Weekend fun

FRIDAY David did not have to work so we had a nice family day.  It started out with a trip to the gym at 8, well, we were scheduled to be there at eight but Haley decided to sleep in for the first time in about two weeks so we were about twenty minutes late.  It ended up working out because someone had cancelled for the 9 -10 spot so David and I still got the full hour.  We ran three miles and then did some weights.  We had not run that far in a while, we usually do two and my calves are so sore today.  This is too bad because I don't feel like my calves need to be worked, haha, how about my stomach feel sore or something!  Anyways, after our work-out we came home and I took a shower while David fed the girls a snack.  Then the girls and I went the Haesecke's house to swim while David stayed home and worked on the worship service for Sunday.

The Haeseckes are a family from church.  They have an older girl who is in 6th grade I think, and two younger boys in elementary school.  Rebekah Haesecke (the mom) invited us to swim because her husband is gone out of town.  Actually the middle boy, Braiden, was also gone visiting cousins so we just hung out with Leyora (Lee-or-uh) and Logan.  They have an above ground pool that reminds me of Grandma and Grandpa's old pool except a little smaller.  It kind of took me back to my swimming days in Geigertown.  Except this time I was holding a 2 year old and a 9 month old.  Actually, Rebekah held Emily for a lot of the time until Haley was comfortable.  I had tried to force her to wear swimmies, well actually a shirt with swimmies in it, and she got super upset.  She was crying and carrying on and finally I decided that it probably wasn't quite worth it, especially because it seemed way too big anyways.  We swam there for almost two hours and then we got out and Rebekah gave everyone an ice pop.  Then Haley swam some more with Leyora while I held Emy and talked with Rebekah, it was really fun.

After the Haesecke's house we came home and had lunch with David.  Then we put the kids down for naps. Haley slept about two hours and Emily slept closer to three.  After naps we decided to go to the splash pad for dinner and splashing.  We had enough Papa John's reward points for a free pizza so we ordered a pizza and picked up on our way to the splash pad.  Haley hardly ate anything at first because she was too busy playing but Emily ate pieces of pizza like it was her job.  It had been in the nineties all day but as soon as the sun started to go down I thought the water felt cold.  David went in the water with the girls and I took pictures instead.  Here are some of them:

This is one of Emily's favorite to sit at

Haley likes to try and step on them

Emy is wear a swimsuit that Haley wore last year

Sorry this one is dark

Artsy picture

After the splash pad we came home and changed the girls into their pajamas and put them to bed.  Then David and I worked on getting ready for our Saturday yard sale!

SATURDAY morning we got up to start setting up for the yard sale.  Haley must have heard us or something because she was up at seven!!!  We got her dressed and she helped us transport the stuff to the front yard.  We had A LOT of stuff from that last unit we bought so it was quite the set-up.  Plus Amanda had some things she wanted to sell and I told her to bring it over so we were even considered a multi-family yard sale!  Gwen had also asked if she could sell some things and we told her that sounded great but she actually set up in her own yard so I'm not exactly sure why she asked us first but that's okay.

We were hoping to sell a lot of the smaller stuff that we had gotten in the unit and that was basically what happened.  The only big thing we sold was a bike and we didn't even take the loft bed (we thought it was a bunk bed, turns out it's a loft bed) out to the yard because it was a huge pain and we figured we could get more for it online anyways.  Amanda came around 8:30 with her girls to hang out and watch the crowds come.  There were not really any crowds per say but we did have several spurts of people come all at once. We ended up making $103 for the day which brings our total for this unit to $202, still in the red but still with a lot of the big things to left to sell.  

Amanda and the girls stayed until lunch and then they headed out.  David fed the girls and put them to bed while I stayed outside and then we sat out there together for a while.  We decided that we might as well keep it going during the afternoon since the girls were sleeping anyways.  It was really good we did because a Hispanic lady and her daughter came mid-afternoon and bought a bunch of stuff.  I felt so much better about the entire day once she left, haha.  I posted some pictures of the sale on the garage sale facebook page and a couple people claimed things and then came and picked them up later in the afternoon too.  The girls took measly naps so that kind of stunk.  Haley was up after under two hours and Emily slept a little over two hours.  

After they woke up David and I took turns sitting at the sale and hanging out with the girls.  I went in and took a shower with them and put us all in fresh clothes while he was out there.  When we came back out he said no one had come during that whole time so we decided that it was time to clean up shop.  It took a while to sort through Goodwill piles and consignment stuff, I realized that I should have been doing that during the entire day instead of reading, oops.  David loaded up the Goodwill stuff and dropped that down the road (Goodwill is only about half a mile from our house) and then he put the leftover stuff in the shed while I took the girls inside and started dinner.  The Caldwells came and picked up their stuff while we were just finishing and Amanda ended up buying a bunch of storage bins from me.  I gave her a couple other things she had picked out for free so I guess I didn't mind charging her for the bins.  They were $2 a piece which is pretty cheap but it still felt weird to be making money off of a friend.  Anyways, once we were all cleaned up we came inside and had dinner.

Haley and Emily must both be having growth spurts because they ate big lunches, tons of snacks, and big dinners.  After dinner we ran to Wal-mart to pick up a couple items we were running low on (bread, milk, some produce, Father's day card-oops) and then David stopped by Sonic on our way home and surprised with shakes.  Sonic shakes are so good and they're 1/2 price after 8, that marketing ploy has definitely swept us in.  You can get two regular size shakes for less than four dollars!  Haley was pretty excited about the shake until we got inside and started unloaded some of the groceries.  We had gotten some cheese for her since she's been on a huge cheese kick lately and as soon as she saw the cheese she wanted that instead.  Yes, Haley would rather eat a kraft single than a milkshake, so weird.  I got out a spoon and gave Emily some of the milkshake and she loved it.  After their snack we put the girls to bed and they went right to sleep.

Haleyism:

Tonight Haley asked me to leave the door open to her room at bedtime, first time ever.

Emilyism:

Emily likes to get up on all fours and rock back and forth, no forward movement yet though.

David took this video of Haley on Wednesday night when we were at the Freeman's house