The Coke Tour in Atlanta

While visiting Atlanta this summer, Wink and Mimi took us on the Coke tour. At the end of the tour they give you a free bottle of coke along with free all you can drink taste testing of Coke products from around the world. I left with a sugar headache and #2 left with a nifty new bottle opener. As long as he is around, you will always be able to open a Coke bottle. ;)

American Girl...finally

It took many months of saving, working, double checking the website and day dreaming but the girls finally made it to the American Girl store!

Today we made the short trip with Mimi to the store. This being the highlight of their trip. We walked in and #1 went right to the doll case of Julie and #3 wondered around until she found the doll case of Kit.

Next, we will be looking at doll clothes patterns. I think both of them will enjoy sewing doll clothes when they realize how much they can do with their own imagination and their sewing machine.

Out on the town with Mimi

Mimi came to visit us a few weeks ago and wanted to take the kids to Fremont. #2 was not really wanting to go but sure was glad he did go! The kids really enjoyed the "American Pie" show and it was fun to watch them sing the song and dance (That is why a few pictures are blurry.) They enjoyed shopping at the souvenir stores even more because Mimi had given them all $5 to spend. One unexpected treat was the "ball of death". It consisted of a steel ball cage and 1-3 motorcycles would ride around inside. At first I thought it was going to be corny but it turned out just the opposite! Jay was even impressed!

Our Sweatshop...(not really)

After the girls finished their sewing class in the fall, we bought them a sewing machine to share. Even though there were no fights over the sewing machine, Mimi made sure none would come up in the future. She bought another sewing machine this past weekend. Now all the girls in the house (including me) have a sewing machine to call her own!

With this new serge of excitement over sewing, we cut out pajama pants patterns and began sewing up a storm on the kitchen table. I was the teacher and did the serging(ok, we have a serger we all share) and each girl worked on a pair of pants for one of their brothers. Tomorrow, we will hem them and insert the elastic.

I was so proud of their seams!

Would anybody like to put in an order?

Mimi and the Cafe'

Mimi came for a week long visit and #4 was able to take her on a date to Mimi's Cafe'(no relation to our Mimi). As you may remember, #4 was awarded with a free dinner at Mimi's Cafe by the school. So off to dinner they went!