The Good Life

On Friday the girls and I headed south to my parents' house near Lincoln, Nebraska.  Although the drive was long, we survived and made it there in time for dinner.  Oh the days when you could stop once and make it there in 7 hours.  Now it's more like stop 4 times and be there in 9 hours.  But it's nice to not rush and just realize that although McDonalds playlands aren't my favorite thing in the world (neither are the sounds of Dora or Elmo DVD's), but that's my life now and I wouldn't trade it for anything. 

On Saturday we went to a local dairy farm for their annual "Dairy Days."  It was VERY hot but we had a good time, and luckily got there early so we didn't have to wait in long lines for food or other activities.  Here are some pics from our day:

The "Corn Box" was probably their favorite thing;  they could've played in here all day.  They actually had 4 of these huge corn boxes, and it was such a great idea and good alternative to sand!

Here is Emily making a snow, I mean corn angel.

Here were some other highlights from the weekend: 

• Picking mulberries in our backyard
• Being able to lay around the house with no pressing duties and reading cooking magazines
• Helping the girls make stepping stones for grandma's garden
• Seeing friends at church and at a wedding reception
• Eating ice cream cones on the front steps
• Seeing my best friend from elementary/junior high, who I haven't seen in over 15 years
• Watching the girls have a tea party with grandma
• Having mom make my favorite meal from when I was little -- chicken and noodles
• Catching fireflies in the evening
  
  

The only real unfortunate thing that happened over the weekend was me killing an oriole as we were driving one day (my mom was distraught; if you've read any of her blog posts, you'd understand!  She said, Why can't you kill a sparrow or something?)  :)  Just giving you a hard time about your oriole obsession, mom!  But despite the oriole incident, she agreed to come back to Minnesota with us, so we are lucky enough to have her here for the next several weeks!