Day 26 - Family Fun

Sammy woke up and said she was feeling better so we decided to give church a try.  As we ate breakfast, she kept laying her head down to rest so I wasn’t completely sure, but she was eager to go so off we went.

It was Scott’s first time visiting Beach Church.  It was another good service although this week had a guest speaker from one of their mission organizations.  It was a great service and was fun to hear about another cool ministry.

After church we swung in for a Starbucks and then headed home for lunch and our our typical “rest time”.  Sammy was back in her bed and the rest of us agreed to pop in and spend time with her throughout the day to keep her from getting so lonely.

There was time watching TV, time on the balcony, ipad games, etc.  Then mid-afternoon we all decided to play cards so it was Dos, Uno, Dirty Uno and LCR.  I love that the kids are old enough to play games with us!  We have so much fun together.

After games, it was back to “resting”. We had supper and then Sammy and I made a cake.  It was a new recipe with a chocolate poke cake drizzled with a peanut butter syrup.  It needed to cool so we decided to make a trip to the hot tub.  

Someone had hit the emergency stop switch so the water wasn’t heating... the water was a little cool but not uncomfortable.  About the time it started warming up, it started to sprinkle so we all headed back upstairs.  

I finished the cake while everyone took showers.  Then Scott organized his to do list and I did some Christmas shopping on line while the kids watched Paddington.

Then it was time for cake!  Yum!  This recipe is a keeper!

After the movie finished, we all headed to bed.  It was a great day for sure.  So thankful that Sammy seems to be feeling better and that we have this beautiful space to call our own.

Day 19 - Day of Rest

I woke up a little before my alarm and brought Coco out on the balcony... it was only 42* Brrr!  I know there’s snow at home but I wasn’t expecting this!

We got dressed and ate breakfast in record time!  We were all ready to leave when I double-checked the service time and realized it started at 9:30 instead of 9:00 am.  So we watched a quick cartoon to eat up some of the extra time and then headed out the door.  That’s about when I remembered we needed gas in the truck.  Ugh.  Knowing we had a 25 minute drive ahead and only about that long before the service began, we ran into the gas station and grabbed $25 of gas to get us by.  Back on the road in no time flat... 

Until I realized the silly GPS was begging me to turn right and I totally missed it.  I had to travel 8 miles out of the way to get back to that turn and knew (more than ever) we’d be late.  However, things went smoothly and we pulled into Beach Church at 9:35 am.  We wandered in, found a seat in the balcony and thoroughly enjoyed the patriotic themed service for Veteran’s Day.  Seriously, both kids mentioned they liked it and Tyler even felt led to write to some veterans he knows to say thank you for serving.

On the way home we made a quick stop at the Tanger Outlets to buy coats from Old Navy.  Luckily I had just bought coats for us back home so I knew the size and styles that would work for us.  Since we are planning to come back in December, we figured having a coat to keep here wouldn’t be a bad idea.  

Apparently everyone else in town also thought today was a good day to shop so we had a fairly long wait in line. 

We came home and I spent a little more time on the balcony until we awere ready for lunch.

I told kids that today we’d stick with our standard “day of rest” activities so there was movie watching, card games, coloring, puzzles, and I even squeezed in a little baking.

After supper, I did a quick prep of the laundry room since the appliances are scheduled to be installed tomorrow and had the kids break down the cardboard for us to recycle.

 

Then we all headed down to the hot tub for a soak and fun conversation with some ladies from Pennsylvania who happen to be staying 2 doors down on our floor.

After showers, we FaceTimed with Scott and then finalized our Christmas lists since Grandma is all ready to start shopping.