I think I'll do some baking today. I have a few people I've promised to deliver cookies to, and today seems like it's going to be a slightly cooler day than what we've had lately. It seems like a good day for baking! I think I'll also try to finish cleaning my room (Ha. That's what I say. Lets see if it actually gets done...), and maybe I'll start drafting my doublet bodice pattern. I may not have a sewing machine to work with right now, but I can at least have the pattern ready...
I know at some point today my mom and I have to run to Braidwood and drop things off at the library and go grocery shopping, and we need to drop some things off at our storage unit. My grandma had willed all of her Hallmark Christmas ornaments to my mom and Aunt Kathy, so we went over to my aunt's house yesterday to sort through the ornaments and see who gets what. Now we have a LOT of ornaments. Because we didn't already have too many for our tree.... So, we'll be putting those in the storage unit today.
We also have several ornaments that we already have, so I'll put them in storage for my Christmas tree someday.
Besides the ornaments, my aunt also had a box of other things to go to us. There was a jewelry box my mom had been wanting, my grandma's sewing basket, some jewelry, but most importantly of all is a ring we found in a little Avon box. My mom thinks it may be the ring she had on for her wedding. It was her something old, something borrowed, and something blue. It belonged to her great-grandmother!
Oh, and while we were at my aunt's house going through these things, I managed to convince her I hadn't seen her son's wedding pictures that were on her computer, so she let me go look through them. My plan was to update her Facebook status (every time family comes to her house they manage to update her Facebook for her) while she was in the living room, but her and my Mom followed me into the bedroom. I somehow still managed to update her status with her in the room, and she never noticed! I was happy. It's been my goal to update her status for a while now. I've finally succeeded.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
My Texan Surprise
After making my last post that this was going to be the best birthday ever, I never bothered to update my blog. The week after my birthday I was just too busy, and the week after that I was sick, so I just didn't get around to it.
For my big birthday surprise my parents arranged to have my best friend, Taylor Castle, come up from Texas! It was amazing. We had so much fun. She was able to come for two full weekends of Bristol, and she loved it! I had two sets of garb that fit her, so she was able to dress up!
She loved working there more than she liked being a patron. And she was fantastic at it! She of course joined the Ducks, and she learned quickly! She was great; I'll miss her as a Duck!
We spent the week in Janesville at the Muetz home (we figured it would be more entertaining to be at their house instead of here in Custer Park, the middle of nowhere, and they have more space for guests that we do). I don't think there was any night we went to bed before 1:00 AM! We stayed up late all the time.
Of course Taylor had to be introduced to cheese curds, so Laura Muetz kindly bought some for her to try. Then Mindi decided she needed to be introduced to Culvers and deep fried cheese curds, so she treated Taylor, Jeremy, Lizzy, and me to some. She got every type of sauce (including horseradish, which was nasty) and chocolate custard to dip the cheese curds in. It was great!
On Wednesday a bunch of the Amoeba (Lizzy's group of friends) came over and we had a day of being 7 year olds. We watched old Disney movies all day, and then we went to McDonald's at about 9:00 PM and ordered Happy Meals just for the toys (and we all got the guys' toys which were Superheroes. The girl toys were little pink cats and dogs). It was great!
After walking home (which was a very interesting walk) we were all really warm and decided to get in the pool. We cracked a bunch of glowsticks and tossed them in, which was really cool. Eventually everyone got out and started going to bed, but Taylor, Justin Lukas (who is not a Muetz, but lives at their home much of the time) and I stayed up until almost 3:00 AM. We decorated the living room with the glowsticks, and it looked so neat! Justin broke a glowstick on the rug, but it didn't leave a stain.
After the second weekend of Bristol (which was when Taylor and I had a patron day. So boring!), we stayed at the Dowell's house Sunday night. We all stayed up until past 3:00 AM, and then woke up before 7:00 so that we could be at the Milwaukee airport for Taylor's flight back to Texas. It seemed like she wasn't here for very long, but there's only a couple things we wanted to do that didn't get done. And now that she knows how much she's missing out on (Bristol!) she'll have to come more often!
Chris Muetz agreed to take pictures of Taylor and I together. Conveniently, I had two of the same style dresses in different colors, and the shirts in the above picture match as well. I'd bought one for myself and one for Taylor sometime last year.
For my big birthday surprise my parents arranged to have my best friend, Taylor Castle, come up from Texas! It was amazing. We had so much fun. She was able to come for two full weekends of Bristol, and she loved it! I had two sets of garb that fit her, so she was able to dress up!
She loved working there more than she liked being a patron. And she was fantastic at it! She of course joined the Ducks, and she learned quickly! She was great; I'll miss her as a Duck!
We spent the week in Janesville at the Muetz home (we figured it would be more entertaining to be at their house instead of here in Custer Park, the middle of nowhere, and they have more space for guests that we do). I don't think there was any night we went to bed before 1:00 AM! We stayed up late all the time.
Of course Taylor had to be introduced to cheese curds, so Laura Muetz kindly bought some for her to try. Then Mindi decided she needed to be introduced to Culvers and deep fried cheese curds, so she treated Taylor, Jeremy, Lizzy, and me to some. She got every type of sauce (including horseradish, which was nasty) and chocolate custard to dip the cheese curds in. It was great!
On Wednesday a bunch of the Amoeba (Lizzy's group of friends) came over and we had a day of being 7 year olds. We watched old Disney movies all day, and then we went to McDonald's at about 9:00 PM and ordered Happy Meals just for the toys (and we all got the guys' toys which were Superheroes. The girl toys were little pink cats and dogs). It was great!
After walking home (which was a very interesting walk) we were all really warm and decided to get in the pool. We cracked a bunch of glowsticks and tossed them in, which was really cool. Eventually everyone got out and started going to bed, but Taylor, Justin Lukas (who is not a Muetz, but lives at their home much of the time) and I stayed up until almost 3:00 AM. We decorated the living room with the glowsticks, and it looked so neat! Justin broke a glowstick on the rug, but it didn't leave a stain.
After the second weekend of Bristol (which was when Taylor and I had a patron day. So boring!), we stayed at the Dowell's house Sunday night. We all stayed up until past 3:00 AM, and then woke up before 7:00 so that we could be at the Milwaukee airport for Taylor's flight back to Texas. It seemed like she wasn't here for very long, but there's only a couple things we wanted to do that didn't get done. And now that she knows how much she's missing out on (Bristol!) she'll have to come more often!
Chris Muetz agreed to take pictures of Taylor and I together. Conveniently, I had two of the same style dresses in different colors, and the shirts in the above picture match as well. I'd bought one for myself and one for Taylor sometime last year.
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