TGIF a/k/a Finally Friday!

Hello Friends!  Happy Friday -- 

are you ready for the weekend??

Pool at our Disney resort

We've had such incredibly hot temps for so early in the year

and high humidity to go along with it -- some days

the heat index has been 105 or more!

Oh dear -- the only place to go when it gets

that hot . . . the pool!

Pool back at home

Do you have any special plans this weekend?

Maddy and I are taking the two oldest littles 

(Janie who is 6 and Walt who is 5)

to Paint Yourself Silly!

I really hope they don't paint themselves

or each other! :)

It will be interesting to see what each selects to paint!

I'm sure it will be a fun time -- and I believe

it will be Walt's first painting experience there.

On Sunday, we are headed to an 80th birthday

brunch for our incredibly sweet neighbors - Marcia and Jim.

Their daughter is hosting it and Marcia told me

the mimosa bar is already set up! Yessss! :)

There's a movement underway to stop at the outlet

mall on the way home from brunch!

Can't go wrong with mimosas in the morning

and shopping in the afternoon.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend too!

xoxo

Paint Yourself Polka Dotted

One of the fun things we did during Maddy's 

Christmas break was to visit a Lincoln

institution called "Paint Yourself Si!!y."

It was one of those Christmas break days when nearly every parent 

had the same thought  -- what can we do today??  The place was packed!

The big question -- what to paint?

On previous visites, we've painted little critters, a piggy bank,

a goldfish (that looks just like the Goldfish crackers goldfish) and
probably some other undefinable objects that
were put in the circular file once they sat at home for a while.
When Maddy was young, paint colors would occasionally get
mixed together and result in a not-quite-so-attractive brown color.

This time we decided to pick something that we hoped we'd actually
keep and use!  Maddy worked on a cup/mug
and I did a bowl.
We saw some samples of a polka dotted bowl, so
we attempted to be big copycats.
We are like that -- so don't show us anything
creative or original unless you don't mind us copying!

We're waiting to pick up our creations
and will share a photo of how they turned out later!

It was loads of fun!
The best news is that
the Nothing-Bundt cake shop is in the same
strip mall and it wouldn't be
fair to visit one store (Paint Yourself Si!!y)
without visiting the bundt cake store too, and
you know, we are all about playing fair!

Old photo -- we actually bought a mini-bundt cake but wished we had a big one!