What a weekend

Tonight Ben and I were talking about how nice this weekend was. We didn't do a single thing for the apartments. Instead we spent our time doing normal weekend things. And, the weather was beautiful! Sunny and mid 60-70 degrees both days.

This was Eyota's city wide garage sale weekend. 63 of the houses in town had garage sales and several were multi-family ones. I didn't even realize there were that many houses in Eyota! The main goal was to find a new bed for him (with mattress). We wandered around without much luck and then stumbled upon one house where the lady had a bunch of vintage toys. We bought  this little people house because Russell loves playing with the one at Mom and Dad's every time we go over.

It isn't quite the same, but it has a 'doo-dah' (doorbell) and a garage, both of which are the most important parts of the house according to Russell. It had two bags of people/cars/house accessories that came along with it. We did end up finding a bed for Russell, plus one more crib sheet, a baby gate, another bookshelf for the kids room, a pair of pants for Russell to wear to church, a sleeping bag for Russell (free!) and a dumb riding toy that I couldn't pull Russell off of. It'll probably end up at Savers when summer is over.

We also spent time in our garden plot. They had a work day tilling each one, setting up the fencing, mulching the paths, etc. We spent quite a few more hours afterwards pulling weeds out. It would have been more relaxing if I wasn't 8 months pregnant, but it was fun nonetheless. Russell enjoyed spending lots of time outside. He and Ben managed to get some good sun. Russell also discovered worms. He really likes them. His biggest contribution was dumping our buckets of weeds into the wheelbarrow once they got full.

Ben and I both taught lessons at church today, plus Ben spoke in Sacrament meeting and participated in a musical number. Then we had lunch with some friends in our ward. We had taken a meal over to them after they had their baby, and Russell immediately disappeared with their two boys upstairs in their toy room that day. The same thing happened again today when we got to their house.

Later we went to one of Ben's former students Stars and Stripes Ceremony for American Hertage Girls. It is similar to getting an Eagle award in Boy Scouts. It was interesting to hear their perspective on helping young women find a righteous contributing role in society. I was happy because they had cupcakes afterwards :) We also went for a little drive through the country to look at a decent house that is for sale within our budget. There were lots of farmers out getting fields plowed, and crops planted.

It was a nice weekend after lots of weekends with gross weather and far too many things filling up our time here at these apartments. It makes me look forward to three weeks from now when school is over and every day will feel like a weekend day having Ben home.