Friday

We got home late last night after going to Story City to see the carousel, and having dinner with Grandpa and Grandma Sullivan.  What a beautiful evening!!  We had a great time.  Audrey rode the carousel FOUR times and loved holding onto the horse.  Emily went twice in the whirling tub, and would not even consider getting up on a horse, or animal of any kind!  Then we walked around the park (well, everyone else did, while I nursed Clara), and enjoyed the beautiful evening.  We ate dinner together at Pizza Ranch, and came home after bedtime. The girls were so tired they were loopy, giggling like crazy about nothing at all.  I thought for sure, after two late nights like that, that they'd sleep past 6:45, but no, up early again.  Tonight, they are camping, so it'll probably be another short night for them again.  But, I'm not sleeping out there.  Clara and I are inside, so Travis can deal with it.  And since he's taken to having an afternoon nap during his vacation, he can handle it!

So it would be no surprise that today is a recovery day.  Trav took Emily to Earl May to see if they could spend their July fun-bucks, but all they found was the free popcorn that Emily loves.  I did some shopping for school supplies that were on sale, and successfully did my entire outing during Clara's afternoon nap (which is getting to be more predictable!  woohoo!!).  We built a "crazy town" out of boxes this morning - okay, it was mostly me, with input and ideas from Emily.  She's good with getting the tape off the roll, but not so secure with application. :)  I think it'll be fun for them to play with for a good long while.  There's lots of doors and tunnels and even a little bridge.

I FINALLY got the ice cream to freeze.  It took nearly an hour, while I was fixing supper, and even then it was pretty runny.  It churned so long the other day that I think the cream was starting to turn to butter, because although it's pretty tasty, it does have a bit of a greasy aftertaste. *sigh*  I guess I learned my lesson about making ice cream!

We watched the opening ceremonies of the olympics tonight, and the show depicted the advancement of Britain over the last 500 years.  It was really beautiful to see it all done, starting with grassy hills and turning into factories with smokestacks.  It was, however, really tough to describe the Industrial Revolution to Emily!  Then it turned into kids jumping on beds and crazy costumes dancing to music, and that was easier. 

And now everyone is asleep, and I can be too.  I transferred all the pictures from this week to my computer from my cameras, and it's going to be fun to post those.  Going to wait until the week is up, though.  More fun to be had, tomorrow!