing the mail truck I gave you in it!
I need to do an in-service for the primary teachers. Thanks for the insight!
My Saturday was pretty lame, damn PMS.
It looks like you had some very satisfying clean-up time in your studio! I wish I could have a day with no responsibilities, I wonder when that will happen?
1. Your studio is divine.
2. I noticed how Adam declared himself "Mastermind." Nice.
3. I'm laughing at Adam's "parent point" in the last photo. I could just hear him: "NOW." Ha!
4. Once again--I am so jealous of your closeness (proximity and emotionally) to family! I wish my fam could come weekly for game night! Boo hoo hoo hoo
Your stamp shelves are awesome. I would love an uninterrupted day of cleaning and organizing, how sad is that! Is that the Meyers-Briggs test? I took that in law school and thought it was dead on. This is Ashley not Tyler.
The Office episode you reference is a favorite of mine, as well. Mose is just so creepy--he's too funny.
Sometimes I hire Sarah to remove my stamps from their dusty shelves and wipe the shelves clean. I've gotten as far as weeding through my stamps with the intent to sell, but never have the time to actually post them anywhere to sell.
Your game nights sound like so much fun for everyone!
I'm jealous of the family game night and the Saturday of cleaning and organizing and I'm soooo glad to see someone still has their Christmas stuff up!
i had a great saturday too..a run and manicure in the a.m. then to swim meet (my son rocked and our team won) then to a kids birthday party from there the mom's went out to celebrate the January birthday's from out group!!
love your family game night..wished my family lived closer to do that:(
I had a wonderful, no pressure Saturday, too.
I appreciate your dust in all its glory. I wouldn't have moved all those things for anything, either.
Your game nights are an inspiration to us all. Bully for you for doing it week after week after week. I think that is just great.
I love your stack of "possibilities". Nothing like opportunity waiting.
I love looking at all of your stamps. Of course I love your new header, then.
You have the best assortment of gifts, mementos, doo-dads, and what not. All evidence of a full life.
What a great day! You have so MANY stamps! wow!
That is one of our ALL TIME FAVORITE Office episodes (and was Brandon's inspiration for his halloween costume :)
What a great Saturday. I can never get past the feeling that I should have a busy Saturday, and so I spend my weekend day running around. Why do I do that? I could definitely use an obligation free Saturday at home! Now if I can just give myself permission to stay home and not clean my house. . .
Okay--- those stamp shelves... seriously!!
Does he take orders?
I am in LOVe with them. A shelf like that would be perfect for my sand collection.
(I am the crazy face maker around here... shh don't tell anyone)
It is always sad to see the Christmas decoration go away - so I am glad they are still up!
that is a good Saturday. I love any day you can stay in your studio and organize. I wish I had gone in there? Why didn't you tell me? I love the photo and that you put it up as your banner. perfect.
that photo of meg cracks me up. there really is a lot of megan.
i believe I am some where in between an infj and an enfj.
Wow you have a lot of stamps. I would hate to feel the pressure to dust around them. It looks fantastic though!
I love that you all do a game night! I want my niece and nephew to be old enough to do this- once a month might be a good start! Right now they go to bed at like 6...and my kids before 8. It's just so fun to see these kinda of pictures week to week.
whoa! now that's a serious stamp collection! I'm impressed with those shelves that Randy made...
I am a total crazy face maker at home! I even crazy face myself in the mirror sometimes...
I just love Mose. Have you seen this season's Halloween episode? Look for Mose lurking in the opener. Hilarious.
And I'm sure I've said this before, but I love the game nights your family has. I just think it's great you all make the time to see each other so regularly, and it looks like it's just so much fun for everybody!
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