rEcess & razorbacks (plus a trip to the craft fair!)

Yet again it's been over two weeks since I've updated.  But that's okay!  Life as usual is just busy, busy, busy!

A few Fridays ago, David and I spent our evening at rEcess.  I've blogged about rEcess before, but haven't gone into much detail.  rEcess is a respite night for families with special needs children.  We get to hang out with the kids and their siblings giving the parents some time to spend together.  It is such a fun night for the parents, the kids, the siblings and the volunteers.  There are several rEcess events around Fayetteville throughout the month, but we go to the rEcess at our church on the first Friday of every month.  Last rEcess was "Razorback rEcess."  David was able to find a few Razorback football players to come hang out an talk to the kids, which was so neat to see.  They did touchdown dances and ran a few plays.  The kids just loved it, and I think the football players did too.  :)

The next day was the Arkansas vs. Auburn game.  David and I didn't have tickets to the game, but we decided to go tailgating with our friends and see if we could by chance find any tickets to buy.  David ended up running into someone he knew who generously gave us their extra tickets.  They were great seats - we couldn't stop saying thanks!  Of course I was in a prime spot to watch the half time show (which is my most favorite part of the game!)

Razorback Marching Band!

The week between Razorback rEcess and the Razorback game is all a blur!  Work has just been crazy lately, and a little frustrating at times, so I was definitely looking forward to what the next weekend would bring:  the War Eagle Craft Fair.

This was my first experience at the War Eagle Fair.  My mom and aunt Cindy came down for the weekend (it was my mom's first time at War Eagle too!) and met up with my friend Kristen and me.  Then we headed out for the craft fair.  It was huge.  There were so many people and so many tents.  We had such a fun time looking at the crafts and things in the different booths.

Welcome!

War Eagle Mill

Mom, Cindy and I ended up going to three craft fairs on Saturday.  It is safe to say we shopped until we dropped, but we had a blast.  I can't wait to go again.  I'm trying to talk my mom into coming down for the Northwest Arkansas Boutique Show in November, but we'll just have to see.  :)

I'll leave you with this photo... this is my sweet pup Hamilton during a Chicago Bears Monday Night Football game sporting my Brian Urlacher jersey.  We won't discuss the outcome of that game... but I do have the cutest Hamilton.

Ham says, "Bear Down!"

Have a wonderful weekend, friends!

puppy play date

Has it already been two weeks since I last posted?  Goodness.  I don't even know where the time goes sometimes!  In any case... we have had a busy two weeks!

The weekend before last I drove to Carthage, MO to visit my grandmas.  Since my parents moved at the beginning of the summer, it's not as easy for me to visit my grandmas while visiting my parents.  It was great to spend the afternoon with them.  Grandma Lansdown and I went to lunch together and had such a nice visit.  I was griping about how much I hate doing laundry (and David can definitely confirm that!!) and my grandma started telling me how they used to do laundry when she was a little girl.  They had to wash in one bucket, rinse in one bucket and wring the clothes out through a wringing machine.  Then they hung the clothes to dry.  This took up a whole Monday.  Tuesday was ironing day.  Grandma said she hated ironing day!  I don't blame her... that nut does not fall far from the tree!  I then went to visit my Grandma Gipson.  I talk to her on the phone some, but it's always good to see her in person.  We had a nice visit as well.  I need to make it a point to go visit them more often - I know it means a lot to them, and the time I have with them is so important to me.

This past weekend Hamilton had a very special guest.  His puppy cousin Wilson came to spend the weekend with us.  Wilson belongs to David's cousin Jay and his wife Merideth.  They were going out of town over the weekend, so David and I volunteered to keep Wilson.  He and Hamilton had a BLAST.

They played and played and played and played and played and play and played some more!  It was funny to see Hamilton as the "old dog," because he is usually the more hyper pup.  David and I definitely had forgotten what it was like to have a puppy around the house.  It was really so much fun.  We are grateful that Jay and Merideth shared Wilson with us for the weekend, and are so glad we were able to help them out.  We're working on planning the next puppy play date for Hamilton and Wilson!

 Chewing on our matching bones!

Puppy love...

Last but not least (although there is so much more I could write!) I saw The Help last night with the lovely ladies from Community Group.  I broke my usual rule of reading the book first before seeing the movie, but this movie only made me want to read the book even more!

So... in the words of Aibileen... "you is kind, you is smart, you is important."  What sweet words to remember as we go about our busy days...