Let's jump to my morning commute. The train was SO CLOSE! But then it broke down, so I ended up heading home and working from home this day. My first thought was that's too bad, the train was so close, but then I realized if it broke down a little later I would have been stuck on it... so I guess it broke down in a great spot.
The kids have really been liking this pinball board game lately. I've played it a few times with Brooke, and Winry saw us once and wanted to give it a try. She really likes the game too, and Grayson just loves pinball. Grayson doesn't have the attention span for a game like this yet, but he loves being on a team and helping make choices for a while before running some laps around the room and returning to make some more decisions.
Monica has started efforts to fancy up our bathroom. She did some painting and then put up these... accent features? I don't know what to call them. Anyway, she put them up herself, but some corners were sticking up a little, so I was showing her how to use the nail gun and helped get the one behind the toilet put up. It was really easy to reach back there.
It was the last week of school, which means class parties on Friday. Grayson got to go with Monica, lucky duck. Here's Brooke with a bunch of her friends.
Winry didn't have a group picture, but did have many with various friends. I picked this one... I don't actually know the other girl's name, maybe Monica can edit this if she knows... but party all around.
As soon as school ended we all crammed into the car and headed for Dallas. We dropped off the kids at Oriah's house, because Michael and Oriah are the heroes of this weekend, and then Monica and I headed to the temple!
After the temple we stopped for dinner at Velvet Taco, and then headed to the board game convention at the DFW airport. Our friends, the Weeks, were also at the convention, and they actually were volunteering and helping out. On Friday night they came over to our hotel room for a game of Doomlings before we all headed to bed. When Monica and I woke up Saturday morning we played a few games we'd checked out from the game library the night before, and then headed out for breakfast and the game bazaar! It was fun to walk around and buy some new games for great prices. OH! And when we checked in we were each given a game too. All in all we ended up with 7 games to bring home.
Meanwhile, back at Michael and Oriah's house everyone was having a blast on the trampoline and getting sprayed by the hose. Biskit was really loving the hose too!
Back at the convention we're just finishing up playing this fox breeding game. Other than playing games, we also went to the bazaar (as mentioned) and did some mini painting, which was a load of fun. I don't have a picture of the minis we painted though...
Here we are in the game library! There were over 9600 games in here, and each of us could check out one a time. We spent Saturday checking out games, playing them and returning them for another. As a whole, we probably played around 10 games while we were there.
We headed back Saturday night after bedtime, so pretty good timing! The kids were great the whole time, which was wonderful to hear. I'm glad everyone was able to have a great time. On Sunday, the kids were excited to see the the games we got and wanted to play some. Monica saw Scattergories, and that was a huge success. The kids loved it and wanted to play it all day. Also, I believe in attempt to cheer Grayson up while he was sad and being held by Monica, Oriah held Biskit in just the same way. So cute!
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