Quick Trip to Barbara's

School was cancelled on Monday because of a power outage.  I received the phone call around 8:30 and by that afternoon, I was at Barbara's in Arizona. 

That was the first day and afternoon: we fed Pup, the tortoise, went on the slide, fixed and ate dinner, went out for frozen yogurt at Yogurtology--yum yum!

The second day (Tuesday), Maddy let me do her hair, but she instructed me on WHAT to do.

But Keagan did her own hair.  While Riley and Keagan were at school, we shopped, went to lunch, shopped and sewed sewed sewed nine pillows for Barbara's sofa.

Maddy sewed with a needle and thread--a future quilter!

Dinner was on Grandpa Dave at Chipotle's with this cool plywood wall, drilled full of holes and backlit by orange lights.

Today was the day we went earring shopping because Keagan and Maddy can finally change out their pierced earrings for the first time.  Maddy insisted on carrying her set of earrings in her pink jewelry box.  We went out for yogurt again. 

 

Riley shows off his completed Lego car, shades of Uncle Chad!

 

And we all went outside to see why the fire engine was at the neighbor's house.  No clue.  But it was just like a summer night, balmy and easy and the children were squeezing out the last little bit of daylight before bed.

The next morning, I hopped back in the car at 6:45 a.m., drove home, showered, finished some lesson prep and picked up the stuff for my meeting with the Dean (I'm being evaluated this semester), then drove to school and taught. 

A busy three days, but fun to see the Charons!