Crazy but Productive

The title explains today in a nutshell.  We headed out this morning and ran a bunch of errands.  We had stuff to do and gift cards from Christmas to spend.  The van was full of stuff when we headed home!  Here's what we did:

*We picked up stuff at the scrapbooking stores - 2 different stores.

*Went on the hunt for snow pants to use snow shoeing to no avail.  We settled on some nice gaiters instead.  MJ also needed new poles so we got her some. 

*Did a HUGE wholesale run for both the teachers' room at school and our house

*Bought a new table for cutting and laying out patterns when we are sewing. (Gift Certificate)

*Got a new thermos for snowshoeing (hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps makes things much more enjoyable).  Also got some new dispensers for the shower. (Gift Certificate)

*Went out to eat

*Picked up a few groceries

*Paid bills (YUCK!)

I think that's it - it certainly is enough!!  I love those busy days like today that are productive as well.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Phew - we have been crazy busy this weekend.  Here is a bullety post to catch you up!

*Friday after work, we went Christ.mas shopping and to run some other errands.  We had a great deal of success and crossed most things off of our list.

*Saturday we finished our Christ.mas cards and got them all  ready to go in the mail.  We also worked on making our treats for the staff at our school.  We did all of this in the midst of losing the power for an hour and a half.

*Saturday evening we went to 0live Gar.den for dinner (YUM!) and then went to a thoroughly enjoyable holiday concert perfomed by the NH G.ay Men's Ch0rus.

*Sunday we FINISHED our shopping!

*We also got our box of gifts wrapped and ready to send to Minnes0ta so that we don't have to carry it all on the plane!

*Looking forward to another crazy week - School H0liday C0ncert is tomorrow night!

The Cape Day Two

There is no better way to start of a Sunday on the Cape, but at this place:

They have the BEST breakfast buffet!

Once our bellies were full, headed into P.town and did plenty of shopping! We hit all of our favorite stores and just enjoyed roaming the streets with all of the other women in town!

The weather was picture perfect, so we decided to buy a kite and take it to the beach. We had lots of fun!

We headed to the beach again for the sunset - but we just had to go to this beach:

The name is a bit funny we think!

Again, the sunset was absolutely stunning!

What a perfect long weekend!

The Cape Day One

On Saturday, the morning was a bit dreary, so we headed out in search of a scrapbook store that we had never been to before. Let's just say it was AWESOME!! We had lots of fun looking around, taking pics for ideas, and buying some stuff. After that, we meandered along Rt. 28 to see what we could find. Our first stop was at an outdoor festival/craft fair. This woman was pretty funny in her juggling attire!

Then we hit our favorite T/Sweatshirt store. They have the best tees and sweats for CHEAP, but they are great quality - they wash and wear well, and are super comfy!

On the way back, the timing was perfect for sunset, so we headed to the beach. We had fun taking some pics of the two of us - even without the tripod :). We managed to find things to prop the camera on. It was SOOOO windy - you can probably tell by our wonderful hairdos in the pics.

Here are some of my faves of the two of us:








The beach was just gorgeous and we were treated with a rainbow while we were there.

The sunset was even more stunning as you can see in the pics below:

Coming tomorrow...Day 2!

I'm an Outlaw!

So, I had the pleasure of making friends with the men in blue today as we were headed off on a day of shopping. I got stopped "not because of speed, but the amount of snow on your roof ma'am." Yup, had too much snow on my roof, and it is a safetyway issue. The guy was great though and just said that there have been a lot of calls, accidents, etc relating to huge chunks of ice and snow flying off of vehicles.

The best part of the whole thing though was that there was a large amount of confusion regarding my plates. I have vanity plates and apparently my car registration has the letter "O" and the plates are printed with the number 0 (zero). So there was all this hulabaloo and they had to check to see if it was a stolen vehicle, etc. When he came back to the car, he apologized that it took so long and explained the whole story. Then he says, "I told them you didn't look like a criminal or anything." Thanks, buddy! Glad I don't have the criminal look! Anyways, he was super nice and we cleaned off the top of the car - the problem is that it is really tall. After our little "layover" we were off to do some shopping.

We had gift certificates from Christmas so we went to spend them! I ordered a new pair of shoes (my feet are big and they never have my size), we bought a new rug for the living room, and lots more. It was a great day, and the dogs spent the day at my parents so they could run and play. Now, we are expecting another 6 inches of snow tonight - yipee!!!

Disney Day 4

Day 4, Saturday, July 19th
We declared today a “take it easy” day. We were so tired from a crazy three days, so we went shopping at Downtown Disney in the afternoon after we had lunch at Planet Hollywood. We had

a nice lunch complete with a cocktail and we were ready to do some shopping!

We got some great scrapbooking stuff and had lots of fun putting together a box of parts for a Mr. Potato Head at Once Upon a Toy. They have these huge bins of Mr. Potato Head parts including some exclusive Disney parts and you can fill a box with them. Here are some of our “Tater Head” concoctions.

After shopping, we went for Dinner at the Fort Wilderness Resort – they do a dinner show called the Hoop Dee Do Revue and it is lots of fun. Lots of corny singing and dancing and a wonderful dinner of chicken, ribs, mashed potatoes, beans, and strawberry shortcake for dessert . All you can drink beer is included as well! It was lots of fun and a really silly show. We got to see the Magic Kingdom Fireworks show again while we were waiting for the bus, so that was a bonus! Pictures from the Hoop Dee Do - - -