Another Party and More Projects

Weekend

It feels as though every weekend has been busy the last two months because of projects and parties. I took the girls to a party for a neighbor this Saturday and made sure they did their chores first, since it was scheduled to be longer and was half an hour away. I'm glad they can have fun with this friend because when she moved here last year and started riding the bus with them, they became instant friends, and I like that. Her party was at the family fun zone we have in Boise, next to our waterpark, which has rides, climbing walls, bowling, an arcade, and so much more. Lots of things for kids to do while adults stand around and watch...But I had a little fun when they would use their allotted money on an arcade game that they weren't actually interested in, and walk away, I would finish it for them. Claire had a problem more than Shay about scanning whatever she came across instead of watching to see if she would actually want to do the game. Interestingly enough, it got her a ton more tickets because I played some of her games, and she got a bigger prize than Shay.

Adrian

With the cold weather, I've been distracting Adrian from wanting to go outside in the mornings. He is more interested in the toys if I start playing with some with him, then I can step away to do my own projects or tasks. He gravitates to our car basket in the playroom and brings them all around the downstairs as he plays, but he also plays music often since we have play keyboards that don't fit anywhere and are always around to play. I'd like to use what I figure out about his personality to plan great Christmas and birthday presents in the upcoming months. I want to gush about how adorable his little moments are and his development because he makes me so happy to watch him grow. This coming week will be fun to take him to the Halloween things, and we are hoping the weather will be better next weekend so we can go to a corn maze! Our plans to hit a pumpkin patch yesterday were ruined by the rain and storms.

Projects

I had a busy week working on my Christmas presents for some family members. I've been cross-stitching, painting, planning, and crafting. I feel like I can't share them here because I really don't know how many people actually read all of the blog or just get to the pictures. My mom already knows the painting is her present, but there has to be some kind of reveal, so I can't put a progress picture up. There was a Relief Society activity that had crafting two cute bookmarks for my daughters, and a front porch door mat I made for myself. We've had our old one for a long time, but it is just going to be moved to another of our doors. As a perfectionist, I still want to add something to the empty spaces because the bell I painted disappeared in the color of the door mat, and the words look off-center. I could do 'welcome', 'be our guest', or  'Est. 2015' for when we got married, comes to mind as I'm thinking about it right now, but that will be a project for this next week!