An Eventful weekend!

This past weekend was packed full of things to do! It started on Thursday with some sad news. One of my cousins on my dad's side, Ashley Schkade, was killed early Thursday morning when her car slammed into a train. She was killed on impact. She was only 26. I'll always remember her as a little girl with the white blond hair and big blue eyes. She will be missed by many! I was unable to attend the funeral on Sunday due to my kids having all these "last minute" projects that had to be ready by Monday.

Friday night, Emily's troop was meeting at It'z. A pizza buffet with games, rides and video stuff. Joey figured out one of the games and managed to snag about 3000 tickets off of it. The girls got to pick all kinds of stuff from the store with the tickets.






Saturday morning, Emily and I had plans for a "girls day"- as Emily called it. She wanted to get her haircut, ears pierced, nails done and buy an outfit. We didn't count on the thunderstorms, tornandos, hail and downpour of rain. I had scheduled haircuts for Emily and I at 9:30 Saturday morning. The rain had already started. I decided I wasn't getting out of getting her haircut, but we didn't have to do mine. So, Emily got a cute little bob- no bangs, though. In the last 8 months we've gone from hair down to her rear end to hair up to her chin. She thinks she is something else! She kept feeling the back and was so proud that she could brush it by herself- no tangles- yeah!!
We then headed to the mall for the ear piercing. She has been begging me for at least 2 months to take her. We went to Claires. She hopped right up in the chair. She picked out little crystal flowers with blue centers. She put on a brave face and closed her eyes. There were two ladies doing it so both ears were done at the same time. She didn't cry at all. She was very brave. She was so excited about it. She tried to convinve her cousin Tristan to have hers done as well- not going to happen.
Next was a trip to Justice (the old Limited 2). Amy and Emily each got to pick out an outfit. The only thing that didn't get accomplished for "girls day" was the nails.- Oh- and I never got my haircut!



Here is a video of the haircut

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And one of the earpiercing

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All day Saturday, I worked on a notebook for Ashley because it was due Monday and she had to work Saturday- of course. She is trying out for social officer on her drill team and had to put together a notebook of questions and answers and pictures. So here is what we came up with: I didn't attach all the photos here, but this shows you a little-




On Sunday, Amy and I had to work on her research paper about Marco Polo- no- not the pool game. Marco Polo the explorer from the 1200's. It was actually very interesting and I learned some new things. I think Amy could not have cared less. She really didn't care that Marco Polo was one of the greatest explorers of all time. Whatever!

What a weekend. Next weekend is Ashley's Spring show. That will be another all weekend event.