Weekend of fun

What a fun weekend we had around here!

Thursday night I took 3 of the kids to Disney on Ice, and we successfully managed to not buy any of the overpriced snacks and blinky cups/swords/crap. Although I did have to have a serious talk with John about not ASKING for the stuff. Megan and I decided to count how many vendors came by advertising their stuff, and we counted 51 times that someone came by our row before the show started. In an effort to show how some non frugal people can be at events like this, we mentally counted up how much money the people sitting next to us spent. Two popcorns, three snowcones, a blinky sword, etc. We estimated they had spend around $85 on snacks while there. Duh! We were sorely in the minority. But that’s how we do things, folks. Free tickets, park for free when you eat at Crown burger, bring our own treats in our pockets. Our evening cost $21. Boo-Yeah!

Friday Ryan and I attended a funeral, which wasn’t so fun, but at least we were spending time together, right? That night I went out to dinner with my best girlfriends, and it was fun to chat and eat and catch up with them! When I came home, our houseguests had arrived and the kids were all playing, playing, playing. We love it when Robin and her kids come to visit us! The kids have played board games, group games, video games, and just had a great time together.

Saturday, Robin and I were filled with hope as we went to search for garage sales. Wonders never cease, we found several! I bought a really cute chicken platter (yep, more chickens!) that I’m excited about. I also picked up an inflatable raft and paddles that I think might be fun to use this summer if we go to a lake. After the yard sale adventure, we got our girls and went up to Kingsbury Hall for Odyssey Dance Theater’s Dancescapes. It was a GREAT show, but then everything that Odyssey Dance Theater does is great. Since it was the matinee, it wasn’t very crowded, and we were able to avoid sitting in our last row, back of the balcony tickets (yes, they were free) and had good balcony seats. There were several “mini-intermissions”, and I tried to get Robin and our girls to move forward at each one. By the last set, we were smack dab in the center of the second row. Wow! Those dancers are amazing. We had a nice time, and it was fun to take our daughters.

Sunday we went to church, and afterward had a wonderful dinner. First steak grilling of the year! Yum. And then we got to watch our favorite show, the Amazing Race.

Monday we lucked out in that the kids are out of school. It’s a ‘snow make-up day’. Here in Utah, they schedule one or two days a year for a make up day, just in case school has to be closed because of snow. I’ve decided that we should ALWAYS have the Monday after the daylight savings time switch off of school. It gives us one more day to ease into the earlier time. But for my kids, it gives them one more day to play with their Arizona friends without the burden of school, homework, and our regular weekly schedule getting in the way. Not that I feel too sorry for them, for they will surely find PLENTY of time to play with their friends for the rest of the week, but it’s nice to not have to ship them off to school when they have guests staying here. We plan to go see Tangled, and end the long weekend with a family game night party at Ryan’s sister’s house.

How’s that for fun?