Saturday Ramblings

We have had such a busy day! Not one thing happened today that I had planned. I thought we would have a nice quiet day at home. I thought I would get to clean my house, vacuum, get caught up on my school work. Well, we were a little bit busier that that and it turned out to be a great day!
Abby woke me up right at 7:00 so we rolled out of bed and headed straight to the kitchen to make pancakes. This girl loves pancakes and today we added chocolate chips! She climbed up on the counter and threw those chocolate chips in and giggled the whole time. This was the first time she's had chocolate chip pancakes, but I can tell that we'll be having them again soon. They were a big hit.
After breakfast we picked up my mom and headed to Meijer. They were running a deal on Nabisco crackers and I was able to get 10 boxes for $0.06 each!! That's just plain crazy!! Then we headed over to the fabric store. Abby's so active that she's tearing holes into her pants, right at the knee area. She picked up some cute pink flower patches and then we were off to Kohls for some shopping. A few hours later and with a much lighter wallet, we headed home. I got a few pairs of pants and a few shirts, all much needed for work.
After lunch, our neighbor Jake came over to play with Abby. They were hilarious!! They're both the same age and played together for 3 hours! I laughed so hard at their antics. Abby asked for her princess tent and they dragged out the walkie-talkies. Abby got to be the "Princess" mom and Jake was the "Pirate" dad. Abby stayed in the princess tent and would call Jake on the walkie talkie and tell him to come home for dinner. Jake would call back and say that he was busy on the pirate ship but would be back in time for dinner. It was so funny and it went on for hours! :)
And if that wasn't enough we picked up my parents and headed out to Best Buy to look at new tv's. My tv hasn't been working right for the past 2-3 months. I'll be watching tv and then the color will suddenly fade away. It doesn't go to black and white, but it goes very, very dark and all I'll be able to see are shades of neon pink and gray. It was just plain weird. So I've been thinking about getting a new tv. I wasn't going to buy one, I was just going to look and check out prices. Well, things changed! I came home with one!!! And I love it!! It's larger, clearer and the color looks great! After buying the tv, we headed out for some pizza and then home to set it up. I'm watching it right now. Abby's not too excited about the tv, but she's taken over the cardboard box it came in. I'm sure the box will be here for quite a few days and will prove to be very entertaining. Doesn't she look cute here? She loved throwing in the chocolate chips!

These two giggled all afternoon. Here they are enjoying their snacks. For some reason they thought putting the cookie on your eye was so fun. Don't you also love the pirate hat on Jake?

Abby loved playing with the styrofoam from the tv box. She set them up as chairs and was pretending she was cheering at a Hope College football game. Too cute!