Busy...Busy!

I know, I know...it's been a few days since I've posted anything. It's kinda cute when I get calls to make sure I'm okay, just cause I haven't posted anything on the blog. I love all the love. I'm doing great, we have just been busy...it's summer! And yes, I know that now that I have the convenience of a laptop, I should be posting more, but hangin out with my little people has seemed to take priority....and that's totally fine with me.

We've been visiting a lot of people. Last week, my good friend Dana was in town with her little guy. We were able to hang out with them on Friday and again on Sunday. It's always so great to catch up, and I love seeing Dana as a mommy. She's fabulous! (as I totally knew she would be) and her little Owen is just the sweetest! I just wish they lived closer so we could see each other more often.

We have also been hangin out with our cousins from Alabama. My cousin has quadruplets. Yes, as in 4 kids...they are 12 now and they are just the sweetest kids ever! They are the most polite kids with all their "Yes, ma'ams and No, sirs" and they loved on my kids like never before. Swimming in the pool, running in the yard, visiting on the porch....what more could you ask for. D***, B***, C***, N***, S*** & M***, we had a great time visiting with ya'll....keep in touch! We love ya!

And yesterday....yesterday was the kiddos BIG garage sale. They ended up finding a ton of toys to sell, and we got rid of a lot of them.

Here in our little town, Wednesday used to be "garage sale day!" However, over the past few years, people have started to open their sales on Tuesday evenings (usually 4-7 pm) to allow the people coming home from work the option to go stop at the sale. So now, Tuesday is usually the day people start their sales and the starting time keeps getting earlier and earlier. Since we weren't able to have our sale on Wednesday, (I totally forgot I have to be at church today...oops!) we opened our sale up at about 11:00 am yesterday.

Let me just tell you how excited my girl was. She could hardly sleep the night before, and when I would ask her why she couldn't get to sleep, she would say, "I'm just so excited to help the customers tomorrow!"

How could you not want to buy an ice cold water from that sweet little face!

She was up, dressed, and ready to go, by the time I got up. She was that excited! She helped all day, and even when the sale was at it's slow points and I told her to go with the others kids to play, she just wanted to sit and wait for more customers. It was so cute.

Max on the other hand could have cared less about the entire garage sale experience, he was off helping Papa next door or off playing in the back. He didn't even want to get in with the pictures...maybe I need to rethink sharing his portion of the profits with him.

Our neighbors got in on the act too. The kids decided to sell ice cold water and homemade cookies as well. At the beginning of the day, they had a great marketing plan in motion. The customers would just walk up and the kids would be saying, "fresh cookies and ice cold water...would you like to buy?"

Break Time...nothing beats a little bread and butter!

Alex & Ashlyn, thanks so much for making our garage sale a lot more fun!

It was a fun day for the kids and fun for me too. I love to see what people buy. I love seeing the things I think will for sure be a hit, sit on the table all day while the stuff I thought this-will-never-sell are the first things to be bought. We usually pick out a "mystery item" where you pick a $.25 item and keep it a secret until someone brings it up to you...when they bring the "mystery item to you, you start yelling, "Yippee, Hooray, You are the winner!" They totally freak out and then you give them the item for free! It's fun...but of course, with the craziness of the day, we forgot to do that. It would have been fun...so I'll have to remember that for the next garage sale....did I just say "next garage sale"...oh my!

The kids made about $32 dollars each...Maggie couldn't really understand why I had to take out the "pot" of money. I tried telling her that we started with my $40 and that I would get that back. I tried telling her that we just had gotten that money so we could make change for people. She wanted to keep that money too! After a while of explaining...she finally understood, I think!

I have a lot of stories of "garage sale" people, but that will have to be another post...craziness I tell you!

Anyway...that's what we have been doing over the past several days...I'll try to be better at posting...

Happy Wednesday!