The Start Of A New Week

This weekend was a fun one. Thursday we went to dinner with Dad & Patty since it had been a while, Famous Daves was on the menu, or should I say was the menu we ordered from, ha. Friday night Mom was nice enough to babysit for us so we could celebrate our anniversary (6 years)a little early. We went to dinner and then bowling at the Union, we've not been bowling in like a year, and my sore butt is reminding me of that fact. Brent won, as always. Afterwards we were going to try to catch a showing of the new Batman movie but there weren't any more showings for that night, instead we rented a movie. Saturday morning we got up bright and early to pick up Ms. Mae as Mom was going to Chicago for the weekend.

After dropping Makenna off at home with Brent to take a nap, I headed over to Paca (the old house store, where old houses that have past...come). Paca is only open two days a week for a few hours, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and I was on a mission. Actually I hadn't been there in a few months and was in search of a screen door handle/knob, the old kind, to go with the screen door I bought from them last year, that I hadn't done anything with yet. After searching for said handle I didn't find anything, I was about to give up when I looked in the "expensive, locked up, pretty stuff display. There in that display were three! Ten bucks and I was on my way. Back home I removed the casing for the old handle (which was gone) and managed to nail polish remover the paint off the screws for the hinges, removed those, measured the door & the front door, snapped my chalk line (I'm wearing white pants, too) and soon I had the door cut to size. We planed it a little, cause, well the house isn't level at all. After all that I ran to HomerDepo for some wood filler (everything has to go on the opposite side) and screen. So the door is just waiting to be sanded and painted now. I'll take some pictures a bit later. Ohhh and I got Brent to finish the molding outside and put the front gutter back up...whoot. At some point during Saturday we also ordered Makenna's birthday cakesssssssssssssssssss, yes two, one for the first birthday party and one for the weekend after the first one. We settled on a couple of cute designs!

Take 2..Sunday we drive over to Galesburg to attend the West family reunion. We had fun, Makenna got to run around, even went down a slide by herself! We came home with more than we left with, as we invested a little money in the white elephant auction. We brought Darrell back with us (Chris & Lara brought him to Galesburg)to Champaign as he had parked his truck there earlier this weekend. Needless to say Makenna slept in until 10am this morning...

Now it's the start of a new week...