A Day of Festivities

I mentioned to you we had a busy weekend. Most of it took place on Saturday, but the whole weekend was busy nonetheless! Saturday was a day of festivities and started out with a birthday party we went to for Em's friend Chloe. The kids had a great time playing, eating cupcakes, and watching Chloe open her presents. Birthday parties are fun, but when it's time to open presents with young kids it's just a little, o.k. a lot chaotic. All the kids want to open the presents, and they're just whipping through them. It was the same way at Em's party and like Wesley said on Saturday, "it feels like the whole house is out of control." There were quite a few kids there and by the time we left I was exhausted. I don't know what it was, but we came home and I just needed to chill for like a half hour before I was able to function for the rest of our plans that day.

After I was a little rested we headed out to pick up some more bushes for the backyard around the deck. We bought four more bushes and these one's were a little bigger than the previous one's we bought so we barely got them in the car. These suckers were so heavy to lift too. I don't now how Greg got them all out of the car by himself. That took a good couple hours going to get the bushes and unloading them that by the time Greg got them all in the backyard he was pretty much done for the day. We then went to pick up the kids from Greg's mom's (she watched them for us while we went to get the bushes) and headed down to the Great Lakes Folk Festival in downtown East Lansing. We had dinner down there with Greg's mom and hung out for a little while. It was a little scaled down this year due to budget cuts (of course, right?) so it wasn't as great as last year we thought. The rest of the evening we just relaxed on our new deck and our friend Brenda came over to help us break in the new deck a little with some drinks!

Sunday brought about more working in the yard for Greg. He tilled the area where the bushes were going, and then he started to dig the first hole. Well, after almost getting done digging the hole he hit the phone line. The damn thing was barely buried underground. He didn't know what he hit though so he had his uncle (former electrician) come over to check it out. That's how we knew it was the phone line. He didn't hit it too bad though thankfully because our phone is still working. They taped the wire up so hopefully we won't have any problems. By that point Greg was done working for the day and decided he wasn't into digging more holes. We went to dinner that night with his mom to Mongolian BBQ, and we happened to pick the right night because some of the MSU football players came in to eat. Evan was in his glory and was so excited that they were sitting right by us. It was a great way to end the weekend!