Good Times

I don't know about you, but my favorite weekends are the ones spent without an agenda of crazy activities. It's been too cold out at night to even think about a camping trip and we couldn't swing our day trip to Leavenworth this past weekend with all the comings and goings between here and the hospital, so we chilled around the Tri-Cities for John's three-day weekend and it ended up being a lot of fun!

We kicked off the weekend with some Toy-sploring at Toys 'R' Us. This is shopping in its most glorified form; meaning, we let Audrey loose in the store to have a ball and we don't actually end up buying anything--Audrey thinks she's just had the best time ever and Mama and Papa get some good ideas of what to get her for Christmas. Everybody wins! By the way, toysploring is a word completely made up by John and it is also his favorite Audrey activity. I can see them having many toysploring dates after Bailey gets here, probably including stops at Red Robin and Sports Authority.

Liberty Christian's Apploosa Festival was also this weekend. They have tons of games set up for kids and it's very family-friendly. (*cough* better than sausage fest *cough*) Audrey is still a bit young for most of the stuff there, but we love taking her out to see new things. She made friends with some ponies and got to 'bob' for apples. We ate lunch and some apple crepes--it was a lot of fun and it supports the local christian school where several family members teach.

I FINALLY picked out carpet for the man cave (with Audrey's help) so that should be in the works in the next few weeks. I don't even want to talk about the Seahawks/Bears game. And the men continue to work on the never-ending challenges involving the projector. Have I mentioned how much work a mind-blowingly awesome Man Cave is? Those guys on TV make it look so easy...

In Grandpa news: Bob is doing much better; he's been eating more than he has in months and the Physical Therapist is working to get him up and about. It seems like he's handling recovery really well and we hope to see him home soon. The last I heard, heart surgery will probably be put on hold until he's fully recovered from the hip surgery, so I'll keep you posted on that too.

On the schedule for this week? Apple Picking, (yum!!) incubating Audrey's little sister, and hopefully a little day trip to Leavenworth for some German culture this weekend!