{"id":9098,"date":"2014-09-01T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2014-09-01T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T02:22:00","slug":"not-ready-to-say-goodbye-to-summer-just-yet-wonderful-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"Not ready to say goodbye to summer just yet.  Wonderful weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read through the past few posts and they have been kind of downer posts.  Got to do something about that, don&#8217;t I.<\/p>\n<p>Well, we had a GREAT Labor Day weekend.    I&#8217;ll skip over the details of the week, but lets just say I had a few more chime kids the second day, I got very familiar with the steam canner (I canned over 60 quarts of peaches, pears, and tomato juice) and we got ourselves a new little birdie.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Megan came home and it was wonderful to hug my girl again.  It&#8217;s been hard for me to have her gone, and missing her makes me miss Cole even more.  Weird.  So even though it&#8217;s only been two weeks since she left, I was SO happy to have her come home for the weekend.  Friday we also welcomed our friends Robin and Ron, so we had a full house again.  Hooray!  Friday night we went out to dinner at the Spaghetti factory.  Yum.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning Robin and I got up and hit the garage sales shortly after 7:00.  We found some GREAT stuff, I tell you.  I may go into more detail on that later.  Even though there were more sales, we had to stop about 9:30 because I was a-out of money, b-needing to use the bathroom, and c-was supposed to meet someone at 10:00.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JO6eydRPpyU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By now you have probably seen this Talk Nerdy to me Video, right?  If you haven&#8217;t, then just take a minute and watch.  Pretty cool, right?  I know the guy in the yellow shirt.  He was the Cat in the Hat in Seussical all those years ago.  He messaged me on Wed night and asked if I knew of someone with a horse in the Alpine area that he could use for a video shoot on Saturday.  Of course I do.  So, on Saturday, I met him over at Megan&#8217;s friend&#8217;s house to see about her horse.  They looked at her pretty horse, and looked behind her to another horse, and said, &#8220;Can we use that one instead?  That one is perfect!&#8221;<br \/>\nHe took a picture and instagrammed it, saying, &#8220;Ya. We got an Epona. So stoked!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/zelda-horse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/zelda-horse-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"zelda horse\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/zelda-horse-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/zelda-horse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/zelda-horse.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ipona is the name of the horse in the video game, The Legend of Zelda.  Yeah, I wouldn&#8217;t know that, but my kids do.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we spent the next hour mostly watching, sometimes helping these three guys film shots for their video.  It&#8217;s not been released yet, so I can&#8217;t post a bunch of pictures just yet.  I don&#8217;t even HAVE too many pictures, as I left my camera and phone in the car (duh). It was fun to watch the process, and when we left Keith thanked me profusely for my help (what help? I didn&#8217;t do much, but I&#8217;m glad it worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day we examined out yard sale loot and were pleased with our haul.  Even Ryan, the skeptic of all skeptics, said I had done well and gotten some good deals.  A BOSCH bowl for $2?!  Crazy, right?  A Whisper mill wheat grinder for $3?  Insane.  <\/p>\n<p>That evening we went to my parents&#8217; house for dinner.  Mom had said we would eat from the garden&#8230;Corn, Tomatoes, Beans and Peaches.  Yum.  We also had sloppy joes and potato salad that we had made.  It was all so yummy, and we all laughed a lot and had such a nice time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a GREAT day.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was another great day as we got to go to Ryan&#8217;s niece Marissa&#8217;s homecoming and gathering at the house afterward.  More great food.  We were so stuffed.<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning we tried to find more garage sales.  It was pretty bleak, but we did at least find one, and it was a good one.  Megan had mentioned that she wanted a typewriter, so I bought her one for $2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/042-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"042\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/042-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/042-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone had fun typing and playing with it, once Ryan adjusted it for them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/043-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"043\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/043-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/043-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/053-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"053\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/053-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/053-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I took all three girls over to Great Clips for hair cuts.  Megan wanted a trim, but Natalie and Jenna went for it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/045-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"045\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/045-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/045-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNatalie before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/048-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"048\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/048-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/051-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"051\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/051-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/051-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My girls.  ARen&#8217;t they beautiful?<\/p>\n<p>Then I took Megan to Walmart to stock up.  I think she&#8217;ll have enough food now.  Plus, I gave her peaches, pears I just bottled, ham from the freezer, butter&#8230;.anything I could think she might need.  Her car was packed and it was mostly food.  She took a cooler in the car with her to keep everything cool for the 90 minute drive.<\/p>\n<p>Whew!  <\/p>\n<p>What a GREAT weekend.  And tomorrow&#8230;..is John&#8217;s birthday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read through the past few posts and they have been kind of downer posts. Got to do something about that, don&#8217;t I. Well, we had a GREAT Labor Day weekend. 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