How we spent our Sunday afternoon...

Catching Up

Although the blog doesn't reflect it, we have been really busy lately. Between the kids' activities and our MOPS year starting up, the blog has been neglected a bit.

Over Labor Day weekend Evie got to go see Fly Me to the Moon at the theater with her friends Sydney and Kaitlyn. It was her first time to the movies and she loved it!

Andrew had his 3 year pictures taken. His face looks pretty much the same as it did a year ago, but he is 5 pounds heavier and 3 inches taller.

Evie went to a fun party at Smart Toys and Books on Sunday and made a volcano. She has been asking all week if we could explode it, so we erupted it on Tuesday night. The kids loved this little science experiment. (Pause the music player to hear their comments)

TN Valley Fair

Phil wanted to take Andrew to see the tractor pull at the fair, so we loaded up with Mimi and Jeff and took the kids on Saturday night. They had a great time!

Their first fair ride
Had to ride the carousel
The kids first little roller coaster
Tractor Pull

Soccer

Evie had a great time at her first soccer game today! Watch the video below to see the five goals she scored!

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One more reason to love Target

The latest earth-friendly trend is to use reusable grocery bags. I didn't use cloth diapers and I don't have a compost pile, but these bags seem like an easy way to do a small part to keep the earth cleaner. My sister bought me some great bags for my birthday that aren't store specific (apparently it would be scandalous to take the nicer Kroger bag to Wal-mart). I have learned that even if stores sell cloth bags, not all of them are nice about actually bagging your groceries in them. I was shocked the first time I used them at Walmart and the checkout lady just started piling up my groceries on top of the bag carousel. However, I got a pleasant surprise at Target this week. Because I brought my own bag I got a nickel deducted from my total. The cashier told me for each reusable bag you bring (doesn't even have to be the Target brand) you get a five cent rebate. It isn't much, but it is an encouragement to consumers to BYOB and it's a nickel you don't have to spend!

A week's worth of groceries from Walmart. This is the equivalent of a dozen or more plastic bags!
Notice the 5 cent deduction before my subtotal

Andrew's Fun Day

I took Andrew shopping with his birthday money this morning at Toys R Us. This was the first time I had taken him somewhere and given him an amount to spend, so I wasn't sure how it would go. He did great! He narrowed his choices down to a Cars speedway or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse lego set. Of course he wanted both, but he acted like such a big boy when I told him he had to choose one. He also saw a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse lunch box as soon as we walked into the store that he just had to have, so I think he was sticking with the Mickey theme. After shopping we went to Sonic to get his free birthday kid's meal, and he was so excited that our car hop was on roller skates. He thought that was just the greatest thing!

Thanks Granny Ani and Mamaw& Papaw

Mommy and Andrew had lots of fun playing with the new Micky lego set

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Andrew got a Spiderman scooter! He has been asking for one since Evie got hers in April.
Loving the new froggy umbrella
He played with his new rug a really long time A spiderman fishing pole!
Happy 3rd birthday little boy!