Girls Night Out

Not the kind I was wishing for......and truth be told, I tried to go alone.....I would have been just fine with a girl (singular) night out.....but.......I didn't have the heart to tell them they couldn't go.  They LOVE to go to town.  So the 3 of us girls took off for our first solo trip to Hays.  Troy usually goes along.  He watches them while I try to shop.  Our first stop was the mall to look for shoes and sweaters for our next wedding.  I have dresses ordered, and we were successful finding shoes!  I have knee socks too, now all I need is sweaters and they will be set.

We ate a little soul food, and they were Happy Happy Happy:)

 

The next stop was Goodwill.  We like to dig around through the oddities and junk for hidden treasure.

The biggest treasure we got tonight was some crack up pictures:) 

Don't let this sweet moment fool you!

 

 There was a mighty power struggle over "who" was going to hold the umbrella.  Any guesses as to who won?

If you guessed Iley....it was only for her designated "turn".

 

 This girl LOVED the umbrella and very charmingly.... with no words.... manipulated it out of Iley's hands!

 Oh all right if mom makes me... I'll let her have it for a couple of pictures.

 

 Then Iley happily moved on to trying on the hats.....yes Aunt Dixie.....I actually allowed her to try them on:)  If you hear we all have cooties......well at least we'll know where they came from!

 This hat had a sheep on it....Iley was rather partial to it.....but I talked her out of it.  Sorry but $3.99 for a used hat at Goodwill seems kind of expensive!

 

 Look how benevolent I am holding the umbrella over her this whole time!

 

 This one was a quirky number that made her look like a small elf.  Notice who has moved away to lessen the chance of having to share!

 

 Then they spotted the exercise equipment...it took both of them to get it to move.LOL  They were grunting and working so hard!

Well.....Wren was working, I think Iley was doing the grunting:)

They have these huge bears at Wal-mart right now.  It was bigger than the girls! That's the last picture I had time to take!  They were out of the double seater carts so the girls had to WALK.......they TRY to get out of the cart the entire time they are riding in the 2 seater, and all they did tonight was hang on the edges and beg to get IN tonight!  I am POOPED!.....does anyone else's  head itch?......kidding.

 

No Special Reason

Sometimes it's hard to come up with a title for a blog post.  Other times I have one in mind before I even start.  Sometimes I have to upload the pictures before inspiration comes.....nope....no inspiration this time.

Troy's been working crazy long hours trying to get Our Wood component business moved to Colorado.  For those not familiar with it, we make raised panel cabinet doors, drawer boxes and moldings that we sell mainly to cabinet makers.  We have a plant in Indiana and this one in Kansas.  We are in the process of moving the Kansas one to Colorado.....no small feat.  So if we want to see Dad....we have to go to him these days.  

The girls have no superstitions about going under ladders.

 

I don't know if you can tell in this picture but this is a ramp.  They pedal to the top and then coast down.

Troy is working on a machine that has malfunctioned......Sherman is an interested observer......maybe he's just thinking..."give me a roll of duct tape and I'll fix this thing" LOL

I'm sure Dad was so glad for all his "help"

 

Headed out to ride dirt bikes with the big brothers.....it didn't last long!  It was too cold!

 

Today was "Wild West Fest" day at school.  We don't have any cow girl outfits so we opted for pigtails....don't know how "western" this is.......but at least it was something different.  I had Wrens around the back like Iley's....but then went to put her CI's on and they were right on top of her magnets.  So we stuck them out Pippi Longstocking style:) They made me smile every time I looked at her.

She was mad cause she couldn't get the lid off her marker....

 But OH MY GOODNESS......when we try just a little harder....amazing things happen!

 We have a little hair growing to do before this looks really cute, but they had fun wearing their hair a different way.

 

This video was right before they got in the tub.  Wren started out with her shirt on her head, and then I tied her sleeves on top.  She looked in the mirror and immediately did an exaggerated bow.  It looked so totally Chinese:) ...made ME laugh:)

These two........are just strange.  Seriously!  I told them they looked like a couple of monkeys grooming each other!

But Cute monkeys:)

Since I was taking pictures, Iley wanted to make sure she was in on the action.  Why the broom was picked for a prop???  probably because it was handy.

So of course Wren wanted in on it too since Iley was getting attention...so she had to grab something to pose with too.

Then Wren didn't want Iley in the picture with her....which didn't suit Iley AT all.

You can move over there, but I'm still going to lean in and get in it.

Ok fine whatever....since I can't get rid of her I guess she can stay.

They are all home from school today for MLK jr. day.....

They are all bored already, and it's not even lunch time....sigh.  I may have to do my...."I'm counting to 10 and everyone had better be outside playing!" move.