As far as company goes, the girls were pretty easy - they had very few expectations (and it's a good thing, because nothing we planned went through.)
Friday: We had planned some crafty things to make for the grand-girls for Easter, so we went to Walmart to gather a few supplies, then - I had been seeing ads for a craft show & sale on the internet for months, and it just happened to be for that weekend. Melissa was excited to go check it out, so we ventured down there...
When we got to the building where the show was supposed to be - it was deserted. There were no cars, no signs, nothing - only a homeless guy sleeping on the front steps. (At least I hope he was asleep... "shudder") I was so mortified - but we decided since we were down that way, that we would go visit dad at his store and see the baby chicks & bunnies. There were lots of clearance racks there with all kinds of cute clothes, so the girls had a hay-day trying on and picking out lots of fun stuff.
(I even scored a few!)
After that, we stopped a Michaels to pick up a few odds & ends that we didn't find at Walmart, and ended up getting distracted with all the fun stuff that was on sale and having a good ol' time.
Melissa makes beautiful jewelry, and that stuff was all on sale...
After that, we were ready to crash - so back home to make home made tacos and watch chick flicks.
This weekend was yard sale weekend in our community (you are only allowed to have them on specified days here - which are only twice a year.) We drove around picking out the best ones, and shopped away - we all scored some pretty fun things. :-) After that, the girls and their dad went to the casino for the new Captain America movie. I opted to stay home and keep the dog company.
I am not a fan of super hero flicks, and when there is someone else who will go with hubby and relieve me of that duty, I'm all for that! (They all enjoyed it immensely, and I saved 25 bucks!)
Sunday morning, we settled in to make our crafts for the girlies. We all worked on the yarn-wrapped egg thingys, and it looked like they were going to turn out quite cute - until they started to dry. Then the balloons started to shrink and the mod-podged yarn wrapped around them started to collapse in on itself...
Result: Epic Fail.
We had a tough time deciding whether to cut them open and retrieve the prizes that were tucked inside the balloons, or to give them to the girls like they are, because they're really quite hilarious...
Melissa will have to decide that later on - I sent them home as-is.
...At least the peep s'mores kits worked out:
We were going to go to Sizzler for Melissa's birthday brunch, but I insisted Wayland look up where it was, (he has a bad habbit of going off half informed, then getting lost and having to go back home to get directions - it drives me crazy!) ...So we did look up the location - only to find out that the place is permanently closed. Plan B: they went down and picked up Kentucky fried and we had dinner here and watched the Hobbit.
We've done an awful lot of this this weekend - chillaxing on the couch. The girls and I have watched almost the whole series of Ugly Betty this weekend...
...Along with puppy, who wasn't able to relax the whole time they were here, because last time they came down, they left him and he had to stay with me for several days... (he has separation anxiety)
My resident ghost, who has been AWOL for a while, introduced himself to the girls by opening and closing doors, and stomping around while they tried to sleep...
Even though not much worked out as we'd hoped, we still had a good visit and spent some quality time. We love our girls so much!
The house is so empty when company leaves...
:-(
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